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Setting up AI Coworkers with OpenBot

A first look at CopilotKit's OpenBot: an open-source template for running AG-UI agents as coworkers with their own computers, gated through a single policy-enforcing gateway.

10 Sept 2026 · 4 min

XZ Utils Backdoor: A Technical Deep Dive

How a two-year-long social engineering effort inserted a backdoor into xz/liblzma's release tarballs, and how a Postgres developer's curiosity about slow SSH logins caught it.

10 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels

NVIDIA now lets you write CUDA kernels natively in Rust, compiled to PTX, through two separate projects: cuda-oxide for SIMT and cutile-rs for the tile model.

10 Sept 2026 · 3 min

How to Read Server Monitoring Graphs

A framework for diagnosing dashboards: symptoms first, causes second, and why the average response time metric is lying to you.

10 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Spring Boot vs Quarkus on a 512 MB VPS: what the numbers actually showed

A side-by-side JVM-mode comparison on a memory-starved VPS, run through StatLite's new Quarkus support. The results are messier than a simple 'X uses less RAM' headline.

9 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Not In My Git Yard: A Fuzzing-Based Defense Against Commit and Release Backdoors

A new paper proposes Lily, a tool that plugs backdoor detection into CI pipelines and release vetting workflows — aimed at the kind of supply-chain attack that's so far only been stopped by luck and manual review.

9 Sept 2026 · 3 min

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