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Latest Issues

How prompt injection broke Nvidia's sandboxed OpenClaw agent

The rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents like OpenClaw has introduced a fundamental security challenge: traditional defenses cannot predict what an LLM-driven application will do at runtime.

While containerization and virtual sandboxes i...

8 days ago
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Unpacking Gemma 4’s multi-token prediction (and why you should care)

Google just made a major upgrade to its Gemma 4 family of open-weight LLMs that significantly improves the inference speed of the models.

By integrating multi-token prediction (MTP) into its architecture, Gemma 4 breaks away from the tradi...

15 days ago
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How to scale LLMs to 100 million tokens without blowing up memory costs

Memory Sparse Attention (MSA) scales LLM context windows to an unprecedented 100 million tokens while preserving accuracy.

Long-term memory remains a key challenge for large language models. The industry is currently maxing out at effectiv...

22 days ago
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The silent threat of Claude Code (and other AI coding assistants)

A recent study by cybersecurity firm Lakera reveals that AI coding assistants like Claude Code are inadvertently hoarding and leaking sensitive API keys during public package releases. While these tools accelerate the software development l...

a month ago
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The 'by design' security flaw of Model Context Protocol (MCP)

An architectural vulnerability baked into the core of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) exposes millions of AI applications to remote command execution. Security researchers at OX Security discovered a fundamental flaw in how the pro...

a month ago
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