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Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built

AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs

A pioneering AI scientist once predicted computers would replace human radiologists. They haven't.

Obfuscating IP Addresses as Hostnames, (Tue, Aug 25th)

It is pretty obvious that hostnames can replace IP addresses. Pretty much any software accepting an IP address will also accept a hostname as an argument. Last week, I wrote about scans for the cloud metadata service listening at 169.254.169.254. These scans attempted to exploit Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. One way to prevent these types of exploits is to filter requests that contain the string "169.254.169.254" or to add this IP to a blocklist of URLs that should not be acc

The Code-Volume Delusion: Rethinking Engineering Velocity in the AI Era

Let's be honest about what happens when you give an entire engineering team AI coding assistants. You look at the sprint board, and tickets are moving to "In Review" faster than ever. Your developers are happy. They are writing boilerplate in seconds and generating entire component structures before their morning coffee gets cold. If you measure productivity by the sheer volume of code generated, your team has successfully turned into a factory.

CUDA Python 1.0: Stable APIs, One Foundation, Full Platform Access

For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to write an extension, set up a build toolchain, and... For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to write an extension, set up a build toolchain, and maintain bindings back to Python, which most people never did; or move up the stack and let someone else’s library do it, namely PyTorch, CuPy, or RAPIDS. The second option is

Update: August Next.js Security Release

Next.js is moving the August security release forward to August 25, 2026.

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Is Cyber Facing an Affordability Crisis?

As breach costs reach record highs and defense spending nears $240 billion, small businesses are dangerously exposed, threatening supply chain security.