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Ryan is joined by Coder’s Rob Whiteley to chat about why tokenmaxxing isn’t proving real value and just triggering Goodhart’s Law, how release speed and PR merges can help you measure agentic outcomes with or without a human-in-the-loop, and what the democratization of skills means for junior developers and the talent pipeline.
Over the past year, AI models have become much more capable of performing cybersecurity work. These changes are reshaping both the threats facing the web and the tools available to defend it. Right now, defenders have an advantage because they can use stronger models for defensive work than the open-weight models broadly available for offensive research. But this advantage will not always last. The gap will soon close. I have both good news and bad news, neither of which is yet widely understood
Attackers shut down a steam turbine and the process-water treatment system at a Polish combined heat and power plant by coming in over the private cellular network the local grid operator uses to reach remote equipment. The plant supplies heat to roughly 50,000 residents. Recovery began at about 7:30 a.m. while the intruders were still active inside the network, and customers lost neither heat
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Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a supply chain compromise impacting WordPress plugin vendor BdThemes, prompting the content management systems (CMS) platform's plugins team to temporarily disable their downloads. "Unlike traditional software supply chain attacks, zero source code files were modified within the official WordPress.org repository," Wordfence researcher Paolo Tresso said.
AI Gateway Production Index — August 2026 Every month, routes tens of trillions of tokens between production applications and AI labs. That traffic gives us a view of what AI usage actually looks like in today's enterprise, and we publish it here monthly. See the Production Index reports from , , and .AI GatewayMayJuneJuly The August index reports on AI Gateway data collected through July 2026. Moonshot released Kimi K3 on July 16. Like Z.ai's GLM 5.2 released in June, it is built for long-hori
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