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Computers and smartphones are becoming more powerful every year. So I've been thinking about a simple question: Why do we still need small microcontrollers like Arduino, ESP8266, and ESP32? Compared with a computer, a microcontroller has very limited processing power and memory. Yet they are used everywhere in IoT and embedded systems. One reason is […]

Syndicated from the original on lkforge.com. The two games under test are playable at tic-tac-toe and 2048. The games on my site don't think with a language model. Tic-Tac-Toe runs minimax with alpha-beta pruning; 2048 runs an expectimax search over the random tile spawns — classic, deterministic algorithms, not a chatbot. To pressure-test that claim, […]

Part 1 of the DeepSeek Harness: Kernel to Edge series: How the open-source (MIT) Cordis meta-framework enables zero-downtime plugin reloads and memory-leak-free architectures in TypeScript, backed by 5+ years of battle-testing in Koishi. DeepSeek Harness: Kernel to Edge This article is Part 1 of a three-part architectural and practical deep dive: Part 1 (This Article): […]

Ninety-two percent of healthcare data breaches occur because of misconfigurations in the storage layer, yet most engineers I interview still think "encryption at rest" is the end of the conversation. If you think your S3 bucket policy is enough to satisfy an auditor, you’re about to have a very bad quarter. In the world of […]

Few things in Python development are more disruptive than a sudden SIGABRT or core dumped error that crashes the entire Python interpreter. In managed environments, invalid inputs should raise catchable exceptions like ValueError or tf.errors.InvalidArgumentError. When a C++ kernel assertion fails instead, your process dies instantly without giving your application a chance to recover. While […]

GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the repository commits API that could allow an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files from the GitLab server […]

Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers to a machine learning technique where a large, powerful AI model assumes the role of […]

Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company has branded Generative Threat Groups (GTGs), span state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, commercial

Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve. The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it calls GTG-20006 (where "GTG" stands for Generative Threat Group), which aligns with broader reporting […]

Security teams have become exceptionally talented at finding vulnerabilities. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to optimizing the process for determining which of those vulnerabilities actually create a path to compromise. A critical vulnerability may look alarming on a scanner report, but if it sits behind strong segmentation, identity controls, and other defenses that […]