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A rare moment of candor in venture capital today, as Mercor co-founder Brendan Foody publicly called out Sequoia and other top-tier firms for what he's calling dual-pricing, the practice of selling identical equity at two different valuations depending on the buyer. It's an open secret in the industry, but founders rarely name names, which makes this worth watching.
Shifting to security, WordPress site owners are being urged to act fast after researchers identified a critical vulnerability in the Everest Forms Pro plugin. Attackers are already exploiting the flaw to seize full control of affected websites. If you're running that plugin, the advice is simple and urgent: update or disable it now, before someone else takes the wheel.
And over on Hacker News, a developer quietly dropped a durable, asynchronous workflow engine for large language models, built in Rust over a single weekend. One person, one itch, one weekend. It has almost no attention yet, but infrastructure tooling that handles the messy reality of LLM reliability tends to find its audience eventually, and this one has the right instincts.
That's the shape of the day in tech. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
