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In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-par…

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Anthropic says Claude accessed real systems during cyber evals

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. Below we describe what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing.…

The Session You Cannot Take With You — Earendil

AI Providers’ Hidden Session State Raises Lock-In Concerns

Inference APIs are filling sessions with encrypted reasoning, hidden search results, opaque compaction, and encrypted subagent messages. A growing form of lock-in. The Session You Cannot Take With You Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 From: Earendil Engineering < rfc@earendil.com > To: You Subject: The Session You Cannot Take With You The original promise of an inference API was wonderfully simple: send some input, receive…

Coinkite warns Coldcard seeds may have weak entropy

Coinkite warns Coldcard seeds may have weak entropy

Coinkite is warning users who generated a seed using a COLDCARD Mk3 on firmware version 4.0.1 or any subsequent version that their funds may be at risk. Out of an abundance of caution, Coinkite is warning all users who generated a seed using a Mk3 on version 4.0.1 (March 2021) or any subsequent version that their funds may be at risk.…

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra API prices

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra API prices

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale. July 30, 2026 Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 By making every layer more efficient, OpenAI is delivering stronger performance per dollar across more enterprise workloads. Yesterday, we shared how GPT‑5.6 ⁠ helped make itself more efficient to run ⁠ .…

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Russian Frontline Units Report Crowdfunding Critical Gear

Russian Frontline Units Report Crowdfunding Critical Gear

I. Констатация: что мы имеем на земле Господа офицеры, давайте называть вещи своими именами - хотя бы между собой. То, что нам преподносится сверху как «плановое обеспечение», на тактическом уровне выглядит иначе. Я говорю не о слухах, а о том, что фиксируется одновременно на четырёх направлениях - Купянском, Донецком, Запорожском и других направлениях.…

Krasnodar Plans Worker Fire Teams for Infrastructure Defense

Krasnodar Plans Worker Fire Teams for Infrastructure Defense

❗️Из сотрудников критической инфраструктуры и предприятий на Кубани планируют сформировать мобильные огневые группы для защиты этих объектов, сообщили в администрации Краснодарского края. Работники смогут подписать контракт с МО РФ, ежемесячная выплата составит 50 тыс. рублей. Отмечается, что участники огневых групп гарантированно не будут отправлены в зону СВО.…

Behavioral Health Clinics Face Costly Insurance Rework

Behavioral Health Clinics Face Costly Insurance Rework

Behavioral care is booming. Getting paid for it is the hard part. The Hidden Math of Behavioral Health Behavioral care is booming. Getting paid for it is the hard part. America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts This week we’re looking at the state of applied behavior analysis, or ABA: the intensive, one-on-one, hourly therapy that is the front-line treatment for autism. Behavioral health is a big deal.…

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Coinkite warns Coldcard seeds may have weak entropy

Coinkite warns Coldcard seeds may have weak entropy

Coinkite is warning users who generated a seed using a COLDCARD Mk3 on firmware version 4.0.1 or any subsequent version that their funds may be at risk. Out of an abundance of caution, Coinkite is warning all users who generated a seed using a Mk3 on version 4.0.1 (March 2021) or any subsequent version that their funds may be at risk.…

GitHub launches stacked pull requests in public preview

GitHub launches stacked pull requests in public preview

Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can… Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change.…

DuckLake Comes to Apache DataFusion With Open-Source Integration

DuckLake Comes to Apache DataFusion With Open-Source Integration

We implemented DuckLake for Apache DataFusion, supporting multiple databases as catalog backends. The integration gives DataFusion a lakehouse format that manages snapshots and catalog metadata for Parquet files stored in object storage. Our implementation is running in production, and we have open-sourced and donated it to the Apache DataFusion Contrib organization.…

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Hand with padlock and key on detailed security graphic

Anthropic says Claude accessed real systems during cyber evals

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. Below we describe what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing.…

The Session You Cannot Take With You — Earendil

AI Providers’ Hidden Session State Raises Lock-In Concerns

Inference APIs are filling sessions with encrypted reasoning, hidden search results, opaque compaction, and encrypted subagent messages. A growing form of lock-in. The Session You Cannot Take With You Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 From: Earendil Engineering < rfc@earendil.com > To: You Subject: The Session You Cannot Take With You The original promise of an inference API was wonderfully simple: send some input, receive…

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra API prices

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra API prices

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale. July 30, 2026 Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 By making every layer more efficient, OpenAI is delivering stronger performance per dollar across more enterprise workloads. Yesterday, we shared how GPT‑5.6 ⁠ helped make itself more efficient to run ⁠ .…

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Jeffrey's Skills.md — Premium Claude Code Skills

Jeffrey’s Skills Sells Premium Workflows for Coding Agents

Premium Claude Code skills for professional developers. $20/month. Level up your AI coding workflow Professionally crafted skills for Claude Code, Codex, and other AI agents. Install the jsm binary in one command, sign in, and sync serious workflows across machines. What makes a skill exceptional? Most skills are thin markdown files.…