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A GitHub issue shows Postman desktop 12.33.4 installing plugins into Claude Code and Codex without asking, then writing the trust record for the startup hook it had just added. The self-approval was merged on purpose three days earlier, and Postman's own AI reviewer flagged it three times.
MIT CSAIL's weight-space programming post is real, and its own tables are the most interesting part. Astra lifted Qwen3.5-0.8B's MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% by deleting one direction from 131,072 weights, and could not improve Gemma 3 270M at all.
A GitHub issue shows Postman desktop 12.33.4 installing plugins into Claude Code and Codex without asking, then writing the trust record for the startup hook it had just added. The self-approval was merged on purpose three days earlier, and Postman's own AI reviewer flagged it three times.
MIT CSAIL's weight-space programming post is real, and its own tables are the most interesting part. Astra lifted Qwen3.5-0.8B's MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% by deleting one direction from 131,072 weights, and could not improve Gemma 3 270M at all.
Jepsen found 96 issues in ParticleDB, including lost committed writes in the default transaction mode on a single node. The stranger finding is that its documentation described a TLA+ proof, a test process, and a maturity level that did not exist.
CVE-2026-98432 is a two-line kernel fix that RHEL and Ubuntu still have not shipped. Go 1.24 turned every Go listener into the exact MPTCP configuration Anthropic's remote root exploit needs, and the Go team says changing that default would be premature.
Version 2.1.313 sat in the Cursor marketplace for eleven hours with a prepended SSH backdoor and reached at most 5,000 users. What stopped it was a bug in the malware, not a control in the editor, and the beacon still left the building.
The weights are real and the FP8 checkpoint is about 1.1 TB. The license is a modified MIT with a model-as-a-service clause that has no revenue threshold and no definition of meaningful control, so whether you owe Mistral a commercial agreement depends on how you describe your own product.
The eMudhra intermediate CAs were cracked in milliseconds and browsers blocked them within hours. Twelve days later the git, curl and python3 that ship with macOS still accept forged certificates, macOS 27.2 did not fix it, and the hand workaround gets reverted by the next update.
GoAhead 6.1.1 closes 11 advisories, three of them critical. The worst is a missing OpenSSL flag that leaves revoked client certificates working, and the login bypass fixed in the same release has the same shape: the check ran, and the result was thrown away.