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427 stories · page 35 of 48Open models went from 11 to 29 percent of traffic in two months
Vercel released the numbers from its own gateway, through which tens of trillions of tokens pass. Open models now carry 29 percent of volume, up from 11 in April. Another number is quieter. The price per token stopped falling.
Read →A hole from 2008 made the list of actively exploited vulnerabilities
CISA added a vulnerability disclosed eighteen years ago to its catalog: a CSRF in the web panel of Cisco IOS. Eighteen years later, it's an active attack. The catalog counts only witnessed attacks. The remediation deadline is July 16 - three days after the announcement.
Read →Cloudflare started recognizing bots by how they move the mouse
Cloudflare's new engine, Precursor, doesn't ask who you are at the door - it watches you through the whole session: keystroke rhythm, cursor movement, when the window had focus. The human hand draws arcs, because it has a wrist. Automation goes straight.
Read →Claude Code eased access to auto mode across all three clouds
On 11 July Anthropic shipped version 2.1.207 - a small release with three specific changes for teams running on cloud infrastructure. The most interesting part isn't the new feature, it's a fix.
Read →Music got an AI label nobody checks
Eight organizations from the music industry - among them RIAA, IFPI, the Grammy Academy and SAG-AFTRA - introduced two visual labels for sound recordings: AI-Generated and AI-Assisted. They're applied voluntarily, by the artists, labels and distributors themselves. No independent verification. Not a single streaming platform is party to the agreement.
Read →Google released a sandbox for agent-written code, with the network closed by default
Cloud Run sandboxes entered public preview on July 10. You run code written by an AI agent, and it doesn't touch the rest of your system. What matters is in the default: zero outbound network access, zero visibility into the service's keys.
Read →Cloudflare stopped guessing where your server is and started asking
As of 10 July you can specify yourself which AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or Oracle region your server sits in, instead of the network guessing by response time and getting it wrong. A shorter path for traffic, no extra cost, even on the free plan.
Read →AMD reports up to 6.3x faster image generation on its MI350X
On 10 July AMD published benchmarks on its blog for generative visual models on the accelerator MI350X. The numbers are impressive, but the baseline is an unoptimized reference implementation - not a previous-generation chip, not NVIDIA. The tests are AMD's own, with no independent verification.
Read →Circle announced it has final approval for its own bank. The regulator is silent
On 10 July the company behind the USDC stablecoin announced, in its own press release, that the US banking regulator had given it final approval to charter First National Digital Currency Bank. The regulator itself has no announcement of its own on the matter. And managing the reserves behind the coin is not an approved power.
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