Kubernetes has a long history of making the hard things possible and the dangerous things… also possible. Sometimes in the same feature. On January 9, 2026, Kubernetes published a v1.35 blog post titled “Kubernetes v1.35: Restricting executables invoked by kubeconfigs via exec plugin allowList added to kuberc” by Peter Engelbert and Ben Petersen (both at…
Breaking Through AI’s Memory Wall: Token Warehousing, KV Cache Economics, and the New Bottleneck in LLM Inference
For the last few years, the AI infrastructure story has been easy to summarize: buy more GPUs, pray the supply chain cooperates, and hope your CFO doesn’t discover what “H100” means in dollar terms. But as agentic AI systems move from demos into production—tools that plan, remember, call APIs, and keep working across long sessions—another…
GLM-Image vs Google’s Nano Banana Pro: Why Text Rendering Is the New Battleground in Image Generation
There are two kinds of AI image generators in 2026: the ones that can paint you a cinematic dragon at sunset, and the ones that can spell “Quarterly Revenue (Q4)” correctly on a slide without turning it into “Quarrterly Revue (Q8)”. For a long time, the second category was basically owned by closed models from…
CreepyLink: The URL Shortener Designed to Look Like a Phishing Attack (and Why That’s Useful)
Normal URL shorteners try to be invisible. CreepyLink does the opposite: it takes an innocent destination and dresses it up like it belongs in a “please don’t click this” corporate phishing slideshow. The project’s tagline says it all: “The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible.” If you’ve ever hovered over…
Grok, “Spicy Mode,” and a Not-So-Spicy Investigation: What California’s Probe Means for xAI, X, and the Future of AI Image Safety
On January 14, 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced an investigation into xAI’s Grok over the alleged proliferation of nonconsensual sexually explicit images—some reportedly involving minors—generated and shared online. Hours earlier, Elon Musk posted that he was “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok,” a denial that, depending on how you…
Kubernetes AI Conformance: Why the New Standard for AI Infrastructure Matters (and What It Actually Changes)
AI infrastructure has had an awkward teenage phase: fast growth, expensive habits, and a tendency to break in public. Over the past couple of years, organizations have raced from “we have a neat demo” to “this model is in production and it’s now the CEO’s favorite app.” The problem: the infrastructure layer underneath AI workloads—especially…
Agentic AI From a Security Perspective: Why Your “Helpful” Assistant Needs Least Privilege, Audit Logs, and a Timeout
Agentic AI has officially entered its “I can do it for you” era. Not just write a summary, but actually do the thing: open the ticket, pull the data, call the API, draft the email, schedule the meeting, push the code, and—if you’re not careful—also leak your credentials and delete production. The difference between “chatbot”…
Allister Frost on AI Adoption: Why Workforce Anxiety Is the Real Integration Problem (and How Leaders Can Fix It)
Enterprise AI rollouts are often sold like a software upgrade: install the tool, connect the data, watch productivity go up and to the right. Reality check: the hard part isn’t the model. It’s the mood. That’s the central takeaway from a fresh piece by Ryan Daws at AI News, published on January 13, 2026, featuring…
Yobitel’s OPENFOAM HPC Enterprise AMI on AWS: What “Enterprise CFD in the Cloud” Actually Means (and What It Doesn’t)
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has a reputation. Not for being inaccurate—CFD is often impressively accurate—but for being the kind of workload that humbles your laptop, your weekend, and occasionally your sanity. If you’ve ever watched an OpenFOAM solver iterate its way through a pressure–velocity coupling problem while your workstation fans reenact a small-scale hurricane, you…
AWS Weekly Roundup (Jan 12, 2026): .NET 10 hits Lambda, Client VPN gets a Quickstart, and re:Invent highlights go on tour
January is when people make resolutions like “I will finally learn Kubernetes,” “I will stop hardcoding credentials,” or the timeless classic: “I will delete that one S3 bucket named final-final-really-final.” AWS, meanwhile, makes its own kind of January resolution: ship a bunch of product updates while we’re still trying to remember what day it is.…