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.
Anaz S. Aji
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
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
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
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.
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
Meta's $900M CRED Bet, Ethereum's Foundation Crisis, and the AI Capital Rotation
Meta's $900 Million Bet on CRED Reshapes WhatsApp's Future
In one of the most significant leadership shakeups in the messaging industry, Meta has invested $900 million into CRED — the Indian fintech giant founded by Kunal Shah — and simultaneously appointed Shah as the new Global CEO of