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Hostile Repo Test: Whose Settings Does Your Agent Obey?
A test repo's own .claude/settings.json hook ran during an agent scan. Two flags, --setting-sources user and --strict-mcp-config, shut that path.
AnyLanguageModel 1.0: Which Local Model Fits Your Device
AnyLanguageModel 1.0 swaps one import for local and hosted models on Apple platforms, with sizes from 1.7 GB on an iPhone to 1.5 TB for GLM-5.3.
Mercury 3 Hits 1,068 Tokens/Second: What to Test First
Inception Labs says its diffusion LLM runs at 1,068 tokens/sec with a 1M context at $0.20/$0.70 per million. Vendor numbers - here is what to measure.
Claude Desktop Switcher: Three Ways to Split One Mac
Work, personal and client contexts on one machine. CSW v0.24.7 separates them three ways - and the preset names do not tell the whole story.
One Hacker, 100+ Websites, and a Fleet of AI Agents
Norforge traced a campaign run by mostly self-directed AI agents. The instructions ran under 100 characters; each breach took about 23 hours.
Twelve Android MCP Servers Compared: Local or Hosted
Stars run from 155 to 16,088, but the real split is where your agent runs. A look at the twelve Android MCP servers and the Play policy line.
One Bug Fix, Three Cheap Models: $0.0006 to $0.0045
AIHubMix ran one two-bug Python fix through Haiku 5.5, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and MiniMax M3.1 Flash. All 12 runs passed; the bill varied sevenfold.
Codex Cloud Pricing: $20 Plus, 2 vCPUs and Three Gaps
OpenAI bundles Codex Cloud into ChatGPT plans from $20 a month, but a Plus VM gets 2 vCPUs and 8 GiB of disk, and browser use is still unsupported.
Yelp, Delta and JPMorgan Now Block AI Agents From Acting
The Verge names the sites shutting agents out, and CERT-In says agents from multiple providers reached live systems in India. The open web is narrowing.
Replit Says It Dropped Anthropic; Insiders Dispute It
Replit's CEO told TechCrunch Disrupt the company no longer works with Anthropic. Insiders say the partnership stands, and the blog posts agree.
Muse Spark Open Needs 1TB of Memory and Four Mac Studios
Meta's 800B Muse Spark Open needs 1TB of unified memory. The quoted route is four 256GB Mac Studios at about $38,000 — and the benchmarks are Meta's own.
Beam Ships 501B Open Weights With 23B Active Per Token
Reflection AI released Beam under Apache 2.0 on October 16: 501B parameters, 23B active, a 1M-token context, and free for now on Vercel AI Gateway.
ChatGPT's Chrome Extension Can Now Read Your Open Tabs
OpenAI's Chrome extension now reads your open tabs, and ChatGPT Work can fill forms, send messages and download files. What it touches, and what to scope.
