Google's AndroidX Security State libraries enables apps to verify security patch status at the individual component level, rather than relying on a single, device-wide security patch date. By Sergio De Simone
A team of developers working at AWS recently open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted application designed to let AI agents run tasks in the background and return results through an inbox-style interface. Agents can perform scheduled or webhook-triggered work, delegate tasks to spec…
I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, who's real name was Mark Stevens, was an early employee of Apple and was best known for his PBS documentaries, especially "Triumph of the Nerds". He will be missed. Comments …
Archestra released OpenAPPA, an open-source security engine designed to stop data exfiltration caused by prompt injection or model hallucination. The team reports zero successful attacks when running security benchmarks Bench-Corp (20 multi-step enterprise workflows) and AgentThr…
Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps . I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say "after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors". The…
I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: More Fable class models A pricing war 3D graphics, Blender, and pixel art LLMs come for mathematics So many more accid…
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
CVE-2026-85706 is a critical GitLab path-traversal vulnerability that has moved beyond theoretical risk into confirmed exploitation. It affects self-managed GitLab CE/EE and could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to read arbitrary files from the GitLab. By Sergio De Simon…
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
Swaroop Chitlur and Sidd Kodwani share DoorDash’s journey building an internal GenAI platform. They discuss core architectural bets, transitioning from vendor-first setups to open-weights models, navigating LLM and agent gateways, and balancing accuracy, latency, and cost for ove…
Istio 1.31 adds agentgateway waypoints in ambient mode, with a canary configuration fix included in 1.31.1. It also ends the publication of images and Helm charts to Google Cloud, requiring repository migration ahead of the 13 October outage test and signing-key updates for teams…
A recent article by Anil Madhavapeddy argues that AI agents can turn publicly available clues about software vulnerabilities into working exploits, reducing the effectiveness of traditional disclosure embargoes in open source projects. The author highlights the need for faster pa…
Museum: Rex's Dino Store Located just before the turnstiles in the Grand Army Plaza subway station at the north end of Brooklyn's Prospect Park is this former newsstand which is now operated by a dinosaur. The density of dinosaur puns is exceptional . Tags: art , new-york