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Had another call this week with a Perth business owner who'd paid good money for a website that fell over the first time a plugin updated. You can hear it in their voice, this mix of embarrassed and ripped off. And it's not their fault. How are you meant to know, when every agency has a tidy portfolio and says the right things in the meeting?

So I tried to write the thing I wish these folks had read first. The questions that tell you whether you're talking to real engineers or someone who'll hand you a template and vanish. Check out the blog post on our site.

How to Choose the Right Web Design Agency in Perth How to choose a web design partner in Perth. WebArt Design breaks down the red flags of a duct-tape agency and the green lights of a real engineering firm.

Saw this land a few days ago and immediately thought of our clients.

Anthropic pointed 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀 an AI security model at Symfony, the framework Laravel is built on, and it found 19 real vulnerabilities. Laravel runs a huge chunk of the business web, so there's a good chance it's sitting under something you use.

Here's the thing though. The bugs aren't the scary part. They'd been there for years, some of them, just never found. The scary part is how many apps out there have nobody watching for the fix once it ships.

For the stuff we build and maintain, this was a quiet week. We stay on top of these releases and patch them as part of the deal, so nothing to panic about. But if you've got something that was built once and left alone since, this is a good nudge to go ask who's actually keeping it up to date. Link's in the comments.

Claude Mythos Found Flaws Under Millions of Laravel Sites. A Wake-Up Call, Not a Disaster Anthropic's Claude Mythos found 19 vulnerabilities in Symfony, the framework behind millions of Laravel sites. Here is what decides whether yours is safe.

Interesting to see how many hours of Netflix is watched world wide every minute of every day!

Infographic: Why Big Data Keeps Getting Bigger Visualizing the vast amount of data produced every single minute, and why it's still early days in the big data era of technology.

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When a small piece of my code predicted the fate of US Presidential Elections. -

When a small piece of my code predicted the fate of US Presidential Elections. An analysis on one of the history’s greatest mysteries

AI to automatically detect crimes on camera -

Deep Science AI joins Defendry to automatically detect crimes on camera Deep Science AI made its debut on stage at Disrupt NY 2017, showing in a live demo how its computer vision system could spot a gun or mask in CCTV footage, potentially alerting a store or security provider to an imminent crime. The company has now been acquired in a friendly merger with Defendry, w....

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We may already be in the Matrix -

Are We Already in the Matrix? Are We Already in the Matrix? Science and the Simulation Hypothesis point to many reasons we may already be in the Matrix.