OPC UA Companion Specifications for Robotics and Machinery: Interoperability in Practice
How OPC UA companion specs for machinery and robotics (OPC 40001, 40010) create shared information models, and how to implement and test them in a plant.
ML-KEM and ML-DSA on Constrained IoT Microcontrollers: Memory, Speed and Migration
ML-KEM (FIPS 203) and ML-DSA (FIPS 204) on Cortex-M IoT devices: key and signature sizes, RAM and flash cost, handshake impact and migration plan.
x402 and HTTP 402: Machine-to-Machine Payments for AI Agents with Stablecoins
How x402 revives HTTP 402 for pay-per-request APIs and AI agents: payment flow, facilitators, stablecoin settlement, security risks and trade-offs.
Passkeys and FIDO2 for Payment Authentication: PSD2 SCA Architecture Guide
How passkeys (FIDO2/WebAuthn) meet PSD2 strong customer authentication: 3-D Secure integration, dynamic linking, recovery flows and fraud trade-offs.
Container Runtime Security Hardening in 2026: containerd 2.3, CRI-O and Podman 6 CVE Response
Harden container runtimes after the Sept 2026 containerd and Podman CVEs: rootless mode, seccomp, user namespaces and a patch-rollout runbook.
Istio 1.31 Explained: What Changed and How to Upgrade Your Service Mesh
Istio 1.31 explained: ambient mesh changes, deprecations and upgrade notes, plus a safe revision-based canary upgrade plan for sidecar or ambient mode.
Speculative Decoding Explained: EAGLE-3 vs Medusa vs Lookahead for LLM Inference Speedup
Speculative decoding explained: draft-and-verify math, EAGLE-3 vs Medusa vs lookahead, acceptance rates, vLLM and SGLang support, and when it hurts.
Perceptron Mk1.5 Explained: Vision-Language Model Capabilities and Pricing
Perceptron Mk1.5 explained: an embodied reasoning model for image, video and audio. Confirmed capabilities, pricing, open questions and how to evaluate it.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview Explained: Architecture, Pricing and Benchmarks
MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview explained: documented context, effort levels, access and pricing, what is still unpublished, and how to evaluate it.
LTX Video Model Explained: Lightricks Architecture, Open Weights and Hardware
LTX from Lightricks explained: diffusion transformer video architecture, open weights license, resolution and length limits, and the GPU needed to run it locally.