A zero-click exploit is making the rounds—nasty stuff targeting agentic IDEs likeCursor. The trick? Slip a malicious Google Doc into the system. If MCP integration and allow-listedPython executionare on, the document gets auto-pulled, parsed, and runs code. No clicks. No prompts. Justremote code exe..

Microsoft and academic researchers want to give AI models a new kind of home: theAI Model Virtual Machine (MVM). Think of it like theJVM, but for LLMs—an interface layer that standardizes how models plug into host software. The MVM enforcessecurity,isolation, andtool-calling rules, while also unloc..

Google dropped detailed stats on energy, water, and carbon use per query for its Gemini models. Median energy:0.24 Wh, with TPUs eating58%of that. They’re claiming a33× efficiency boostin the last year—credit goes to model and software tuning. System shift:A public hyperscaler posting this means th..

Every day, nearly 90M buyers look for unique items out of over 100 million listings on the Etsy. The platform uses large language models to create detailed buyer profiles anonymously capturing their interests. Adjustments in data retrieval and processing have reduced the time and cost of generating ..

OpenAI just folded itsModel Behavior team—the crew behind AI personality design and anti-sycophant training—into thePost Training group. Behavior tuning now lives inside the same house as model refinement. Joanne Jang, who led Model Behavior, now runsOAI Labs, a fresh research unit digging intopost..

TheExternal Secrets Operator (ESO)is moving again. After hitting pause from maintainer burnout, it’s back under CNCF incubation—with a rebooted structure in place. New governance, clear contributor paths, and support tracks for CI, core dev, and testing are all in. But don’t expect fresh releases ju..

Klaviyo replaced ProxySQL on EC2 and moved toAWS RDS Proxy. Why? Less overhead. Simpler failovers. Smarter pooling. RDS Proxy handlesmultiplexing, packing thousands of client queries into way fewer DB connections. IAM access and built-in failover routing sweeten the deal...

Logical clocks trackevent orderin distributed systems—no need for synced wall clocks. Each node keeps a counter. On every event: tick it. On every message: tack on your counter. When you receive one? Merge and bump. This flips the script. Instead of chasing global time, distributed systems lean int..

A fresh look at Linux monitoring tools shows the classics still hold—but the visual crowd’s moving in. Old-school command-liners liketopandvmstatremain go-to’s for quick reads. But picks likeNetdata,btop, andMonitbring dashboards, colors, and actual UX. Tools likeiftop,Nmon, andSuricatastretch deep..

Calling outfive sneaky AWS cost traps—the kind that creep in through overlooked defaults and quiet misconfigs, then blow up your bill while no one's watching...