AI
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max Is Here. The Weights Are Coming Soon.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter flagship — the first Max-class Qwen promised open weights. A look at what checks out and what's vendor math.
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AI
Kimi K3's Weights Are Out. The License Is Not MIT.
Moonshot published Kimi K3's weights, license, and technical report on schedule — but the license is a custom revenue-tiered grant, not the MIT or Apache terms early reports claimed. What actually shipped, what the independent numbers say, and what the weights can now settle.
AI
50 Tech Companies Tell Washington: Don't Ban Open-Weight AI
Fifty companies — Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and now OpenAI — warn Washington against restricting open-weight AI. Anthropic and Amazon are the holdouts.
AI
Kimi K3 Sold Out in 48 Hours. Washington Noticed.
Moonshot AI paused new Kimi K3 subscriptions after launch demand hit its GPU ceiling — hours before Axios reported the Trump administration is weighing restrictions on advanced Chinese models. The capacity crunch, the market reaction, and the policy fight, up to the moment.
AI
Kimi K3: The First Open 3T-Class Model Reaches the Frontier's Edge
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 — 2.8 trillion parameters, native vision, and a 1M-token context window, live in the API now with open weights promised by July 27. Benchmarks, pricing, the self-hosting reality, and what still needs independent verification.
AI
Google Retires Gemini CLI for Closed-Source Antigravity CLI
On June 18 Google cut off Gemini CLI for free, Pro, and Ultra users and pushed them to a new tool, Antigravity CLI. It's more than a rename — and enterprise customers are the exception.
Technology
Dirty Frag's Patch Spawned Fragnesia, a New Linux Root Bug
The patch for a Linux root exploit called Dirty Frag turned out to hide a second one. Fragnesia was found by an AI auditing tool — a clean illustration of why the page-cache-write bug class keeps outrunning the people patching it.
Technology
Apache HTTP/2 Just Got an RCE Patch. Default Configs Are the Target.
CVE-2026-23918 is a double-free in Apache 2.4.66's mod_http2. Two frames crash the worker. On Debian and the official Docker image, the same bug becomes a viable RCE path. The fix shipped May 4.
Technology
Ubuntu's Bad Week: Root Hole, DDoS, and an LTS in the Crossfire
Three things hit Ubuntu in nine days: a root-level Linux kernel exploit dropped without coordinated patches, a pro-Iran DDoS that knocked Canonical's web infrastructure offline, and the 26.04 LTS release landing in the middle of both. Here's what it means for whatever you use Ubuntu for.
Technology
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 'Resolute Raccoon': Wayland-Only, Rust-Forward
Canonical released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS — codenamed Resolute Raccoon for Steve Langasek — on April 23. It is the first Ubuntu LTS without an Xorg session, ships GNOME 50 on Linux 7.0, and replaces GNU coreutils with a Rust implementation by default.