- Microsoft published a detailed post-mortem on how the Storm-0558 threat actor obtained a signing key used in the recent Outlook breach (https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/).  
- Falcon-180B, the newly released 180-billion-parameter open-weights language model, ships under a restrictive license that participants find legally opaque and burdensome.  
- Running Falcon-180B at full precision demands ~640 GB of RAM; 4-bit quantization can shrink this to ~90 GB of VRAM, but the marginal 1.5 % performance gain over Llama-2-70B is viewed as insufficient to justify the hardware and legal overhead.  
- Community members argue that simply training a 70 B model for longer would likely match Falcon-180B’s performance, noting that published training-curve tails show real-time convergence at smaller scales and that current models are still far from saturating available capacity.  
- A brief aside referenced “techno mechanicus” and the supplement diindolylmethane, though no technical discussion followed.