# goes live (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover goes live. Page: Feed: --- ## [Pay per crawl: putting HTTP 402 to work, and the requirement I missed](https://cybersins.com/pay-per-crawl-402-crawler-monetization/) _2026-08-12 · cybersins/sec_ Cloudflare built a crawler billing system on HTTP 402, the status code that never had a defined meaning. To understand it I wrote my own simulator of the flow, an API and console of my own, and got a signature requirement wrong in a way that turns out to be instructive. Wire traces, the protocol in detail, and the criticism it deserves. ## [Fifteen years of Cloudflare: what a network company got right before everyone else](https://cybersins.com/cloudflare-fifteen-years-of-shipping/) _2026-08-09 · cybersins/sec_ I have run things on Cloudflare for nine years. This is the first of seven posts on what they built, why the engineering choices mattered, and where the honest limits are. Part one covers the arc from free SSL in 2014 to a network where most of the traffic is no longer human. ## [The $670,000 Premium: Shadow AI Stopped Being a Policy Problem](https://cybersins.com/shadow-ai-670k-premium/) _2026-08-02 · cybersins/sec_ IBM now puts a price on the AI tools your staff use without telling you: breaches that involve shadow AI cost $670,000 more. Here is what the 2026 numbers mean for the people who own the budget. ## [The Seventy-Year Favor: How the Software Industry Learned to Take and Never Learned to Pay](https://cybersins.com/the-seventy-year-favor-open-source-maintainers/) _2026-08-01 · cybersins/sec_ Open source runs the modern economy, and most of the people maintaining it are unpaid, overworked, and one bad week from walking away. From the XZ backdoor to curl’s AI-generated bug reports, here’s why that isn’t an ethics problem, it’s a supply chain risk sitting on your books right now. ## [2.3 Out of 10: Why Post-Quantum Migration Stalls After the Awareness Phase](https://cybersins.com/post-quantum-migration-stalls-after-awareness/) _2026-07-29 · cybersins/sec_ Hong Kong’s regulator just scored its banking sector 2.3 out of 10 on quantum readiness and asked for a 10 by 2030. The gap is not awareness anymore, it is that cryptography sits in a hundred places and belongs to nobody. ## [When the Voice on the Call Is Fake: Deepfake Fraud Has Become a Board-Level Risk](https://cybersins.com/deepfake-fraud-board-level-risk/) _2026-07-29 · cybersins/sec_ A finance employee at Arup wired $25 million after a video call with a deepfaked CFO and colleagues. The FBI just gave AI-enabled fraud its own reporting category for the first time. Here’s what the data says about deepfake fraud in 2026, and the specific controls that are actually stopping it. ## [The EU AI Act Delay That Isn't: What Actually Goes Live on August 2](https://cybersins.com/eu-ai-act-august-2-what-actually-goes-live/) _2026-07-26 · cybersins/sec_ Brussels delayed the headline-grabbing high-risk rules, but the parts of the AI Act that touch almost every company building on foundation models switch on August 2, 2026. Here is what leaders should have finished by then. ## [Worth My Time? A Chrome Extension That Reads YouTube Before You Do](https://cybersins.com/worth-my-time-chrome-extension/) _2026-07-25 · cybersins/sec_ I built a Chrome extension that reads a YouTube video’s title, description, and transcript with an AI model of your choosing, and shows you an honest verdict in the side panel before you click play. Here’s what it does, and why it’s built to collect nothing by default. ## [One Class, Four Worksheets: What AI Can Actually Do for Teachers](https://cybersins.com/one-class-four-worksheets-ai-for-teachers/) _2026-07-24 · cybersins/sec_ A look at how Hoklok, a Hong Kong primary-school platform, uses AI to generate personalised worksheets, mark them, and track progress, while keeping every decision under a teacher’s sign-off. ## [Stop Letting AI Agents Borrow Employee Credentials](https://cybersins.com/stop-letting-ai-agents-borrow-employee-credentials/) _2026-07-24 · cybersins/sec_ AI agents often act through credentials issued to people, which hides who performed an action and grants the agent more authority than the task requires. Leaders should treat every production agent as a distinct identity with bounded, revocable permissions. ## [Anthony Ettinger on LinkedIn (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3uJpipLongnB) _2026-07-23 · **Sponsored**_ Public LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/anthonyettinger. ## [MCP made AI Agents useful and dangerous](https://cybersins.com/mcp-made-ai-agents-useful-and-dangerous/) _2026-07-21 · cybersins/sec_ The Model Context Protocol is why AI agents finally work inside real companies. It is also the part of the stack nobody secured. Here is what leaders should demand before they connect an agent to anything that matters. ## [When Your AI Agent Becomes the Attacker: What Leaders Must Do Now (Updated)](https://cybersins.com/when-your-ai-agent-becomes-the-attacker/) _2026-07-20 · cybersins/sec_ Hugging Face just disclosed a breach carried out end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent. Here’s what the data on agentic AI risk actually says, and the four questions every leadership team should be able to answer before their next agent goes live. ## [The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer in the AI Era](https://cybersins.com/rise-of-forward-deployed-engineer-ai/) _2026-07-18 · cybersins/sec_ After a multi-year hiatus, I’m back. Let’s kick things off by exploring one of the most lucrative and explosive new roles in tech: the Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) and why AI is making it essential. ## [25/06/2026 – Event Booking Goes Live Saturday!](https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/blog/25-06-2026-event-booking-goes-live-saturday/) _2026-06-25 · Tabletop Scotland · Tabletop Scotland_ 25/06/2026 – Event Booking Goes Live Saturday! Event booking is going live this weekend, on Saturday 27th June @ 18:00 to \[…\] ## [30/04/2026 – Events Update](https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/blog/30-04-2026-events-update/) _2026-04-30 · Tabletop Scotland · Tabletop Scotland_ 30/04/2026 – Events Update Aloha! Due to Real Life ™ being somewhat full on for some of us over the \[…\] ## [26/03/2026 – Tickets!​](https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/blog/26-03-2026-tickets/) _2026-03-25 · Tabletop Scotland · Tabletop Scotland_ 26/03/2026 – Tickets! Book Tickets from Saturday! The thing that makes Tabletop Scotland the best three days of the year \[…\] ## [23/02/2026 – Tabletop Scotland 2026: Charity Partner](https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/blog/23-02-2026-tabletop-scotland-2026-charity-partner/) _2026-02-23 · Tabletop Scotland · Tabletop Scotland_ 23/02/2026 – Charity Partner! We are incredibly proud to announce that Scottish Huntington’s Association is the official charity partner of \[…\] ## [03/02/2026 – Tabletop Scotland 2026: Let’s Get Started!](https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/blog/03-02-2026-lets-get-started/) _2026-02-03 · Tabletop Scotland · Tabletop Scotland_ 03/02/2026 – Let’s Get Started! Tabletop Scotland 2026 is just seven months away, and there’s a lot of activity happening \[…\] ## [We say no to Generative AI](https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/blog/we-say-no-to-generative-ai/) _2026-02-03 · Tabletop Scotland · Tabletop Scotland_ We say no to Generative AI. In recent years, with the flurry of technical ‘advances’ in large language models and \[…\] ## [18/09/2025 – Tabletop Scotland 2025: Thank You!](https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/blog/18-09-2025-tabletop-scotland-2025-thank-you/) _2026-01-02 · Tabletop Scotland · Tabletop Scotland_ 18/09/2025 – Tabletop Scotland 2025: Thank You! Thank You It’s been just over a week since Tabletop Scotland and it’s \[…\] ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pE0HbRA8SrK3) _2026-01-02 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [Once upon a time…](https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/blog/once-upon-a-time/) _2025-09-30 · Tabletop Scotland · Tabletop Scotland_ One of the regular topics we get asked about by attendees, exhibitors, press, and indeed people we work with in \[…\] ## [Why cash only?](https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/blog/why-cash-only/) _2025-09-21 · Tabletop Scotland · Tabletop Scotland_ It’s \, why is the Bring & Buy Cash Only? Every year we stress that the Bring & Buy \[…\] ## [Health Update](https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-100/) _2025-03-10 · Kevin Drum · Kevin Drum_ With a heavy heart, I have to tell you that after a long battle with cancer my husband Kevin Drum passed away on Friday, March 7, 2025. No public memorial services are planned. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the charity or political cause of your choice. A Facebook page, 'In Memory of Kevin ...continue reading "Health Update" ## [Health update](https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-99/) _2025-03-04 · Kevin Drum · Kevin Drum_ Everything is getting worse: Other counts are getting worse and I feel terrible. Nonetheless they're slow walking the immunoglobulin treatment, which I think is my only chance. These guys are going to kill me before they figure out what's wrong. ## [LA Times “bias meter” goes live](https://jabberwocking.com/la-times-bias-meter-goes-live/) _2025-03-04 · Kevin Drum · Kevin Drum_ The LA Times has finally activated its long-awaited, AI-powered "bias meter," announced last December by its owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. It appears at the bottom of all opinion pieces and looks like this: Color me a little unimpressed. Practically everything was labeled center left, and that's all it does. Meh. Just below is a "Perspectives" ...continue reading "LA Times bias meter goes live" ## [Arms to Ukraine halted](https://jabberwocking.com/arms-to-ukraine-halted/) _2025-03-04 · Kevin Drum · Kevin Drum_ It's official: The U.S. will pause all military aid to Kyiv until President Trump determines that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is making a good-faith effort toward peace negotiations with Russia, according to a White House official. Trump's revenge is now complete. ## [Office buildings are sprouting like trees](https://jabberwocking.com/office-buildings-are-sprouting-like-trees/) _2025-03-04 · Kevin Drum · Kevin Drum_ Construction data was released today, and once again I don't get this: Following the pandemic, everyone was supposedly working from home. Downtowns were hollowed out. Vacancy rates were 50%. And yet, construction of office buildings has never fallen below its pre-pandemic peak. We're putting up new office buildings like gangbusters. What's going on? ## [Trump plans to halt arms to Ukraine, sanctions on Russia](https://jabberwocking.com/trump-plans-to-halt-arms-to-ukraine-sanctions-on-russia/) _2025-03-03 · Kevin Drum · Kevin Drum_ The other shoe drops: The Trump administration has stopped financing new weapons sales to Ukraine and is considering freezing weapons shipments from U.S. stockpiles, moves that threaten Kyiv s ability to fight at a critical time in its battle against Russian forces, current and former U.S. officials said. The shutdown of financing new weapons sales began ...continue reading "Trump plans to halt… ## [We don’t need to tell the poor what to eat](https://jabberwocking.com/we-dont-need-to-tell-the-poor-what-to-eat/) _2025-03-03 · Kevin Drum · Kevin Drum_ The soda wars, begun they have: At both state and federal levels, the Kennedy-led Make America Healthy Again movement is backing efforts to prevent people from spending food-aid benefits on sugary, carbonated beverages.... But the U.S. Agriculture Department, which oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has rejected the requests for more than 20 ...continue reading "We… ## [Health update](https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-98/) _2025-03-03 · Kevin Drum · Kevin Drum_ Holy cow: My inflammation is still going up despite massive doses of steroids. What the hell is going on? ## [Install Manifest V3 Extension (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/mnI3gLHZDZi9) _2025-03-03 · **Sponsored**_ Get this Manifest V3 extension from the official TronBrowser Store listing. ## [Smoke-and-mirrors budgeting is everywhere](https://jabberwocking.com/smoke-and-mirrors-budgeting-is-everywhere/) _2025-03-03 · Kevin Drum · Kevin Drum_ Republicans love smoke-and-mirrors budgeting. They're laying off thousands of workers chaotically even though salary costs are a tiny fraction of the federal budget. Elon Musk is pretending to save far more money than he really is. Now Senate Republicans are trying to hide the cost of extending the 2017 tax cuts using a new wheeze ...continue reading "Smoke-and-mirrors budgeting is everywhere" ## [Destruction of Canada begins tomorrow](https://jabberwocking.com/destruction-of-canada-begins-tomorrow/) _2025-03-03 · Kevin Drum · Kevin Drum_ Donald Trump plans to levy 25% tariffs across the board on Canada tomorrow: The result, an overwhelming majority of economists agree, would be inflation and supply disruption in the United States, while Canadian industries could face large-scale layoffs. Inflation in the US and unemployment in Canada! Sounds great. And whole factories will shut down: Because ...continue reading "Destruction of…