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How Sunni and Shia Came to Be
The succession question, the scriptural evidence on both sides in their own terms, and the timeline of a divergence that took three centuries to finish.
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Sunni and Shia
Origins, anatomy, diffusion. Three long reads that try to explain the divergence without taking a side, and that say plainly where the evidence runs out.
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Explore 2027 moves to spring
Explore 2026 in Las Vegas wrapped on 3 September. 4,700 attendees, more than 400 sessions across four tracks, and seven product announcements before lunch on day one. This is the index. Everything I wrote during the week, in one place, plus the two things from the closing day that
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Only 26% of AI-Generated Patches Worked. That's Why TrueSource Exists.
Broadcom's supply chain announcement rests on an uncomfortable number, and the number is the most useful thing in it. AI finds vulnerabilities faster than people can. It still can't be trusted to fix them alone.
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Governed Data for Agents Tanzu's AI-Ready Data Foundations
The hard part of enterprise AI was never the model. It's letting an agent use enterprise data without giving it access to enterprise data. Tanzu's answer is governed data products published to a marketplace. GA is Fall 2026.
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AgentMinder and the Problem Your IAM System Wasn't Built For
An autonomous agent doesn't fit the user model or the service account model. Broadcom's answer gives agents identities, missions and runtime policy, and routes every action through a gateway that checks intent before execution.
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VMware Private AI Cloud What Broadcom Announced, and What to Ask About It
Three announcements covering the platform, the automation underneath it, and the models that run on it. Here's the technical read and the questions I'd want answered before any of it lands in a design.
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Explore 2026 Starts Today What I'm Watching From Sydney
Four days at the Venetian, and I'm following it from the wrong timezone. Here's the shortlist, and why the announcements from last week already tell you where the platform is going.
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Riba: A study in evidence
A study in evidence Riba is the only sin in the Qur'an against which Allah and His Messenger declare war. It is the only major sin whose prohibition arrived in stages across two decades and was completed in the last verses ever revealed. And it is, today, the
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The Mawlid Sourcebook
The Mawlid Sourcebook Scripture The date Timeline What is bidʿah The core test The scholars Evidence Hanafi & South Asia Agreed The outcome Today The texts Glossary مَسْأَلَةُ المَوْلِدِ النَّبَوِيّ The Mawlid Sourcebook Nine centuries of argument over one question:
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مسألة المولد النبوي
The Mawlid, Session by Session Ten interactive sessions: the history, the texts of the Quran and Sunnah, both camps in their own words, and the outcome. Tap anything. مسألة المولد النبوي The Mawlid, Session by Session Ten interactive sessions: the history, the texts of the Quran and Sunnah, both camps