Extended Support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now billing
If you run PostgreSQL 11, 12 or 13 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, a quiet billing change went live on September 1. Azure automatically enrolled servers on unsupported PostgreSQL versions in Extended Support when standard support ended on July 31. A one-month grace period covered August at no charge. The meter started running […]
Defender for Cloud brings serverless container posture to Azure Container Apps
Microsoft has made Azure Container Apps environments available in Defender for Cloud’s Serverless Containers Posture experience, now generally available. Security teams can pull their Container Apps estate into posture management from a single workflow instead of treating each serverless platform separately. The capability also covers Azure Container Instances and Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate. The […]
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
In May, someone flooded RubyGems with more than 2,000 malicious packages over a couple of days. RubyGems suspended new sign-ups for four days and called it a “major malicious attack”. Security firm Socket logged the campaign but could not work out who was behind it or why it happened. The packages scraped data from UK […]
Tottenham Hotspur cut VMware licensing costs by 85 percent with HPE Morpheus
Tottenham Hotspur cut its virtualization licensing bill by more than 85 percent by moving its stadium infrastructure off VMware. The English Premier League club confirmed this week that it replaced VMware with HPE’s Morpheus VM Essentials, delivered through HPE’s GreenLake hybrid cloud platform, and that the savings were the biggest single reason for the switch. […]
Human Atlas puts 2,234 selectable anatomy meshes in your browser
There is a new entry in the small category of open source projects that make the web feel like the future we were promised in the 1990s: Human Atlas, an interactive 3D anatomy explorer built with React, Three.js, and shadcn/ui. It takes the BodyParts3D adult male reference model and breaks it into 2,234 individually selectable […]
Cisco firewall manager flaws pulled three hacking groups into the same appliances
Cisco Talos published research this week on three separate hacking groups that broke into customers through two flaws in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, the central management server for Cisco firewalls. One group dropped ransomware. Another is tied to Sandworm, the hacking unit linked to Russian military intelligence. The third stole credentials through a web […]
Azure Storage SAS tokens can now be locked to an Entra ID identity
Azure Storage has made user-bound user delegation SAS generally available. The feature ties a shared access signature not just to who created it, but to who is allowed to use it. The delegator names a specific Entra ID security principal inside the token, and that principal has to authenticate to Entra ID before the token […]
Training a 3.8B LLM for $998: what one person with rented B200s can do
Hugo Vergnes trained a 3.8 billion parameter language model from scratch for $998, scoring 0.384 on the CORE benchmark after 43 hours on eight rented B200 GPUs. That number matters because of what sits next to it in the comparison table. Karpathy’s nanochat d32, a 1B model trained for roughly the same $1,000 budget, scores […]
RSA-260 falls to GPU sieve built and run by coding agents
Cognition published a factorization of RSA-260 this week, a 260-digit number from the old RSA Factoring Challenge. That makes it the largest publicly solved RSA challenge number, beating RSA-250, which had held the record since February 2020. The interesting part is not the number itself. It is who did the work and what it cost. […]
Nvidia’s $21 billion SpaceX stake came from a chain of deals
Nvidia’s quarterly filing dropped a surprise this month: the company holds about 122.8 million Class A shares of SpaceX, worth roughly $21 billion at the end of Q2 2026. It’s the second largest position in Nvidia’s equity portfolio, at around a third of it, and the paper trail shows the stake was never bought directly. […]
AliExpress caught using inaudible sounds to fingerprint browsers
AliExpress has been running hidden audio fingerprinting scripts on visitors, according to research covered by Ars Technica. Two obfuscated scripts on the site build silent WebAudio graphs, and the tiny imperfections in how your machine renders a test tone become a tracking identifier. Nothing plays out loud. You never grant permission. The scripts are still […]
Running a 2.8T parameter model from SSDs on a MacBook Pro
A 2.8 trillion parameter model just ran on a laptop, and it didn’t fit in RAM when it did. A project on Hacker News streamed Kimi K3’s weights off four SSDs at about 1 token per second on a MacBook Pro, which is slow by chatbot standards and remarkable by any other measure. What Kimi […]