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Open-source AI agent from Nous Research that runs locally or hosted with a choice of underlying models; it has a business edition with enterprise controls.
Nvidia launched RTX Spark laptops on Friday with up to 128GB of shared memory and a 74-billion-parameter model it says fits in 24GB. A local agent pilot is now possible on Windows, though every figure so far comes from Nvidia.
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Windows Central and Tom's Guide each tested Nvidia's RTX Spark for a week in one laptop model, the Surface Laptop Ultra. Six partners start shipping this week, Windows Central says, so a pilot on any other chassis goes beyond what either review covered.
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Two new Python scripts on GitHub rebuild OpenCode and Hermes AI agent activity for incident responders, according to an isc.sans.edu diary. Both accept a time range and evidence collected from the system under investigation, such as a mounted image or tarball.
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NVIDIA says RTX Spark laptops go on sale Oct. 16 with up to 128GB of unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI compute. Its own list dates the agent, model and creative updates from Oct. 15 to November, so launch day starts a rollout.
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DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek's open-source agent runner, carries a 9.4-severity flaw that lets a sandboxed agent grant itself full access with one command. Its control API has no authentication and trusts a client-supplied Host header.
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Nous Research raised $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation to sell its open-source Hermes agent to corporate IT departments. The money pays for single sign-on and audit controls, so the price depends on companies paying for features around code anyone may copy.
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Lightpanda shipped 1.0 of its open-source browser on October 2nd, passing 1,739,845 web-platform subtests without rendering pages. One encoding suite makes up about two-thirds of that count, so teams should judge it by whether their jobs need to see the page.
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Hermes Agent v0.21.2 fills passwords from 1Password, Bitwarden or its own vault into web pages without the model ever seeing them. Every card fill waits for a person, so the agent cannot charge a stored card on its own, cron jobs included.
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Google's Cloud Run instances, priced from $5.70 a month, kept an open-source AI agent running with its memory intact in a developer's Preview test. For an agent that mostly waits, it trades a VM's patching for limits the code must be written around.
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Polyglot's developer ran six coding agents 30 times on each of seven local models, and three never made a tool call on models that write calls as text. The author's own error bars say 30 runs can sort agents into tiers but cannot rank two agents inside one.
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ThreatDown says the Carbonato worm breaks into Docker daemons open on port 2375 and installs the open-source Hermes AI agent, then rescans nearby networks every five minutes to spread. An operator drives each infected host over Telegram.
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CARBONATO, a Docker botnet running since October 2024, hijacks hosts on open port 2375 and steals keys from 14 AI providers to fund its own LLM gateway. ThreatDown found the crew's own container registry exposed, handing defenders 4.3 GB of its toolchain.
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OpenClaw's Telegram enabled flag stopped inbound polling while cron-driven sends kept firing hourly through three stale bot accounts, one operator reports. The dashboard showed the channel off, and the sends ended only when the bot tokens left the secrets directory.
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Manifold Security reported eight instances across seven command-line agents. The command runs as the user, outside the sandbox, with no approval prompt, and four were still firing when the researchers retested on September 1.
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The new Model Context Protocol endpoint reaches every device and the whole event history in Google Home, but only for US subscribers on the paid Premium Advanced tier, and Google is shipping it as early access.
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Gambit Security says one operator used three AI agent tools to steal over 600,000 cards, spending an estimated $12,000 to $18,000. One retailer's scheduled job reinstalled a skimmer after a deploy removed it, so recovery tests have to cover every layer the agents touched.
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A health dashboard update from AWS reports customer data lost for good in the Middle East. The account carrying its wording to me is a Thai-language post that a model drafted and a human editor checked.
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Gambit says a single actor pointed the Strix, Cairn and Hermes agent frameworks at online retailers from July onward, taking more than 600,000 valid card records from two victims and leaving skimmers on 119 sites.
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The company known for a pocket gadget now ships a cloud agent that installs on up to five Windows, macOS or Linux machines and runs on whatever model subscription the user already pays for. Four rival agents got there first.
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Inception's diffusion model is the fastest endpoint in the cheap tier on both figures, but OpenRouter's median sits at less than half the vendor number and only about 15 percent above Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite's measured 382 tok/s.
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