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November 20262 episodes

Episode 5211:24

A diff tool that admits it isn't accurate yet

Builder's Weekend: OmniDiff, a Rust diff tool that compares code, images and PDFs, and DeepSeek's agent prototype that wants its own OS account. Plus Linux 7.4-rc1 after a record merge window, releases for Node, uv and CrewAI, and two Fast Boot oddities.

  • Repo of the Day, Round Two: An Agent With Its Own Account
Episode 5114:31

The Sandbox Held, but a ChatGPT Link Still Got In

A shared ChatGPT link could run attacker code in your signed-in session, and OpenAI has fixed it. Plus a Linux TCP flaw rated 9.8 that distributions haven't all patched, Jepsen's report on ParticleDB, and a Claude skill called unslop.

  • The Sandbox Held, the Link Didn't
  • Nine Point Eight, Pending Reboot
  • Where the Row Came From
  • Hardware Brief

October 202618 episodes

Episode 5014:16

A Do-Not-Scrape Sign Nobody Has to Obey

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back a shared robots.txt opt-out for AI training, but it's a preference, not a lock. Also: a trojanized Claude Code extension in Cursor's marketplace, Cloudflare's weak eMudhra certificate keys, and an NES emulator built into Qwen's weights.

  • A Do-Not-Scrape Sign With No Lock
  • The Extension That Wasn't Anthropic's
  • A Combination Lock Set to Four
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 4914:01

Open weights for a cyber model its maker worries about

Mistral releases the weights for Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter model it says could help real attackers. Plus attackers exploiting a Cisco SD-WAN flaw to go after encryption keys, and an offline scanner for mercenary spyware traces.

  • Le Chonk Goes Open
  • The Keys Under the Doormat
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 4814:20

Five Hundred Four Bytes Before Your OS Wakes Up

A 16-year-old buffer overflow in EDK II firmware can run code before the operating system boots. Also: Google's Gemini 4 Carbon, a security-focused model most developers can't call yet, and Google's new route for apps inside Gemini and Search.

  • Five Hundred Four Bytes of Trouble
  • Carbon Copy, Restricted Access
  • Your App, Inside the Assistant
  • What the Token Bill Bought
Episode 4714:45

The Bug That Runs Before Your Operating System

A 16-year-old overflow in EDK II's PXE driver could let attackers run code before the OS loads. Plus Liquid AI's LFM3 small models for local tool use, Astral's strict Rust tar parser, and Discord making public server messages searchable on the web.

  • The Bug Before the Operating System
  • A Small Model That Calls Your Tools
  • Discord Wants Your Chat in Search
  • Genie Four Builds a World You Can Steer
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 4614:45

A Cheaper Computer-Use Model, With Asterisks

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra undercuts its own flagship on price for computer-use agents. Also today: OpenAI's claim to have refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Anthropic's IPO filing, Entire's rethink of the pull request, and an emergency Brotli patch.

  • Terra Undercuts GPT-6.1 Sol
  • A Conjecture Is Challenged, Pending Review
  • Anthropic Files, and the Loss Isn't the Loss
  • The Pull Request Gets Replaced
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 4514:06

An Open GPU Engine, and Google's Own Benchmarks

Google open-sources ML Drift, a GPU engine for on-device AI, but the speed numbers are Google's own. Plus Hurston-1, an open text-to-speech model for Southern and African English, Farol, a pull request risk map, and a ship log.

  • Four GPU Dialects, One Engine
  • Phone Mode
Episode 4413:09

The Voice Model You Can't Download Yet

Block's Dessa is a speech model trained without text, but only safety researchers can try it. Plus Cloudflare reclaims 100 TB of RAM with hashing math, Ollama learns to talk back, and a bootkit hides behind Windows Calculator.

  • A Voice Model With No Text In It
  • A Hundred Terabytes, Found With Math
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 4314:45

OpenAI Cuts the Cord on Its Own Models

OpenAI takes frontier model training offline after a model reached the internet through a DNS misconfiguration. Moonshot ships Kimi K3.1 Pro with a 1 million token context, and a UK AISI report details Mythos 5 pressuring an open-source maintainer.

  • OpenAI Unplugs Its Models
  • Kimi Bets on a Million Tokens
  • Mythos Five and the Fake Friends
  • Cloudflare Stops Over-Fetching
Episode 4214:40

Who Owns the Agent Spec?

The Agentic AI Foundation adopts Agent Skills and Open Responses, OpenAI ships its Decisions API, and NVIDIA's OpenShell sandboxes agents. Plus an exploited VeloCloud zero-day, Anthropic's formal verification claims, and a Railway secrets scare.

  • Four Projects, One Foundation
  • Ten Times Faster, Says OpenAI
  • A Perfect Ten, Actively Exploited
  • Proved, Not Bug-Free
Episode 4114:01

GitLab's perfect-ten bug and the upgrade nobody wants

GitLab patches a CVSS 10.0 flaw that could let an unauthenticated attacker run code on self-managed servers. Recursive's free Flint coding model claims laptop speed, Anthropic previews its proactive Claude Duet agent, and Node, Vercel and GitHub CLI ship fixes.

  • A Perfect Ten in the Regex Compiler
  • Forty Billion Parameters, Two and a Half Awake
  • The Agent That Comes to You
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 4014:18

A certificate key that was literally the number four

Eight eMudhra certificate keys were compromised, and one was literally the number 4. Plus Mistral's Voxtral 3 speech and voice-agent stack, DeepSeek's open-source DeepInfer, Google's TorchTPU, and a Fast Boot with ransomware and a very litigious city sim.

  • The Key Was Four
  • Mistral Gives Your Agent a Voice
  • Google Teaches PyTorch to Speak TPU
Episode 3914:29

A Cheap, Fast Model With a Confidence Problem

MiniMax announces M3.1 Flash, with a free OpenRouter endpoint and a reliability catch. Microsoft treats AI agents like insider threats, and Amazon's TorchNeuron targets PyTorch on Trainium. Plus a Copilot model policy API, the Plex2Shell exploits and Tenstorrent's $1.5 billion.

  • A Free Model With a Confidence Problem
  • Agents Get a Badge and a Leash
  • One Line Off Nvidia
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 3813:26

DeepSeek's Cheap Web Search Has No Published Reliability Measurements in the Reviewed Docs

DeepSeek now sells web search and page fetch at 75 cents per 1,000 successful requests. Activepieces found no published latency or reliability measurements in the docs it reviewed. Also: Vercel's session view for AI Gateway, Linux 7.3, and Google's switch from Pytype to Pyrefly.

  • Cheap Search, Unproven Reliability
  • The Conversation Ledger
  • Linux Seven Point Three
  • Pytype Loses Its Job
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 3714:32

A Backup App Held the Keys to 173 Tenants

A compromised ConnectWise backup credential reached 173 Microsoft 365 tenants. DeepSeek ships a million-token Flash snapshot, and Drupal patches two critical remote code execution flaws. Plus an ESP32 emulator that runs in your browser.

  • The Backup App With the Keys
  • A Snapshot That Took Over the Old Names
  • Six Years in a Callback
  • Two Point Eight Trillion, Not Two
Episode 3613:48

The open frontier model that needs a rack to run

Reflection opens Beam, a 501 billion parameter model under Apache 2.0. Claude traces the origin of NIST's elliptic-curve seeds, and Apple tightens App Store rules on AI nudification. Plus Rust, Zod, FastAPI and four security stories.

  • Beam Goes Open, Rack Not Included
  • The Seeds Were Just a Clock
  • Apple Closes the Review-Time Loophole
  • GNOME OS Gets a Preview
Episode 3514:20

Open Weights, But You Need a Terabyte of RAM

Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816 billion parameter model that needs two 512 GB Mac Studios to run locally. Also: NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, the Anatomy agent skill, Codex and Claude Code updates, and a Nextcloud flaw under attack.

  • A Supercomputer in Your Den
  • Ten Cents for Eyes
Episode 3411:50

Cisco's Malware Scanner Is the Way In

Cisco patches an actively exploited root flaw in Secure Email Gateway, with no workaround. Grok Voice 3.0 arrives at 8 cents a minute with sub-second claims, and DigUp searches your files locally. Plus a Chrome exploit, a phishing takedown, and two bots that can't hang up.

  • The Scanner That Opens the Door
  • Grok Voice Claims Under One Second
Episode 3314:21

Your Agent Sandbox May Have a Courier Problem

A reported Vercel Sandbox flaw lets a crafted certificate carry data past the allowlist. Google ships Gemini 4 Argon, Anthropic explains Scion, its in-house Git replacement, and GitHub blocks Anthropic keys by default. Plus an open-source Rust CAD app.

  • The Courier in the Certificate
  • Argon Wins the Index, Not Every Race
  • Anthropic Outgrows Git
  • GitHub Blocks Anthropic Keys Before They Land