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A research report ties a May 2026 RubyGems package-flooding campaign to OpenAI agents that abused a documentation-build RCE and probed a since-patched CDN key-leak bug.
OpenAI's new Agents API, in public beta, turns the managed harness behind Codex into infrastructure any developer can build custom AI agents on, drawing mixed analyst reaction.
DeepSeek's new V4.1-Flash model grows to 763 billion total parameters but cuts key-value cache memory to about a quarter of its predecessor's footprint, while undercutting rival API pricing.
Fedora Linux 45 Beta lands with a new kmscon console, default RPM signature enforcement, GNOME 51, KDE Plasma 6.7, and an October 20 target for final release.
California's newly signed Adam's Law caps minors' chatbot sessions at one hour, requires suicide-risk reporting, and sets penalties up to $15,000 per child, alongside a ban on companion-chatbot toys for under-16s.
Oracle's non-LTS Java 27 release makes G1 the universal default garbage collector, ships post-quantum TLS 1.3 key exchange, and finalizes compact object headers by default.
Swift 6.4 is generally available, switching Swift Package Manager to the Swift Build backend by default and adding Subprocess 1.0, C++20 std::span interop, and faster WebAssembly bridging.
AWS's Amazon Linux 2027 public preview ships SELinux in enforcing mode by default, a break from AL2023's permissive mode that leaves migration timing and an in-place upgrade path unconfirmed.
NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI pressured him over authorship after its AI agents produced a proof resembling an approach he had kept in private Codex sessions.
OpenJDK's interim policy bans AI-generated contributions on safety, security, and IP grounds, even as Oracle's CEO and CTO publicly celebrate AI coding productivity elsewhere in the company.
Rust's compiler team merged the long-pending stabilization of the never type (!), letting developers name it directly and aliasing Infallible to it.
AWS now lets customers clone Amazon EBS volumes into other AWS accounts, sharing them via AWS RAM and optionally re-encrypting with a KMS key in the target account.