Author: Jordan Wang
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PHP2Shell and the AI Attack Wave: Why Your Own Machines Are Now the Front Line
Something happened in the second half of October 2026 that most people have not taken in yet. It was not one firm having a bad week, but a public show; in date order, of how cheap it has become to break into a computer you own. So let me walk through what happened, because the…
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Seven Months Behind: What a Source-Linked Leaderboard Can and Cannot Tell You
The claim is that open-weight models trail the best closed ones by 7 months. The interesting part is how anyone measures that, and what the number leaves out.
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One Year After DeepSeek: What a Year of Chinese Open Weights Changed for the Rest of Us
A year of Chinese open weights, read through Hugging Face’s three-part audit: what the licences did, what the file sizes did, and what it means for a machine at home.
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Handing Over the Keys: Ten Rules for Letting an AI Act on Your Behalf
The question arrives in the same shape every time: how do we make sure the AI never does something it was never supposed to do? Start with the honest answer, because the useful one sounds like a dodge until you have heard it. You cannot. No prompt, no model, no vendor and no configuration file…
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35 Feeds, 92 Megabytes of RAM, and Nobody’s Algorithm
My reading list used to be somebody else’s product. Every article arrived pre-scored, ordered by an inference engine I never agreed to and could not inspect, with one control: the scroll. That is a strange thing to hand over. What you read shapes what you think, and I had outsourced the selection to a system…
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I Built an Autonomous Trading Bot in Four Hours for Twenty Bucks. Here’s the Honest Ledger.
My AI agent team shipped a crypto trading bot yesterday. Four hours from green light to a live soak on Binance's testnet. Total model spend: about twenty US dollars. Let me tell you what actually happened, because the gap between the press release version of "AI agents build software" and the reality is where all…
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Local Doesn’t Mean Locked
Security firm Cyera found 10 vulnerabilities in llama.cpp — the engine behind Ollama, LM Studio and most local AI. Five were still unpatched at their June 2026 re-check. Here’s what they are in plain English, and what to do if you run local AI at home or in the office.
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From Chatting to Delegating: Why Professionals Should Learn OpenWork
21st Aug 2026 Let’s be honest about where most professional AI use actually lives. You’ve got ChatGPT or Claude open in a tab, you type a prompt, it hands you back text. You draft the email, it summarises the doc, you brainstorm, it throws out an idea. Useful. But it’s still a chatbot. It talks…
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OpenWork: The Claude Cowork Alternative
Aug 18th, 2026 I Pointed an AI at My Homelab. Setup Was One Line. It Still Hasn’t Broken Anything. Every AI app is an island. You connect your Google account in one, teach it a skill in another, and the moment you switch apps, you’re back to square one. For most people that’s an annoyance.…
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The Truth About Open-Source Chinese AI Models
Are They Secretly “Calling Home”? I had to write this out to get it off my chest right now, just because most recently in the midst of a conversation, a client declared that all Chinese AI models have ‘backdoors’ for the China government to access, a notion picked up from his ‘social networking’ with local…