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Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

8 September 2026 at 21:11

Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold.

It was only two months ago that Microsoft patched a then-record 570 vulnerabilities. Then, last month, Microsoft patched some 620 of them. Google and other companies have also published record numbers of vulnerabilities in recent months. Two weeks ago, OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, and 100 companies and organizations published an open letter warning of a narrowing window for patching vulnerabilities ahead of an expected tsunami of AI-enabled attacks that actively exploit them first. The industry is taking the threat seriously by pumping out unprecedented numbers of patches in their software.

Welcome to the new normal

Dustin Childs, a researcher at the Zero Day Initiative, calls the spikes the β€œnew normal” and also cautions that despite them, the damage that’s likely to result from AI-assisted attacks could eventually be substantial.

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Text Watermarking in Python: Catch Whoever Copies Your Writing

6 September 2026 at 14:00

AI companies quietly watermark billions of words a day. Here’s how to apply the same three families of techniques to your own writingβ€”and what real experiments reveal about which watermarks survive copy-paste, editing, and paraphrasing.

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Disaggregation Is a Thousand-GPU Problem

4 September 2026 at 14:00

Three conditions that must hold before splitting prefill from decode pays off, and why chunked prefill is the right default below that threshold.

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A RAG That Says β€œNot in This Document” Has to Show Four Kinds of Evidence

2 September 2026 at 14:00

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B3] - A confident wrong answer is a bug. A bare β€œno answer” with no justification is almost as bad. Each of the four bricks has one piece of evidence to show

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RAG Is Not the Whole Toolkit: The NLP Techniques Real Problems Still Need

29 August 2026 at 13:00

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B00] - Retrieval answers one kind of question. Classifying a request, matching free text to a reference list, reading a table, cleaning OCR noise: each has a cheaper method that works, and the engineering is knowing which one to reach for

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