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Using local LLMs for agentic coding

Alex Ewerlöf walks through running open-weight models likeGemma 4locally for agentic coding via LM Studio, wiring them into Copilot and Pi as custom endpoints, with the practical traps around context length, KV-cache quantization, and cold-start prompt processing... read more  

Using local LLMs for agentic coding
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Lessons from building Code: How we use skills

The Claude Code team catalogs Anthropic's hundreds of internal skills into 9 categories, arguing the best skills fit one cleanly and that verification skills deliver the highest measurable gains, worth an engineer-week each... read more  

Lessons from building Code: How we use skills
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Benchmarking KubeVirt performance with virtbench

Portworx released "virtbench," an open-source CLI that lets platform teams run reproducible KubeVirt benchmarks and assess VM readiness, rather than rely on pod health as a proxy... read more  

Benchmarking KubeVirt performance with virtbench
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From Dashboard to Headlamp: Understanding the Transition

The Kubernetes Dashboard project has been archived, with Headlamp now carrying the legacy forward by offering a visual interface with enhanced capabilities like multi-cluster visibility and application-centric views. Headlamp keeps familiar workflows, while expanding to support multi-cluster environ.. read more  

From Dashboard to Headlamp: Understanding the Transition
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Eliminating Kubernetes Image Signature Replication

The Kubernetes image promoter no longer replicates container image signatures across regions. The rewrite drops that replication entirely, cuts latency, and simplifies the codebase, while keeping signature verification working seamlessly for end users. Next, the project is moving to OCI 1.1 referrer.. read more  

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Breaking free of a single datacenter: Practical geo-distributed AI operations with the k0smos platforms

This post discusses the challenges of leveraging distributed resources for AI workloads and the role of Kubernetes in addressing these challenges. The k0smos stack is highlighted as a solution for operating geo-distributed AI infrastructure, divided into three technical layers: k0s, k0smotron, and k.. read more  

Breaking free of a single datacenter: Practical geo-distributed AI operations with the k0smos platforms
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Kubernetes' Default CoreDNS Configuration is insecure

CoreDNS pods insecure option is the default in Kubernetes as it allows for the creation of arbitrary DNS A records. Combined with wildcard SSL certs, it poses a security risk, highlighted by Cilium's handling of network policies in the face of DNS manipulation. Time to shift to a more secure DNS con.. read more  

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Making a vintage LLM from scratch

Croqaz shows how he built Vintage LLM, a Llama-style model trained on English books, newspapers, and other texts published before 1900. He covers corpus selection, cleaning, tokenizer choices, training setup, evaluation, and how pre-20th-century English affects model behavior... read more  

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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Anthropic staff disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after U.S. officials issued an export-control directive that barred foreign nationals from accessing the models, citing a suspected jailbreak... read more  

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
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ChatGPhish: The Page Is the Payload

By appending a payload to any web page summarized by ChatGPT, an attacker can leak IP, User-Agent, and launch phishing attacks using live links and images inside the assistant UI. This browser-based prompt injection raises the bar for phishing and tracking, bypassing traditional defenses... read more  

ChatGPhish: The Page Is the Payload
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