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First up, a piece worth reading if you follow artificial intelligence with any skepticism. A new essay takes a hard look at scaling laws — the idea that bigger models trained on more data will keep getting smarter. The author argues the narrative has outrun the evidence, and that researchers are quietly aware the returns are diminishing. It's a measured corrective to years of confident prediction.
Shifting to security, a developer has made public an open-source tool that monitors certificate transparency logs to find freshly registered domains leaking sensitive files — exposed environment configs, open git directories, database dumps. It's a useful reminder that misconfigured servers are discovered constantly, and the people finding them aren't always friendly.
And on the engineering side, a deep dive into zero-copy file transfer in Go is making the rounds among systems developers. The piece examines how calls like sendfile and splice can dramatically reduce CPU overhead when moving data, and where the standard io dot Copy abstraction quietly falls short. It's the kind of low-level trade-off that rarely gets explained this clearly.
Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
