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Month: April 2026

2026.04.24 ID: 617

Do You Still Need Assembly?

The Short Answer Yes, but not for the same reasons we once did. These days, learning assembly isn’t about speed or necessity. It’s about understanding the machine beneath the abstraction. The Shift Back in the day, you wrote assembly because it was fast, direct, and satisfying. You didn’t need a compiler, you were the compiler. […]

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2026.04.17 ID: 588
AI-Washing

AI‑Washing in Cybersecurity

The market is in a phase where “AI” has become a marketing label rather than a technical description. Vendors stretch, exaggerate, or outright misrepresent what their products actually do, and the industry is quietly normalizing it. I’ve personally seen platforms confidently branded as “AI‑driven” when, under the hood, they are nothing more than deterministic playbooks, […]

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