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  • MiniMax M3.1 Flash Arrives at $0.15 Per Million Input Tokens

    MiniMax released M3.1 Flash on October 19, and the pricing is the headline: $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.60 per million output tokens, and $0.015 per million for cached input, flat across a one-million-token context window. That is half of what its predecessor M3 charged under the same 512k-input tier, and MiniMax claims a 70…

  • F5 Patches Three Critical NGINX Flaws in Out-of-Band Release

    F5 has shipped out-of-band security patches for eleven NGINX vulnerabilities, and three of them are rated critical with a CVSSv4 score of 9.2. Out-of-band means the fixes did not wait for a regular release cycle, which tells you how F5’s threat model team views these. If you run NGINX anywhere in your stack, and almost…

  • Azure Is Retiring the Dv3, Dsv3, Ev3, and Esv3 VM Series

    Microsoft has announced the retirement of the Dv3, Dsv3, Ev3, and Esv3 Azure VM series across public cloud regions. That is 32 sizes spanning the general purpose and memory optimized families, and a very large share of Azure estates still run on them. The machines are not going anywhere tomorrow. The off-ramps around them, though,…

  • Application Gateway WAF learns to inspect IPv6 traffic

    Azure’s Application Gateway Web Application Firewall now supports inspection and enforcement for IPv6 traffic, in public preview. Before this, the WAF could sit in front of dual-stack applications but its rules only bit on IPv4. IPv6 traffic flowed through uninspected, which was a genuine gap for anyone running regulated workloads on a dual-stack frontend. The…

  • One parser, two bugs: the Broadcom WiFi flaw nobody issued a CVE for

    Security researcher Quentin Kaiser presented new research on Broadcom’s WiFi WPS implementation at Hexacon in Paris on October 16, and the story behind the bug is almost as interesting as the bug itself. The short version: a memory corruption flaw in Broadcom’s proprietary 802.11 stack, present since at least 2010, exploitable over the air with…

  • AKS on bare metal now runs on Ubuntu hosts

    Microsoft has expanded AKS on bare metal to support Ubuntu as a host operating system, and the new option is in public preview now. The original preview paired the service with Azure Linux 3.0 running on validated Azure Local small form factor hardware, which was a sensible but narrow starting point. If your racks were…

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