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MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: What a 1T Model Doing 1000 Tokens Per Second Actually Means
A trillion-parameter model hitting 1000 tokens per second changes the practical calculus for inference at scale. Here's what's actually going on.
Hackers Hijacked Instagram Accounts by Tricking Meta's AI Support Bot
Attackers found a way to social-engineer Meta's AI support chatbot into granting account access. The vulnerability was the AI, not the login system.
IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry
IBM is separating its quantum hardware manufacturing into a standalone foundry business called Anderon, backed by $2 billion in combined public and private investment. Here's what that actually means for the industry.
Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks
Adversarial audio can manipulate voice assistants and speech recognition systems without the human ear detecting anything wrong.
Local AI Needs to Be the Norm
Cloud-hosted AI is the default. It shouldn't be. The case for running models locally — on your hardware, under your control.
Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking Matrix Mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s
Getting matrix multiplication fast enough to matter — from naive Swift loops to Metal compute shaders hitting near-theoretical GPU throughput.
Why Neural Networks and Cryptographic Ciphers Are So Similar
Both transform inputs into outputs through layers of computation that are easy to run and hard to reverse. That's not a coincidence.
The Pentagon Is Bringing AI to Classified Networks — Here's What That Actually Means
The DoD just signed agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS, and four other vendors to run AI on classified infrastructure. The technical and security implications are significant.
Securing Microsoft 365 for Your Organization
A step-by-step guide to hardening your M365 tenant: Conditional Access, MFA, Exchange Online Protection, and more.
Oracle to SQL Server: A DBA Migration Guide
A practical DBA guide to migrating from Oracle to SQL Server — covering assessment, schema conversion, ETL strategy, and data validation.
Cloud Migration Best Practices for SMBs
Lessons learned from migrating on-premise infrastructure to Azure — planning, pitfalls, and post-migration optimizations.