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October 202614 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 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 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 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 3714:32

A Backup App Held the Keys to 173 Tenants

A compromised ConnectWise backup credential reached 173 Microsoft 365 tenants. DeepSeek ships a million-token Flash snapshot, and Drupal patches two critical remote code execution flaws. Plus an ESP32 emulator that runs in your browser.

  • The Backup App With the Keys
  • A Snapshot That Took Over the Old Names
  • Six Years in a Callback
  • Two Point Eight Trillion, Not Two
Episode 3411:50

Cisco's Malware Scanner Is the Way In

Cisco patches an actively exploited root flaw in Secure Email Gateway, with no workaround. Grok Voice 3.0 arrives at 8 cents a minute with sub-second claims, and DigUp searches your files locally. Plus a Chrome exploit, a phishing takedown, and two bots that can't hang up.

  • The Scanner That Opens the Door
  • Grok Voice Claims Under One Second
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 3213:56

Meta's Best Model Isn't in the API

Meta launches Muse Wonder, but its top model, Wonder Full, stays out of the API. GitLab patches a CVSS 10.0 CI/CD code-execution flaw, and AWS brings Express and Next.js to Lambda Web Functions. Plus GridCraft, a Rust spreadsheet.

  • Maximum Effort, Not Maximum Model
  • A Regex Walks Into a Build Server
  • Lambda Learns to Listen on a Port
  • 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 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 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 2114:40

SvelteKit 3 cleans house, and your imports pay for it

SvelteKit 3 is stable, with config moved into Vite and a new hash lib import alias to migrate. Cloudflare ships Clef, open-weight decision models that return probabilities instead of text. Plus Pi 1.0 and durable agents, a local Qwen repo, and Copilot driving desktop apps.

  • The Junk Drawer Gets Cleaned
  • Clef Answers in Probabilities
  • Agents That Survive the Crash
  • Copilot Gets a Mouse
  • Basin and the Drain for Cash
  • 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 20261 episode

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