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Eleven hours lost to one settings file
claude-codeanthropic

Eleven hours lost to one settings file

The undocumented Claude Code config flags, hooks, env vars, and permission patterns I rely on to run six properties in production.

5 min read
EY Canada's 2026 report cited papers that don't exist
threat intelligenceAI safety

EY Canada's 2026 report cited papers that don't exist

EY Canada published a cybersecurity report with mostly hallucinated citations. Here's what that means for how you should read threat intelligence.

7 min read
The credential nobody revoked is still live
MCPprotocol deprecation

The credential nobody revoked is still live

MCP is dead is a procurement claim. Until integrations are removed and trust artefacts revoked, runtime exposure is unchanged.

8 min read
Hy3 is quietly winning production
Hy3 LLMOpenRouter

Hy3 is quietly winning production

Hy3 is topping OpenRouter rankings with no public lineage. NovaMind breaks down what its dominance means for pipelines, automation, and team design.

8 min read
Liquid AI's 8B-A1B drop rewrites inference math
mixture of expertsLLM engineering

Liquid AI's 8B-A1B drop rewrites inference math

Liquid AI's 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T tokens shifts LLM inference economics. What it means for engineering pipelines and workforce planning.

9 min read
One billion fire, eight billion sit in memory
MoE architectureLLM engineering

One billion fire, eight billion sit in memory

Liquid AI's 8B-A1B MoE frees compute and latency, not memory. How to match sparse-model architecture to the real constraint in your deployment.

9 min read
The bottleneck moved past the model
Mistral AIworkforce transformation

The bottleneck moved past the model

Notes from the Mistral AI Now summit on what the new enterprise stack means for automation pipelines and workforce transformation.

9 min read
800 servers gone, the scans kept coming
AS209847FIOD seizure

800 servers gone, the scans kept coming

Dutch FIOD seized 800 servers from AS209847. One week later the scan rate is unchanged. What that signal actually means.

5 min read
One PIN unlocks the vault
vaultjackinggoogle password manager

One PIN unlocks the vault

Vaultjacking turns one captured PIN into full retrieval of a Google Password Manager vault. Operator breakdown of the control collapse.

7 min read
Opened the dashboard at 23:47
claude-codeanthropic-api

Opened the dashboard at 23:47

Microsoft cancelled Claude Code subscriptions. Here's the production audit one indie operator ran on $847/mo of Anthropic spend.

6 min read
The word "toad" hijacked a Chrome VPN
chrome vpn vulnerabilitybrowser extension security

The word "toad" hijacked a Chrome VPN

A single keyword handed full control of Chrome's most popular VPN extension to any website. The failure is trust by string, not a bug.

6 min read
CERT-IN's 12-hour patch window is not arbitrary
CERT-INvulnerability management

CERT-IN's 12-hour patch window is not arbitrary

CERT-IN's 12-hour patch window for internet-facing flaws responds to AI-compressed exploitation timelines - what the threshold means operationally.

6 min read