Author: Carter

# The Urgent Need for Quantum-Resistant Cryptography: A Credentials-First Approach Today’s encrypted data, including critical credentials, may no longer remain secure in the coming years. While quantum computers capable of breaking existing encryption don’t exist yet, the pace of advancement in quantum hardware is accelerating, and organizations must prepare now to protect their most sensitive assets. ## Understanding the Quantum Threat Public-key cryptography — the backbone of trust for virtually every digital interaction — faces an existential threat from quantum computing. Although current machines cannot break elliptic curve cryptography or RSA, quantum technology is progressing rapidly and will inevitably reshape…

# Classical NLP Approaches for Author Identification: Lessons from the Spooky Author Classification Challenge Author identification is a good way to test NLP models because it focuses not only on *what* a sentence says, but also on *how* it is written. Kaggle’s **Spooky Author Identification** competition is a compact version of this challenge: given a single sentence from gothic or horror fiction, the model has to predict whether it was written by **Edgar Allan Poe (EAP)**, **Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (MWS)**, or **H. P. Lovecraft (HPL)**. At first, this seems like a typical three-class text classification problem. But in reality, it…

# Linkerd and OpenTelemetry: Two Layers of Observability, One Pipeline If you already run an OpenTelemetry pipeline, you have good visibility into what your applications are doing. This blog post is about what you don’t see yet: the east-west traffic between your services, measured at the network layer with zero changes to your application code. Linkerd’s proxy provides those metrics. Once a workload is meshed, the proxy immediately emits golden metrics for every inbound and outbound request. No need for instrumentation, SDK calls, or image rebuild. This blog post shows what those metrics look like, where they overlap with OTel,…

# Rocket Lab’s Acquisition of Iridium: A Transformative Move for Satellite IoT **By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News** *Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire Iridium in a cash-and-stock transaction valuing Iridium at about $8.0 billion. For the IoT market, the proposed deal is notable because it would combine a global L-band satellite communications network and subscriber base with launch and satellite manufacturing capabilities under one owner.* Satellite IoT is no longer defined only by coverage maps. For remote monitoring, maritime tracking, aviation, defense and industrial assets outside terrestrial network reach, the harder questions increasingly concern spectrum access,…

# OpenClaw Launches Native iOS and Android Companion Apps OpenClaw has officially released native companion applications for both iOS and Android platforms. The iOS version is listed on the App Store as “OpenClaw – AI that does things.” Both apps are available as free downloads. However, it is important to understand that these are not standalone chatbots. Instead, each phone functions as a node within a self-hosted agent network. The assistant itself operates on a separate Gateway, and this architectural separation is central to the entire design philosophy. ## TL;DR – OpenClaw’s iOS and Android apps serve as companion nodes,…

# DeepReinforce Unveils Ornith-1.0: A New Family of Open-Source Models Built for Agentic Coding DeepReinforce, an AI research lab previously recognized for its work on CUDA-L1 and the IterX code-agent optimization loop, has officially released Ornith-1.0—a family of open-source large language models purpose-built for agentic coding tasks. The models were made available on Hugging Face on June 25 under the permissive MIT license, with no regional restrictions applied. ## Four Sizes, One Mission The Ornith-1.0 family spans four distinct parameter configurations: a 9-billion dense model, a 31-billion dense model, a 35-billion mixture-of-experts (MoE) variant, and a flagship 397-billion mixture-of-experts model.…

# Over 236,000 Scam Websites Built Using Legitimate Chinese Development Framework DCloud Uni-App, Report Reveals A staggering 236,493 websites have been found using investment scam templates built on DCloud Uni-App, a legitimate Chinese open-source, cross-platform application development framework, according to new research published by DNS threat intelligence company Infoblox. The fraudulent websites power a wide range of schemes, including bogus cryptocurrency exchanges, multi-language pig-butchering operations, WhatsApp phishing networks, fake gambling platforms, brand-impersonation sites, and cryptocurrency wallet drainers. ## A Dramatic Scaling Up “For the last two years, there’s been a dramatic scaling up of scam websites using the DCloud framework,…

# 5 AI Coding Subscription Plans That Give Developers the Best Value ## Introduction For a while, “unlimited” AI coding plans felt like the best deal in developer tools. You paid a fixed monthly fee and used powerful coding agents as much as you wanted. But that model was never going to last forever. Running advanced AI models is expensive, and many companies were likely burning money by offering heavy usage at discount prices. Now, many AI coding platforms are moving toward more controlled subscription models. Some are token-based, some are credit-based, and others use hourly, weekly, or rolling usage…

# AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Connect Agentic CX Designer, Lambda MicroVMs, and More It has been a busy stretch on the AWS Summit circuit. At the New York City Summit, I delivered a workshop called Building AI architectures with AWS Serverless, and it was a lot of fun watching builders wire up agents and serverless services to solve real problems in a single afternoon. This week I am heading down to the Washington, DC Summit, which always puts a spotlight on innovation in the public sector. If you are going to be there, come say hello. A question I hear…

# I Brought My iPhone 14 Pro to Apple for a Battery Replacement — Here’s How It Went **After three years of use, my iPhone 14 Pro’s battery had degraded to just 72% capacity. A $99 trip to the Apple Store brought it back to 100%.** — As a longtime iPhone user, it’s only a matter of time before my once-shiny-and-new iPhone feels like a useless puck that has to be tethered to a wall outlet or a wireless charger 24/7/365. For my iPhone 14 Pro, it took about three years. I got my 14 Pro in January 2023, and…