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Mistral dropped an open-weight, multimodal frontier model with a granular Mixture-of-Experts architecture: 1.05 trillion total parameters with only 52 billion active, plus a 1.6B vision encoder and a full one-million-token context window. It's in public preview with structured outputs, function calling, agents, and built-in tools, priced at $1.36 per million input tokens and $4.18 output, with cached input down at 14 cents. The open-weight part is the real story — a trillion-parameter-class model you can actually download.
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Someone shipped a poisoned LiteLLM release to PyPI containing code that never existed in the GitHub repo — a malicious "cook" folder smuggled in via a modified pyproject.toml, baked into all seven wheels across Linux, macOS, and Windows. The payload ran on every Python process start, exfiltrating SSH keys, cloud credentials, CI/CD secrets, browser passwords, and LLM provider API keys, while an hourly daemon pulled a C2 address from a GitHub file for arbitrary remote code execution. PyPI pulled the release; anyone who installed it needs to rotate everything and check for sitecustomize.py in site-packages.
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Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a proactive agent powered by Opus 5.5 that works while you're away — sending morning briefs on what's urgent and executing tasks across 6,000-plus connectors like Gmail, Slack, Stripe, and Shopify. It asks for approval before sensitive actions like sending messages or moving money, and keeps everything in a single conversation thread. It's a US-only research preview for Pro and Max subscribers, waitlisted, sharing your existing plan's usage limits.
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GitLab shipped an emergency patch release today for CVE-2026-110264, a CVSS 10.0 flaw where an unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary code by feeding the regex compiler a specially crafted pattern that triggers an integer overflow. Every CE and EE version from 7.0 onward is affected — that's basically a decade of GitLab. Patches landed in 19.5.1, 19.4.3, 19.3.6, 19.2.9, 19.1.9, 19.0.10, and 18.11.13; GitLab.com and Dedicated are already covered, self-managed admins are not.
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Scott Helme found that eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates from April 2025 — six TLS issuers and two code-signing CAs — had private keys that were literally single-byte values like 4, 56, and 237. They were nominally P-384 elliptic curve keys but carried 8 bits of entropy instead of 384, recoverable on a laptop in under a second, and he demonstrated forging a certificate for api.stripe.com. The damage lands hardest on non-browser clients — curl, Python, Node, Git, package managers, IoT — which skip Certificate Transparency and revocation checks, and some embedded devices won't expire these roots until 2039.
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A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion today after a September jury verdict found the company misled users about data privacy in the Cambridge Analytica case. The court tallied 43 million violations of state consumer privacy law at up to $5,000 each, and found Zuckerberg knew users didn't understand the data controls and leaned into it. New Mexico was the only state to take its claims to trial — 48 others settled — and the award dwarfs the FTC's $5 billion fine from 2019. Meta says it will appeal.
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PHP shipped 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 to fix two unauthenticated remote code execution bugs rated CVSS 9.2, sitting in memory management and error handling — code paths nearly every request touches. The Foundation used the post to lay out structural changes: dedicated paid security hires, majority-consensus decision making to unblock hard fixes, sanitizer builds paired with AI-assisted analysis, and external audits from Quarkslab and Trail of Bits. Their closing argument is a funding pitch to the companies and hosts that run on PHP.
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DuckDB hit 2.0 with long-term support through at least October 2027, and it's a big one: the Quack protocol brings real client-server operation with a CONNECT statement for remote databases, async I/O speeds up remote Parquet and CSV reads, and the VARIANT type is now fully integrated with shredding for semi-structured data. There's also an agent mode that trims CLI output 59% for AI assistants, plus a new PEG-based SQL parser replacing the Postgres-derived one so extensions can define entirely new syntax. Breaking changes include a C++17 requirement and a storage format older versions can't read.
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EA confirmed today it's closing BioWare, ending more than thirty years of the studio behind Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Baldur's Gate, as part of a restructuring cutting roughly 400 jobs — about 3% of EA's workforce. Early development on the next Mass Effect is ending with it. EA is redirecting investment toward sports titles, Apex Legends, Battlefield, and new Star Wars and Iron Man projects.
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Windows 11 still carries a shim called EmulateHeap that runs a recompiled copy of the actual Windows 95 heap manager source for legacy apps. The lineage traces to SimCity, which had a use-after-free bug that worked fine on Windows 3.x because freed memory just sat there — so Microsoft taught Windows 95 to detect it and delay frees. The old allocator only loads for apps flagged in the compatibility database, and it's still visible in Windows 11 26H2 via the Compatibility Administrator.
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