Cybersecurity
BlueHammer is an unpatched, publicly released Windows local privilege escalation exploit that chains Microsoft Defender's update workflow, Volume Shadow Copy, Cloud Files callbacks, and opportunistic locks to reach NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM from a standard user account.
Cybersecurity
Anthropic quietly rolled out identity verification for Claude subscriptions, asking for passports and live selfies via third-party vendor Persona. ChatGPT and Gemini require neither. Here's why this decision is a mess, who's actually affected, and what Persona's track record means for your data.
Artificial intelligence
ChatGPT. Claude. GitHub. All of them went down — repeatedly — and it's not a coincidence. AI agents are generating traffic at a scale human developers never could, and the infrastructure holding up your entire dev workflow was never designed for this.
Artificial intelligence
I use AI as a tool. I'll say that upfront. Claude helps me write frontends faster. It handles search queries that Google stopped being useful for three years ago. I hand it boilerplate I've written by hand a thousand times and I get time back. That&
Artificial intelligence
Anthropic's $1.5M donation seeds a $10M Responsible AI Initiative at the Apache Software Foundation. That's more than half of ASF's entire annual budget in one shot — which tells you everything about how badly the open source infrastructure powering AI has been underfunded.
Artificial intelligence
Step-by-step guide to running a local LLM on your PC in 2026 using Ollama. Covers hardware requirements, model selection, Open WebUI setup, and VS Code integration.
Cybersecurity
A critical SSRF flaw in Axios was used in a North Korean supply chain attack. Here's what it does and how to patch it today.
Artificial intelligence
A retired Austrian developer built an open-source AI agent for fun in November 2025. Within 90 days, Jensen Huang called it the most successful open-source project in human history.
Artificial intelligence
ChatGPT went down 28,000-report strong in February 2026. Claude had back-to-back outages within 24 hours in March. GitHub logged 37 incidents in a single month and is running at 90.21% uptime — one nine, not three. AI agents aren't just using infrastructure.
Programming
Python 3.15 ships a built-in frozendict — hashable, O(1) lookups, order-preserving, thread-safe by design. Here's the full technical picture: the 14-year history, how hashing works, what it unlocks for lru_cache and free-threaded Python, and every sharp edge you need to know before you use it.
Cryptography
A deep-dive into the full cryptographic stack powering every HTTPS connection — RSA-OAEP, AES-GCM, ECDHE key exchange, and a working TLS 1.3 handshake simulation, all built in pure Python from first principles.
Programming Languages
The dev community has spent 20 years calling Markdown 'just a markup language.' They're wrong. Here's the full technical case — parse trees, AST internals, the CommonMark spec, Pandoc's extended grammar — plus why Markdown is the fastest way to write long documents that has ever existed.