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Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting
Trump and Johnson Push Back on AI Industry Calls to Slow Down A rare moment of agreement among AI leaders has drawn a sharp rebuke from the White House and House Speaker. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter arguing...
Codename MDASH brings agentic AI security scanning to US Government
Microsoft has quietly deployed one of its most ambitious security tools to Azure Government, and it changes the math on how government agencies can protect software that matters. Codename MDASH, a multi-model agentic code scanning...
Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
A software engineer's candid post on Hacker News is resonating with developers who find themselves drawn to maintenance and support rather than greenfield building. The anonymous poster, who holds a BS/MS in computer science and h...
Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow
Security through obscurity, the long-discredited practice of relying on hidden implementation details to protect systems, has finally run out of places to hide. AI agents are now routinely finding vulnerabilities that defenders th...
MeshDrive and Local AI Agent for FS
Hardik94 has pushed a point release to Meshdrive, formerly vix-gateway, that focuses entirely on making failures legible. Version 2.3.1 addresses three error handling gaps where the system previously gave developers nothing useful...
402cron: Pay-per-delivery cron scheduling for AI agents
A new service is attempting to solve one of the foundational problems for autonomous software agents: how do you schedule recurring work on someone else's infrastructure without a human standing by to enter a credit card number? 4...
Probability of an LLM Trajectory: Starting from the Chain Rule
Understanding how language models generate text often starts with the output, a token appearing one after another, but rarely examines the probability structure underneath. A recent post by Sithankanna breaks down the probability...
Cloudflare Tests Cache Transcoding to Reduce Storage Requirements
Cloudflare has built a prototype that compresses cached text content before writing it to disk, and the company estimates it could unlock petabytes of additional effective cache capacity across its network. The approach, which the...
Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
A question posted to Hacker News this week cuts to the heart of a growing anxiety in security-conscious communities: if AI systems are getting better at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in connected devices, should individua...
GitHub Copilot's Project HydraFusion Promises Frontier Level Performance Through Multi-Model Routing
GitHub has released a research preview of Project HydraFusion, a system that routes coding tasks across multiple AI models at runtime to match the right model to the right job. The approach treats every incoming prompt as an optim...