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November 20261 episode

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 20263 episodes

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 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 3013:45

Cloudflare tracing is in beta, and the meter is coming

Cloudflare Traces enters open beta with volume-based pricing starting December 1. Also, NumPy 2.5 makes searchsorted up to 25 times faster in the authors' benchmark, and a repo lets Codex drive a real iPhone. Plus a ship log and Oxide's $445 million round.

  • Cloudflare Tracing Gets a Price List
  • NumPy Stops Waiting on Memory
  • Hardware Brief

September 20263 episodes

Episode 1814:45

Meta wants your enterprise budget, minus the details

Meta launches an enterprise AI platform and hires MongoDB's CEO to run it. Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5 at the same list price as its predecessor. Shopify opens checkout to browser agents, and GitHub explains how its AI agent found 24 Android bugs.

  • Meta Wants the Enterprise Budget
  • Sonnet 5.5 Keeps the Price, Cuts the Tokens
  • Shopify Lets the Agent Check Out
  • Two Dozen Android Bugs, Found by an Agent
  • Manus Gives Agents a Wallet
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 413:40

Siri Gets a Waitlist While the EPA Guts Carbon Limits

Apple's new Siri AI ships today with a waitlist and pricier iCloud tiers. The EPA guts power plant carbon rules just as AI data centers spike electricity demand. AI leaders call for a slowdown, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang says not a chance.

  • Siri, But You Have to Get in Line
  • The EPA Just Erased the Rulebook on Power Plant Pollution
  • The Industry Asked for a Pause, and Nvidia Said No
  • OpenAI Goes Shopping for Camera Engineers
  • Sixty One Million Dollars, One Exchange, and an Iranian Oil Network
Episode 112:45

Slow Down, Says the Man Building It

Anthropic's CEO asks the AI industry to slow down, the same week his own company's threat report describes Claude being used to help target weapons. Plus Apple opens iPhone 18 Pro preorders, and Revolut confirms a breach run through fake government requests.

  • The CEO Who Wants His Own Industry to Slow Down
  • When the Safety Talk Meets the Missile Code
  • Apple's Biggest Hardware Day of the Year
  • Revolut's Fake Government Email Problem
  • The Fight Over What Powers All This