Tailscale published a technical update on performance work across its network, including multi-queue support for app connectors, subnet routers, and exit nodes expected in the second half of 2026. The company also previewed throughput and memory overhead improvements coming to upcoming stable client releases, building on prior gains such as 10Gb/s wireguard-go throughput and 4x UDP throughput via segmentation offloads.
tailscale.com
· 2026-09-23
Infisical shipped a feature letting users grant or deny access to individual folders, extending its role-based access control system built on the CASL permissions library. The company frames this as a deceptively complex engineering effort that most customers will never notice, despite being critical to enterprise adoption.
infisical.com
· 2026-09-09
A developer detailed a personal setup running local language models on an Apple M4 Pro Mac mini, using Qwen and Gemma models served through an inference tool called oMLX, connected across devices via Tailscale. The setup powers an agent backend called Hermes plus various chat and coding tools, and reportedly takes about 30 minutes to configure.
lws.io
· 2026-09-01
Tailscale has launched tailcat, an open-source Go package and CLI tool that lets developers move data between two points using the company's underlying network technology—WireGuard encryption, NAT traversal, and DERP relay servers—without any of Tailscale's account system, control plane, or administrative layer. It functions like the classic netcat utility but routes traffic through Tailscale's magicsock networking stack, and can run entirely independent of Tailscale as a company if users host their own DERP relay server.
tailscale.com
· 2026-09-01
Tailscale released Tailcat, a CLI and Go library that reuses pieces of Tailscale's data plane to create encrypted point-to-point connections like netcat, but without needing Tailscale's control plane or a user account. One machine runs a server and generates a short connection token, which the other side uses to connect; traffic is WireGuard-encrypted and initially routed through DERP relays before attempting a direct peer-to-peer upgrade via NAT traversal.
github.com
· 2026-08-26
A ZDNET writer describes setting up Tailscale, a free service that links home computers—two physical machines and four virtual ones—into a secure private network called a tailnet. The setup allowed remote desktop access to all machines from abroad without configuring router settings or firewall rules, using tools already familiar to the user like Remote Desktop clients.
zdnet.com
· 2026-08-26
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