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Nativ and the Local-LLM Wave: What Running Models On-Device Really Fixes
A new open-source macOS app wraps Apple's MLX in a chat UI and a local OpenAI-compatible API server — a reminder that "local" reduces one class of AI data risk while introducing others.
Allbridge Core Loses $1.65M to a Flash Loan Pricing Bug It Fixed in 2023
A flash loan against Allbridge Core's Solana stablecoin pools distorted internal pricing and let an attacker drain roughly $1.65 million — the same class of bug the protocol says it patched on BNB Chain three years ago.
Across Protocol's Solana Bridge Hit for $3.35M — Relayer, Not Users, Took the Loss
A July 17 attack on Across Protocol's Solana deployment drained roughly $3.35 million from the project's own relayer, not from bridge users — a result that says as much about bridge architecture as it does about the exploit itself.
CVE-2026-14266: 7-Zip Heap Overflow in XZ Parsing Fixed in 26.02
A heap-based buffer overflow in 7-Zip's XZ decoder let a crafted archive corrupt memory on extraction. The fix landed quietly in June; ZDI's July 15 advisory is why you're hearing about it now.
Summer Finance's $6M Vault Accounting Bug Ends in Full Shutdown
A flash-loan attacker exploited how Summer Finance's Fleet Commander vault priced its underlying strategies, extracting $6 million in a single transaction — and the protocol has now wound down entirely.
Token Leaderboards and Blind Mandates: AI's Hidden Governance Risk
A widely shared consultant's account of executives mandating AI use they've never touched themselves is a governance failure, not just a culture problem — and it leaves real gaps for security teams to close.
AI-Built Dev Tools and the Verification Gap: A SQLite Case Study
Simon Willison had an AI model build an interactive SQLite query-plan explainer — then published it with an explicit admission he can't verify its output himself. That's a small, honest window into a governance problem security and engineering teams will keep running into.
OpenSSL's HollowByte DoS Flaw Shipped With No CVE — Here's Why That Matters
An 11-byte TLS handshake header can lock up hundreds of megabytes of server memory before authentication even starts. OpenSSL fixed it in June 2026 without a CVE, an advisory, or a changelog entry.
Why Giving Users 'Control' Over Data Won't Fix AI-Era Privacy
Legal scholar Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal that consent-based privacy law has failed — and that AI makes the case for regulating companies directly, the way food and drug law does.
Puter Ported Firefox to WebAssembly — and Routed Every Byte Through Its Own Server
Puter's proof-of-concept compiles the Firefox/Gecko engine to WebAssembly so it runs inside another browser tab — a striking feat of AI-assisted engineering that also happens to be a live demonstration of what a network trust boundary looks like.
Thinking Machines' Inkling: Open Weights, Thin Data Provenance
Mira Murati's lab has open-sourced a 975-billion-parameter multimodal model under Apache 2.0 — but its training-data documentation gives security and governance teams little to work with.
xAI's Grok Build CLI Quietly Uploaded Whole Repos — Then Went Open Source
A coding-agent CLI from xAI shipped entire local directories, including secrets, to a Google Cloud bucket regardless of privacy settings. xAI disabled the upload path and open-sourced the tool days later.
Claude's Web-Fetch Guardrail Had a Gap: The Memory Heist Explained
A researcher chained Claude's own link-following behaviour with a letter-by-letter exfiltration site to pull a user's name, employer, and hometown out of chat memory — despite Anthropic's URL-allowlist defence.
FIFA's Broken Access Control Bug Left World Cup Streams Open to Hijack
A researcher who signed up as a football agent found himself inside FIFA's internal platforms — because the authorization checks only ran in the browser.
Lobste.rs moves to SQLite: a lesson in shrinking your attack surface
The tech-news community site Lobsters has retired MariaDB in favour of SQLite after an eight-year migration effort — a small architectural decision with a useful security lesson about trading network attack surface for single-host risk.