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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-04-20.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • Vercel suffers a major breach after a vendor employee downloaded a Roblox script, exposing admin credentials.
▸ • A humanoid robot shatters the human half-marathon world record in Beijing, clocking in at 50 minutes.
▸ • The NSA is quietly using Anthropic's Mythos model, directly defying a recent Pentagon ban.
Vercel got breached, and the culprit is almost too embarrassing to type. A vendor employee downloaded a Roblox 'auto-farm' script, unleashing a Lumma infostealer that handed hackers the keys to Vercel's admin credentials. Now, ShinyHunters is trying to fence the data for $2 million.
The National Security Agency is quietly running Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview model, creating a bizarre government split. The Pentagon recently labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk and banned it, but apparently, the NSA didn't get the memo—or just doesn't care.
Blue Origin successfully landed its New Glenn first-stage booster for the second time, which is great. Less great? The upper stage failed and dumped AST SpaceMobile's satellite into the wrong orbit.
A humanoid robot developed by Honor just obliterated the human world record at the Beijing Half Marathon. It finished the 21-km race in 50.26 minutes, shaving nearly seven minutes off the fastest human time.
Microsoft's 4B parameter image-to-3D model, TRELLIS.2, was heavily locked into the NVIDIA ecosystem with custom CUDA kernels. A developer just ported it to run natively on Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS, replacing the CUDA-specific ops with pure-PyTorch alternatives. It generates 400K vertex meshes in about 3.5 minutes on an M4 Pro.
While the industry obsesses over cloud-based AI, ZeroClaw is pushing a hyper-lean personal AI assistant written in Rust. It ships as a single binary, boasts a sub-5MB RAM footprint, and runs on $10 hardware. It's a refreshing pivot away from bloated Python and Node.js agent stacks.
A new implementation of IPv6 Longest Prefix Match routing uses AVX-512 instructions and a linearized B+-tree. It's built for real BGP benchmarks and shows how hardware-specific optimizations can still squeeze massive performance out of core networking tasks.
Simon Willison updated his incredibly useful Claude Token Counter tool. It now includes model comparisons, making it easier to estimate costs and context window usage across different Claude variants before you accidentally bankrupt yourself on API calls.
Palantir published a mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and what it calls 'regressive' cultures. It's exactly the kind of corporate posturing you'd expect from a company that proudly positions itself as the defender of Western hegemony.
GoPro announced its new Mission 1 and Mission 1 Pro cameras, priced at $600 and $700 respectively. They're clearly targeting professional filmmakers, because weekend warriors aren't dropping that kind of cash just to film themselves falling off a mountain bike.