AI Turned PHP Memory Bug Into Critical Exploit
Researchers using AI turned a long-ignored PHP memory bug into the PHP2Shell exploit, which put a swath of major websites at risk before a patch shipped. The episode shows how AI is exposing long-overlooked flaws in decades of legacy software. — spectrum.ieee.org
C99 Engine Runs Trillion-Parameter Kimi K3 on a CPU
A portable C99 engine streams the Kimi K3 model from disk, so the trillion-parameter model runs on an ordinary CPU with a few gigabytes of memory and no GPU while producing byte-identical answers at every memory budget. — github.com
WebGR Packs 196 Million URLs Into a Retriever Model
Octen-WebGR-4B generates a two-token identifier constrained to a table of roughly 196 million real URLs, so the web index lives in the model's weights and navigational search needs a single GPU rather than a massive vector database. — huggingface.co
Vote Rejects C++26 Standard for the First Time
ISO national bodies voted down the C++26 draft for the first time in the language's standardization history, judging the proposed contracts feature unready for release and leaving the next C++ standard stranded. — andreasfertig.com
Smaller WebGR Retriever Runs Search on a CPU
The smaller Octen-WebGR-0.6B brings the same generative-retrieval design to a compact subset of the URL table, answering navigational queries on a CPU alone in well under a tenth of a second. — huggingface.co