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Birgitta Böckeler recently spent some time trying out running local LLMs for some programming tasks. In this memo she outlines the factors that influence how viable they are for the job. more…
Researchers say the Iran-linked threat actor used an adaptable modular malware framework and compromised IT service providers to reach high-value targets in Israel. The post Iran-Linked Hackers Using Modular C&C Framework in Cyberattacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Tomorrow's webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations detect sophisticated phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks while reducing alert fatigue through automated investigation and response workflows. [...]
A 16-year-old Linux kernel vulnerability, dubbed Januscape, allows attackers to escape a virtual machine and execute arbitrary code on the host. [...]
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I spent the last few months building a property valuation engine for Orlando. The goal was to beat a basic baseline (median price per square foot) using XGBoost. My v1 model looked good on paper until I looked under the hood. It had fatal flaws that the standard metrics could not surface. This is a postmortem on how a high R-square (R²) fooled me, how Optuna forced me to rethink my hyperparameter space, and why hyper-local real estate data will eat you alive if you treat it like a Kaggle dataset
Workflows pricing now includes per-step billing. Requests and CPU time billing have been enabled since the initial public beta and is not changing. Workflows adds step billing A step is each unit of work executed by a Workflow, including step operations such as sleeping or waiting for events. You can query Workflows analytics, including stepCount for a Workflow instance, with the GraphQL Analytics API. Steps and storage billing to take effect August 10th, 2026 Starting no earlier than August 10t
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