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The Pentagon's AI Portal Still Won't Take Claude

Days before the Pentagon announced that its secure AI portal now serves ChatGPT and Grok to 3 million military and civilian personnel, a federal judge in California ruled that the label keeping Anthropic out of that same ecosystem was illegal retaliation. The portal launch went ahead anyway. Claude, again, did

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OpenAI paused Astra for getting too good at hacking. Then it shipped it.

OpenAI paused Astra in August for crossing a critical cybersecurity threshold, then shipped it as GPT-6 Astra in September. Same skill, new framing.

How to Migrate and Back Up Your Hermes Agent Profile to Another Host

Your Hermes agent has been running for weeks. Maybe months. Skills installed, memories loaded, cron jobs firing on schedule, config tuned just right. Now you need to move it to a new server. Or you want a backup before a risky upgrade. A clone for testing. Whatever the reason, the

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ChocoPoC: The Malware Hiding in GitHub PoC Exploits Targeting Security Researchers

ChocoPoC: The Malware Hiding in GitHub PoC Exploits Targeting Security Researchers A sophisticated supply chain attack is quietly targeting the people who find vulnerabilities first. Security researchers who clone proof-of-concept exploit repositories from GitHub have been hit with a stealthy Python-based remote access trojan called ChocoPoC — and the delivery mechanism

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16 Billion Credentials Leaked: Why Password-Only Auth Is Dead

If you have a password — and you almost certainly do — there is a reasonable chance it is now sitting in a dataset of 16 billion stolen credentials currently circulating on the internet. In mid-2025, researchers at Cybernews uncovered more than 30 exposed datasets containing over 16 billion username-password combinations, harvested

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ajianaz.dev Weekly — June 28, 2026

This week proved that AI's hype cycle is over — from OpenAI's custom silicon to Scattered Spider's courtroom reckoning, the industry is delivering results, not promises.

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OpenAI's Custom Chip Breakout, SpaceX's $80B Compute Empire, and Scattered Spider's Day in Court

The Week AI Infrastructure Hit the Silicon Ceiling While most of the tech world focused on yet another model release cycle, this week's most consequential moves happened behind the scenes — in chip fabs, data center construction sites, and courtroom dockets. OpenAI unveiled a custom inference chip designed to