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October 202617 episodes

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 1711:23

Faster Reasoning, Unverified Numbers

Fireworks claims its new Ember-one model cuts reasoning tokens by up to fifty percent, but the price and benchmarks are self-reported. Also: Z.ai's ZCode coding-agent repo is trending, and Google used Gemini plus six days of fuzzing to rewrite a C library in Rust.

  • The Diet Model
  • The AI Wrote It, Humans Signed Off