Do it right, with real numbers

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Developer Tools 6 min

How Old Is the Code You Installed?

The median package in this site's tree was published 286 days ago — but one in five has seen no release in two years, an...

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Developer Tools 6 min

Seventeen Licences You Did Not Choose

This site installs 302 packages under 17 distinct licences. 23 carry copyleft obligations, effectively all from one imag...

Maya Lin

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AI & ML 6 min

How Big a "Small" Model Really Is

A parameter count is not a size. Mistral 7B is 14.5 GB of weights before the KV cache exists, and most model repositorie...

Maya Lin

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AI & ML 6 min

What Installing an Agent Toolkit Actually Grants

Giving an agent tools is one line of configuration, and that line does not say what any of them can do. We read all 77 t...

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Cybersecurity 5 min

Three DNS Records Almost Nobody Publishes

DNSSEC, CAA and MTA-STS each protect people who will never know they exist. Across 18 major ASEAN banks, government port...

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Cyber Threat Intel 6 min

Can You Prove an Attack Was Prevented?

Early warning is what threat intelligence is sold on, and prevention is the least verifiable claim in security — the evi...

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Cyber Threat Intel 5 min

Who Sells Threat Intelligence

Four quite different businesses use the same phrase, which is most of why the market is confusing. A map of the categori...

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Cybersecurity 6 min

What Your Own Domain Tells a Stranger

OSINT needs no budget and no access. We ran it against our own domain and found 26 robots.txt rules naming /admin/ and /...

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Cyber Threat Intel 5 min

What a Threat Actor Name Buys You

Reporting names adversaries with real confidence — APT29, Lazarus, Sandworm — and it is worth asking how much a name act...

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Cyber Threat Intel 5 min

From Feed to Decision

Buying a threat feed is the easy part. We work through the filtering that free public data already does to a scanner rep...

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Cyber Threat Intel 6 min

What Threat Intelligence Actually Is

380,235 vulnerabilities have been published. 1,670 are confirmed to be exploited in the wild — about one in 228. Telling...