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Monday, 16 March 2026
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Huntress
Phishing Techniques Spotted: Email Examples & Red Flags
From fake UPS shipping notifications to PayPal-themed callback phishing, here are the five top phishing techniques we’re seeing this year.
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Testing LLMs on superconductivity research questions
Education Innovation
APNIC Blog / RIPE Labs / Internet Society / 3GPP
Singapore prepares for TSGs#112
With the preparations for the TSGs#112, to be held at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre from June 8-12, well underway – The achievement of making it happen is now beginning to feel dauntingly real.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Designing the new async-native ClickHouse Python client
clickhouse-connect v0.12.0 ships a ground-up async-native Python client using the half-sync/half-async pattern, delivering 1.16x better throughput and dramatically more stable tail latency under high concurrency.
The Pragmatic Engineer / ByteByteGo / Architecture Weekly
Interactive Rubber Ducking with GenAI
On how to work on the design with GenAI, without getting mad at you're absolutely right!
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Meet the 2026 Vercel AI Accelerator Cohort
The Vercel AI Accelerator is back, and this year we selected 39 early-stage teams from across the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America to build with us for six weeks. self-driving infrastructure The next generation of AI startups is building on our, and the accelerator is how we work directly with…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Streamdown 2.5 is now available
Streamdown is a React component library that makes rendering streaming markdown content easy and beautiful. Built for AI-powered applications, it handles the unique challenges that arise when markdown is tokenized and streamed in real time. v2.5 adds inline KaTeX support, staggered streaming…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
LiteLLM server now supported on Vercel
You can now deploy LiteLLM server on Vercel, giving developers LLM access with an OpenAI-compatible gateway connecting to any supported provider, including Vercel AI Gateway. litellm_config.yaml To route a single model through Vercel AI Gateway, use the below configuration in: LiteLLM on Vercel…
Huntress
3-2-1 Backup Rule: What It Is + How To Implement | Huntress
Discover how the 3-2-1 backup rule strengthens your backup strategy against ransomware. Plus, learn how to implement cloud backup best practices with ease.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Jupiter on the Space Shuttle and the Titan II: the FARRAH signals intelligence satellites
The introduction of the Space Shuttle led the intelligence community to study what satellites should be shifted to that vehicle. Dwayne Day examines how that affected one electronic intelligence program as it moved on to, and then off of, the shuttle.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
If China returns to the Moon first, will Americans care?
Many in the space community believe the United States is in a race with China to land the next humans on the Moon, with serious consequences for losing. Dante Sanaei cautions that, should China win that race, many Americans might not care.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The next phase of space ambitions in Texas
The state of Texas is seeking to expand its space industry with a grant program and a new space institute. Jeff Foust reports on what is next as that institute nears completion and the first round of grants is awarded.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Artemis via the ISS? A breakout opportunity for kickstarting a sustainable cislunar economy
NASA's plans for the Artemis lunar exploration campaign are largely separate from the planned transition from the International Space Station. Madhu Thangavelu describes how ISS could be more closely integrated into lunar exploration.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Golden domes, fragile firms: the business risks of AI-enabled space infrastructure
Space companies are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to manage their satellite operations. Bharath Gopalaswamy and Daniel Dant warn that doing so could open up companies to unanticipated business risks.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
ClickHouse Release 26.2
ClickHouse 26.2 is here! In this post, text-index and QBit data type become production-ready.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Unordered mode for GCS ClickPipes is now available
You can now ingest data from Google Cloud Storage into ClickHouse Cloud in any order for event-driven, blazing-fast analytics.
Google Safety & Security (incl. TAG posts)
Google has signed the Industry Accord Against Online Scams and Fraud.
A look at Google’s support for the Industry Accord Against Online Scams and Fraud and its ongoing work to fight scammers.
OpenAI News
Why Codex Security Doesn’t Include a SAST Report
A deep dive into why Codex Security doesn’t rely on traditional SAST, instead using AI-driven constraint reasoning and validation to find real vulnerabilities with fewer false positives.
Martin Fowler / Overreacted / Kent C. Dodds / Josh Comeau
Implementing Hybrid Semantic + Lexical Search
Semantic search alone wasn't good enough. Here's how I improved search on kentcdodds.com through three rounds of iteration with Cursor and GPT-5.4, each time learning something that the previous design missed.