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How IT teams use AI, how to do it well, and what it means for your job. Written for people who keep the systems and laptops working, not people who build models.

343 articles · Updated Nov 12, 2026
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Local AI ·

How to Enable Faster Prefill on RTX 3090 and 4090 for vLLM

A free GPU unlocker patch speeds up prefill on RTX 3090, 4090 and other Ampere/Ada cards in vLLM. Steps for Proxmox/Linux plus before and after numbers.

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Local AI ·

Is Local AI Worth It? Cost vs ChatGPT and Claude Plans

Break-even math on local AI: a $4,000 machine over three years versus ChatGPT or Claude plans, plus what data sovereignty and access are worth.

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AI Security & Safety ·

Would Pausing AI Reduce Cyber Risk? The Sanders Proposal

Bernie Sanders wants to pause AI and outlaw superintelligence. Here is what a pause would and would not fix for cyber risk, open-weight models and AI agents.

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AI Security & Safety ·

What Is Black October? AI Attack Swarms and the PHP Flaw

Black October explained: the October 21 PHP disclosure, AI agent attack traffic, Storm-0940's three-hour cloud takeover, and why patching may not be enough.

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Local AI ·

Can You Run Perplexity Computer Locally on a Mac? (36GB)

Perplexity Computer is reported to run on a Mac with Qwen 3.6 instead of cloud machines. What the 36GB unified memory figure means and what to check first.

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Local AI ·

Local LLM Hardware: What Tokens Per Second Can You Expect?

Local LLM hardware tiers compared: RTX 4090, RTX 5090, RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell and Mac Studio, with prices, tokens per second, and multi-agent limits.

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Local AI ·

Flint vs Qwen 3.8 27B: Which Local Coding Model Wins?

Flint is roughly 10x faster than dense Qwen 3.8 27B but scores 55 vs 73 on Terminal Bench. Here is where each local coding model fits.

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Local AI ·

How Good Is Ling-3.0 Flash Santé at Medical Reasoning?

InclusionAI's MIT-licensed Ling-3.0 Flash Santé is a 124B MoE healthcare model. See clinical test results, benchmark standing, and its lack of vision.

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AI Security & Safety ·

Is AI Still a Black Box? What GoodFire Found in Neurons

GoodFire research suggests AI neurons that look random, like a car-and-cat unit, may share a concept such as pose. What it means for AI safety and reading LLMs.

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Local AI ·

How Accurate Is Carbon-X on DNA Tasks vs GPT and Opus?

Carbon-X, a 14.8B DNA model, averages 66.7% on five benchmarks versus 67.5% for GPT-6.1 Sol at far lower cost. Results, weak spots, and limits.

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AI Governance ·

Will AI Make Us Busier or Free Up Time? Altman's View

Sam Altman says coders are busier than ever, and wants a renaissance over an industrial revolution. What it means for work, compute and inequality.

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AI Security & Safety ·

How Do I Protect Myself After the PHP Vulnerabilities?

Steps for consumers and site owners after the PHP flaws: hardware keys, fewer accounts, patch and confirm, OAuth, and family verification phrases.

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