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On 31 July 2026, Microsoft Threat Intelligence published a campaign note under the name CaptiveCrunch. It described traffic manipulation on hospitality captive-portal networks: DNS and HTTP redirected so that a guest joining hotel or conference Wi-Fi could be steered into lookalike Microsoft sign-in pages, device-code authentication traps, or fake browser and OS updates. Microsoft attributed […]
→Eleven days. That is how long Autistici/Inventati lasted after a Washington list named it, and before any Italian court said a word. I am not here to chant that sanctions are wicked in the abstract. The narrower fact is uglier and more useful. A volunteer hosting collective in Tuscany died because a domain registry, a […]
→Forty-eight became zero. That is the Astra number worth keeping, not the circus posters. OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra on 3 September 2026, calling it the world’s most intelligent and aligned model. The launch page saturates the usual scoreboard: FrontierMath Tier 4 at 98 percent, ARC-AGI-3 at 99.9 percent, ExploitBench at a round 100. […]
→Eight thousand posts on the first day, and the sentence that mattered was about a cache. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on 1 September 2026. The sticker prices did not move: ten dollars a million tokens in, fifty out. Cache reads, the reread of work already done, fell from a dollar to twenty-five cents. They […]
→Eight million dollars landed on a Linux desktop yesterday. The people already running a fast Arch will not know why. CachyOS has been that machine for years. A kernel built for speed, packages compiled for the chip you actually own, Hyprland if you want it, Plasma if you do not. DistroWatch has had it at […]
→Eighteen models got worse as the haystack grew. Foundation is Chroma’s wiki for agents, built after they believed Context Rot.
→Musk wrote the 4.7 spec on X. xAI confirmed Grok 5 is in training. Here is the file: claimed, shipped, still vapor.
→Zero is the only honest opening count for a public log.
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