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Composer 2.5

Hacker News - Mon, 05/18/2026 - 12:46pm

Article URL: https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182126

Points: 6

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Email belongs on YOUR disk, not a cloud server

Hacker News - Mon, 05/18/2026 - 12:46pm

Article URL: https://mailvaulty.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182116

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

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Your AI Glossary: 54 Terms Everyone Should Know

CNET Feed - Mon, 05/18/2026 - 12:26pm
How does artificial intelligence use tokens, and should we be worried that AI now has claws? Here's a quick primer on the vocabulary of today's inescapable technology.
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How to better protect your growing business in an AI-powered world

Microsoft Malware Protection Center - Mon, 05/18/2026 - 12:00pm

AI is rapidly reshaping how work gets done in companies and organizations. In celebrating National Small Business Month, we want to acknowledge the unique challenges that growing business leaders face as AI creates both opportunity and risk. They face constant tradeoffs between moving fast, managing risk, and keeping operations stable under pressure. At the same time, cybercriminals are moving faster, their attacks are becoming more targeted, and AI is helping increase efficacy of the threats. In fact, AI-automated phishing is 4.5 times more effective than traditional cyberattacks. It takes only one convincing phishing email, and one stray click to enable a breach.1

The key question is: How can we maximize the benefits of AI while staying protected in a rapidly evolving threat landscape?

Read the datasheet: “AI is here. How will you keep your business secure?” Cybersecurity—from IT issue to business risk

Today’s cybersecurity landscape is defined by speed, scale, and automation—trends that disproportionately affect growing businesses. According to the 2025 Microsoft Digital Defense Report, Microsoft now processes more than 100 trillion security signals every day and blocks 4.5 million new malware files daily, underscoring just how industrialized cybercrime has become. Increasingly, cyberattackers are using AI to automate phishing, generate highly convincing scams, and rapidly adapt malware, making cyberattacks more frequent and harder to detect.

For businesses that often lack dedicated security teams or round-the-clock monitoring, this shift has real business consequences: disrupted operations, financial loss from ransomware or fraud, and lasting damage to customer trust. The report also notes that most modern cyberattacks now target identities, like user accounts and access—a challenge for organizations relying on cloud services and remote work without strong protections in place for accounts and access. As AI continues to amplify both the volume and sophistication of cyberattacks, cybersecurity is no longer just an IT issue for businesses—it’s a core business risk that can directly affect resilience and growth.

Source: Cyber Signals Issue 9.2 Building a foundation of trust

In this new reality, security becomes the foundation of trust—helping growing businesses protect their operations, preserve customer trust, and move forward with confidence. For business owners, cybersecurity isn’t just about stopping cyberattacks; it’s about keeping the business running day to day. When systems go down, orders can’t be processed, employees can’t do their work, and customers are left waiting or wondering whether their data is safe. Even short disruptions can have outsized consequences for growing businesses, from lost revenue and stalled growth to reputational damage that’s hard to repair. By making security a core part of how the business operates—not an afterthought—even the smallest businesses put themselves in a stronger position to withstand disruptions, maintain credibility with customers, and create a stable foundation for long-term growth.

Source: The Devastating Impact of Ransomware Attacks on Small Businesses.3 Cybersecurity for small and medium businesses Simple, built‑in security for your growing business

Effective security must be simple, approachable, and fit the realities of running a business with limited time and resources. Many growing businesses don’t have dedicated security teams or the time and resources to manage complex tools, yet they still need protection that keeps pace with modern threats. Microsoft Security is built with this in mind, offering integrated, easy‑to‑manage protections that help safeguard devices, identities, email, and cloud apps without adding unnecessary complexity. Microsoft 365 Business Premium combines productivity and built-in security in one streamlined solution, with centralized visibility and automation that reduces manual effort. It helps protect your users, devices, and data across your business, so you can stay focused on customers and day-to-day operations. By providing security that works quietly in the background—and scales as the business grows—Microsoft helps businesses of all sizes protect what matters most without slowing them down.

Allowing people to operate devices and applications without conditional access increases risks. Getting that done was a huge success for us.

—Theo Mouchteros, Head of IT Operations, Acumen

Read the Acumen case study Take the next step

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To learn more about Microsoft Security solutions, visit our website. Bookmark the Security blog to keep up with our expert coverage on security matters. Also, follow us on LinkedIn (Microsoft Security) and X (@MSFTSecurity) for the latest news and updates on cybersecurity.

1Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025.

2Cyber Signals Issue 9.

3The Devastating Impact of Ransomware Attacks on Small Businesses.

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Security operations centers and managed detection and response providers differ in how they manage threats. What's the best way to choose between a SOC and MDR service?

Security Wire Daily News - Mon, 05/18/2026 - 10:59am
Security operations centers and managed detection and response providers differ in how they manage threats. What's the best way to choose between a SOC and MDR service?

An amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill proposes giving the government a ‘kill switch’ to close datacentres hosting AI if they pose a critical threat to UK infrastructure or national security

Computer Weekly Feed - Mon, 05/18/2026 - 10:59am
An amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill proposes giving the government a ‘kill switch’ to close datacentres hosting AI if they pose a critical threat to UK infrastructure or national security
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In an ongoing exchange of letters, compensation advisory board attacks controversial decision to contest appeals against pre-Horizon convictions

Computer Weekly Feed - Mon, 05/18/2026 - 9:44am
In an ongoing exchange of letters, compensation advisory board attacks controversial decision to contest appeals against pre-Horizon convictions
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Best MacBook Alternatives 2026

CNET Feed - Mon, 05/18/2026 - 9:44am
Here are the best Windows laptops most similar to Apple's MacBook Neo, Air and Pro models, tested and reviewed by CNET's experts.
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Launched yesterday. 1,039 downloads. 0 paying customers

Hacker News - Mon, 05/18/2026 - 9:35am

Launched Monrow yesterday and got a little over 1,000 npm downloads in the first 24h.

2 signups. 0 paying customers.

A lot of people liked the idea but were nervous to install it because they thought it was proxying AI requests or sending prompts somewhere.

Honestly fair. AI tooling trust is pretty broken right now.

So to be super clear: your OpenAI/Anthropic requests still go directly to the provider like normal. Monrow just wraps the SDK locally inside your app and watches for stuff like runaway loops and weird cost spikes.

No prompts leave your machine. No proxy. No background services. No network calls unless you explicitly add a Monrow API key for cloud sync.

It’s fully open source. MIT licensed. Read the code before you install it.

You can literally run: npx monrow doctor

…and it prints every file Monrow touched and every network request it made.

The weird thing after launching is how many people have already dealt with this exact problem.

Apps look completely healthy while one broken feature quietly burns money in the background because everything still returns 200 OK.

That’s basically why I built it.

The free version works locally on one server.

It’s catches runaway AI loops

tracks which users cost the most

tracks which features are expensive

stores local incident history

gives CLI reports to see where your AI money is going

The paid version only exists because once you run multiple servers, each one sees partial traffic and the detector stops being reliable. Pro syncs detection across instances so it actually works across your whole production system.

Proof of downloads: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@monrow/sdk?activeTab=dependencies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179710

Points: 1

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The down fall of bug bounties

Hacker News - Mon, 05/18/2026 - 9:33am
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Local Business Logic Generator

Hacker News - Mon, 05/18/2026 - 9:33am
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