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AI Safety Is Not the Same as Security (6 minute read)

Frontier labs may be applying probabilistic AI safety techniques to problems that require deterministic security controls. Recent agent sandbox escapes highlighted the gap between reducing harmful model behavior and reliably containing software.

Aug 27 | Blog

The Agentic Survival Guide: How Security and Marketing Leaders Can Learn to Trust AI Agents

AI agent traffic grew 7,851% in 2025. Security and marketing teams are both flying blind, and the fix runs through visibility, identity, and governance, in that order.

I Left the Mac After 12 Years. Omarchy Made Computers Fun Again (4 minute read)

Omarchy is an opinionated Linux distribution built for AI agents.

Sep 07 | Data

Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% (7 minute read)

Most of what a coding agent does is I/O rather than reasoning, such as reading five files to answer a question about one method. Spotify routed that work to two declarative Portal modes, bulk-reader and code-writer, both running Gemini 2.5 Flash on an ephemeral runtime, and reserved the frontier model for problems that need it. A quarter of engineering leaders already spend $200 to $500 per developer per month on tokens, and some are past $2,000.

Sep 07 | It

Native IP functions for threat detection and hunting on Databricks (7 minute read)

Databricks now offers built-in SQL IP functions in Public Preview for IPv4 and IPv6 subnet checks, CIDR arithmetic, parsing, and canonicalization. They simplify threat-hunting workflows like separating internal and external traffic and matching telemetry against threat-intel blocklists. Tests on a live Lakewatch workspace found they handle tricky IPv6 formats more reliably than regex or integer-based methods and outperform UDFs with Photon join optimizations.

Keep up with tech in 5 minutes

Get the free daily email with summaries of the most interesting stories in startups 🚀, tech 📱, and programming 💻!

AI Safety Is Not the Same as Security (6 minute read)

The Agentic Survival Guide: How Security and Marketing Leaders Can Learn to Trust AI Agents

I Left the Mac After 12 Years. Omarchy Made Computers Fun Again (4 minute read)

Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% (7 minute read)

Native IP functions for threat detection and hunting on Databricks (7 minute read)

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