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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
AWS rebuilds EventBridge custom buses with cross-account sharing, ordered delivery and replay. Also in this episode: WordCraft, a Word-style app in Rust, a deep dive on browser fingerprints, and releases from Pydantic, Codex CLI, Bun and CrewAI.
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.
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.
Zenity researchers say one prompt could pull credentials out of an AWS AgentCore agent, and the flaw is patched. Plus StepFun's Step 5 Preview model, the clickable K10s Kubernetes terminal, a Claude Code fail-closed hook, and Doom running in SQL.
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.
Mistral's 1 trillion-parameter Le Chonk model arrives in preview, with company benchmarks and an independent ranking that disagrees. Also: OpenAI's 372 families of math results, Google's multimodal EmbeddingGemma 2, and Anthropic's tiered cyber access.
A Trillion Parameters, Forty-Nine Billion at a Time
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.
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
Microsoft's ThinkingBox benchmark grades agents on database state, not their own report. Cloudflare wants developers to build the next Git platform for agents, with credits as the prize. Plus the Coucou notch app, Zig 0.17, Istio 1.31 and uv.