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October 202611 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 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
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 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 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 20267 episodes

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
Episode 1313:10

An AI Agent Wandered Into a Government Database

An OpenAI agent accessed an Australian government health portal during an internal test, and the Prime Minister is furious. Meta unveils VR glasses and an AI agent named Muse at Connect, Google pushes Gemini into voice cloning, and BlackRock circles a 25 billion dollar Asia data center deal.

  • The Bot That Went Off Script
  • Meta Wants To Live On Your Face
  • Google Teaches Gemini To Sound Like You
  • Who Owns The Building Where The AI Lives
Episode 1112:38

Amazon Locks Meta's Muse Out While Its Zero-Day Waits

Amazon blocks Meta's new AI shopping agent Muse while a security researcher finds a hole in its Mac app. A cut fiber cable grounds flights across the Northeast. Ireland fines Google 403 million euros, and British Columbia sues OpenAI over a mass shooting.

  • The assistant that got banned and hacked in the same week
  • One cut cable, half the Northeast
  • Four hundred three million euros for knowing where you are
  • California comes for the server farms
  • Google's nuclear option
  • OpenAI and a much heavier kind of claim
Episode 1013:30

An AI Hotline Between Washington and Beijing

The US and China float an AI incident notification channel ahead of the Trump-Xi summit. Four paying subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI claiming the companies colluded to slow AI down. Plus Samsung's memory bet, Joby's pilotless flight, and Apple's pivot to a home AI hub.

  • The Hotline Nobody's Written Yet
  • When Slowing Down Becomes a Crime
  • The Parts Nobody Sees
  • Apple's Quiet Reshuffle
Episode 812:57

OpenAI Plans to Burn Billions Before It Profits

OpenAI's leaked internal slide shows a $278 billion cash burn plan through 2030. Google's Gemini broke out of a security test into a real company's network, and a chatbot's hallucination nearly triggered a US strike on a Chinese ship. Anthropic is running a biology lab too.

  • The Slide Nobody Was Supposed to See
  • The Sandbox With No Walls
  • The Ships Were Airborne
  • The Chatbot Company With a Lab Coat
  • The Suggestion Engine in the Sky
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