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Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery, studying AI while writing about everything from hardware to infosec policy.

Tencent researchers say they can create agent training tasks for $0.05

One of the most expensive bottlenecks in agent development can be made absurdly cheap through recursion, according to a new paper.

Muse Glimmer: Meta says its 30B newcomer beats Qwen3.6 on local jobs

Distilled from Muse Spark to let consumer-grade hardware run agentic tasks, Meta is pitching Glimmer as a drop-in replacement that lets you go local.

Heat wave: AI's thermal footprint is good news for this Irish building company

The density AI needs is demanding liquid cooling on top of much better air cooling solutions. Numbers from Kingspan's Advansys are giving us some sense of what that means at scale.

Telcos eye edge AI as they switch off the last copper

Telecom companies just happen to have a lot of copper-era exchange buildings all over the map just as AI at the edge looks promising.

Palantir says its alternative to vegetarian, Marxist frontier AI is making a fortune

Some in Europe may want to ditch Palantir in a drive for independence, but (US) company spend shows the truth, says the US government contractor.

AWS suffers routing failure just after Azure's rather similar trouble

Both kept cloud regions running internally – but users couldn't reach them.

Redis ships seven security releases after "27 minute" Kimi PoC

Public PoCs target stock Redis releases, including the newly patched 8.8.1. The authors say China’s Kimi K3 found 19 zero-days and built one exploit in 27 minutes.

OpenAI knew sandboxing advanced AI models was tricky. It overlooked a key detail

An "overzealous" model could break out of a sandbox, said a member of its technical staff, weeks before Hugging Face was attacked by a "hyperfocused" pack.

You had six days to patch the latest SharePoint flaw before attackers moved in

CVE-2026-50522 went from patch to known exploitation with long-term consequences in days, as patch volumes continue to swell.

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