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The 4-billion-parameter model works apps from screenshots and also runs terminal commands, picking whichever suits the step. Microsoft says it scores 66.0% on OSWorld-Verified, a test of computer tasks.
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Phorion finds a backdoor in the Claude Code for VS Code extension on Cursor's marketplace (opens the original source in a new tab)Phorion says version 2.1.313 plants an attacker's key so they can log in to the computer over SSH, a remote-access tool. That version was pulled from Cursor's marketplace, npm and the VS Code registry.
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Research
Catching JiTTests use language models to write tests meant to fail on a risky code change. Meta says they helped catch 74 serious privacy bugs in early 2026, and engineers rate 60% of their alerts as real.
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The open-source coding agent lets you select and search its transcript with the keyboard, explains safety blocks more clearly with safer prompts to try next, and adds a network-only mode to codex doctor.
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nesformer runs a Nintendo console's processor inside the weights of a Qwen model (opens the original source in a new tab)Nobody trained the weights: a compiler set each one, so the Qwen3.5 model predicts the NES processor's work token by token and plays Super Mario Bros. It is slow, at 1 to 6 seconds per frame.
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