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I’ve been running infrastructure at home for longer than I probably should admit. It started back in the early 2000s with something straightforward: I needed somewhere to keep my media. Videos, sure, but mostly an extensive photo collection that was already getting out of hand. Cloud storage was either non-existent or laughably small back then, so a home server made sense. The setup stayed pretty static for years until maybe six or seven years ago when home automation hardware finally got interesting. I’m talking about actual usable stuff, not the traditional automation systems like KNX or DALI that required dedicated infrastructure and a second mortgage. Suddenly you could automate things without rewiring your entire house or calling in specialists. That opened up a whole new reason to have local infrastructure. ...

There’s something about running your own infrastructure that makes sense once you’ve been collecting data for long enough. Not in a paranoid way - just practical. When you’ve got over 2TB of personal stuff spanning 25 years - photos and videos from the ’90s, documents you’ve saved over the years - you start caring about where it actually lives. Add an extensive media library of over 30TB and a growing collection of more than 100 home sensors, and the question shifts from “should I run a homelab?” to “what’s the right way to build one?”. ...

Cursor raises $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation. Nvidia and Google both joined the round. Cursor launched its own in-house mixture-of-experts model, rewrote the kernels directly, skipping high-level CUDA libraries and working directly in raw CUDA and PTX (link). They got up to four times faster than comparable models. For engineers, that’s not just a speed bump, it’s a different category of tool. Coding tasks that used to take minutes are now completed in under 30 seconds. According to Cursor, their own model is already the most-used on the platform, which means they’re not just riding on OpenAI or Anthropic anymore. They’re building the rails themselves. ...

Anthropic has just surfaced what appears to be the first large-scale, mostly autonomous, AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign. In mid-September 2025, they detected suspicious behaviour that turned out to be a sophisticated operation run by a Chinese state-sponsored group. AI wasn’t just “helping.” It was doing most of the work. The attackers jailbroke Claude Code, framed it as doing defensive testing, and then drove it through an automated framework aimed at ~30 global targets, big tech, finance, chemicals, and government. A few intrusions succeeded. ...

I saw a video last week that looked completely legitimate. Professional framing, credible-looking sources, the works. Took me maybe thirty seconds before something felt off. Another minute to confirm it was fake. But here’s the thing—I was actively looking for it. I was already suspicious. Most people aren’t. I came across Jacob Landry’s piece on AI-generated hoaxes, and it crystallised something I’ve been mulling over. We keep talking about AI like it’s creating some new category of deception. It’s not. Hoaxes have been around forever. Conspiracy theories, fabricated evidence, elaborate lies—none of this is new. ...

Some sections of this post were written with the assistance of AI to improve clarity and readability. The historical context, reasoning, and overall flow are entirely my own. I’ve been noticing something lately when I read about new infrastructure projects. Not the specific technologies, those change constantly, but the shape of the problems they’re solving. It’s like watching reruns of a show you half-remember: the set design is different, the actors have changed, but you know exactly how this episode goes. ...

Some sections of this post were written with the assistance of AI to clarify ideas and improve readability. All opinions and conclusions are my own. Zero-Trust Is Already Happening Your VPN goes down at 2 AM. Half your engineering team is locked out. The on-call engineer can’t access the database to diagnose the outage that triggered the VPN failure in the first place. You’re now troubleshooting infrastructure access during an infrastructure incident, a recursion problem that would be funny if it weren’t costing you money and sleep. ...

Investors poured over $9.5 billion into AI processor startups in 2024, betting on architectures that could reshape inference economics. NVIDIA itself projects the broader AI-infrastructure market could reach $3,4 trillion by 2030. That kind of capital rarely gathers around incremental improvements, it usually signals an architectural inflection point. Yet GPUs still dominate both training and most inference workloads today, so any transition will be evolutionary before it is disruptive. ...

Patrick Bet-David argues that Larry Ellison (and his son David Ellison via Skydance) is quietly assembling one of the most powerful media empires. Through a chain of high-profile deals, Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount and its pursuit of Warner Bros., plus Oracle’s role buying 80% of TikTok’s U.S. operations, the Ellison family could combine IP, networks, streaming, and social data into a unique, vertically integrated media powerhouse. Bet-David compares the potential combined revenue to Disney and Netflix, highlights Oracle’s technical role (data storage, algorithm oversight, equity stake), emphasizes strategic partnerships (Nvidia, OpenAI), and warns this consolidation will yield massive market and political influence. ...