The Athenaeum
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Long-form work on Red Warden Bastion, published here first — not on someone else’s domain.
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The CVE Factory We Built On Purpose
960+ vulnerabilities in one Patch Tuesday isn't a bad month for Microsoft - it's the predictable output of a discovery machine the whole industry built, colliding with a patch process still run on human time.
MEMORY IS EXPENSIVE
GPU and DRAM prices have climbed 2-3x in a year because AI data centers now absorb 70% of the world's memory output - and the people who can least afford to wait it out are the ones running compute as a business, not a hobby.
OpenAI releases GPT-6: The Jailbreak Isn't the Story – The Layer Is
GPT-6 Astra crossed OpenAI's Critical threshold and fell in 24 hours. The interesting part is where the safety was built, not that it broke.