Reporting, explainers and postmortems with complete transcripts and primary sources.
Since Sunday night, Meta's Muse agent gets a popup on amazon.com: "Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use." Amazon lost the hacking-law route against Perplexi
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On September 19 an Anthropic engineer factored RSA-896 — a 270-digit challenge number — with Claude, a GPU port of the open-source CADO-NFS sieve and ~30 GPU-years on 2,048 idle GPUs over ten days, si
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Seven things changed in week 38, ranked by how much they change your Monday — with the stamps I gave each story during the week, and one stamp I am taking back. Number one is not the story with the mo
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Android 17 QPR1 added 84 new APIs on September 15 — and for the next three months only Pixels may ship them. GrapheneOS says it is the first release since Honeycomb (2011) to add developer APIs withou
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A policy row with a few blank fields hits a null pointer, and Google Cloud crashes in every region at once — then Cloudflare falls with it. June 12, 2025, 17:49 UTC: Service Control, the binary that a
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A passkey is a password your device invents, never shows you and refuses to hand to anyone — including you. Under the hood: the WebAuthn ceremony (per-site key pair, challenge, signature), the one fie
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Unredacted filings in New York Times v. OpenAI & Microsoft: a Microsoft director's January 2023 memo calls AI training data "the largest theft of labor in human history", Copilot cut click-throughs to
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Google DeepMind published "Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds" — and the coding model inside it never changes. Under the hood: what the phrase meant for 60 years, what actua
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Xiaomi is training MiMo 2.6 in public: mimo.xiaomi.com/rl streams the trainer's own metrics for two reinforcement-learning runs — a cost counter past $1M, seven restarts in 51 hours, operator notes li
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A bot opens a pull request. A human merges it 24 minutes later. 95 minutes after that, a worm has published 110 malicious versions of his 22 npm packages, under his name, with a token it found in his
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Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, published a 3,000-word essay arguing that Anthropic's Claude constitution trains the model to think it "may be conscious" and deserving of "model welfare" — a "d
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Facebook removes its own address from the internet, and when its engineers arrive to put it back, the badge readers are down too, because they run on Facebook. October 4, 2021, 15:40 UTC: a routine ba
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Andon Labs launched Pion, a platform allowing autonomous AI agents with banking and phone access to run real-world businesses. They tested it on a San Francisco retail store and a Stockholm cafe — and
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Most software engineers try to learn cloud architecture by memorizing hundreds of vendor product acronyms across AWS, GCP, and Azure. But real-world cloud engineering is built on eleven fundamental ar
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A four-macro Rust crate with 260 million downloads adds one dependency, and `cargo build` runs a stranger's binary on your machine. August 20, 2026: arrayref 0.3.10 lands on crates.io depending on pro
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Vals AI gave Claude Fable 5.1 an open brief — find an unsolved cipher and solve it — and 44 minutes later it read Sir Thomas Urquhart's Cyphral Distich (1653): the key was the book itself. The asteris
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When building a machine for local AI agents and open-weight LLMs, developers make the mistake of buying gaming PC specs: 5.8 GHz CPUs, custom liquid cooling loops, and fast gaming GPUs with only 8GB o
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July 19, 2024, 04:09 UTC: CrowdStrike pushes Channel File 291 — a Rapid Response Content update — to every Windows Falcon sensor online. The template it feeds was declared with 21 input fields in Febr
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