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Qwen3.8-27B on one RTX 3090 hits 2,000 tok/s prefill
Community builders pushed Qwen3.8-27B to 2,000 tok/s prefill and 132 tok/s decode on a single RTX 3090. Here is what that speed means for local AI.
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Qwen3.8-27B on one RTX 3090 hits 2,000 tok/s prefill•PaperCut zero-days hit CISA KEV as data theft attacks spread•Fire Ant turns Cisco routers into credential theft platforms•Snowflake Postgres data mirroring explained•Nike's $170 Billion Collapse (It's Worse Than You Think)•Linear beats deep for time series anomaly detection•Meta's data center robotics push enters the physical layer•
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AI for dummies
Qwen3.8-27B on one RTX 3090 hits 2,000 tok/s prefill
Community builders pushed Qwen3.8-27B to 2,000 tok/s prefill and 132 tok/s decode on a single RTX 3090. Here is what that speed means for local AI.
Cyber security
PaperCut zero-days hit CISA KEV as data theft attacks spread
PaperCut NG/MF zero-day chain CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 enables pre-auth RCE on print servers. CISA added both to KEV with a September 14 patch deadline.
Cyber security
Fire Ant turns Cisco routers into credential theft platforms
Fire Ant, a China-nexus espionage group, expanded from VMware hypervisors to Cisco IOS XR routers and TACACS servers, hijacking the network trust layer to steal credentials and blind security logging across connected environments.
Snowflake
Snowflake Postgres data mirroring explained
Snowflake Postgres data mirroring continuously replicates Postgres tables into Snowflake using Iceberg with 30-second lag. It replaces external CDC connectors with serverless compute and open formats.
Stickman: finance
Nike's $170 Billion Collapse (It's Worse Than You Think)
Nike's stock fell 76% in five years, from $169 to $39.60. Everyone is asking if it's the next Blockbuster. The numbers say it's something worse.
Research
Linear beats deep for time series anomaly detection
Time series anomaly detection's deep learning SOTA is matched by OLS regression, scoring 0.9399 mean F1 across five datasets and beating 21 deep models on two of three metrics.
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