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Beam's weights just landed on a stranger's disk Article

Beam's weights just landed on a stranger's disk

Reflection's Beam ships 501B parameters as open weights. The security story isn't the scale - it's irreversibility, lost monitoring, and poisoned checkpoints.

Federal judge labels Flock indiscriminate mass surveillance
Article mass surveillance

Federal judge labels Flock indiscriminate mass surveillance

A federal judge called Flock indiscriminate mass surveillance. The failure is design: no enforced collection boundary means collection without limit.

Monitoring won't save you from a runaway AI bill
Article budget-caps

Monitoring won't save you from a runaway AI bill

Why every AI system needs deterministic, granular hard budget caps wired into the control plane to keep LLM and agent costs predictable.

One update, two trust domains
Article endpoint security

One update, two trust domains

Orion shipped updates for Linux and Windows. The release confirms one trusted self-update path operating across two distinct trust models.

From $ to # in one unshare call
Article linux-kernel

From $ to # in one unshare call

Technical breakdown of Linux kernel LPE CVEs - nf_tables UAF, Dirty Pipe, StackRot - exploit primitives, attack chains, and the telemetry gap defenders face.

Kolibri ships open weights for sovereign AI
Article sovereign AI

Kolibri ships open weights for sovereign AI

Running Kolibri's open weights in-house gives you the ability to be sovereign, but only the architecture around the model actually delivers it.

TOTP doesn't fail. Your implementation does.
Article mfa-bypass

TOTP doesn't fail. Your implementation does.

Why TOTP MFA gets bypassed: replay, wide skew windows, missing rate limits, seed theft, and origin-blind adversary-in-the-middle proxies.

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