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HashiCorp is positioning HCP Terraform as the governance and control plane for a new generation of AI-driven infrastructure, arguing that the rapid adoption of coding agents is shifting the biggest infrastructure challenge from writing configuration to verifying and safely executing it. By Craig Risi

Every year over 200,000 people descend on Berlin for IFA, the largest tech trade show in Europe. Some of the world’s biggest manufacturers turn up to demo everything from appliances to smartphones to smart home gadgets, and this year should be no different. IFA itself runs from September 4th to 8th, but most of the […]

It's a good time to also investigate a bit the dart I/O interfaces, especially the one related to files. The dart:io package must be imported to deal with files and directories in Dart. import 'dart:io' ; A file in Dart is an object instantiated by the File class . This object can be created by simply invoking the default constructor , where its argument will be a String . // default constructor can be used // to create a new object pointing to // a local file. File myFile = File ( "./file1.test" ); fromRawPath() is another constructor, it opens a file based on an List<Uint8> ( Uint8List ), this kind of data is usually generated by utf8.encode or ascii.encode . // fromRawPath constructor can be used // to open a file based on a raw path, // an Uint8list. File myFile2 = File . fromRawPath ( ascii . encode ( "./file2.test" ); ); Finally, the fromUri() constructor will open a file based on an Uri object. // fromUri is another construct that // can be used to open a file based on // an Uri. File myFile3 = File . fromUri ( Uri . file ( "./file3.test" ) ); Now the file object has been created, many attributes and methods are available to control it. Let check first the attributes. In the previous examples, all objects are using a relative path, when the object is returned, the absolute path attribute is set. It is the absolute path representation of the data previously passed. print ( myFile1 . absolute ); print ( myFile2 . absolute ); print ( myFile3 . absolute ); $ dart run File: '/home/user/tmp/cboring/./file1.test' File: '/home/user/tmp/cboring/./file2.test' File: '/home/user/tmp/cboring/file3.test' The original path passed as first argument can be retrieved with the path attribute . print ( myFile1 . path ); print ( myFile2 . path ); print ( myFile3 . path ); $ dart run ./file1.test ./file2.test file3.test The file object can also returns an Uri object with the help of the uri attribute . // this is a closure helper to show // the properties from an Uri object and //

Magna's investment in Yuma Energy has reached $87 million as the Canadian auto supplier increases its majority stake in the Indian battery-swapping firm.

Founded by a 20-year-old, Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that hopes to harvest wind energy to stay aloft for several months.

The email arrives. "Mercury will not be able to support your business at this time. We will not be able to provide additional details about this decision." You spend the next two weeks building an appeal: residence permit, business plan, tax registration, customer contracts, the whole file. You attach a polite cover letter explaining that you are not in Russia, not a sanctioned individual, fully compliant. Mercury either does not respond or sends the same boilerplate back. By week three you have decided you did something wrong, that your business is somehow tainted, that you will never get a US bank account. None of that is true. The reject was a system response, and once you can see the arithmetic driving it, the next move gets obvious and the spiral stops. The math behind an auto-decline OFAC violation penalties start at roughly $1 million per transaction. The annual revenue from a single diaspora-founder account at Mercury sits somewhere between $50 and $500. On top of that sits reputational risk: one Bloomberg story about "the fintech serving sanctioned Russians" damages the next funding round, strains banking partner relationships, and invites regulatory attention. Run those numbers and an auto-decline on an RU or BY passport signal becomes the rational move for the fintech, even when the overwhelming majority of flagged applications are perfectly legal. The downside of a single miss outweighs the upside of correctly clearing every legal applicant. What you are looking at is a company optimising against an asymmetry: maximum downside, minimal upside, per application. There is no judgement of you anywhere in that calculation. How the decline actually happens A KYC submission includes a passport scan, residence permit, and business documents. The decisioning system flags an RU or BY passport regardless of where you live, how the company is structured, or where the revenue comes from. Human review exists, but it triggers only when the signal-to-noise ratio is exce

Google raised the price of its 4K streaming box to $149, up $50 from its original $99 price. The new price is currently live at the Google Store and Best Buy, but Amazon appears to still be offering the original price. The price hike comes just a couple of weeks after Google launched its new […]

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The seed round for the app that provides real-time legal and policy guidance to officers was led by SignalFire and Las Olas VC.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face while trying to cheat on…

The controversial founder of the checkout startup once valued at $11 billion is putting in $5 million of his own money.

The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.

The journey to create a polyfill for the upcoming CSS random() function that works in all browsers. Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

Honor crammed a gimbal camera into a phone in a promising hardware experiment.

Sometimes the volume control on a Bluetooth device behaves unpredictably. This quick fix in your Android phone's settings is a good troubleshooting step.

Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of What’s important (#18), bringing you the best content that developers have produced over the last couple of weeks or so. What’s !important #18: <geolocation>, Syntax ::highlight()ing, named-feature(), and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

In this episode, Scott Jenson, a veteran UX designer known for his work on the Macintosh, Google Maps, and Chrome examines the long-term stagnation of desktop operating systems and the limitations of current mobile and cloud-centric models. By Scott Jenson

Of the Glassdoor reviews from claims adjusters that mentioned AI, a staggering 98 percent were negative. “AI is just a tool,” one person tells WIRED. “It should never be given the keys.”

The follower counter on my phone says 1,946. I check it more often than my homework diary. 54 to go...

Is your iPhone acting up? Let's walk through the different kinds of resets, what they do and how to perform them.