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Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox infrastructure powering its AI agent platform. Each agent task runs inside its own Firecracker microVM, keeping credentials and network traffic isolated from the outside. It ships under Apache two point zero, giving teams a production-tested foundation they can self-host today.
On a darker note, a San Francisco tech founder is facing serious backlash after publishing a web-based shooter game set in the Tenderloin, the city's most vulnerable neighborhood. Pierre-Louis Biojout, whose startup is Y Combinator-backed, framed it as a monetization solution to homelessness. City leaders and residents pushed back hard, and the post has since been deleted.
And in what may be the most unusual storage pitch of the year, Biomemory has unveiled DNA Shield, an air-gapped system that encodes critical digital assets into synthetic DNA. The idea is that biological molecules sit entirely offline, beyond the reach of cyberattacks. It is early technology, but the company sees it as the future of what it calls cold data resilience.
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