Jeff fine-tunes tiny models to make decisions in one forward pass

Most LLM calls in production are not conversations. They are routing decisions: which support queue does this ticket belong in, is this comment abusive, which intent did the user just express. A new open-source project called Jeff targets exactly that workload with fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 (0.8B and 2B) and Gemma 4 E2B that return a […]

GitHub and PyPI Introduce Time-Based Defenses Against Supply Chain Attacks

GitHub and PyPI both introduced time-based security measures this month that deliberately slow down the software supply chain. The idea is simple: make it harder for attackers to push malicious packages into your dependencies before anyone notices. Dependabot now has a default three-day cooldown before opening version update pull requests. PyPI will reject new file […]