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October 202611 episodes

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 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 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 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 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 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
Episode 2914:10

An AI pentester, and who keeps it in scope

An open-source autonomous pentesting agent, ARTEX, and the question of scope. Credential-stealing GitHub Actions workflows hit more than 340 repositories, an Anthropic model sent Philadelphia police a false tip, and Python 3.15, uv 0.13 and Ruff 0.17 shipped.

  • Sixteen Minutes, Three Hundred Eighteen Repos
  • The Tip Nobody Told It Not to Send
  • CodeQL's Go Change and the Missing Mac Binary
Episode 2513:40

Beam promises cheaper reasoning. Nobody's checked yet.

Reflection unveils Beam, an open-weight model with 501 billion parameters and 23 billion active, but the weights and independent checks are still to come. GitHub launches ReviewBench for code-review agents, and Schneider Electric agrees to buy PTC for $23.7 billion.

  • Beam's Big Claims, No Weights Yet
  • ReviewBench Grades the Graders
  • Schneider Wants the Whole Digital Thread
Episode 2413:19

Sovereignty-claimed model, self-graded homework

Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a 78.1 billion parameter open-weight German-English model, but the benchmarks are its own. Plus Google pauses its open-source bug bounty, the Dots browser agent, and fresh releases for Claude Code, Transformers and Vite.

  • Kolibri Grades Its Own Homework
  • Google Pauses Product-Vulnerability Bounty Reports
Episode 2114:40

SvelteKit 3 cleans house, and your imports pay for it

SvelteKit 3 is stable, with config moved into Vite and a new hash lib import alias to migrate. Cloudflare ships Clef, open-weight decision models that return probabilities instead of text. Plus Pi 1.0 and durable agents, a local Qwen repo, and Copilot driving desktop apps.

  • The Junk Drawer Gets Cleaned
  • Clef Answers in Probabilities
  • Agents That Survive the Crash
  • Copilot Gets a Mouse
  • Basin and the Drain for Cash
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 2014:45

A Frontier Coding Model You Can't Call Yet

Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, a coding model with a 1 million token output limit that only trusted cyber defenders can use for now. EDG's C and C++ compiler front end goes open source, and Aurora PostgreSQL can now query Iceberg and Parquet data directly.

  • A Million Tokens, Behind a Door
  • The Compiler That Copies Your Bugs
  • One Query, Two Time Zones of Data

September 20261 episode

Episode 912:22

The Strike the Algorithm Didn't Stop

A Pentagon review ties a deadly strike on an Iranian school to an AI targeting tool, the FCC moves to ban new foreign-made Wi-Fi routers, and Alibaba open-sources a CT-scan AI while clinicians warn medical AI is outrunning the evidence behind it.

  • The Note Nobody Read
  • Bring the Factory Home, or Don't Sell Here
  • The AI That Reads Your CT Scan, and the Doctors Who Still Don't Trust It
  • The Chatbot Safety Laws With Their Own Escape Hatch