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NVIDIA Announces CUDA Rust with cuda-oxide (SIMT) and cutile-rs (Tile) for Compile-Time-Safe GPU Kernels

NVIDIA launches CUDA Rust via open-source cuda-oxide (SIMT) and cutile-rs (Tile), bringing compile-time-safe Rust GPU kernels.

NVIDIA announced CUDA Rust, making Rust a first-class language for GPU kernels through two NVlabs open-source projects: cuda-oxide for the SIMT model and cutile-rs for the Tile model. Both use Rust's ownership and borrow checker to catch buffer aliasing bugs at compile time. cutile-rs is published on crates.io, runs on stable Rust 1.89+ with CUDA 13.3, and is already used in Hugging Face's Grout inference engine and mistral.rs; cuda-oxide is early alpha requiring nightly Rust, CUDA 12.x, and compute capability 8.0+. cuda-oxide compiles Rust MIR through the community Pliron IR framework and LLVM to PTX, while cutile-rs JIT-compiles kernels via CUDA Tile IR.

MarkTechPost · 8d agoAI tools & infra2

CUDA for AMD on Windows

GitHub project 'CUDA for AMD on Windows' trends on Hacker News, aiming to run CUDA workloads on AMD GPUs under Windows.

A GitHub repository named CUDA-for-AMD-Windows drew 45 points and 5 comments on Hacker News. The project targets making NVIDIA's CUDA software stack work on AMD GPUs under Windows, which matters to developers running GPU compute or inference on non-NVIDIA hardware. No security impact is described.

UC Berkeley Researchers Release CUA-Lite, an Open Platform Unifying Sandboxes, Data, Evaluation and RL for Computer-Use Agents

UC Berkeley's CUA-Lite is an open platform unifying computer-use agent sandboxes, datasets, evaluation and RL; Lite.OSWorld cuts OSWorld memory 4.1 GB to 0.9 GB.

UC Berkeley researchers released CUA-Lite, an open platform placing agents, environments, traces, and training for computer-use agents behind one action space, one LiteSample schema, and one command across desktop, browser, and mobile. Lite.OSWorld reproduces the OSWorld task suite and evaluators in plain Docker containers (0.9 GB RAM vs 4.1 GB, cold start 23.8s, ~4.6× more parallel instances), with scores matching the QEMU/KVM VM across 13 models. The platform claims 30k+ verifiable tasks, 15+ benchmarks, 10+ agents, and 20+ datasets on Hugging Face including Aguvis, OpenCUA, and ScaleCUA. A documented SFT run lifts Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct mean episode return from 0.138 to 0.237 on the 332-task lite.osworld split.

MarkTechPost · 10d agoAI tools & infra1

CUA-Universe: A Scalable and Dynamic Environment for Hybrid GUI+CLI Agents

Researchers introduce CUA-Universe, a pipeline turning real desktop software into hybrid GUI+CLI agent environments, lifting a 9B model's OSWorld success rate.

CUA-Universe is an environment-to-data pipeline that converts real desktop applications into hybrid GUI+CLI environments, scaling to 16 applications via App-Forge, Task-Weave, and Path-Steer. Training on its harvested trajectories shifted a 9B model toward effective GUI+CLI orchestration, yielding +39.3 points on CUA-Verse, +16.8 points success rate on OSWorld, and +7.84 points on OSWorld-MCP while cutting steps and tokens by up to 57% and 60%. The work addresses the scarcity of scalable hybrid environments for computer-use agents.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 12d agoAI research1

Towards Standardized Evaluation of GPU Memory Safety with GMSBench

GMSBench provides 149 CUDA tests covering spatial, temporal, and concurrency GPU memory errors, exposing detection gaps in Compute Sanitizer.

GMSBench is a GPU memory safety benchmark comprising 149 self-contained CUDA tests spanning spatial, temporal, and concurrency errors across different GPU memory spaces and execution scenarios. The authors evaluate NVIDIA's Compute Sanitizer across multiple GPU architectures using the suite, exposing gaps in its detection coverage. The benchmark offers a standardized foundation for comparative evaluation of GPU memory safety mechanisms.

arXiv cs.CR · 8d agoResearch

Inside NVIDIA’s cuDNN Graph API: Fusion, Autotuning, and Plan Reuse with cuDNN Frontend

MarkTechPost tutorial walks through NVIDIA's cuDNN Frontend graph API, covering kernel fusion, autotuning, plan reuse, and CUDA graph capture on Colab GPUs.

The tutorial explains how to express GPU computations as operation graphs via the cuDNN Frontend graph API, running the five-step build pipeline of validate, build operation graph, create execution plans, check support, and build plans. It progresses from a single fused convolution with bias and ReLU to autotuning across engine configs, FP8-style epilogues, attention, plan serialization, dynamic shapes, and CUDA graph capture. Each kernel is benchmarked against a PyTorch reference on a single Colab GPU to verify correctness and measure cost. The piece also covers practical setup issues like making libcudnn.so visible to the frontend's dynamic loader.

MarkTechPost · 22h agoAI tools & infra1

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-26-591: NVIDIA TensorRT ONNX File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed a heap-based buffer overflow RCE (CVE-2026-24272, CVSS 7.8) in NVIDIA TensorRT ONNX parsing, requiring user interaction to exploit.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-591 covering a heap-based buffer overflow in NVIDIA TensorRT's ONNX file parsing. Successful exploitation allows remote code execution when a user opens a malicious ONNX file or visits a crafted page. ZDI rated the vulnerability CVSS 7.8 and assigned CVE-2026-24272.

ZDI-26-593: NVIDIA TensorRT ONNX File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed a second TensorRT heap-based buffer overflow RCE (CVE-2026-24268, CVSS 7.8) in ONNX file parsing, requiring user interaction.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-593 covering another heap-based buffer overflow in NVIDIA TensorRT's ONNX file parsing. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code if the target opens a malicious file or visits a crafted page. ZDI rated the vulnerability CVSS 7.8 and assigned CVE-2026-24268.

ZDI-26-553: OriginLab Origin Viewer OGW File Parsing Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI discloses OriginLab Origin Viewer OGW file parsing memory corruption RCE (CVE-2026-18294, CVSS 7.8) exploitable via malicious file or page.

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-553 describes a memory corruption vulnerability in OriginLab Origin Viewer's parsing of OGW files, tracked as CVE-2026-18294 with a CVSS score of 7.8. Remote code execution is possible but requires user interaction, meaning the target must open a malicious file or visit a malicious page.

ZDI Published Advisories · Aug 11, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-18294

GPU-CFR: 80x Faster Counterfactual Regret Minimization by Compiling the Game to Static Dataflow and CUDA Graph Replay

GPU-CFR compiles counterfactual regret minimization into static dataflow with CUDA Graph Replay, achieving 29.8-80.4x speedups over prior GPU solvers.

The paper presents a compiler and runtime that turns any fixed game's CFR iteration into a static dataflow graph of flat arrays and precomputed indices, cutting framework operations by up to 18.1x. Because shapes and buffer addresses never change, CUDA Graph Replay records the iteration once and replays it with a single launch. On one A100 across an eight-game suite, GPU-CFR runs 29.8-80.4x faster than the fastest prior GPU CFR and 14-258x faster than the CPU implementation LiteEFG on the four largest games, while reproducing reference iterates bitwise on CPU.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 6d agoAI research3· 1 read

ZDI-26-550: OriginLab OriginPro OGW File Parsing Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI discloses a memory corruption flaw in OriginLab OriginPro OGW file parsing enabling remote code execution via malicious files (CVE-2026-18291, CVSS 7.8).

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-550 describes a memory corruption vulnerability in OriginLab OriginPro OGW file parsing that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. User interaction is required: the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The flaw has a CVSS rating of 7.8 and is assigned CVE-2026-18291.

ZDI Published Advisories · Aug 11, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-18291

ZDI-26-587: Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt VS File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-587 details a heap-based buffer overflow RCE (CVE-2026-19781, CVSS 7.8) in Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt VS file parsing, requiring user interaction.

The Zero Day Initiative released advisory ZDI-26-587 covering a heap-based buffer overflow in Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt's VS file parsing. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code when the target opens a malicious file or visits a crafted page. ZDI rated the vulnerability CVSS 7.8 and assigned CVE-2026-19781.

CISA Warns of Fortinet Heap-based Buffer Overflow Flaw Exploited in Attacks

CISA added actively exploited Fortinet CVE-2025-25249, a critical heap-based buffer overflow in FortiOS, FortiSwitchManager, and FortiSASE, to its KEV catalog.

CVE-2025-25249 is a heap-based buffer overflow (CWE-122/CWE-787) allowing unauthorized code execution by sending specially crafted packets. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 9, 2026, with a September 12 remediation deadline for federal agencies under BOD 26-04 and mandatory forensic triage of affected environments. Internet-facing Fortinet firewalls and SASE platforms are a likely foothold for credential theft, persistence, and lateral movement; ransomware use is currently listed as unknown.

Cyber Security News · 6d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 3 sourcesCVE-2025-252492

ZDI-26-594: NVIDIA Megatron Bridge load_model_config Code Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

NVIDIA Megatron Bridge load_model_config code injection flaw (CVE-2026-24251, CVSS 7.8) enables remote arbitrary code execution on affected installs.

ZDI-26-594 describes a code injection vulnerability in NVIDIA Megatron Bridge's load_model_config function, tracked as CVE-2026-24251 with CVSS 7.8. Exploitation allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations and requires user interaction. The advisory was published by the Zero Day Initiative on August 24, 2026.

ZDI-26-564: NVIDIA Transformers4Rec load_model_trainer_states_from_checkpoint Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2026-24232, a CVSS 7.8 deserialization RCE in NVIDIA Transformers4Rec's load_model_trainer_states_from_checkpoint function.

The Zero Day Initiative published ZDI-26-564, a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in NVIDIA Transformers4Rec. Remote code execution is possible, but exploitation requires user interaction such as visiting a malicious page or opening a malicious file. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-24232 with a CVSS score of 7.8.

ZDI Published Advisories · Aug 13, 2026AdvisoryCVE-2026-24232

ZDI-26-696: Linux Kernel NTFS3 Journal Heap-based Buffer Overflow Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-26-696: Linux Kernel NTFS3 journal heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2026-72196, CVSS 8.8) enables local arbitrary code execution.

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-696 describes a heap-based buffer overflow in the Linux Kernel NTFS3 journal handling, tracked as CVE-2026-72196 with a CVSS score of 8.8. Exploitation requires the attacker to first execute low-privileged code on the target system. Successful exploitation allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code. No in-the-wild exploitation is mentioned.

ZDI-26-645: Fortinet FortiSandbox write_remote_backup_to_crontab cronValue Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI publishes ZDI-26-645 for CVE-2026-84387, an authenticated command injection RCE in Fortinet FortiSandbox via crontab backup, rated CVSS 7.2.

Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-645 describing a command injection flaw in Fortinet FortiSandbox's write_remote_backup_to_crontab function. Remote authenticated attackers can execute arbitrary code through the cronValue parameter. ZDI rated the issue CVSS 7.2 and assigned CVE-2026-84387.

ZDI-26-551: OriginLab OriginPro OGG File Parsing Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-551 discloses CVE-2026-18292, memory corruption in OriginLab OriginPro OGG file parsing enabling remote code execution with user interaction.

OriginLab OriginPro contains a memory corruption vulnerability when parsing OGG files, tracked as CVE-2026-18292 with CVSS 7.8. Remote code execution requires user interaction, meaning the target must open a malicious file or visit a malicious page. ZDI published the finding as advisory ZDI-26-551.

ZDI Published Advisories · Aug 11, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-18292

ZDI-26-552: OriginLab Origin Viewer OPJ File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2026-18293, a CVSS 7.8 out-of-bounds write in OriginLab Origin Viewer OPJ file parsing enabling remote code execution via malicious files.

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-552 describes an out-of-bounds write in OriginLab Origin Viewer's OPJ file parsing, tracked as CVE-2026-18293 with a CVSS score of 7.8. The flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations. Exploitation requires user interaction, such as visiting a malicious page or opening a malicious file.

ZDI Published Advisories · Aug 11, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-18293

GNU GRUB 2.14: serial-MMIO lockdown bypass in Canonical-signed gcdx64.efi

Canonical-signed GRUB2 serial command accepts arbitrary MMIO addresses, letting local attackers with grub.cfg control bypass Secure Boot lockdown.

A vulnerability in Canonical's grub-efi-amd64-signed (gcdx64.efi, GRUB 2.14) exposes a serial command that accepts a caller-supplied 64-bit MMIO base address. The lockdown path does not restrict this command even when lockdown=y under UEFI Secure Boot, and the serial implementation does not validate that the requested register span belongs to a real UART rather than ordinary RAM. A local attacker with control of GRUB's boot configuration can abuse this to bypass the Secure Boot lockdown.

oss-security · 3d agoVulnerability2

ZDI-26-586: OriginLab Origin Viewer OGM File Parsing Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-586 reports a memory corruption RCE (CVE-2026-19886, CVSS 7.8) in OriginLab Origin Viewer OGM file parsing, needing user interaction.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-586 describing a memory corruption vulnerability in OriginLab Origin Viewer's OGM file parsing. Exploitation allows remote code execution when a user opens a malicious file or visits a crafted page. ZDI rated the issue CVSS 7.8 and assigned CVE-2026-19886.

ZDI-26-636: Oracle Outside In Technology PostScript File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed a heap-based buffer overflow in Oracle Outside In Technology's PostScript parsing (CVE-2026-60412) enabling user-triggered remote code execution.

Zero Day Initiative published ZDI-26-636, a CVSS 7.8 heap-based buffer overflow in PostScript file parsing within Oracle Outside In Technology. Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code when the target opens a malicious file or visits a malicious page, making user interaction a requirement. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-60412. The advisory reports no exploitation.

Pyramid Solutions NetStaX EtherNet/IP Stack

CISA flags critical CVE-2026-78012 (CVSS 9.8) stack buffer overflow in Pyramid Solutions NetStaX EtherNet/IP stacks below v5.6.1, risking crashes or remote attack vectors.

CISA republished Pyramid Solutions' advisory for CVE-2026-78012, a CWE-121 stack-based buffer overflow in the NetStaX EtherNet/IP stack versions prior to 5.6.1, scored CVSS 9.8. Large Class 3 explicit-message requests can exceed the application-side receive buffer without generating a CIP error, potentially causing memory corruption, device crashes, or a silent remote attack vector. All eight adapter and scanner DLL/development kit variants, including CIP Security editions, are affected across critical manufacturing, energy, water, and chemical sectors. No public exploitation has been reported.

CISA Advisories · 13d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-78012

ZDI-26-680: Linux Kernel Crypto Subsystem Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ZDI discloses a Linux kernel crypto subsystem use-after-free (CVE-2026-31719, CVSS 8.8) letting local low-privileged attackers escalate to root.

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-680 covers a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel crypto subsystem, tracked as CVE-2026-31719 with a CVSS score of 8.8. A local attacker who can already execute low-privileged code can exploit it to escalate privileges on affected installations. The advisory does not report any exploitation in the wild.

USN-8737-2: GNU C Library vulnerabilities

Ubuntu extends glibc fixes to 24.04 LTS, patching buffer overflow in strfmon and out-of-bounds access in tdelete, both potentially leading to code execution.

USN-8737-2 provides the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS counterpart to fixes released in USN-8737-1 for GNU C Library vulnerabilities. CVE-2026-19499 is a buffer overflow in strfmon when handling right-justification padding, potentially allowing denial of service or arbitrary code execution on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. CVE-2026-19542 is an out-of-bounds stack array access in tdelete that could also result in denial of service or code execution.

Ubuntu Security Noticesupdated · 5h agofirst · 6d agoAdvisory 13 sourcesCVE-2026-19499CVE-2026-195421

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 · 5d agoAI tools & infra1

ZDI-26-630: NI LabVIEW VI File Parsing Integer Overflow Information Disclosure Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed CVE-2026-18445, an integer overflow in NI LabVIEW VI file parsing that can disclose sensitive information, rated CVSS 3.3.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-630 describing an integer overflow 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.

Implementation of Machine Learning Workflows with NVIDIA cuML, RAPIDS, GPU Benchmarking, Explainability, Clustering, and Model Inference

Hands-on tutorial implements NVIDIA cuML and RAPIDS to GPU-accelerate scikit-learn-style ML workflows with benchmarking, clustering, and inference.

The tutorial demonstrates NVIDIA cuML as a GPU-accelerated machine learning framework, using cuml.accel to speed up unmodified scikit-learn scripts with zero code changes and the native cuML API for CuPy/cuDF interoperability. It benchmarks CPU versus GPU implementations of PCA, K-Means, nearest-neighbor search, logistic regression, random forests, and DBSCAN on datasets up to 200,000 samples with 64 features. It also builds GPU pipelines with UMAP, t-SNE, and HDBSCAN, validates GPU-generated SHAP explanations, uses the FIL library for forest inference, and covers model serialization and GPU/CPU portability.

MarkTechPost · 3d agoAI tools & infra

ZDI-26-549: OriginLab OriginPro OGG File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2026-18290, a CVSS 7.8 out-of-bounds write in OriginLab OriginPro OGG file parsing enabling remote code execution via malicious files.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-549 describing an out-of-bounds write in OriginLab OriginPro's OGG file parsing, tracked as CVE-2026-18290 with a CVSS score of 7.8. The flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations. Exploitation requires user interaction, such as visiting a malicious page or opening a malicious file.

ZDI Published Advisories · Aug 11, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-18290