Strix, the autonomous hacking agent from Strix.ai, scanned Baseten before hiring it as an inference provider and within 25 minutes obtained a GitHub token with administrator access to its repositories. The token came from a Docker image built in March 2023, and Baseten rotated it the day after receiving the report.
The count-min sketch is a probabilistic data structure that estimates how many times an event occurred without storing each individual instance. Using a small matrix and several hash functions, systems like Redis and Apache Flink count frequencies in massive streams with just a few kilobytes of memory.
The actor model is a concurrency paradigm where each actor processes messages in isolation, without shared memory. Erlang popularized it in telecommunications, and today it powers Akka, Elixir/OTP, and Microsoft Orleans. This guide explains how it works, when to use it, and how to write your first supervised actor.
