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AI is exposing the limits of traditional network architecture

Presented by Tata Communications Continuous inference, agent-to-agent communication, and real-time data pipelines are generating unpredictable, always-on traffic that legacy architectures were never built to support. As AI moves from pilot project to operational backbone, the n…

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Shawn Smucker: ‘Please Use AI’

I find most poetry obtuse, dancing around a point rather than making one sharply. Not this one. ★

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Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the September/October 2026 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by Michael S. Branicky, ScD ’95, of the Puzzle Corner Puzzle Crew (aka PC2), which also includes Edward Faulkner ’03, MEng ’04, and Abe Kunin ’03. This column includes soluti…

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The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one

An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned versions of keyv and its sibling caching packages were live on npm, carrying a crede…

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Uh-Oh. Which Company’s AI Model Is Reportedly a Hacker Now, Too?

Somebody get these hackers out of here.

Dale Dickey on How She Got Through Rosemary’s Big ‘Widow’s Bay’ Scene

The Emmy nominee delivered a genealogy lecture for the ages on Apple TV's breakout horror comedy series.

International tech

Safety Risks Behind China's Top Open-Source LLMs: 76 percent Vulnerability Reproduction, Zero Refusal

An independent SaferAI audit of Zhipu's GLM-5.2 found cyber-offense capability on par with GPT-5.5 but a complete absence of content-filtering guardrails, exposing structural risks for open-weight releases.

When Quantum Meets AI: Six Academicians Chart a New Blueprint for Smart Computing

At the 5th CCF Quantum Computing Conference in Shenzhen, six CAS and CAE academicians outlined a national road map for AI-enabled quantum error correction and a unified quantum-supercomputing-AI infrastructure.

Tencent Expands International Access to Flagship Hy3 Model, Offers Free WorkBuddy Access Until Aug 31

Tencent rolls out its flagship Hy3 LLM internationally via WorkBuddy, Tencent Design Miora, and TokenHub — free on WorkBuddy until Aug 31, 2026.

Every card payment appears instant, but the money can travel through several companies and decades-old settlement systems before it actually reaches the merchant

The approval at a card terminal is a fast message, not the merchant receiving money. Clearing, net settlement and a separate bank payout can still follow.

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The Next Hundred-Billion-Dollar Robot Battlefield May Be the Kitchen

Capital, home-appliance giants, and humanoid-robot startups are all converging on the Chinese commercial kitchen, with one industry projection putting the AI cooking-robot market above 109.6 billion yuan by 2030.

Chinese commercial rocket company i-Space completes first tranche of nearly RMB1 billion Series E funding

Chinese commercial rocket company Beijing Interstellar Glory, also known as i-Space, has completed the first tranche of a Series E funding round worth nearly RMB1 billion. The investors are mainly bank-affiliated asset-management institutions, while the broader round remains unde…

‘Nobody Wanted to Give A Former Principal Money’: How An Educator Built An Edtech AI Startup With $63M From VCs

Founded by an educator fascinated by the educational potential of ChatGPT, MagicSchool AI leads off a series of articles featuring startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies.

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Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents

Meta today released Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent now in beta, alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused update to its Muse Spark family of frontier models — a one-two punch that puts the company in direct competition with Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, a…

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Reading a Thermocouple with Mercury and a Potentiometer

If you’ve ever thought about the nomenclature of electrical components, potentiometer stands out as a strange name, etymologically suggesting something like a voltmeter. In fact, the component took its name …read more

Road to Staff+ TPM: The Mindset

2026.05 — Part of the Road to Staff+ TPM series, examining the gap between succeeding as a mid-level TPM and thriving as a Staff+ TPM.

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 878: A Tool With Opinions

This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the different ways to build a Rust stack on an embedded device, and …read more

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How Big Models Teach Small Models to Be Smart

In this article, we will walk through the idea from the ground up.

Why An LLM’s Memory Gets Expensive and How to Fix It

In this article, we will learn how LLMs use memory, how it gets expensive, and how to fix it.

Know Your Food: Our Daily Bread

It’s time to return to our no-punches-pulled look at food manufacture, and this time we’re looking at the humble loaf of bread. As before, we’re approaching the subject with a …read more

LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model

In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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