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EasyFax — The Fax Machine That Lives in Your Browser

EasyFax is our modern, passwordless web fax app — send faxes straight from the browser. Receiving is on the roadmap. No install, no numbers, no password to remember.

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EasyFax web app hero — the fax machine that lives in your browser, with passwordless OTP sign-in and secure session badges

FeaturedSoftwareSeptember 11, 20265 min read

EasyFax — The Fax Machine That Lives in Your Browser

EasyFax is our modern, passwordless web fax app — send faxes straight from the browser. Receiving is on the roadmap. No install, no numbers, no password to remember.

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A single glowing API gateway in a network, one door held open by a paper tag reading the example key, with a ring of provider API keys and a cloud credential badge spilling out through it

SecuritySeptember 10, 202610 min read

Nearly 1 in 10 Exposed LiteLLM Gateways Accepted the Example "sk-1234" Admin Key

Nearly 1 in 10 internet-facing LiteLLM gateways accepted the example "sk-1234" admin key straight from the setup guide. That one key can expose every stored model-provider API key and the cloud credentials behind the gateway. Here's what Wiz found, the four CVEs, and what to check on your own gateway today.

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A liquid-cooled deskside AI workstation rendered as a cross-section: a 96-core CPU block beside four stacked HBM3e accelerator cards, a rising 'fast-memory ceiling' line, and a locked vault icon representing data that never leaves the site

FeaturedTechnologySeptember 7, 202614 min read

AMD's Threadripper Halo: On-Prem Frontier AI for When Your Data Can't Leave the Building

AMD's Threadripper Halo pairs a 96-core CPU with up to 576GB of HBM3e — the first deskside box that can hold a trillion-parameter model without a datacenter. Here's what that memory actually buys, what it costs, and who should seriously consider it.

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Infographic of an ascending per-token cost chart climbing to GPT-6 Astra, a central panel titled 'the real lever is architecture', and a task-tiered routing column sending commodity volume to cheaper and self-hosted tiers

FeaturedTechnologySeptember 5, 202613 min read

GPT-6 Astra's Price Tag — and How Architecture Keeps It Off Your SME Bill

GPT-6 Astra is being reported at roughly $10 in / $50 out per million tokens with a ~1M-token context window — flagship-grade money. Here is the honest math on why that bill is set by your architecture, not the model, and how to keep it affordable.

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Illustration of GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's new frontier model ranked number one, shown as an evolution from its predecessor GPT-5.6 Sol, driving three tasks: a web browser, code, and security

FeaturedTechnologySeptember 4, 202612 min read

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Just Moved the Goalposts — Here's What It Means for Your Business

OpenAI's new flagship GPT-6 Astra claims state-of-the-art computer use, coding, and cybersecurity — 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, 98% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 100% on ExploitBench, and ~47% faster at driving a computer. What the numbers actually mean for a small business, the honest trade-offs, and when you can use it.

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Illustration of a WordPress site and a backup-restore archive under a warning sign, with a security shield blocking an incoming attack

FeaturedSecuritySeptember 3, 20267 min read

Patch Now: A WordPress Backup Plugin Flaw Exposes Millions of Sites to Takeover

CVE-2026-19949 is an unauthenticated SQL injection in All-in-One WP Migration and Backup that allows remote code execution. 3.25 million sites are still running a vulnerable version. Here's what it means, and the steps to secure your site today.

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