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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 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 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 3114:38

EventBridge gets replay, but not for yesterday

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.

  • Shared Bus, Short Memory
  • Cookies Gone, Fingerprint Intact
  • Hardware Brief
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
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 2812:34

One Prompt Could Have Owned Your AWS Agents

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.

  • One Prompt, One Role, Many Agents
  • Three Badges in Three Thousand Turns
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 2614:45

Le Chonk Is Huge. Is It Any Good?

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
  • Embeddings That Fit in Your Pocket
  • Math by Press Release
  • Who Gets the Sharp Tools
  • The Agent Doesn't Get the Final Word
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 2312:48

The Agent Said Done. The Database Disagreed.

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.

  • When Done Isn't Done
  • Cloudflare Wants Your Git Platform