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The Real Privacy Audit: What Data Your AI Coding Assistant Sends Home
Stop trusting privacy policies. Put your AI coding assistant behind a proxy and watch exactly what your code transmits — what fires on every keystroke, what "local mode" really hides, and how to shut the channel.
BitByteCore Security Desk · Aug 5, 2026 · 11 min read
The best vector databases for RAG in 2026
Qdrant is still the safe default for new RAG projects in 2026, but the field moved on cost: Milvus 2.6 shipped 1-bit quantization, Pinecone launched Nexus to public preview, and object-storage-first newcomers Turbopuffer and LanceDB undercut the incumbents. An honest buyer's guide.
BitByteCore Research · Aug 1, 2026 · 12 min read
What RAG actually is and is not
RAG does not teach a model new facts. It fetches relevant text and pastes it into the prompt, so the model answers from documents instead of memory.
Signal Desk · May 10, 2026 · 4 min read