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Birmingham is awash with local election candidates – but will result be a ‘coalition of chaos’?

Some fear a fragmented field of hopefuls from Labour, the Conservatives, Greens, Reform and independents could leave city ungovernablePaul Tilsley was 23 when he was first elected for the Liberal party in Birmingham’s council elections in 1968. At that time, the UK had an unpopular Labour government...

NiFi on Kubernetes without ZooKeeper: why your readiness probe needs to know about ordinals

Running NiFi 2 on Kubernetes without ZooKeeper simplifies your infrastructure — but it shifts the responsibility for cluster stability onto a probe configuration most teams get wrong. Why ZooKeeper-less? Apache NiFi 2 introduced KubernetesLeaseLeaderElectionProvider, which lets NiFi u...

NiFi on Kubernetes without ZooKeeper: why your readiness probe needs to know about ordinals

Running NiFi 2 on Kubernetes without ZooKeeper simplifies your infrastructure — but it shifts the responsibility for cluster stability onto a probe configuration most teams get wrong. Why ZooKeeper-less? Apache NiFi 2 introduced KubernetesLeaseLeaderElectionProvider, which lets NiFi u...

I Built an MCP Server That Keeps Your i18n Translations in Sync (With AI)

Description: LinguaGuard is a Model Context Protocol server that detects missing keys, removes dead translations, and uses Claude AI to auto-suggest translations — all from your editor. Ever shipped a feature and forgot to add the French translation? Or found 200 unused keys rotting in your locale f...

Key questions facing government over Mandelson checks

It's emerged that Lord Mandelson did not pass inital security vetting checks ahead of taking up the role of ambassador to the United States.

Republican Mutiny Sinks Trump's Push to Extend Warrantless Surveillance

A post-midnight revolt in the House sank the White House's efforts to extend Section 702—a spy program the FBI has used to look into members of Congress, protesters, and political donors.

Porting a SwiftUI App to Avalonia: How does Cross-Platform .NET hold up

Let me start with a confession: I love SwiftUI. I don't love the fact that roughly 70% of developers outside of Apple's walled garden can run my SwiftUI app. That math doesn't work when you're building a developer tool. So when I set out to ship Ditto Edge Studio — our debug and query tool for the...

I Was Paying Anthropic to Read CSS Class Names

I burned through 176 million Anthropic tokens last Wednesday. You can see the spike in the screenshot further down. Most of that was productive Claude Code work, but when I tracked down the anomaly I found a batch job quietly shovelling raw HTML into Claude Sonnet 4.5 for summarization. The prompts...

Three meningitis B cases confirmed in Dorset as vaccinations offered to young people

UK Health Security Agency says cases have been treated successfully and antibiotics are being given as a precautionThree cases of meningitis B have been confirmed in the south-west of England, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), as young people in the area have been offered vaccinati...

XL bully owner jailed after man, 84, 'savaged'

Sean Garner's dog had to be shot 10 times by police after attacking his elderly neighbour.

With US spy laws set to expire, lawmakers are split over protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance

Some lawmakers are calling for widespread reforms following years of surveillance scandals and abuses across successive U.S. administrations. But even if the spy law known as Section 702 expires in April, the government's spy powers will not automatically lapse.

Google’s AI Mode can now help you find products in stock nearby

Although you can already track hotel prices at the city level, the new update lets you do so for a specific hotel that you're interested in.

The South Korean president is doing quote-post diplomacy

"This is no different from Comfort Women or the Holocaust," wrote South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on X last week, quoting a post with a video of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers throwing a body off a rooftop in Gaza. The president's post kicked off an internet firestorm for a thousand different...

Ghost orchid in the machine

Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the secondhand machines Rachel Youn sources to create their kinetic sculptures. Made with artificial flowers, metal hardware, and these used electronic components, each one possesses a humanlike presence. Slow...

Peloton, stay in your lane

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. The camera zooms in on two well-formed cheeks clad in white shorts. The...

Is Your Site Agent-Ready? (By Cloudflare)

Article URL: https://isitagentready.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805998 Points: 32 # Comments: 48

ICE’s hiring spree led to influx of recruits with questionable qualifications, investigation shows

Patchy employment records, bankruptcies and allegations of wrongdoing blemish the records of several new recruitsSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxRapid recruitment and expansion by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has led to an influx of employ...

Asif Kapadia to direct 70 Up, last chapter of influential ITV documentary series

70 Up to conclude long-running show following group of children into adulthood, revisiting them every seven yearsAsif Kapadia will bring the long-running and influential ITV documentary series Up to an end, with a concluding instalment that will air later this year.The series, which began in 1964, w...

10 anonymous scouts predict the top of the NFL draft: Mini mock of picks 1-10 -- with a few surprises

We asked NFL scouts to make draft picks for other teams, assigning one to each top-10 slot. Which prospects could go early?

What is Claude Mythos and what risks does it pose?

The company's claim the AI tool can outperform humans at some hacking and cyber-security tasks has sparked fears in the financial world.

Latest draft buzz: Downs' range, Day 2 steals, DT class, more

When could Caleb Downs and Jordyn Tyson be drafted? What are the Eagles, Giants and Steelers thinking?

This Flash Sale Offers a One-Year BJ's Membership With Gas Discounts for Just $15 Right Now

If you’ve never had a BJ’s membership and don't want to pay full price, now is a cheap way in.

Out with the old, in with the new: Ravens unveil new uniforms

The Ravens revamped their on-field look since 1999 with new uniforms after a process that took three years.