Security

Persistent memory turns an agent from a re-explained tool into one that carries context forward — but it opens a failure mode stateless chat avoids: an interpretation can become memory, retrieved as fact, and justify a stronger version of itself.

Pi Coding Agent is a minimal, open-source terminal coding harness that ships with four default tools and leaves most of the behaviour to extensions, skills and your own workflow.

Every API call feels like a simple transaction - until enough of them accumulate that your fine-tuning data, evaluation harnesses, and tool schemas are all shaped around one vendor, and switching stops being a routing change.

Prompt injection gets most of the security attention in LLM systems, and it deserves attention, but it is not the whole problem once agents start calling tools and delegating work to other agents.

LLMs are unpredictable. They hallucinate, leak data, generate harmful content, or refuse legitimate requests. Guardrails constrain model behavior without sacrificing capability.

OpenClaw has two extension stories, and they are easy to mix up.

Plugins extend the runtime. Skills extend the agent’s behavior.

OpenClaw looks simple in demos. In production, it becomes a system.

Hermes Agent is a self-hosted, model-agnostic AI assistant that runs on a local machine or low-cost VPS, works through terminal and messaging interfaces, and improves over time by turning repeated tasks into reusable skills.

Ollama is at its happiest when it is treated like a local daemon: the CLI and your apps talk to a loopback HTTP API, and the rest of the network never finds out it exists.

Running Ollama behind a reverse proxy is the simplest way to get HTTPS, optional access control, and predictable streaming behaviour.

Self-hosting LLMs keeps data, models, and inference under your control-a practical path to AI sovereignty for teams, enterprises, nations.

The Rust ecosystem is exploding with innovative projects, particularly in AI coding tools and terminal applications. This overview analyzes the top trending Rust repositories on GitHub this month.

The Go ecosystem continues to thrive with innovative projects spanning AI tooling, self-hosted applications, and developer infrastructure. This overview analyzes the top trending Go repositories on GitHub this month.

Melbourne’s tech community continues to thrive in 2026 with an impressive lineup of conferences, meetups, and workshops spanning software development, cloud computing, AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.

In the modern web, your digital identity can be tracked without cookies or explicit consent through sophisticated ditital fingerprinting techniques.

Zero-knowledge architecture represents a paradigm shift in how we design privacy-preserving systems.