ai Oct 19 Caching in Gemini 4 Argon has some quirks Gemini 4 Argon introduced noticeable shifts in prompt-caching behavior that teams building AI agents should understand. At Induction AI, researchers explored how caching compares to earlier models and identified several quirks tha... ai Oct 19 Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’ Microsoft Monday introduced new security features designed to protect enterprises from the growing threat of AI agents. The launch coincides with continued warnings from the company about dangers presented by AI and agents operati... cybersecurity Oct 19 Addressing EU Cyber Resilience Act The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a regulation (EU 2024/2847) that defines mandatory cybersecurity requirements for all products with digital elements sold in EU markets. Reporting obligations began on Sept. 11, with full enfor... ai Oct 19 FloatDoor: Platform-Triggered Backdoors in LLMs FloatDoor turns hardware floating-point differences into a silent LLM backdoor A paper submitted to arxiv on 17 June 2026 introduces FloatDoor, the first input-independent, platform-triggered backdoor attack against generative lar... ai Oct 19 Show HN: Taco - LLM compression that gives the same bytes on every CPU and GPU Taco: a lossless LLM compressor that produces identical bytes on every platform A new alpha compressor called Taco uses a GPT-2 language model to achieve lossless compression while guaranteeing bit-for-bit identical output across... cybersecurity Oct 19 Security Swarm Devin Security Swarm Brings Context-Aware Code Scanning to Development Teams Devin has launched Security Swarm, a code scanning tool that investigates vulnerabilities in the context of your repository rather than flagging risky pa... ai Oct 19 Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Session Management Session Management for AI Agents From Scratch Conversation persistence transforms a stateless model interaction into a resumable workflow. Without session saving, every engagement with an agent begins fresh. Notes capture conventi... programming languages Oct 19 Show HN: Vlmhub – Simple Unified Python interface for vision-language models vlmhub Config-Driven Vision-Language Model Inference vlmhub is a lightweight framework for unified vision-language model inference across local and cloud backends. The system supports Ollama, MLX-VLM, vLLM, HuggingFace Transformer... ai Oct 19 Inception "Mercury 3", 1000 tok/s diffusion LLM Mercury 3 Released as Fastest Diffusion LLM to Date Today Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based large language model that sets new benchmarks for speed and capability. The system runs at 1,068 tokens per second on NVIDIA... ai Oct 19 Show HN: Senseplane open-source eyes and ears for AI agents, on your own cameras Senseplane Provides Perception Capabilities for AI Agents Senseplane positions itself as eyes and ears for AI agents. The system connects to cameras, microphones, and sensors already present in a setup, enabling any agent — whethe...