AWS introduced Lambda MicroVMs, a new Lambda compute primitive for isolated, stateful execution environments that run user- or AI-generated code. AWS said the service uses Firecracker and gives each session virtual-machine isolation, near-instant launch and resume, lifecycle control, and preserved environment state.
The feature creates MicroVM images from a Dockerfile and code artifact in S3, then launches sessions from Firecracker snapshots. AWS said MicroVMs support up to eight hours of total runtime, can suspend when idle, and are available in selected U.S., Ireland, and Tokyo regions on ARM64 with up to 16 vCPUs, 32 GB of memory, and 32 GB of disk per MicroVM.
Featured source: AWS , The Register .
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OpenAI launches Patch the Planet for open-source security fixes
OpenAI launched Patch the Planet, a program that applies frontier models to open-source vulnerability discovery and patch generation. OpenAI said the initial work is being done with Trail of Bits and focuses on finding bugs, producing candidate fixes, and submitting patches to maintainers.
Filed from: TechCrunch , OpenAI , Trail of Bits .
Microsoft and Chevron plan a gas plant for a data center
Microsoft and Chevron signed a 20-year power agreement for a West Texas natural-gas plant expected to supply a Microsoft data center. Chevron said the project is designed for 2.67 gigawatts of generation capacity and includes carbon-capture planning.
Filed from: TechCrunch , Chevron .
White House establishes quantum computer effort
The White House signed executive orders establishing the Quantum Computer for Application Development and Discovery Science effort and directing a federal post-quantum cryptography migration. The quantum order tells the Department of Energy to identify technical specifications within 90 days and explore partnership models within 180 days, while the cryptography order assigns OMB and the National Cyber Director to coordinate migration policy with technical guidance from NIST, NSA, and CISA.
Filed from: The Register , Quantum order , Cryptography order .
Five Eyes agencies warn AI is accelerating cyber risk
Cybersecurity agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States issued a joint statement on AI-related cyber risk. The agencies said AI can increase the scale and speed of malicious activity, complicate incident response, and make security failures more operationally and financially damaging.
Filed from: Australian Cyber Security Centre , The Register .
NVIDIA powers 81 percent of the latest TOP500 systems
NVIDIA said its GPUs, networking, or software power 81 percent of the latest TOP500 supercomputers. The company also said NVIDIA-powered systems held 37 of the top 50 Green500 positions in the new list.
Google describes AI functions inside data platforms
Google Cloud database executives told The Register that agents and natural-language interfaces are becoming part of Google data-platform work while exact SQL remains in the stack. Google Cloud’s supporting post says BigQuery and AlloyDB implement optimized mode for AI.IF and related functions using proxy models, which replace many LLM calls with small task-specific models in selected query patterns.
Filed from: The Register , Google Cloud .
NVIDIA documents Agent Toolkit components
NVIDIA’s Agent Toolkit documentation describes a framework-agnostic library for connecting enterprise agents to data sources and tools, with profiling, observability, evaluation, MCP support, and A2A support. NVIDIA’s newsroom announcement said the toolkit includes Nemotron models, AI-Q, OpenShell, and agent skills, with enterprise software vendors including Adobe, Atlassian, Box, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Red Hat, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, and Synopsys listed among participating platforms.
Filed from: NVIDIA docs , NVIDIA newsroom .
CVE Lite CLI adds auditing for stale dependency overrides
OWASP released CVE Lite CLI, an open-source tool for auditing stale dependency overrides. The project says it checks package overrides against current CVE data so teams can remove workarounds that no longer apply.
Filed from: The Register , OWASP , GitHub .
Prompt-injection paper frames attacks as role confusion
Simon Willison covered a prompt-injection paper that describes many attacks as role confusion between system, developer, user, and tool instructions. The paper site and arXiv version present tests and examples for separating instruction sources in LLM applications.
Filed from: Simon Willison , Project page , arXiv .
Tata Electronics confirms cybersecurity incident
Tata Electronics confirmed a cybersecurity incident after reports claimed hackers were offering files allegedly tied to Apple and Tesla supplier work. Tata confirmed an incident, while public reporting had not verified the authenticity, provenance, or completeness of the allegedly exposed files.
Filed from: TechCrunch , Reuters summary .
usbliter8 targets Apple A12 and A13 SecureROM
Paradigm Shift published usbliter8, a SecureROM exploit for Apple A12 and A13 devices. TechCrunch reported that the flaw is unpatchable in affected chips and could support jailbreak research on devices that use those processors.
Filed from: Paradigm Shift , TechCrunch .
Anthropic updates Claude privacy language
Anthropic updated Claude privacy documentation with language on age and identity verification. The privacy center says verification may involve identity documents, facial age estimation, payment-card checks, or other signals depending on the context.
Filed from: Anthropic Privacy Center , Anthropic privacy policy .
Fika Jobs raises $4 million for AI interviews
Stockholm startup Fika Jobs raised a $4 million pre-seed round for a video-first hiring platform where candidates complete AI-generated interviews and employers browse short candidate profiles. TechCrunch reported that Luminar Ventures led the round, with Alliance VC and King co-founders Sebastian Knutsson and Riccardo Zacconi participating.
Filed from: TechCrunch , Fika Jobs .
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VibeThinker-3B matches larger reasoning models on benchmark tasks
The VibeThinker-3B paper reports a 3-billion-parameter dense model reaching 94.3 on AIME26, 97.1 with test-time scaling, and 80.2 Pass@1 on LiveCodeBench v6. The authors describe a training stack using curriculum supervised fine-tuning, multi-domain reinforcement learning, and offline self-distillation.
Filed from: Paper .
Moebius releases a 0.2B-parameter image inpainting model
Researchers released Moebius, a lightweight image-inpainting framework with 0.22B parameters. The project page says the model uses a Local-lambda Mix Interaction block and adaptive multi-granularity distillation, with reported 15x inference speedup over larger models in its tests.
Filed from: Project page .
Baidu releases Unlimited-OCR for one-shot long-horizon parsing
Baidu has open-sourced Unlimited-OCR, a model for one-shot long-horizon document parsing aimed at full-document processing in a single pass. The project includes a paper on arXiv and a ModelScope release, with inference support via Huggingface transformers on NVIDIA GPUs.
Filed from: GitHub .
Neural Particle Automata: learning self-organizing particle dynamics
Neural Particle Automata (NPA) generalize Neural Cellular Automata from static lattices to dynamic particle systems, where each particle has a continuous position and internal state updated by a shared learnable neural rule. The system uses differentiable Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics operators for neighbor perception, enabling tasks such as morphogenesis, point-cloud classification, and particle-based texture synthesis.
Filed from: Project page .
AI agent loses a Civilization VI game after a nuclear strike
A blog post describes an AI agent running Civilization VI through a debug port, building two nuclear weapons, and destroying Toulouse while failing to monitor a diplomatic victory clock. The author says the CivBench harness ran four frontier models across three scenarios and that only 21 percent of games reached an ending without an external diary scaffold.
Filed from: Blog post .
Pure ARM64 assembly web server now runs on Linux with CGI support
Ymawky, a web server written entirely in ARM64 assembly with no libc, has been ported to Linux, supporting static files, PUT uploads, range requests, and CGI scripts via a fork-per-connection model. The server includes protections against path traversal, slowloris attacks, and partial writes, with CGI scripts confined to a designated directory.
Filed from: GitHub .
Optocam Zero publishes a Pi Zero camera design
Optocam Zero is an open-source compact digital camera design based on a Raspberry Pi Zero, off-the-shelf components, and 3D-printed parts. The project says the camera captures 2592-by-2592-pixel JPEG images, uses a 240-by-240-pixel LCD, and runs for 70 to 80 minutes on a 14500 Li-ion battery.
Filed from: GitHub .
