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Extend GitLab Duo Agent Platform into your business systems

Developers mostly use GitLab Duo Agent Platform where they already work: the IDE, merge requests, and issues. But DevSecOps teams also support the business systems the rest of the company runs on, and those systems break too. In Salesforce, for example, when a validation fails, a callout times out, or a null slips through a trigger, the error gets logged, but the log doesn’t explain the cause. An engineer still has to read the stack trace, find the class in the repository, check what changed recently, and decide whether this is a one-off or a regression. Meanwhile, the business user who hit th

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What happens when vulnerabilities are discovered faster than you can fix them?

We're entering a new era of application security. Frontier AI models are uncovering complex flaws that traditional tools overlooked, and attackers are using the same models to exploit them faster. Remediation isn't keeping pace: Verizon's 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) measures the median time to fully remediate a known-exploited vulnerability at 43 days, up from 32 in 2025. Security teams are already stretched across growing application portfolios, third-party dependencies, and a steady stream of new disclosures. And while agents that find vulnerabilities and write fixes are be

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GitLab Orbit: Find vulnerability blast radius without the manual hunt

A critical vulnerability needs a fix and a map. The fix is usually fast. Finding where the vulnerable component lives, who owns it, and whether it's exposed to the Internet is what costs you time. Most security teams piece that answer together from scanner reports, spreadsheets, and a Slack thread asking who owns a service nobody recognizes, and you stay exposed for every hour that takes. GitLab Orbit , now generally available , replaces this manual work with a single query. Orbit connects code, merge requests, pipelines, security findings, and ownership in one graph that stays current as your

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GitLab Orbit is GA: Higher agent accuracy, lower token cost

An agent’s true cost isn’t only the tokens it burns. It’s the review that calls your code “safe to merge” after seeing the diff, but without any context on the pipeline. We call that artificial confidence, not artificial intelligence. Agents guess because code is all they can see; they can’t see the merge request that last changed it, the pipeline that ran it, the vulnerability it carries, or the people who wrote and reviewed it. Guessing is expensive. If you’ve tried running agents in a large monorepo, one with tens of thousands of files, you know how it goes: the agent iterates, pinging the

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10 questions to ask any software vendor about sovereignty

Sovereignty is moving from buzzword to buying criterion. The European Commission’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) would set assurance levels for the cloud and AI services public authorities buy, defining where data should live and who can access it. Parts of it could reach private entities too. GitLab submitted its own comment on CADA because we share the goal of strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty and security. We believe this important work should prioritize customer control, portability, interoperability, provider diversity, and risk-based safeguards. You can also view

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SLC-OE-08: Turning the Corner

Whew. What a year. But if you're reading this, you made it through! As we all move into a hopefully much better 2021, here are three things you can do to improve your experience as a photographer for the coming year. Read more »

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SLC-2L-15: Cross-Pollination

Lighting with flash can give you more than just the ability to control the quality of your light. With the inherent consistency of light from (manual) flash, you can layer in slices of time as well. But first, you’ll want to lock down two things: the ambient light portion of your exposure, and your camera’s physical position. Read more »

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Notes on the Paul Buff Link 800ws Flash

The Paul C. Buff Link monobloc studio strobe ($895.95) delivers 800ws of portable power, and deserves consideration from anyone in the United States who is considering a big gun for use on location. Please note: This is not a full review. There have been several thorough examples already published — most notably this one by Mike McGee. There are many others, from the usual suspects, a Google search away. Rather, this is a quick write-up of some first-hand impressions, thoughts and features I have not seen much mention of elsewhere. Read more »

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iPhone Users: Put an AirTag in Your Camera Bag

Apple’s new AirTags are a straight-up gift for photographers. After testing one for the past couple of weeks, I’ll be hiding an AirTag in my scooter, one in my car and another one in my camera bag. Read more »

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SLC-1L-13: Conservancy Critters

When lighting with small subjects, a speedlight is generally all you’ll ever need. Further, because of the scale and distances involved, even with a small flash you’ll be working at low power settings. For these photos of some of the resident animals at the Howard County Conservancy, we used a single speedlight generally at one-eighth power, and let the environment of the impromptu studio to the rest of the heavy lifting for light modification. Read more »

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So Long (for Now!) and Thank You.

In 2006 I started a lighting blog while working full-time as a staffer at The Baltimore Sun. By early 2007, it became obvious that I didn't have the personal resources to give 100% to both Strobist and my job at the newspaper. That’s exactly the position I find myself in today. For the past year I have been working on a new project. It is photography-based, and will be as unique to the photo space as Strobist was back in 2006. But, as I found with Strobist in 2007, this project will require all of my focus. So I am shifting Strobist into archive mode to allow myself the time and mental space t

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The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto,Discounted for Strobist Readers

For fifteen years, this site focused on lighting. Before that, I worked as a newspaper photojournalist. Lighting was part of the job. So were access, preparation, and learning how to walk into unfamiliar situations and come back with something useful. Lighting solves technical problems. The harder problems are usually human. The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto grows out of that larger frame. It’s not about flash. It’s not about gear. It’s about how to think when you’re working outside your comfort zone — whether that’s across the world or across town. The book is structured as 56 short chap

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Travel Photography Is About People: How to Connect, Approach Strangers, and Make Photographs That Matter

For nineteen years, Strobist has been about light. This post is about the other thing, the bigger thing, the thing that took me forty years and ten thousand assignments to fully understand. The success or failure of a travel photographer is not decided by gear, and only partly by technique. It is decided by how well you connect with the people and places in front of your camera. This is the one post Strobist will ever need on travel photography. Everything below is the condensed version of what I now believe. What is The Traveling Photographer's Manifesto? The Traveling Photographer's Manifest

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Honest Moments: Capturing Real Human Connection

The most technically perfect portrait in the world can feel empty if nothing real is happening in it. Real human connection photography isn’t about the right light or the right lens. It’s about what passes between people when they forget the camera is there: a glance, a laugh that hasn’t quite finished, a hand on a shoulder that says something no caption could. These moments exist constantly. Most photographers miss […] The post Honest Moments: Capturing Real Human Connection appeared first on 500px .

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Eline Deckers: Black and White Street Photography in Antwerp | 500px Photographer Spotlight

Eline Deckers works in hard light and is not afraid of the dark. The Antwerp-based photographer shoots under the name Studio EDX, and she makes black-and-white street photography with the contrast turned all the way up. A figure in a wide-brimmed hat is reduced to a silhouette in a black alley. Commuters smear into ghosts under arched station windows. A man in a doorway is cut clean out of a […] The post Eline Deckers: Black and White Street Photography in Antwerp | 500px Photographer Spotlight appeared first on 500px .

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Using Color to Shape Emotion in Photography

Every color in a photograph is doing emotional work, whether you intend it or not. A cool blue cast reads as distance or calm. A warm orange glow feels intimate and fleeting. Saturated red creates urgency. Desaturated grey implies stillness or loss. Using color to shape emotion means moving from reacting to color to deciding about it deliberately, both in the field and in post. The difference shows up in […] The post Using Color to Shape Emotion in Photography appeared first on 500px .

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From Everyday Scenes to Meaningful Stories

The photographers whose work stays with you aren’t necessarily shooting in extraordinary places with exceptional subjects. Most of them are shooting the same streets, kitchens, parks, and faces that everyone else walks past. The difference is in how they see. Everyday storytelling photography is the practice of finding meaning in what’s ordinary, and it’s a skill that develops through intention and attention rather than access and equipment. Why ordinary scenes […] The post From Everyday Scenes to Meaningful Stories appeared first on 500px .

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Beyond the Postcard: Fresh Approaches to Fall Foliage Photography

Every October, the same image floods photo feeds: a wide hillside ablaze with color, shot at midday, saturation pushed to the limit. It’s pretty, and it’s forgettable. Fall foliage photography at its best isn’t about showing how much color there is. It’s about finding a way into that color that feels specific, personal, and considered. Peak season lasts only a few weeks, and the photographers who make the most of […] The post Beyond the Postcard: Fresh Approaches to Fall Foliage Photography appeared first on 500px .

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Into the Mist: Creating Atmosphere with Fog Photography

Fog changes everything it touches. Familiar streets become mysterious, busy landscapes turn quiet, and cluttered backgrounds dissolve into soft grey. Fog photography is one of the most rewarding forms of weather photography because the conditions do so much of the compositional work for you, reducing a scene to shape, tone, and mood. The challenge is that fog is unpredictable, short-lived, and surprisingly tricky to expose well. Knowing when to go […] The post Into the Mist: Creating Atmosphere with Fog Photography appeared first on 500px .

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Shorter Days, Stronger Images: A Guide to Low Light Photography

By late October, the light is leaving earlier every evening. Commutes happen at dusk, afternoon walks end in darkness, and the window for good light seems to shrink by the week. For many photographers, that means shooting less. It shouldn’t. Low light photography opens up a completely different visual world: glowing windows, pools of streetlight, the soft gradients of dusk. The technical demands are real but manageable, and the images […] The post Shorter Days, Stronger Images: A Guide to Low Light Photography appeared first on 500px .

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Dark and Moody Photography: Creating Eerie Atmosphere for Halloween

Halloween gives photographers permission to lean into the shadows. But the most unsettling images rarely depend on costumes or plastic skeletons. They depend on atmosphere: a doorway that drops into darkness, a face half lit from below, an empty corridor with one light left on. Dark and moody photography is about controlling what the viewer sees and, just as importantly, what they don’t. These techniques are perfect for spooky season […] The post Dark and Moody Photography: Creating Eerie Atmosphere for Halloween appeared first on 500px .

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Press release from Dino Decking – Hedgehogs

With hedgehogs now officially listed as vulnerable to extinction on the UK Red List, habitat fragmentation, such as fences and walls blocking their nightly travel routes, has become one of their biggest threats. Research carried out for Dino Decking offers rich data on public attitudes toward wildlife-friendly gardens. Some key standout stats include: 41% of...

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Catfield Fen – another legal victory

The owners of Catfield Fen, Tim and Geli Harris, have featured in this blog quite a few times – click here – but recent recruits to this blog might be unaware of their tenacity and determination to protect Catfield Fen from water loaded with nutrients from nearby farmland. I’m delighted to report that...

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Guest blog – ‘Birds in England’ at 100 by Conor Mark Jameson

Conor Mark Jameson worked in conservation all of his career and now lives and writes in west Norfolk. He is also the author of Silent Spring Revisited (reviewed here), Looking for the Goshawk (reviewed here), Shrewdunnit (a collection of his feature articles, (reviewed here) and Finding W. H. Hudson – The Writer Who Came to...

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