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A 4B model outplans Postgres Article

A 4B model outplans Postgres

A 4B model proposes faster Postgres query plans, but the validation gate and fallback - not the model - are what make the 81% speedup safe to run.

Rubble where the records used to be
Article cloud resilience

Rubble where the records used to be

A cloud provider states some Middle East data cannot be restored after a strike - what permanent loss means for board-level accountability and recoverability.

The merged Claude isn't about a smarter model
Article AI workflows

The merged Claude isn't about a smarter model

Merging Claude Cowork and chat removed the seam that forced discipline. Now structured workflows, not prompts, decide whether your AI work holds up.

The page never leaves your laptop
Article local LLM inference

The page never leaves your laptop

Run Mistral's multilingual models locally via Mozilla llamafile to tier web automation: cheap private steps stay local, hard reasoning escalates to the cloud.

Baseten lost production GitHub admin in 25 minutes
Article github security

Baseten lost production GitHub admin in 25 minutes

Admin access to Baseten's production GitHub was reached in 25 minutes. A briefing on the identity boundary that failed and what the number means.

Every new feature makes iOS 27 less safe
Article iOS 27 security

Every new feature makes iOS 27 less safe

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 concentrate risk at one point: whether a capability re-checks identity at execution, not at the moment consent was captured.

One attacker, three rivals, zero coincidence.
Article threat attribution

One attacker, three rivals, zero coincidence.

One actor is tied to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta incidents. The confirmed failure is collapsed separation, not any single company's controls.

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