Understanding Anthropic Mythos: Threats and solutions

Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview on April 7, 2026. They described it as “a step change” and “the most capable model we’ve built to date.” That’s standard launch language. What isn’t standard is everything that came after. Here’s what the model actually does, why governments are paying attention, and what defenders can do now. What Mythos is Mythos is a general-purpose language model — 1M token context window, 128K max output, knowledge cutoff December 2025. On most benchmarks it performs as you’d expect from a frontier model at this scale. ...

May 2, 2026 · 4 min · hicke

SASE for Home Labs and Private Services: Zero Trust Without the Enterprise Price Tag

SASE — Secure Access Service Edge — pronounced as “sassy” (/ˈsæsi/), is a word invented by a Gartner analyst to sell enterprise contracts. It worked. But the underlying ideas are genuinely useful, and the tools to implement them are now free. If you run a home lab, self-host services, or have workloads scattered across Cloudflare Workers, Railway, or Fly.io, this is for you. What SASE Actually Means SASE combines two things that traditionally lived in separate products: ...

May 2, 2026 · 5 min · hicke

How I Set Up My Blog with Hugo, GitHub Actions, and Cloudflare Workers

I wanted a simple blog: write a Markdown file, push to GitHub, and have it live on my domain within a minute. No CMS, no server to maintain, no monthly bill. Here’s exactly how I built it. The Stack Hugo — static site generator. Builds the entire site in under 100ms. PaperMod — clean, fast Hugo theme with dark mode, tags, and RSS out of the box. GitHub — source of truth. Every push triggers a deploy. GitHub Actions — builds the site and deploys it on every push to master. Cloudflare Workers + Assets — hosts and serves the static files globally. Free tier is more than enough for a personal blog. Cloudflare DNS — manages the custom domain with automatic SSL. Total cost: zero. ...

May 1, 2026 · 5 min · hicke