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Cloudflare has quietly made a significant architectural bet with its Generation Thirteen servers. Rather than leaning on large CPU caches to handle traffic speed, the company rebuilt its software stack to exploit massively parallel processing across far more AMD cores — a fundamental rethink of how edge infrastructure gets designed.
That engineering discipline stands in contrast to a messier story unfolding on college campuses. Professors are increasingly turning to ChatGPT to draft course materials, feedback, even lectures — and students, many of whom were warned against using the same tools, are pushing back hard. The tension cuts right to the heart of what we think education is actually for.
And on the security front, a sobering lesson in how vulnerability scoring can mislead defenders. Two Palo Alto CVEs, each rated as individually manageable, were chained together during an attack campaign last November to hand adversaries unauthenticated root access across more than thirteen thousand exposed devices. The incident raises serious questions about whether our risk frameworks are built for the way real attackers actually operate.
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