Tag: ai
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AnythingLLM 1.19 Ships Its Own Local Model, and the Separate Inference Server Goes Away
AnythingLLM used to want a second program. You ran the app in a container, you ran Ollama beside it, and then you pointed one at the other. Version 1.19.0, published on 26 October 2026, puts a model engine inside the container and makes that second program optional. Start with the caveat, because it decides what…
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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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Meta Muse Wants Your Messages, Your Calendar and Your Passwords: The Promise and the Lock
Meta launched a personal agent on 8 September 2026. By the end of September it sat at number one on the App Store. It will read your mail, book your travel and sell your car. It would also like to hold your passwords. This is an assessment, not a review. I have not run Muse.…
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My Bot Said I Had 6,688 Security Problems. I Had 12.
A small security monitor for my own hardware told me I had 6,688 problems. After I fixed the faults that were mine — not the machine’s — the honest number was 12.
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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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The Agent Gets a Desk Job: Whose Desk Is It Sitting On?
Whose desk does the AI agent sit on, now that it edits your documents?
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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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Brief the Contractor: How to Get an AI Agent to Build You a Skill
Getting an AI agent to build a reusable skill is like briefing a contractor: vague brief, afternoon of whack-a-mole. Two real case studies, the five-part brief, and the rules that keep your keys where they belong.