AI
AI Models Ran Real Businesses. They Sent $12,431 in Fake Invoices and Lost $3,200.
Researchers gave AI agents real money and real businesses to run. The results are a useful stress test for anyone serious about agentic AI in production.
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Thoughts on IT management, software development, cloud infrastructure, and technology leadership.
Security
Your Smartphone Sensor Can Now Detect Hidden Cameras. Here's What's Actually Happening.
Researchers built a system that uses a phone's time-of-flight sensor to find hidden spy cameras most people would never notice.
Security
A CVE Was Issued for a SQLite Vulnerability That Doesn't Exist
An AI hallucinated a SQLite security flaw. Someone filed it as a CVE. It got published. Here's why that's a bigger problem than it looks.
DevOps
Bun Rewrote Itself in Rust. Here's What That Actually Means.
Bun's full Rust rewrite landed in May 2026. The reasons are real, the execution was unusual, and the stable release is still pending.
Security
Exploit Brokers Pay $300k for WordPress RCEs. I Found One with GPT-5.6 and $25.
A WordPress RCE that would sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars on the open market, found in an afternoon with a frontier AI model and almost no money spent.
AI
The Real Price of Frontier Models Is Not What the Pricing Page Says
Token prices are the starting point. What you actually spend depends on a dozen things the pricing page doesn't mention.
DevOps
I Built GhanaAPI Because Ghana's Reference Data Deserved Better Than a PDF
Ghana's administrative and reference data was locked in PDFs and inconsistent government portals. So I built an API.
AI
Reddit Is Using LLMs to Solve a Problem LLMs Largely Created
Reddit is deploying AI moderation to fight AI-generated spam. The irony is real, but the technical approach is worth understanding on its own terms.
AI
Ornith-1.0: What Self-Scaffolding Open-Source Models Actually Mean for Agentic Coding
Ornith-1.0 is an open-source model family that learns to write its own training scaffolds during RL. The architecture behind it deserves more attention than the headline.
Security
Prompt Injection Is a Role Confusion Problem
LLMs fail under prompt injection because they can't reliably distinguish who is giving instructions. That's not a bug to patch — it's a structural property of how they work.
Security
I Found 10,000 GitHub Repositories Distributing Trojan Malware
A systematic campaign seeding GitHub with trojanized repositories, masquerading as legitimate tools. Here's how it works and what it means for the supply chain.
AI
I Replaced Claude with a Local Model for Daily Coding. Here's What Actually Happened.
After months running local models as my primary coding assistant, the honest answer is: mostly yes, with specific carve-outs that matter.
AI
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.
Security
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.
Quantum
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.
Security
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.
AI
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.
AI
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.
AI
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.
AI
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.
Security
Securing Microsoft 365 for Your Organization
A step-by-step guide to hardening your M365 tenant: Conditional Access, MFA, Exchange Online Protection, and more.
Database
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
Cloud Migration Best Practices for SMBs
Lessons learned from migrating on-premise infrastructure to Azure — planning, pitfalls, and post-migration optimizations.