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Archive: January 18th, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Vigneshwaran Vijayakumar

Vigneshwaran Vijayakumar@vigneshwaran

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How to Turn On Message Queuing (MSMQ) Activation in Windows 11

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Vigneshwaran Vijayakumar

Vigneshwaran Vijayakumar@vigneshwaran

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How to Enable and Configure Storage Sense in Windows 11

Min Reada month Ago

Norm Bond

Norm Bond@normbond

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The Misreads That Compound Risk in Fast-Moving Systems

Min Reada month Ago

Code Review

Code Review@codereview

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A Case Study of Security Concerns in Real-World Code Reviews

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Code Review

Code Review@codereview

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Linking Coding Weaknesses to Real-World Security Vulnerabilities

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Code Review

Code Review@codereview

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Why Code Reviews Still Miss Critical Software Security Weaknesses

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Code Review

Code Review@codereview

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OpenSSL and PHP Code Reviews Reveal a Blind Spot in Software Security

Min Reada month Ago

Hyperbole

Hyperbole@hyperbole

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Beyond Adversarial Training: A Robust Counterpart Approach to HSVM

Min Reada month Ago

Amelia Swank

Amelia Swank@ameliaswank

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AI Agents vs. COBOL: How Legacy Mainframes Are Being Reverse-Engineered at Scale

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ZEX MEDIA

ZEX MEDIA@zexprwire

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WOW Exchange Launches a New Trading Platform Addressing Key Challenges in Crypto Exchanges

Min Reada month Ago

David Iyanuoluwa Jonathan

David Iyanuoluwa Jonathan@davidiyanu

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CI/CD Is Dead. Agentic DevOps is Taking Over

Min Reada month Ago

Richard Ebo

Richard Ebo@lordsolid

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Android OS Architecture, Part 4: Understanding Processes, Memory, and Threads

Min Reada month Ago

Richard Ebo

Richard Ebo@lordsolid

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Android OS Architecture, Part 3: Inside the Linux Kernel Layer

Min Reada month Ago

Ievgenii Markadanov

Ievgenii Markadanov@eugene7773

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AI Workstations vs Data Centers: Can Local Compute Compete at Scale?

Min Reada month Ago

m-np

m-np@mandarparab

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Chunking in RAG: The Key to Efficient, Accurate Retrieval

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The Markup

The Markup@TheMarkup

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Donald Trump, Kate Middleton, and a Shark: The Rise of AI-Edited Images

Min Reada month Ago

Ievgenii Markadanov

Ievgenii Markadanov@eugene7773

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ATS for Hiring: Fixing Old Problems or Creating New Ones?

Min Reada month Ago

Surya Bhaskar Reddy Karri

Surya Bhaskar Reddy Karri@ksurya220

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Build a Vector Search Engine in Python with FAISS and Sentence Transformers

Min Reada month Ago

Omotayo

Omotayo@omotayojude

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Why Developers Aren’t Really Ditching Frameworks for Vanilla JavaScript

Min Reada month Ago

Shridivya Sharma

Shridivya Sharma@@pheonix

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SSH Explained: Keys, Tunnels, Jump Hosts, and Why They Matter

Min Reada month Ago

Mukhtar Abdussalam

Mukhtar Abdussalam@mukhtarpeace

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Your UI Automation Is Flaky Because You’re Waiting Wrong (Here’s the Fix in .NET Playwright)

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Go [Technical Documentation]

Go [Technical Documentation]@Go

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Container-aware GOMAXPROCS: What it is and Why It's Important

Min Reada month Ago

Noonification

Noonification@noonification

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Seven Pillars of a Production-Grade Agent Architecture (1/18/2026)

Min Reada month Ago

William Guo

William Guo@williamguo

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A Deep Dive Into SeaTunnel Metadata Caching

Min Reada month Ago

Hui

Hui@huizhudev

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How to Tell Reviewer #2 They're Wrong (Without Getting Rejected)

Min Reada month Ago

Vigneshwaran Vijayakumar

Vigneshwaran Vijayakumar@vigneshwaran

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How to Uninstall Windows 11 Updates When a Patch Breaks Your System

Min Reada month Ago

Vigneshwaran Vijayakumar

Vigneshwaran Vijayakumar@vigneshwaran

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How to Turn On File History in Windows 11 Using Control Panel, PowerShell, or Group Policy

Min Reada month Ago

Techbeat

Techbeat@techbeat

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The TechBeat: Vibe Coding: How AI Is Shaping a New Paradigm in Software Development (1/18/2026)

Min Reada month Ago

Piyush Jajoo

Piyush Jajoo@pjajoo

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How to Use EKS Pod Identity to Isolate Tenant Data in S3 With a Shared IAM Role

Min Reada month Ago