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Article Gemini 3.8 Flash captures your evaluation inputs
Evaluating Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber transfers your input to infrastructure you cannot inspect. What failed, the pattern, and what must now be true.
FBI probes sale of 153 million license records
An FBI probe into a service selling 153 million driver's license records shows why static identity data cannot be rotated, recalled, or trusted as proof.
Firefox blocks cross-site tracking by default
Firefox moved tracking protection from optional settings into the engine by default. Why enforcement, not preference, protects your anonymity.
Same badge, new model underneath
A systems-analysis read on Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: why a point release quietly moves the safety boundary and what to re-test before you ship it.
The 150x model tax
Cost, latency, and quality trade against each other in LLM inference. How to route work, use serving-layer levers, and architect systems on the efficient frontier.
A robot dog moves on command inside your network
The Creepy Crawlies robot dog is a networked device that moves on command. Its control channel and actuator define the risk, not its label.
Code rides the error channel
Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS through the copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel, and what it means for the trust boundary between qubes.
The Wire — latest
All →- An LLM read 72K lines of 68000 assembly to port a 1993 Iraqi Amiga game to Godot
- Fake beaver dams in California lift juvenile coho salmon survival from 8% to 60%
- Gloria Steinem, feminist writer and organizer, dies at 92
- GPT-6 Astra tops ARC-AGI-3, beating human action efficiency on 96% of levels
- Human Go champion beats KataGo AI in first official win under two-stone handicap
- A Cracked Oil Pipe Nearly Downed an A380: Inside Qantas Flight 32
- A Web Toy Draws One Random Life From the 100 Billion Humans Who Ever Lived
- AI agent swarms rebuild SF's Union Square as a browser-native Three.js world
- Antigravity's TOS lets Google ban your entire account for third-party use
- Audacity 4.0 Rebuilds Its UI on Qt With a Clip-Centric Editing Model
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