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The Drums Out Back
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The Drums Out Back

IBM put the average breach at $4.99 million. In January the CNIL fined one French carrier €42 million, and part of the finding was that it kept data it had no business still having. Turns out "storing everything" has a cost that goes beyond hard drives.
27 Aug 2026 7 min read
Free Binaries, Again
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Free Binaries, Again

The words open source were coined in a room in Palo Alto in February 1998, specifically to stop people arguing about price. Twenty-eight years later we are calling model weights open, and the entire argument is about price. Here is what that word used to buy, and what a download actually gets you.
27 Jul 2026 7 min read
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