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GitHub Actions Is Having One of the Worst Days in Its History (5 minute read)

GitHub Actions went into a major outage yesterday. Webhook triggers were throttled, so pushes and pull requests quietly don't start anything at all. Runners were being handed jobs that no longer existed. Both hosted and self-hosted were affected. GitHub's record outages show that the platform is growing faster than it can handle.

Jun 12 | Blog

I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.

A "simple" weekend project turns into real infrastructure, and why agent context deserves a boring, reliable foundation.

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Generative UI replaces the “wall of text” in AI responses with interfaces generated to match user intent. It breaks into three generation categories: static/controlled (model picks tool arguments and app code maps results to existing components), declarative (model composes layouts from a versioned component catalog via specs like A2UI over AG-UI), and open-ended (raw HTML/CSS/JS in a sandboxed iframe, still blocked by security, latency, and consistency).

Aug 07 | AI

Tradeoffs in Open-Weights Models (9 minute read)

The report examines how open-weight models could expand user control and defensive capabilities while also increasing risks from hacking, biological misuse, and loss of centralized safeguards.

Aug 07 | Infosec

Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities (3 minute read)

Forescout identified over 4,400 internet-facing Rockwell PLCs worldwide, including 22 in recently attacked US water utility cities that were compromised via open Ethernet/IP port 44818 rather than complex exploits, prompting urgent calls for defenders to isolate controllers behind VPNs and utilize Rockwell advisory SD1790 to recover attacker-locked systems.

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GitHub Actions Is Having One of the Worst Days in Its History (5 minute read)

I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.

Generative UI (14 minute read)

Tradeoffs in Open-Weights Models (9 minute read)

Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities (3 minute read)

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