Meta’s Muse Spark 1.3 targets efficiency in coding agent workflows
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 on September 2, the fourth release in the Muse Spark family in under a year and the first since the company committed to opening its model weights. This one is a tuning update rather than an architecture change, aimed at the two places developers actually feel a coding model: agentic […]
WebLLM brings fast LLM inference to the browser with WebGPU
Running a language model entirely in the browser sounds like a party trick until you look at what WebLLM actually does. The project from the MLC community, which just crossed 18,800 GitHub stars, compiles LLM inference to run on the GPU through WebGPU, with nothing leaving the machine. No API calls, no server, no usage […]
Azure Front Door WAF policies now attach at profile and route level
Azure Front Door’s Web Application Firewall has always had a scoping problem. You could associate a WAF policy with a custom domain, and that was mostly it. One policy per domain, which sounds fine until you run a real Front Door profile with a dozen domains behind it and every team wants different rules. The […]
Movie Scene Map: 15,565 filming locations, straight from Wikidata
Movie Scene Map plots 15,565 real filming locations across 166 countries on one interactive map: the studios, castles, streets, and landscapes where films and TV series were actually shot. Click a point and you get a photograph plus the productions shot there. It covers 9,287 films and series, 2,153 video games, 407 anime, and 365 […]
Reviving a 1 GHz Tektronix TDS7104 from the flea market
Tom Verbeure found a Tektronix TDS7104 at the Silicon Valley flea market. The seller wanted $700, then dropped to $300. For a 1 GHz, four-channel oscilloscope with 10 GS/s sampling, that is a good price if you can get it running, and the scope booted fine at first, then died at the BIOS screen with […]
Atlas: one world model for video, 3D reconstruction, and robot simulation
World Labs, the company Fei-Fei Li started after leaving Stanford, announced Atlas on September 1. They call it an omni world model for spatial intelligence, which sounds like marketing until you look at what it actually does. One model takes text, images, video, and 3D data as input, grounds all of it in a shared […]
8,300 Gitea servers still exposed to actively exploited RCE flaw
More than 8,300 internet-exposed Gitea instances remain unpatched against a critical remote code execution flaw that attackers are actively exploiting, according to Shadowserver Foundation scans. The watchdog counted 8,393 vulnerable IP addresses on August 27, more than a month after a fix shipped. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-60004, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and […]
Azure App Service drops Node 22 support in April 2027: start planning now
Azure App Service will end extended support for Node.js 22 LTS on April 30, 2027. The announcement went out on the Azure Updates feed on August 24, and it follows the pattern anyone running Node workloads on the platform already knows: your apps keep running after the cutoff, but they stop receiving security updates, and […]
GitHub Copilot modernization goes GA for estate-wide app upgrades
Microsoft has announced the general availability of GitHub Copilot modernization, an agentic toolchain that assesses, upgrades, and migrates application portfolios to Azure. The announcement landed on the Azure Updates feed this week, and it closes out a preview cycle that started earlier this year for the parts teams actually touch: the IDE experience for language […]
Two alleged TeamPCP hackers arrested over the Shai-Hulud supply chain worm
Australian Federal Police arrested two men this week accused of operating as members of TeamPCP, the hacking group behind the Shai-Hulud supply-chain worm that has infected more than 1,000 organizations since December. The AFP statement says the men, from the Western Australian towns of Cottesloe and Mandurah, face 14 charges in a joint operation with […]
GLM-5.3 goes open-weight, and its specialty is unsettling
Z.ai has released the weights for GLM-5.3, its frontier coding model, on Hugging Face. The launch blog post from mid-August promised the weights two weeks after launch, once safety evaluation and hardening finished, and that window has now closed. What makes this release unusual is not the benchmark table, though the numbers are strong. It […]
Azure VM Image Builder goes GA in sovereign and air-gapped clouds
Running the same image pipeline across commercial Azure and government or China-hosted clouds has always meant maintaining two setups. Azure VM Image Builder now removes part of that split: the service is generally available in Azure Government, China North 3, Azure Government Secret, and Azure Government Top Secret, according to Microsoft’s announcement. Teams that build […]