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  • Z.ai open-sources its whole coding agent stack with ZCode

    The harness, not just the model Z.ai, the company behind the GLM model family, open-sourced ZCode this week, and the interesting part is the scope. This is not a CLI script and a README. The repository contains the desktop client, the browser workspace, the backend services, the shared UI, and the agent runtime that powers…

  • Why Trail of Bits calls SAML a fractal of bad design

    A retrospective on the protocol nobody can replace Security firm Trail of Bits published a historical analysis of SAML this week, and the title is not subtle: they call it a fractal of bad design, straightforward on the surface but built on what they describe as a foundation of sand, bone dust, and ash. The…

  • Claude Opus 5.5 cuts prices and rethinks how the model writes

    The price is the story Claude Opus 5.5 is out, and the most interesting number on the announcement page is not a benchmark score. Input tokens now cost $4 per million, down from $5 on Opus 5. Output fell from $25 to $20 per million. Cache reads dropped hardest, from $0.50 to $0.20 per million.…

  • Google ran a mole inside the TeamPCP supply-chain gang

    The inside view of the worst supply-chain spree on record Reporting by WIRED’s Andy Greenberg, picked up by Ars Technica on Saturday, lays out something that sounds like a spy thriller but happened in a group chat: Google’s security subsidiary Mandiant had an undercover analyst inside TeamPCP’s inner circle for most of the hacking group’s…

  • Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6 takes the open-weight crown and shows its RL receipts

    A car company just published the strongest open weights on the board Xiaomi released and fully open-sourced MiMo-V2.6 on September 21, and the flagship Pro model lands at 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That score puts it ahead of every other open-weight model on that leaderboard, above xAI’s Grok 4.6 and Google’s Gemini…

  • Azure Sphere OS 26.09 ships everywhere after the longest evaluation window yet

    The update that took six months of testing to do almost nothing Azure Sphere OS 26.09 has reached general availability, wrapping up an evaluation run that started in late July and stretched all the way to September. Microsoft’s own description of the release is almost comically modest: no customer-facing changes. What the release actually contains…

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