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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview explained: documented context, effort levels, access and pricing, what is still unpublished, and how to evaluate it.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.
Brownfield Modbus Retrofit to Unified Namespace: Edge Gateway Options Compared
Retrofit Modbus RTU and TCP machines into a Unified Namespace: gateway options, polling vs report-by-exception, data modeling, and failure modes in brownfield plants.
Sovereign Industrial AI Cloud: A Reference Architecture for Physical AI in Europe
What sovereign industrial AI cloud means for physical AI: data residency, GPU capacity, edge-to-cloud flows, and a reference architecture with trade-offs.
Microsoft MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Transcribe-2 Explained: Speech Models, Pricing and Use Cases
Microsoft AI released MAI-Voice-2.1, a Flash variant and MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming. What is confirmed on languages, pricing and latency, and where speech.