1020 | Models, Agents, and Broken Trust

A fast tour of the week: a wave of new AI models, AI agents reshaping software work, autonomous agents gone wrong in security, fights over platform and market power, big moves in open-source systems, and drones, space, and lab-grown science. Timeline 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:51 The new model race: faster, cheaper, weirder 00:07:05 AI agents are changing how software gets built 00:14:43 When AI agents attack — and when machines fail us 00:20:53 Monopolies and platform power on trial 00:24:58 Open-source systems push new limits 00:30:45 Drones, space, and bodies: hardware doing new things 00:35:50 Closing Related links Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18 I built a drone with only one motor [video] MiniMax M3.1 Flash DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max) Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand? The reverts will continue until morale improves I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories Agentic Monitoring Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling One Hash Bloom Filters Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months Documents: Police officer gave her Flock login to her ICE agent husband Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference' Wine ported to OpenBSD Linux 7.3 Android apps running native on macOS Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off View episode details → This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. Contact us at [email protected].