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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Press Gazette: How to spot fake AI-written press releases. “With journalists currently being bombarded by AI-written PR content, Press Gazette has gathered together tips on how to spot fake material.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/02/press-gazette-how-to-spot-fake-ai-written-press-releases/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/02/press-gazette-how-to-spot-fake-ai-written-press-releases/</a></p>
aicoder<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mluncertainty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mluncertainty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/benchmarks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>benchmarks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bestpractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bestpractices</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666827025001562" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S2666827025001562</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Syracuse University: New AI Policy Minor to Grapple With Analytical, Ethical Questions. “Led by Johannes Himmelreich, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, the 18-credit AI policy minor enrolled its first students this fall. It introduces students to the challenges inherent in analyzing complex policy problems, understanding strategies to govern emerging […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/30/syracuse-university-new-ai-policy-minor-to-grapple-with-analytical-ethical-questions/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/30/syracuse-university-new-ai-policy-minor-to-grapple-with-analytical-ethical-questions/</a></p>
Hacker News<p>Don't Forget These Tags to Make HTML Work Like You Expect</p><p><a href="https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/dont-forget-these-html-tags/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/dont</span><span class="invisible">-forget-these-html-tags/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tags</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Development</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BestPractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BestPractices</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JimNielsen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JimNielsen</span></a></p>
aicoder<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bestpractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bestpractices</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/airisks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>airisks</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/llm-poisoning-detection-defense-and-prevention-strategies/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">c-sharpcorner.com/article/llm-</span><span class="invisible">poisoning-detection-defense-and-prevention-strategies/</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>SQL Anti-Patterns You Should Avoid</p><p><a href="https://datamethods.substack.com/p/sql-anti-patterns-you-should-avoid" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">datamethods.substack.com/p/sql</span><span class="invisible">-anti-patterns-you-should-avoid</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SQL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiPatterns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataManagement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BestPractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BestPractices</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DatabaseDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DatabaseDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SQLTips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SQLTips</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>MakeUseOf: These small YouTube fixes made me love watching videos again. “It wasn’t until I started poking around and making a few subtle changes that I realized how much friction I’d been tolerating. What followed were a handful of small, specific adjustments that made YouTube feel good again.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/17/makeuseof-these-small-youtube-fixes-made-me-love-watching-videos-again/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/17/makeuseof-these-small-youtube-fixes-made-me-love-watching-videos-again/</a></p>
Tech Talks Weekly<p>1️⃣4️⃣ The New Java Best Practices — Stephen Colebourne<br>☕ Pattern matching, records vs beans, Optional vs null — modern idioms for 2025.<br>📺 Watch: <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=4sjJmKXLnuY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=4sjJmKXLnuY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Java</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDK21" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JDK21</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDK25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JDK25</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BestPractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BestPractices</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JavaProgramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JavaProgramming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JVM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JVM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareCraftsmanship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareCraftsmanship</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go</p><p><a href="https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/preventing-csrf-in-go" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">alexedwards.net/blog/preventin</span><span class="invisible">g-csrf-in-go</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/modernCSRF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modernCSRF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/preventionGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>preventionGo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bestpractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bestpractices</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Wispbit – Keep codebase standards alive</p><p><a href="https://wispbit.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wispbit.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wispbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wispbit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Codebase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Codebase</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Standards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Development</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BestPractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BestPractices</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechInnovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechInnovation</span></a></p>
aicoder<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bestpractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bestpractices</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://pub.towardsai.net/kv-cache-the-secret-weapon-making-your-llms-10x-faster-ec6953a76e77" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pub.towardsai.net/kv-cache-the</span><span class="invisible">-secret-weapon-making-your-llms-10x-faster-ec6953a76e77</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Lifehacker: The Best Ways to Digitize Your Notes. “Doing things the old-fashioned way and hand-writing your notes is better for retaining what you’ve learned, but it definitely has drawbacks that can make typing notes more appealing…. That’s why you should take advantage of both methods: once you’ve written them out, you should digitize your notes in some fashion to make studying […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/13/lifehacker-the-best-ways-to-digitize-your-notes/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/13/lifehacker-the-best-ways-to-digitize-your-notes/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>DigitalA11Y: 10 Easy Accessibility Tests Anyone Can Do. “You don’t need to be an accessibility ninja to run the tests outlined in this article. Each of these checks takes only a few minutes but can significantly move the accessibility needle.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/11/digitala11y-10-easy-accessibility-tests-anyone-can-do/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/11/digitala11y-10-easy-accessibility-tests-anyone-can-do/</a></p>
aicoder<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webdesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>javascript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bestpractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bestpractices</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://itnext.io/the-real-cost-of-server-side-rendering-breaking-down-the-myths-b612677d7bcd?source=rss----5b301f10ddcd---4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itnext.io/the-real-cost-of-ser</span><span class="invisible">ver-side-rendering-breaking-down-the-myths-b612677d7bcd?source=rss----5b301f10ddcd---4</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Piccalilli: A guide to creating accessible PDFs using free tools. “Before we look at what free alternatives there are for creating and checking PDFs, you should ask yourself the following question: do I really need to create a PDF, or could I create a website or write an email instead? … If the answer was ‘yes’, I’m going to show you how to do the following things using a practical […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/06/piccalilli-a-guide-to-creating-accessible-pdfs-using-free-tools/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/06/piccalilli-a-guide-to-creating-accessible-pdfs-using-free-tools/</a></p>
Hacker News<p>The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is full of var statements</p><p><a href="https://vincentrolfs.dev/blog/ts-var" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vincentrolfs.dev/blog/ts-var</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheTemporalDeadZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheTemporalDeadZone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TypeScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TypeScript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/varStatements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>varStatements</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bestPractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bestPractices</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>development</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>What Every Programmer Positively Needs to Know About Encodings ...</p><p><a href="https://kunststube.net/encoding/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">kunststube.net/encoding/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProgrammerTips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProgrammerTips</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Encoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Encoding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Knowledge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BestPractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BestPractices</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechEducation</span></a></p>
Frontend Dogma<p>npm Security Best Practices, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):</p><p><a href="https://github.com/bodadotsh/npm-security-best-practices" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/bodadotsh/npm-secur</span><span class="invisible">ity-best-practices</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/npm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>npm</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/provenance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>provenance</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/bestpractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bestpractices</span></a></p>
aicoder<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bestpractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bestpractices</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/designpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>designpatterns</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://pub.towardsai.net/small-language-models-are-the-future-of-agentic-ai-heres-why-6fe5e4fa9834?source=rss----98111c9905da---4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pub.towardsai.net/small-langua</span><span class="invisible">ge-models-are-the-future-of-agentic-ai-heres-why-6fe5e4fa9834?source=rss----98111c9905da---4</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>University of Exeter: Award-winning cyber law resource has 2025 update. “The new material explores issues such as the peaceful settlement of cyber disputes, accountability for crimes against humanity committed through cyber means, and data collection in occupied territory. By combining new scenarios with updated incidents and national positions, the annual update ensures that the Cyber Law […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/27/university-of-exeter-award-winning-cyber-law-resource-has-2025-update/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/27/university-of-exeter-award-winning-cyber-law-resource-has-2025-update/</a></p>