Fragments: May 14
Last week I spent a day at The Orchard Retreat, hosted by Mechanical Orchard. that brought together several people working in software development to talk about the profession’s future with the rise of agentic…
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grpc/grpc-go: Release 1.81.1
Security xds/rbac: Fix a potential authorization bypass caused by incorrectly falling through URI/DNS SANs to Subject Distinguished Name (DN) when matching the authenticated principal name. With this fix, only the first…
Bliki: Interrogatory LLM
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encode/uvicorn: Version 0.47.0
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