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Banks that treat multi-factor authentication as optional are drawing sharp criticism after a columnist at The Register watched professional thieves drain thirty thousand dollars from his eighty-four-year-old mother's accounts. The piece argues that when financial institutions leave stronger verification as a customer's choice rather than a default, they're essentially leaving the vault door ajar.
Shifting to the developer world, a new open-source project called Contextrot is taking aim at a frustration many AI-assisted coders know well — the way tools like Claude Code seem to gradually lose the thread as a session grows longer. The tool analyzes session logs to pinpoint exactly where that degradation kicks in, giving developers something concrete to work with rather than just a vague sense that the model is drifting.
And on the hardware side, a project called Espresso is making the case that Apple's Neural Engine doesn't have to be a black box. The open-source framework lets developers train and run transformer models directly on the chip, potentially unlocking performance that most AI workloads on Apple silicon never actually touch.
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