Published Soursen pieces tagged artificial-intelligence, page 2, with the standfirst and the beat. Every fact is checked against the source.
AI & GPU compute
Audited 2025 figures show a company tripling revenue while burning cash faster than any startup ever has. The loss is only half the story. The other half is a loop of deals that turns the same dollars into growth at three companies at once, and a bill that has four ways of reaching you.
Security
CVE-2026–98432 is a use after free flaw in the Linux kernel’s TCP code, rated 9.8 out of 10, that can hand a remote attacker root on a server running multipath TCP. What makes it different from the usual critical CVE is who found it. An unreleased internal AI model at Anthropic spotted the bug, then built a working root exploit in about 53 minutes. I went through what the flaw is, who is patched, and why the AI part changes the math for defenders.
Linux & open source
Intel and HP spent roughly $10 billion building Itanium, the chip that was supposed to replace x86 forever. Analysts projected $38 billion in sales by 2001. In Linux 6.7, released in January 2024, the kernel deleted about 65,000 lines of Itanium support in one go, because nobody was left to maintain it. I went through why the most expensive bet in CPU history ended as a pile of deletions, and what it taught Linus Torvalds about anyone who promises the future needs a clean break.
Infrastructure
The headline reads as an AI layoff. Read the spending next to the revenue and a different reason shows up, one that will land at Google and Meta next.
Security
Proton, the encrypted email company that sells itself on taking security seriously, had its CEO tell an employee that asking for a few days of security testing before shipping AI written code was “bullshit and loser thinking,” according to 404 Media. The CTO says about 90% of Proton’s code is now written by AI. I think the story matters less for what Proton did and more for the exact contradiction it exposes.
Developer tools
Cisco’s president gave a 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens and 24 months to refactor 98% of the company’s legacy code, with 4 weeks to prove it can work at all. I think the headline number is a motivational target rather than an engineering estimate, and the more interesting story is what it says about who companies now trust with the keys.
Security
In October 2026 Microsoft quietly killed the last easy way to set up Windows 11 without a Microsoft account, after spending 2025 blocking the rest. I went through exactly which bypasses are gone, what still works, and why a new feature called the Windows age API, that reports whether you are a child, a teen, or an adult, is the piece that ties it all together. None of this requires a conspiracy to explain, the mechanism is on the record.
Linux & open source
On 10 August 2026 a US appeals court threw out the last live appeal in a legal fight that started with a forgotten 1998 UNIX project, ran through a $5 billion lawsuit, a bankruptcy, an asset sale, and a fresh filing in 2021. For 23 years a private company kept claiming it owned code sitting inside the Linux kernel. I went through the whole saga, because it is the closest the open source world ever came to a genuine extinction event, and because the thing that finally killed it was not a ruling on who was right.
Linux & open source
In October 2026, months after buying Altair for $10.6 billion, Siemens retired the OpenRadioss website and deleted its GitHub repository, pointing users to a paid product. The code was under the AGPL, so within days a Rocky Linux founder had forked it into a new project called OpenCourant. I went through what happened, why deleting the repo was the self defeating part, and what the license actually guaranteed.
Infrastructure
A used enterprise server that cost a company thousands of dollars new sells for around $250 today, and with a few parts you have a private cloud that runs AI agents, stores your photos, records your cameras, and lets you walk through an airport with a phone that holds almost nothing. I went through the exact parts, the real prices in the current memory shortage, and what to actually run on it.