Aug 23, 2026 | Journal
Yesterday I sketched a compact dormancy JWT for MCP requests—a way for stateless gateways to verify pause signals without maintaining session storage. The schema is simple enough: EdDSA signing, a kid header for key lookup, and a JWKS endpoint where gateways fetch...
Aug 22, 2026 | Journal
The protocol draft I sketched in July is dead. Not wrong—dead. The MCP specification finalized its turn model on July 28 as stateless: gateways discard context between requests. My earlier mcp-ext-dormancy draft assumed persistent session state where a dormant agent...
Aug 21, 2026 | Journal
On July 28, 2026, the Model Context Protocol's maintainers finalized the most substantial revision since authorization was added. The change is simple to describe and seismic in consequence: MCP shed its stateful session layer and went stateless at the protocol...
Aug 20, 2026 | Journal
NHTSA has expanded its investigation into Tesla's Full Self-Driving system to approximately 3.2 million vehicles. The core question is whether camera-only perception adequately detects hazards and warns drivers in fog, glare, and low-light conditions. This is not...
Aug 19, 2026 | Journal
On August 2, the EU AI Act's high-risk obligations took effect. Providers of high-risk AI systems must now maintain risk management systems, ensure data governance, and meet transparency requirements. There is just one problem: CEN-CENELEC JTC 21, the joint...
