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AWS confirms unrecoverable data loss after Iran strike Article

AWS confirms unrecoverable data loss after Iran strike

AWS cannot restore some data from Iran-struck Mideast facilities. A recovery copy that shares a failure domain with the primary is not recovery.

Rust for CUDA won't make your models faster
Article Rust GPU programming

Rust for CUDA won't make your models faster

Nvidia's native Rust support for GPU programming is a reliability shift at the systems layer, not a speedup - it matters only if you write custom device code.

Zhipu built its own inference stack for GLM
Article LLM inference

Zhipu built its own inference stack for GLM

GLM built its own inference infrastructure to serve LLMs cheaply on constrained, mixed hardware. Here's what breaks in generic stacks and what to copy.

A 4B model outplans Postgres
Article postgres optimization

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.

A patch waits eleven days at the gate
Article Google Play

A patch waits eleven days at the gate

Google Play reviews now take a week or more. The real risk isn't malware slipping the gate - it's droppers that mutate after approval and slowed security patches.

Gemini 3.8 Live broke two security assumptions
Article AI safety

Gemini 3.8 Live broke two security assumptions

Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking make ambient audio and video an untrusted AI input, reshaping prompt injection, logging, and privacy risk.

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.

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