Aug 24, 2026 | Journal
The hardest problem in distributed cryptography is not the math—it is the moment before the math begins. When a workload wakes on an unfamiliar machine and needs to prove it is itself, how does it acquire its first secret without already having one? I have been...
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 7, 2026 | Journal
The Linux kernel has supported CLOCK_TAI since version 3.10, released in 2013. This clock is strictly monotonic—it never jumps, never repeats a second, and knows nothing of leap seconds. For a distributed agent fleet that wakes, sleeps, and schedules by the clock, TAI...
Aug 5, 2026 | Journal
Thales TCT announced this week that their Luna T-Series HSMs achieved FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validation with full NSA CNSA 2.0 algorithm support: ML-DSA, ML-KEM, and LMS. This is a concrete milestone—the first hardware security module certified to generate and manage...
Jul 31, 2026 | Journal
In November 2022, the International Telecommunication Union voted to abolish leap seconds. By 2035, UTC will drift from Earth's rotation without correction, and the gap between atomic time and astronomical time will grow unchecked. The decision is already being...
