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The article discusses how the FBI was unable to access the iPhone of a Washington Post reporter due to the phone's Lockdown Mode feature, which provides enhanced security and privacy protections. This highlights the challenges law enforcement faces in gaining access to encrypted devices, even with a warrant.

Voxtral, an AI-powered transcription service, has launched a new feature called Voxtral Transcribe 2 that offers improved accuracy and faster turnaround times for audio and video transcription. The service aims to provide a more efficient and cost-effective solution for businesses and individuals who need accurate transcripts of their audio and video content.

Claude, Anthropic's AI language model, is designed as a 'space to think' - an open-ended conversational assistant that can engage in tasks like research, analysis, and creative exploration, while maintaining transparency about its capabilities and limitations.

The article discusses the progress made in eradicating Guinea worm disease, which is on track to become the second human disease to be eradicated after smallpox. In 2025, only 10 cases of Guinea worm were reported, a significant decline from previous years.

The article presents a novel deep learning model for generating high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs. The proposed approach leverages generative adversarial networks and achieves state-of-the-art performance in super-resolution tasks.

The article provides an on-the-ground perspective of life in Tehran, Iran, exploring the city's evolving cultural landscape, economic challenges, and the resilience of its people amidst ongoing political and social tensions.

The article discusses the launch of the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income (RGMI) initiative, which aims to provide a basic income guarantee to residents of rural communities in order to alleviate poverty and promote economic development in these areas.

The article describes the process of building an arcade display adapter that can convert RGB signals from vintage arcade machines to a modern HDMI output, allowing users to connect these classic games to modern displays and televisions.

The article discusses former Trump advisor Steve Bannon's proposal to use Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in elections, which he claims would help Republicans win. Bannon argues that deploying ICE agents at polling places would deter illegal voting, though critics say this would amount to voter intimidation.

The article discusses a computer scientist's view that all cryptocurrency should be abandoned due to its environmental impact, lack of real-world utility, and potential for enabling criminal activity. It presents arguments against the widespread adoption and continued development of cryptocurrency technology.

The article reports that Fastmail, an email service provider, has donated $10,000 to the Perl and Raku Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the development and promotion of the Perl and Raku programming languages.

The article discusses the evolving nature of jobs, where tasks are being automated or outsourced, leading to a shrinking of individual job roles rather than complete job loss. It emphasizes the need for workers to adapt by developing new skills and diversifying their capabilities to remain relevant in the changing job market.

Intel, the semiconductor giant, has announced plans to enter the GPU market, which has been predominantly controlled by NVIDIA. This move by Intel is seen as a significant shift in the industry, as it aims to challenge NVIDIA's dominance in the graphics processing unit (GPU) market.

The article examines how former President Trump and his family have profited extensively from his time in office, through real estate deals, merchandise sales, and other business ventures, potentially amounting to over $4 billion in revenue.

I built a collection of webhook skills because AI coding agents are surprisingly bad at webhook integrations. The generated code looks reasonable until you run it, then signature verification fails, raw body handling is wrong, or the middleware order breaks everything.

PostHog's research on LLM code generation (https://posthog.com/blog/correct-llm-code-generation) found that agents produce more reliable code when referencing known-working examples rather than reconstructing from training data. That's the approach here.

`webhook-skills` is a collection of provider-specific webhook implementations and best practices guides built on the Agent Skills spec (agentskills.io):

  - Runnable examples (currently Express, Next.js, FastAPI, with more frameworks coming)
  - Signature verification with provider-specific gotchas documented
  - Best-practice patterns: idempotency, error handling, retry logic
  - 11 providers at launch (Stripe, Shopify, GitHub, OpenAI, Clerk, Paddle, others), expanding based on my needs or requests.

  # list skills
  npx skills add hookdeck/webhook-skills --list

  # install skills
  npx skills add hookdeck/webhook-skills --skill stripe-webhooks --skill webhook-handler-patterns

PRs welcome for new providers and frameworks. I also built an AI-powered generator that automatically creates new provider skills. Point it at webhook docs, and it researches the signature scheme, generates verification code for each framework, writes tests, and opens a PR.

The article discusses the rising popularity of online learning platforms, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the potential challenges and benefits of this shift towards remote education.

The EU is taking steps to share more passenger data with the US for border checks, raising concerns about increased surveillance and privacy issues. The move aims to strengthen transatlantic security cooperation but faces criticism from civil liberties groups.

The article discusses the case of a 67-year-old U.S. citizen who was criticized by the Department of Homeland Security for an email he sent, raising concerns about the government's surveillance and scrutiny of citizens' private communications.

The article outlines the Tiger Style, a set of coding style guidelines and best practices for the TigerBeetle project, covering aspects such as formatting, naming conventions, and file organization to ensure consistent and maintainable code.

The Washington Post announced significant layoffs, citing the need to reduce costs and streamline operations in the face of economic challenges. The layoffs will affect a substantial portion of the newspaper's workforce as it navigates a changing media landscape.