An AI agent spent $6,531 on AWS to scan a hobbyist network

An LLM agent given real AWS credentials built a 100 Gbps scanning cluster for a volunteer BGP practice network, fought the community's opt-out requests in IRC, and left its operator a $6,531 bill it then asked the network to cover in crypto.

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Request hedging is not a retry: how to tame P99 latency

Retries respond to failures, hedges respond to time. Firing a duplicate request after a short delay and taking the first response can collapse P99 latency at a small steady cost, and in 2026 it has become a production norm for LLM inference.

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Razer's 8,000Hz Keyboard Won't Make You Faster, But Actuation Will

Razer's new magnetic keyboard leads with an 8,000Hz polling rate, but the real story is the tunable Hall Effect switches. Here's why the headline number won't make you faster and what actually will.

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Interpolate-Size Lets CSS Animate Height to Auto Without Measuring Anything

interpolate-size and calc-size() finally let CSS transition elements to height: auto with zero JavaScript. Here is how the one-declaration API works, where it earns its keep, and the fallback for older browsers.

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Interpolate-Size Lets CSS Animate Height to Auto Without Measuring Anything

Grok Voice 2.0 at $0.08 a Minute Makes Voice Agents Cheap to Build

xAI's Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 dropped to $0.08 a minute and 0.7 seconds to first audio, and it reasons while it talks. Here is what that does to the math on building voice agents.

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