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Running 120B Models on a Mini PC: My Read of the Strix Halo Benchmarks

Running 120B Models on a Mini PC: My Read of the Strix Halo Benchmarks

AMD's Strix Halo mini PCs can load 120B-class models into 128GB of unified memory. Bandwidth caps the speed, but published tests show MoE models running fast enough for coding agents. My read of the numbers, ROCm status and setup.

Orca Wants to Be the Workbench for Your Fleet of Coding Agents. Here's What Developers Say

Orca Wants to Be the Workbench for Your Fleet of Coding Agents. Here's What Developers Say

Orca is a free, MIT-licensed desktop app from Stably AI that runs Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents side by side, each in its own git worktree. Developers who use it like the workflow, but warn about token costs, review load and one security gap that is now fixed.

Linux Drops Its AI Label, but the Human Still Signs Off

Linux Drops Its AI Label, but the Human Still Signs Off

The Linux kernel is dropping its Assisted-by tag for AI-assisted patches after only about 10% of commits used it. Greg Kroah-Hartman changed his mind, and I think he's right: what counts is the human who understands the patch and signs off.

DeepSeek ships V4.1-Flash-1017 with open weights and opens its Search and Fetch APIs

DeepSeek ships V4.1-Flash-1017 with open weights and opens its Search and Fetch APIs

DeepSeek has released V4.1-Flash-1017, a minor update to its Flash model with open MIT weights, unchanged API prices and higher scores on its own coding and agent benchmarks. It also opened its in-house Search and Fetch APIs to all developers.

AI-Written Scripts Helped Hackers Backdoor Government Linux Servers for Months, Unit 42 Says

AI-Written Scripts Helped Hackers Backdoor Government Linux Servers for Months, Unit 42 Says

Unit 42 says an unattributed group, CL-UNK-1211, used AI-assisted scripts to backdoor government Linux servers from October 2025 to April 2026, stealing sudo passwords and planting a Go RAT. Here is how it worked and how to check your servers.

Fake Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot Installers Are Stealing Sessions and Keys, ANY.RUN Warns

Fake Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot Installers Are Stealing Sessions and Keys, ANY.RUN Warns

ANY.RUN tied 1,258 sandbox analyses to fake Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and other AI tools that trick employees into pasting malicious commands, running trojanized installers or signing in to fake Google windows. The US ranked second for submissions.

Chip Stocks Tumble Across Asia as Rate Fears and AI Funding Worries Collide

Chip Stocks Tumble Across Asia as Rate Fears and AI Funding Worries Collide

Kospi fell over 8% and hit a trading halt as Samsung and SK hynix lost more than 10%, after hot US inflation revived Fed hike fears and CoreWeave's bond slide deepened doubts about how the AI buildout is financed. Tokyo and Taipei fell too.