My First Week With GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra was my main Codex driver for the last week, and I am back on GPT-5.5. That sounds harsher than my actual opinion…
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Hetzner’s Cheap Cloud Tier Is Unavailable After Two Price Increases
Hetzner used to be the obvious cheap cloud option in my mind. On September 7, 2026, I checked its public catalog and found every…
Read postTIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, With Ads Built In
TIME is now serving two different versions of its website. Humans get the magazine. AI crawlers get a stripped down markdown copy with ads…
Read postGPT-5.6 Sol Uses Twice the Tokens of GPT-5.5
GPT-5.6 Sol xhigh now uses more than twice as many tokens per session as GPT-5.5 xhigh in my Codex workflow. For Codex users, tokens…
Read postCodex CLI Has Responsive Tables in the Terminal
LLMs use Markdown tables all the time. A few months ago, Codex CLI displayed them as ordinary wrapped text. In a narrow terminal, the…
Read postGoogle Lighthouse Adds Agentic Browsing Checks and Cloudflare Adds AI Traffic Controls
Google Lighthouse and Cloudflare are adding different controls for the same emerging class of automated web visitors. Lighthouse added an experimental Agentic Browsing category.…
Read postGemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite Ignore Temperature, Top-P, and Top-K
Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ignore temperature, top_p, and top_k, according to Google's current migration guide. Existing Gemini requests could send…
Read postQualys Says Claude Mythos Preview Helped Find CVE-2026-64600 in Linux XFS
On July 22, 2026, Qualys disclosed CVE-2026-64600, a race condition in XFS, a Linux filesystem. The flaw is in XFS's copy-on-write path, where the…
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