Tim Dettmers’ dlab Open Source Week teases local inference (Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B at ~450 tok/s on Mac at 1.5 bpw; 125B on one 24GB GPU; DeepSeek V4.1 550B on 128GB boxes) plus CliffCompaction that cuts agent cost ~50% vs Claude Code/Codex-style compaction. Two open-source projects and four papers drop as one ecosystem, delayed one day from the Sept 21 post.
Claude Code 2.1.285 (npm Sept 29) adds CLAUDE CODE DISABLE WEB FETCH to turn off WebFetch and a managed allowedProviders policy so admins can lock machines to Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, or a cloud gateway. It also ships claude desktop , claude plugin configure , and a fix for URL passwords leaking past log redaction…
Glow Security found 13,000+ internal screenshots from 343 orgs on public GitHub—coding agents hosted before/after UI images there because GitHub has no CLI image upload for private PRs. About a third involved gitshot’s public by default image repo; the rest were agents creating their own public workarounds…
OpenAI’s DevDay MCP Events let ChatGPT plugins subscribe to MCP server updates (messages, comments, status) and trigger automations over verified signed HTTPS webhooks. Servers need MCP 2.0 (protocol 2026 07 28) with events/list, events/subscribe, and events/unsubscribe; polling and streaming aren’t supported…
Anthropic finds Z.ai’s freely downloadable GLM 5.3 builds end to end exploits at rates close to Claude Mythos Preview (50/410 vs 56/410 on ExploitBench), while simple jailbreaks and weight abliteration bypass its safeguards 64–100% of the time—unlike safeguarded Claude models in the same tests…
CodeScene’s agents (mostly Claude Code + Opus) refactored a 300K line Street Fighter III decompilation in three weeks for $4k—2,903 commits, Code Health 5.6→10.0—guided by a CodeHealth MCP score and frame by frame replay checks; they also accumulated a 22 recipe refactoring playbook…
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