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NVIDIA Details BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR): 2.90x Higher Boltz-2 Folding Throughput and 58.5K Residues per GPU-Hour on 8xH100

NVIDIA released BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR), an open-source PyTorch-compatible library delivering 2.90x higher Boltz-2 protein-folding throughput on 8xH100 GPUs.

NVIDIA detailed BioIR, a Python library that accelerates Boltz-2, OpenFold2, and OpenFold3 structure-prediction inference on NVIDIA GPUs while preserving standard PyTorch workflows. On a matched benchmark of 1,000 human dimers on 8xH100 80GB GPUs, BioIR delivered 58.5K folded residues per GPU-hour versus 20.2K for a torch.compile baseline, a 2.90x throughput gain. BioIR already powered the AlphaFold Database expansion, generating about 31 million candidate complexes across 4,777 proteomes, with 1.81 million released as high-confidence predictions. Extrapolated to 1 million targets, estimated folding energy drops from 35 MWh to 11 MWh at 8-GPU TDP equivalents.

MarkTechPost·Sep 10, 21:57 UTC · 5d agoAI tools & infra1

ZDI-26-698: Linux Kernel NTFS3 Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability

ZDI-26-698: Linux Kernel NTFS3 out-of-bounds read (CVSS 5.2) allows local attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected systems.

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-698 describes an out-of-bounds read in the Linux Kernel NTFS3 driver rated CVSS 5.2. Exploitation requires the attacker to first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target. The impact is limited to local information disclosure. No CVE identifier is listed in the advisory.

ZDI Published Advisories·Sep 14, 05:00 UTC · 2d agoVulnerability 3 sources

Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama

Opinion piece urges migrating 35KB preprompts from Anthropic/OpenAI to self-hosted Ollama, citing session privacy risks and safety filters blocking security research.

The author documents gotchas migrating 35KB preprompts from Claude Opus to self-hosted Ollama, motivated by fears that frontier providers train on user sessions, citing the OpenAI Navier-Stokes controversy. The piece argues inference providers cannot audit their own retention or training pipelines and that only self-hosted hardware offers verifiable privacy. It also criticizes frontier safety filters for refusing vulnerability research tasks and calls for models that support exploitability testing in CI/CD pipelines.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 14, 13:59 UTC · 1d agoAI industryHN 41↑ · 13 comments1

VU#614868: OpenCart ecommerce platform contains directory traversal vulnerability

OpenCart 4.2.0.0 extension installer fails to validate zip extraction paths, allowing directory traversal (CVE-2026-18412) to write files outside intended directories.

CERT/CC VU#614868 discloses CVE-2026-18412, a directory traversal vulnerability in OpenCart v4.2.0.0's extension installer. The installer extracts uploaded .ocmod.zip files using zip entry filenames as filesystem paths without verifying the resolved path stays inside the intended directory. A malicious extension zip could result in arbitrary file writes outside the target directory.

CERT/CC Vulnerability Notes·Aug 10, 14:47 UTC · Aug 10, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-184121

Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis

AllenAI's OlmoEarth Studio adds custom embedding exports to support downstream geospatial analysis workflows.

A Hugging Face blog post from AllenAI introduces OlmoEarth embeddings, a feature allowing custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis tasks. Only the title was available, so no benchmark or performance details are provided. OlmoEarth is Ai2's open geospatial AI model family.

Hugging Face Blog·Aug 12, 16:14 UTC · Aug 12, 2026AI tools & infra

OpenBMB Releases MiniCPM5-2B: A 2.52B Dense Model Averaging 53.9 Across 34 Benchmarks and Built to Run On Device

OpenBMB released MiniCPM5-2B, a 2.52B-parameter Apache 2.0 on-device model averaging 53.9 across 34 benchmarks, ahead of Qwen3.5-4B.

OpenBMB released MiniCPM5-2B, a 2,516,756,480-parameter dense LlamaForCausalLM model with grouped-query attention and a 131,072-token context, under Apache 2.0, runnable via vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, and Ollama. It averages 53.9 across 34 benchmarks versus 51.1 for Qwen3.5-4B, with strong tool-use (97.1 on tau2-Bench Telecom) and code results (69.1 LiveCodeBench v6, 46.4 SWE-bench Verified). Training combined 400B tokens of deep-thinking SFT, critic-based JustRL II RL teachers, and on-policy distillation merging 16 RL experts; datasets and intermediate checkpoints were published alongside the weights.

MarkTechPost·Sep 7, 19:18 UTC · 8d agoModel release

openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B — new model trending #4 on Hugging Face

OpenBMB released MiniCPM5-2B, a dense 2B open-weights Transformer claiming 2B-class open-source SOTA for on-device deployment.

OpenBMB released MiniCPM5-2B, the second model in the MiniCPM5 series following MiniCPM5-1B, and it is trending #4 on Hugging Face. The dense 2B Transformer targets on-device, local, and resource-constrained deployment and claims 2B-class open-source SOTA while remaining competitive with 4B-class models. Reported strengths include coding, mathematics, long-context understanding, tool use, and agentic tasks; a tech report (arXiv 2506.07900), GitHub repo, and online demo accompany the release.

Hugging Face trending models·Sep 6, 11:12 UTC · 10d agoModel release

Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users

OpenAI's Habitat online storage platform now handles over 70 million requests per second and 500 PB of data for 1 billion users.

OpenAI details the evolution of Habitat, its online storage platform backing ChatGPT and other products, which began in mid-2024 as a Python client-side library over Azure Cosmos DB. Habitat now processes more than 70 million requests per second, serves over 500 petabytes of data across nearly 40 geographic regions, and supports over 1 billion users weekly. By mid-2025 the client library approach became brittle, so OpenAI moved Habitat into a standalone service to centralize deployments, observability, and multi-tenancy reliability. This is part one of a two-part series; a future post will cover read optimization and scaling the Azure Cosmos DB partnership.

OpenAI News·Sep 11, 10:00 UTC · 5d agoAI tools & infra1

The OpenClaw 2.0 release moves your sessions into SQLite

OpenClaw 2.0 migrates AI agent sessions to SQLite, adds guided credential setup, and flags shared-session controls as not a security boundary.

OpenClaw 2.0, described as the largest update in the project's history, migrates sessions and transcripts into SQLite and adds guided setup that detects existing AI credentials from Codex, ChatGPT, Claude CLI sign-ins, API keys, and local Ollama or LM Studio models. The release expands multiplayer sharing while explicitly stating its permission controls are not tenant isolation or a security boundary, and that revoked access can briefly remain usable. Startup JavaScript requests fell from 140 to 45 and startup time from about 1.6 seconds to 575 milliseconds in simulated tests against a mocked Gateway. Automation wrappers must now inspect reported health because requesting --json does not waive risk acknowledgement.

Help Net Security·Aug 31, 00:00 UTC · 16d agoAI tools & infra1

OpenArch – PyTorch implementations of modern LLM architectures

OpenArch provides PyTorch reference implementations of modern LLM architectures for developers and researchers.

OpenArch is a GitHub project offering PyTorch implementations of modern large language model architectures. The repository attracted 43 points and 7 comments on Hacker News. It targets developers and researchers who want readable, runnable versions of current LLM architectures.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 14, 07:55 UTC · 2d agoAI tools & infraHN 43↑ · 7 comments

NCP-ArchPreview Technical Report: Moving towards Latent Space Language Models through Next Concept Prediction

An 8.9B-parameter latent-space language model using next-concept prediction matches OLMo-3-7B pretraining loss with only 51.3% of the training tokens.

NCP-ArchPreview augments next-token prediction with Next Concept Prediction over a product-quantized concept vocabulary built from hidden states, trained jointly end-to-end. The 8.9B model was trained on 5.73T tokens from the Dolma-3 dataset, the largest latent-space language model demonstration to date. It consumes 51.3% of the tokens to reach OLMo-3-7B's final pretraining loss and outperforms it by 2.45 points on the downstream macro-average, including a 5.99-point GSM8K gain. The learned latent space also enables lightweight domain adaptation via a 17M-parameter VQ module and improves speculative drafting accepted length by 4.17%.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 8, 20:00 UTC · 7d agoAI research1

Technical Manual for a Toolkit for Measuring Contextual Individuation in Transformer Language Models

An open methodology toolkit measures whether transformer language models contextualize fixed word forms across domains using bridge forms and layer-wise silhouette analysis.

The manual documents an open toolkit built around 'bridge forms' - identical written words recurring across two or more subject domains with a different sense in each - to test whether transformer language models individuate word occurrences by context beyond the embedding layer. It covers declarative specification of bridge forms, Wikipedia corpus acquisition, occurrence localization, layer-wise representation extraction, domain-pairwise silhouette measurement, and visualization, justifying each choice against failure modes such as sense contamination and subword-tokenization misalignment. It is a methodological and implementation reference and reports no empirical results.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 4, 16:38 UTC · 11d agoAI research

iceener/files-stdio-mcp-server: sandbox escape in fs_search via a symlinked directory (recursive walker validates only the top level)

iceener/files-stdio-mcp-server allows a read-side sandbox escape: fs_search follows symlinked directories while the recursive walker validates confinement only at the top level.

A vulnerability report describes a read-side sandbox escape in iceener/files-stdio-mcp-server, an MCP server for text-based file access that explicitly promises 'Sandboxed filesystem access. Only these paths are available'. The fs_search tool can follow symlinked directories outside the allowed paths, and the recursive directory-listing walker used by fs_search (and by fs_read) validates confinement only at the top level. The same flaw affects fs_read's directory-listing walker. No CVE identifier was assigned in the provided report text.

oss-security·Sep 10, 01:17 UTC · 6d agoVulnerability

VDiff-Bench: A Challenging Benchmark for Fine-Grained Image Difference Identification

VDiff-Bench, a 1,756-question benchmark, shows multimodal LLMs struggle with fine-grained image-difference identification, scoring as low as 8.7% on low-level changes.

VDiff-Bench is a multiple-choice benchmark of 1,756 four-way questions over image pairs covering 10 change categories including position, motion, color, texture, OCR/text and illumination, with curated hard negatives. Evaluation of 11 state-of-the-art open- and closed-source MLLMs shows fine-grained visual comparison remains brittle: 7-8B-scale open-source models score 52.5-70.6% on semantic changes but only 8.7-33.3% on low-level changes like noise and texture. Notably, Grok 4.3 shows a sharp performance drop on noise and texture differences, falling behind large open-source models like Kimi K2.5 and K3.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 4, 20:00 UTC · 11d agoAI research

openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-GGUF — new model trending #30 on Hugging Face

OpenBMB released MiniCPM5-2B, a dense 2B on-device model claiming open-source SOTA among 2B-class models.

OpenBMB released MiniCPM5-2B, the second model in the MiniCPM5 series following MiniCPM5-1B, as a dense 2B Transformer built for on-device and resource-constrained deployment with GGUF weights on Hugging Face. The team claims 2B-class open-source state-of-the-art performance, remaining competitive with 4B-class models in coding, mathematics, long-context understanding, tool use and agentic tasks. The release includes a tech report, GitHub repository and online demo, and is currently trending on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face trending models·Sep 5, 01:44 UTC · 11d agoModel release1

Generative Late-Interaction Embeddings For Visual Document Retrieval

GLIE compresses visual document retrieval embeddings to four vectors per page while retaining nearly 80% of uncompressed nDCG@5 accuracy.

Researchers analyzing late-interaction retrieval embeddings found they lie exactly on the unit sphere and concentrate near a manifold of intrinsic dimension five to six. GLIE learns a few k vectors per page that serve as a lightweight index and a basis to regenerate the full embedding set for exact rescoring of top candidates at query time. On ViDoRe v1 with four vectors per page, GLIE retains nearly 80% of uncompressed nDCG@5 versus 70% for the best prior post-hoc method, using a 415K-parameter network trained in under three GPU-minutes on 1,000 pages.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 9, 20:00 UTC · 6d agoAI research

Codex bundles LibreOffice

OpenAI's Codex desktop app bundles 1.7GB of runtimes including full Python, Node.js, Poppler, git, and LibreOffice binaries.

Blogger Simon Willison found that the OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to ChatGPT) keeps about 1.7GB in a ~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime folder, including full Python and Node.js installations plus native binaries for Poppler, git, and the LibreOffice office suite. Bundled skills in the plugins directory instruct Codex on how to find and use these binaries. The observation highlights the heavyweight local runtime stack shipped with agentic coding tools.

Simon Willison·Sep 1, 19:03 UTC · 14d agoAI tools & infra1

GoDeep: Annotation-Free Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding via Language-Space Lifting

GoDeep achieves annotation-free open-vocabulary 3D segmentation by grounding structured image descriptions in language-only embeddings, outperforming CLIP-based lifting on out-of-vocabulary objects.

GoDeep uses a vision-language model purely as a translator, producing structured entity-level image descriptions that are grounded, projected, and aggregated in a general-purpose language-only embedding space, with no 3D training corpus or dedicated 3D encoder required. On ScanNet++ the pipeline is competitive with strong annotation-free baselines, and on a cultural-heritage benchmark a systematic vocabulary correction reverses initial CLIP-based rankings. Language-space embeddings separate genuinely out-of-vocabulary objects more sharply, localize them within scenes, and keep all predictions explainable as discrete text.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 8, 17:31 UTC · 7d agoAI research

Permify: Open-source authorization as a service

Help Net Security profiles Permify, an open-source Zanzibar-style authorization service supporting RBAC, ABAC, and relationship-based rules with multi-tenant deployments.

Permify is an open-source authorization-as-a-service project modeled on Google Zanzibar that centralizes access-control decisions outside application code. It supports role-based, relationship-based, and attribute-based access rules, answers checks in tens of milliseconds via REST and gRPC, and runs from a single Docker command. It is a CNCF member and is freely available on GitHub.

Help Net Security·Sep 14, 05:30 UTC · 2d agoTools1

LandingAI Releases Agentic Document Extraction Gen2 with DPT-3 Pro and DPT-3 Verity

LandingAI shipped Agentic Document Extraction Gen2 with DPT-3 Pro and DPT-3 Verity parsing models, adding usage-based billing, block-tree outputs, and word-level grounding.

LandingAI has generally released Agentic Document Extraction Gen2, rebuilt around two parsing models: DPT-3 Verity for deterministic transcription of digital documents with per-word bounding boxes and confidence scores, and DPT-3 Pro for layout-aware parsing of scans, handwriting, non-Latin scripts, and LaTeX math. Billing changes from a flat 3 credits per page to a page-plus-output-character model (Pro: 1 credit/page plus 0.5 credits per 1,000 output characters on priority; Verity: 0.3 plus 0.2), with an asynchronous standard tier at 0.5x price and vendor-claimed 25-80% cost reductions. Parse v2 returns a document-page-block tree with semantic IDs, normalized bounding boxes, and line- or word-level atomic grounding, replacing flat chunks; Gen1 client code will not run against Gen2 endpoints. Deployment options include US/EU cloud, VPCs on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Snowflake, and air-gapped on-premises environments, with automated model routing planned for fall 2026.

MarkTechPost·Sep 10, 02:13 UTC · 6d agoAI tools & infra

ToolHive: The open-source way to run any MCP server securely

Stacklok's open-source ToolHive runs Model Context Protocol servers in isolated containers with per-request identity enforcement, audit logging and a signed registry.

ToolHive, shipped under Apache 2.0, containersizes MCP servers locally via Docker or Podman or in clusters through a Kubernetes operator, applying permissions, network filtering, and secrets management. The platform includes a Registry Server implementing the official MCP Registry API with signing and provenance verification, a Virtual MCP Server gateway with OIDC/OAuth single sign-on and OpenTelemetry traces, and a desktop Portal for one-click installs. The browser-based cloud UI is retired, so the desktop app and CLI are the supported rollout paths.

Help Net Security·Sep 7, 00:00 UTC · 9d agoAI tools & infra1

UniH^3: Unifying Hierarchical Homogeneity and Heterogeneity for All-in-One Medical Image Restoration

UniH3 unifies hierarchical homogeneity and heterogeneity modeling for all-in-one medical image restoration across modalities and degradation types.

UniH3 introduces a Hierarchical Homogeneity Memory module that distills shared anatomical priors from high-quality images, injected via a Homogeneity-Guided Attention mechanism. A Hierarchical Heterogeneity Balancer mitigates inter- and intra-task conflicts during multi-task optimization. It achieves state-of-the-art on MedIR-2D-500K and MedIR-3D-3D benchmarks for both all-in-one and single-task restoration, with code released on GitHub.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 9, 20:00 UTC · 6d agoAI research

ZDI-26-585: OriginLab Origin Viewer OGWU File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI reported an out-of-bounds write in OriginLab Origin Viewer's OGWU parsing (CVE-2026-19885) that allows remote code execution via crafted files.

ZDI-26-585 details an out-of-bounds write vulnerability when OriginLab Origin Viewer parses OGWU files, leading to remote code execution. A successful attack requires the user to open a malicious file or visit a malicious page. The flaw carries a CVSS rating of 7.8 and is tracked as CVE-2026-19885. No in-the-wild exploitation is mentioned.

ZDI Published Advisories·Aug 24, 05:00 UTC · 23d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-19885

ZDI-26-631: NI LabVIEW VI File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed CVE-2026-18444, an out-of-bounds read in NI LabVIEW VI file parsing that can disclose sensitive information, rated CVSS 3.3.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-631 describing an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in NI LabVIEW's parsing of VI files. Exploitation can disclose sensitive information and requires user interaction, such as visiting a malicious page or opening a malicious file. ZDI assigned the flaw a CVSS rating of 3.3.

ZDI Published Advisories·Sep 9, 05:00 UTC · 7d agoAdvisory 2 sourcesCVE-2026-18444

[webapps] Ray 2.56.0 - Directory Traversal & Local File Inclusion

Public exploit released for directory traversal and local file inclusion in Ray 2.56.0, the widely used distributed ML framework.

Exploit-DB entry 52635 publishes a web application exploit targeting Ray 2.56.0, the distributed computing framework from Anyscale commonly used for ML workloads. The PoC demonstrates a directory traversal and local file inclusion condition, allowing attackers to read files outside the intended path on an exposed Ray instance. Ray dashboard instances exposed to the internet could leak sensitive files such as credentials and configuration.

Exploit-DB·Aug 11, 00:00 UTC · Aug 11, 2026Exploit / PoC

Flextype v1.0.0-alpha.3 Path Traversal in Entry Copy Allows Arbitrary Directory Copy and File Disclosure

Flextype CMS v1.0.0-alpha.3 entries copy endpoint accepts path traversal in source and destination parameters, enabling arbitrary directory copies and file disclosure.

Flextype CMS v1.0.0-alpha.3 constructs entry directory paths in the copy functionality by directly concatenating supplied entry identifiers with the configured entries directory. The /api/v1/entries/copy endpoint accepts directory traversal sequences in both the source id and destination new_id parameters. An authenticated remote attacker can thereby copy arbitrary directories and disclose files outside the intended entries directory. Ron E disclosed the issue on the Full Disclosure mailing list on September 3, 2026.

Full Disclosure·Sep 4, 00:13 UTC · 12d agoVulnerability 8 sources

IFM Releases K2 Horizon: Six Apache 2.0 Models From 0.9B to 375B

MBZUAI's IFM released K2 Horizon, six Apache 2.0 models (0.9B-375B) with open training data, code, and checkpoints, claiming the largest fully open-source launch.

The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM), launched by MBZUAI, released K2 Horizon: six Apache 2.0 models (0.9B, 3.7B, 7B, 32B, 36B-A4B, 375B-A23B) shipping with the ~20-trillion-token pretraining corpus, intermediate checkpoints, training code, and logs, which IFM calls the largest fully open-source launch in AI history. The 375B-A23B scores 70.2 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 87.3 on GPQA Diamond; the 7B model posts 70.6 on SWE-bench Verified. New techniques include MoVA, which extends MoE routing into attention (36B total, ~4B active), and Uno, a LoRA adapter giving roughly 3x lossless decoding speedup. IFM's own reward-hacking audit re-scored 375B-A23B from 70.2% to 66.9% after flagging 24 of 712 Terminal-Bench trials.

MarkTechPost·Sep 7, 05:00 UTC · 9d agoModel release1

Chainloop: Open-source evidence store and policy engine for the software supply chain

Help Net Security·Aug 10, 00:00 UTC · Aug 10, 2026Policy & legal

Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019)

OpenAI's landmark 2019 GPT-2 post withheld the full 1.5B-parameter model over misuse concerns, releasing only a smaller variant and paper.

OpenAI announced GPT-2, a 1.5-billion-parameter transformer language model trained on 8 million web pages (40GB of text), achieving state-of-the-art zero-shot results including 70.70% on Winograd Schema and 63.24% on LAMBADA. Citing concerns about malicious applications such as scalable synthetic disinformation, OpenAI declined to release the trained model and instead published a smaller model and a technical paper as a 'responsible disclosure' experiment. The post, resurfaced on Hacker News in 2026, also documents failure modes like repetition and world-modeling errors, and discusses policy implications of controllable text generation.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 13, 23:11 UTC · 2d agoAI safety & securityHN 44↑ · 19 comments