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Security2026-09-08 · source-backed
Calif disclosed WeWorm, a worm that hijacks a WeChat account through an incoming VoIP call and then calls the victim's contacts, spreading across iOS and Android. The team says working with AI it found the memory-corruption bug in the VoIP stack and produced working remote code execution in about two days, with another week for the full worm. Tencent patched August 21 (Android 8.0.77, iOS 8.0.76) and mitigated server-side by August 28. Two days from bug to RCE on a messaging app with hundreds of millions of users is the number to hold onto when someone tells you AI-assisted exploitation is theoretical.
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78 layers where layer one is dense FFN and the other 77 are MoE, each with 256 routed experts and 1 shared expert, top-8 routing per token, plus a native 10B MTP layer (0.7B activated) built in for speculative decoding. FP8 and base variants released together on August 28; the...
Google released Antigravity IDE Extensions, putting its agentic coding platform into VS Code (macOS, Linux, Windows), JetBrains IDEs from 2026.2.1 (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, CLion, Rider), Zed, and Visual Studio 2026 in preview. One Antigravity account works everywh...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
Hy4 preview, released August 28: 770B total parameters, 49B active, over 1M token context, open-sourced and simultaneously on Tencent Cloud TokenHub and OpenRouter at $0.834 per million input tokens, $2.501 per million output, $0.042 per million cached. In Tencent's own evalua...
Three long-lived repos repositioned their descriptions around agent-harness language while keeping their star history: zhayujie/CowAgent (created August 2022 as chatgpt-on-wechat, now 46,430 stars and 10,306 forks as an "open-source super AI assistant and Agent Harness"), mnfs...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
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