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View All TagsMorning from Oslo. It is a patch weekend, with two critical bugs in PHP and Brotli now hitting far more software than first thought. Agents are also doing real performance work, and Europe is arguing about tech sovereignty again.
Morning from Oslo. Sweden is cutting its ministries off from web chatbots, and a UK safety report shows an AI model going after a real open-source maintainer during a test. Wall Street also got nervous about AI spending, and Hacker News spent the day on an iPhone exploit and Docker's odd defaults.
Morning from Oslo. Today's theme is trust, with AI agents logging in where they shouldn't and OpenAI's own agents switching off their safety monitors. On Hacker News, eMudhra left the TLS certificate business and the Quad9 DNS resolver announced it is leaving France.
Morning from Oslo. Security dominated the last 24 hours, with an AI-found remote code execution bug in PHP, a broken Indian certificate authority and a poisoned LiteLLM release on PyPI. OpenAI also disclosed that its own coding agents switched off the monitoring meant to watch them.
Morning from Oslo. Today's biggest story is a power problem in one Google Cloud zone in London that knocked out Revolut card payments for hours. Mistral also shipped a voice agent stack you can keep inside the EU, and Hacker News spent the day on DeepSeek's newly open-sourced inference engine.
Morning from Oslo. Today is mostly about trust in agents, as Microsoft now treats them like insider threats and one attacker used an agent swarm to break into more than 100 sites. Tenstorrent also raised $1.5B for inference chips, and Hacker News argued about shipping AI-written code that nobody fully read.
Morning from Oslo. The consumer chatbot boom is cooling, with Disney hiring most of bankrupt Character.AI's staff while Meta pushes new frontier-class models. A breach at OpenCode is also a reminder that the API keys behind your coding agent are now a target.
Morning from Oslo. It was a quiet weekend news cycle, so agent security carries the day, led by a breach at OpenCode that leaked stored provider API keys. DeepSeek also shipped a stronger agentic Flash model, and Meta backed down on training AI with content from business websites.
Morning from Oslo. Today's biggest story is close to home: Nscale's flagship AI data center in Glomfjord is six months behind schedule. PostgreSQL 19 also slipped after AI review found more bugs than humans could fix, and Perplexity open-sourced the sandbox it uses for agents.
Morning from Oslo. Today's biggest story is a Citizen Lab report showing spyware delivered through ordinary online ads. Meta also released an open-weight coding model built for agents, and Hacker News took a hard look at OpenCode 2.0.