A technology commentary argues that production AI performance depends less on which foundation model is chosen and more on the serving harness around it—the architecture, memory management, scheduling and optimization that turn model intelligence into a working service. It recommends that organizations define latency, concurrency, cost and traffic requirements first, then select models and infrastructure to match, rather than defaulting to the highest-accuracy model.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-10-22
Security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri published a proof-of-concept called BigDiskBuster that stops Microsoft Defender from receiving signature updates without exploiting any vulnerability. The roughly 300-line C++ tool monitors the C: drive for Defender update activity and fills nearly all free disk space with a hidden file, causing each update attempt to fail while Defender's service and real-time protection keep running normally. LevelBlue researchers reproduced the technique after the original GitHub page was taken down, confirming it creates what they called a 'silent detection gap.'
darkreading.com
· 2026-10-06