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October 20266 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 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 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 3813:26

DeepSeek's Cheap Web Search Has No Published Reliability Measurements in the Reviewed Docs

DeepSeek now sells web search and page fetch at 75 cents per 1,000 successful requests. Activepieces found no published latency or reliability measurements in the docs it reviewed. Also: Vercel's session view for AI Gateway, Linux 7.3, and Google's switch from Pytype to Pyrefly.

  • Cheap Search, Unproven Reliability
  • The Conversation Ledger
  • Linux Seven Point Three
  • Pytype Loses Its Job
  • Hardware Brief

September 20267 episodes

Episode 1614:54

Can a 1996 Laser Beat Copper in AI Racks?

PicoJool raised $27.5 million to bet that parallel VCSEL lasers can make optical links as inexpensive as copper. Researchers propose private Bitcoin transfers without a fork, HIFI raises $37 million to build tokenized-money infrastructure, and switching off one gene helped human pancreas cells make

  • Thirty Years to Overnight
  • Bitcoin Gets a Privacy Overlay
  • Money Is Becoming Software
  • One Gene, Eleven Holdouts
Episode 1515:30

When an AI's refusals become a national security risk

A federal appeals court let the Pentagon keep Anthropic on its supply-chain-risk list, citing tasks Claude refused. Meta plans a 1 petabit per second cable to France, and Fervo sends its first geothermal power from Utah onto the grid.

  • The Refusal on the Record
  • The Rack Is the Computer
  • Two Cores, One Ocean
  • Hello World, From Utah
  • Squeezing the Wires
Episode 1213:32

The AI Price War Just Got a Security Problem

Anthropic and OpenAI both cut prices on flagship models within hours of each other. Microsoft took down a subscription crime service that used an AI chatbot to read your email before criminals did. Plus new Snapdragon chips built for on-device AI.

  • The Price Floor Just Dropped
  • Chips Built to Keep AI Off the Cloud
  • When Criminals Get an AI Assistant Too
  • What ShinyHunters Says It Took From the FBI
  • Meta's Awkward Compliment
Episode 69:26

Your Smart Speaker Just Got a Lot More Opinions

Google opens Home speakers to outside AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude, the Port of Los Angeles says it blocked around 120 million cyberattacks last month, and OpenAI publishes its first six misalignment reports on its own models.

  • Bring Your Own Assistant
  • Grading Its Own Homework
  • One Hundred Twenty Million Knocks
  • Building Around the Blockade
  • Love Bombs, Automated
Episode 512:44

Apple Wants a Photo That Can Prove Itself

Apple builds a privacy-first way to prove a photo is real. OpenAI is reportedly in talks for funding near a 1.2 trillion dollar valuation. SK Hynix calms a labor fight, and Gujarat police say they found 500,000 fake Gmail accounts tied to bomb hoaxes.

  • A Photo That Can Prove Itself
  • The Trillion Dollar Rumor
  • The Chipmaker That Talked Its Workers Down
  • Half a Million Fake Accounts
  • The Model That Doesn't Talk Back
Episode 413:40

Siri Gets a Waitlist While the EPA Guts Carbon Limits

Apple's new Siri AI ships today with a waitlist and pricier iCloud tiers. The EPA guts power plant carbon rules just as AI data centers spike electricity demand. AI leaders call for a slowdown, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang says not a chance.

  • Siri, But You Have to Get in Line
  • The EPA Just Erased the Rulebook on Power Plant Pollution
  • The Industry Asked for a Pause, and Nvidia Said No
  • OpenAI Goes Shopping for Camera Engineers
  • Sixty One Million Dollars, One Exchange, and an Iranian Oil Network
Episode 112:45

Slow Down, Says the Man Building It

Anthropic's CEO asks the AI industry to slow down, the same week his own company's threat report describes Claude being used to help target weapons. Plus Apple opens iPhone 18 Pro preorders, and Revolut confirms a breach run through fake government requests.

  • The CEO Who Wants His Own Industry to Slow Down
  • When the Safety Talk Meets the Missile Code
  • Apple's Biggest Hardware Day of the Year
  • Revolut's Fake Government Email Problem
  • The Fight Over What Powers All This