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Figma's engineering team has published a detailed look at how they're using AI agents to handle security work. The agents investigate alerts, search past incident records, and even draft code fixes. The result is a reported seventy percent reduction in time spent resolving complex security alerts — a meaningful signal that AI is finding real traction in operational, not just creative, roles.
Shifting to the hardware world, the Hot Chips two thousand twenty six conference has wrapped, and early recaps are painting a picture of an industry still racing to solve the same fundamental tension — more compute, less power, tighter margins. The annual conference has long been a quiet bellwether for where serious chip engineering is actually headed, away from the marketing noise.
And for chess players who take their improvement seriously, a developer has released Blunderbase, a free and open source personal chess database. It pulls in your games from Lichess, Chess dot com, and other platforms, then runs both Stockfish and the human-like Maia engine across every game you've played. The goal is honest self-study — finding patterns in your mistakes rather than just replaying your wins.
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