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Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
Lexi Pandell’s WIRED investigation of Pangram, the Brooklyn AI-detection startup whose accusations reshaped literary publishing—and the limits of trusting any detector as a career-making authority.
12 min · 2,783 words
Transformer Explainer: LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained
Georgia Tech’s Polo Club walks through GPT-2’s Transformer stack—embeddings, multi-head attention, MLP, sampling—with an interactive in-browser model for learning how next-token prediction works.
4 min · 827 words
Abusing Constrained Delegation without Protocol Transition against SPN-less accounts
A security write-up from hunio.org introducing a new Kerberos delegation abuse path in Active Directory: by combining Elad Shamir's Reflective RBCD technique, James Forshaw's U2U sacrificial-user technique and an Impacket extension, constrained delegation without protocol transition can be abused even when only SPN-less user accounts are available, with step-by-step commands and references.
5 min · 1,223 words
Gaussian splats part 3: There’s always a bigger scene
Magnopus engineer Sam Birley recounts how the Unreal Gaussian splat renderer behind OKO, which he had claimed could render unlimited splats, actually hit a 16-million-splats-per-asset cap and other walls, and how the team rebuilt it around level-of-detail for splats, streaming, GPU-side selection of what to draw and a higher max splat count, now shipping as streamed SOG support in OKO Unreal and OKO Web.
12 min · 2,856 words
Open Source Maintainership in an LLM world
A couple of weeks ago I spoke about this topic at KC OSS Happy Hour and I wanted to turn the general ideas into a post I can point people at who are suffering from this problem. My slides were pretty good, if I do say so myself, so I grabbed the best images and put them into this post where appropriate.
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It Was the Harness, Not the Model — 90% of ItFive agents, one local model, one frozen PNG-decoder suite: most failures were finishing, false passes, and loop guards
Greg Herlein's controlled study runs five coding agents on the same local Qwen coder for a held-out PNG decoder suite. ~90% of failures were harness problems (turn caps, early 'done', false-pass self-tests); a bigger quantization fixed none of them.
2 min · 467 words
The Grand Unifying Architecture of Frontend
Ryan Carniato maps 30 years of frontend architectures onto one grid—navigation, content, affordances—covering HTMX, LiveView, SPAs, Astro, Server Components, and SolidJS 2.0.
11 min · 2,432 words
Yang: the software factory behind Composio's toolkits
How Yang builds and repairs Composio toolkits with coding agents, durable sessions, automated code review, and production telemetry.
7 min · 1,714 words
What Happens When Formalization Becomes Cheap?
I started working on machine learning for formal theorem proving in 2018. When people ask how I got into the field so early, I sometimes give an answer that makes me sound quite visionary. The actual story is that my advisor had a student leaving, and he assigned the project to me. My apologies to everyone who got the visionary version. It was a fortunate assignment. Over the following years, I developed CoqGym and LeanDojo and contributed to Goedel-Prover. I was lucky to join a small research…
13 min · 2,890 words
The Machine-Native Economy: How digital assets connect intelligence, commerce, and compute
BlackRock Digital Assets Research argues agentic AI needs machine-native payment rails (stablecoins/blockchains) and explores tokenized compute as a converging digital-asset use case.
17 min · 3,814 words
Autonomous AI Agents are breaking into Online Retailers for $25 a target
Gambit Security reconstructs an ongoing campaign where open-source AI harnesses attack retailers at ~$25/target, steal 600k+ cards, inject skimmers, and sometimes wipe databases during cleanup.
7 min · 1,518 words
Spraying in the Andes: TeamFiltration Returns to Exploit Forgotten Service Accounts
Proofpoint threat researchers track UNK_CondorFiltration, an active TeamFiltration campaign that hit thousands of Microsoft 365 accounts across dozens of tenants, with post-access activity they assess as AI-enabled.
6 min · 1,407 words
Protobuf, JSON Schema, and OpenAPI
Buf explains how Protobuf schemas can drive JSON Schema and OpenAPI via protoc plugins—extending one source of truth into documentation, validation, and HTTP APIs without maintaining parallel definitions.
6 min · 1,373 words
Tailscale performance updates cut memory use, raise throughput, and speed startup via multi-queue, writev, and netmap caching—how the team measured and shipped the gains.
7 min · 1,640 words
A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
Raymond Chen recounts Win32 scroll-bar basics, the Windows 7 right-click “Scroll Here” menu, and the little-known Shift+click jump—then notes how Electron/Chromium scrollbars mostly lost the context menu.
2 min · 462 words
How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks
Anthropic’s performance sprint cut claude.ai and desktop p75 time-to-typeable from 3.1s to 0.55s: Claude Tag measured journeys, built benchmarks, and shipped thousands of guarded changes in Slack-driven loops.
18 min · 4,175 words
Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
FoxDev Studio rebuilds Visual FoxPro as a modern 64-bit runtime and IDE in Rust/WebAssembly: open old projects in place, keep .dbf data, bridge 32-bit libraries, and add FoxScript lambdas and HTTP routes.
3 min · 645 words
NobodyWho shows a local, 25-line Python sketch of Jev-style decision models: load a small GGUF, score labeled choices from logits, and print calibrated-looking probabilities without sending data to an API.
2 min · 419 words
Epoch AI finds the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen about 47% per quarter since 2023—roughly 13× per year—faster than DNA sequencing, compute, batteries, or electricity, across math, science, and skill-game benchmarks.
40 min · 9,215 words
Drop: A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support
Drop is a rootless Linux sandbox aimed at isolating coding agents and third-party programs, with OS-level permissions, optional gVisor support, and a workflow that stays close to a normal shell.
1 min · 299 words