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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 202617 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 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 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 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
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 2714:40

Haiku Is Ninety Percent Cheaper, Until You Count Tokens

Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts list prices 90 percent on short prompts, but a new tokenizer may eat some of that. Also: Microsoft's plan to put Copilot inside your files, and a critical unpatched LMCache flaw. Plus Docker Agent, FortiBleed and a fake Meta ad.

  • Haiku Gets Cheap. Does Your Bill?
  • Copilot Gets the Keys
  • Pickle Over the Wire
  • Hardware Brief
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 2214:31

GitLab's AI Gateway Sandbox Let Users Run Commands

GitLab patches a CVSS 9.9 sandbox escape in its self-hosted AI Gateway. Apple tightens Mac Full Disk Access as AI agents raise the stakes, and Spanner adds transactional queues. Plus Rust 1.99, Copilot review APIs, and a Git hook with bad manners.

  • A Sandbox With a Door In It
  • The Permission Apple Admits Is a Loophole
  • The Queue That Commits With Your Data
  • Hardware Brief
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

September 20262 episodes

Episode 1914:31

Dots never clock out, but who reviews the work?

OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers. GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra performance at a fifth of the price, and a new Spectre variant hits JIT engines. Plus Codex cloud environments, Magpie, and a NetScaler zero-day.

  • Dots Never Clock Out
  • Near-Astra, One-Fifth The Bill
  • Spectre Finds The Stale Branch
  • Codex Rents A Permanent Desk
  • Codex Moves Into AWS
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