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• FAR.AI says it quickly found three jailbreaks in DeepSeek’s V4-Pro

  The research group linked to a write-up and cited 98-100% figures after red-teaming DeepSeek’s latest model, according to a post amplified on X.

• Roman Letters puts 7,049 late Roman letters in one English-language corpus

  The site frames the West’s collapse and the East’s continuity through a browsable dataset and chaptered narrative drawn from thousands of late antique letters.

• XS is a new general-purpose language asking for feedback, shipping a playground on day one

  The creator of XS says the language is at v1.2.15 and has a playground and docs live at xslang.org, inviting developers to try it and weigh in.

• Christoph Nakazawa ships Codiff, a local Git diff reviewer with an AI walkthrough

  The macOS app lets developers review staged and unstaged changes locally, add inline comments, export to Markdown, and call an LLM with a -w flag.

• Grafana Labs says attacker accessed GitHub and downloaded codebase, declines ransom

  In a thread on X, the company said no customer data was accessed, it invalidated the leaked credentials, and it will publish a post-incident review.

• Five ACT students launch PART Telescopes to put $500 radio astronomy kits in rural schools

  The Narrabundah College team published open docs and software for capturing the 21 cm hydrogen line with off-the-shelf parts, backed by Science Mentors ACT.

• Zerostack ships a tiny Rust-native coding agent with Unix instincts

  A crates.io debut touts multi-model support, a TUI, sandboxed bash, and a permission system in an 8.9MB binary that idles near zero CPU.

• NVLabs unveils SANA-WM, a 2.6B world model that makes 60s 720p video on one GPU

  The NVIDIA research team says the open-source code can turn a single image plus a camera path into a minute-long, controllable clip; weights are listed as coming soon.

• Elon Musk faces a post-merger talent drain at SpaceXAI

  Over 50 staffers have exited since February, with at least 11 to Meta and 7 to Mira Murati's Thinking Machine Labs, per reporting cited by TechCrunch.

• NVIDIA SANA-WM: 2.6B open-source world model changes everything

  In a post on X, Roemmele says the model generates controllable, physics-rich, high-fidelity worlds; the post did not include a repo or paper link.

• Calif engineers say they built the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5

  The AI-first security shop reported a working MIE-surviving local kernel exploit to Apple after building it in five days with help from Mythos Preview.

• After Bench's collapse, Ian Crosby raises $10M for Synthetic, an autonomous AI bookkeeper

  Khosla Ventures leads the seed with Basis Set Ventures and Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke, backing a product Crosby says may not be possible yet.

• Spectre debuts as a contract-first systems language with immutability by default

  Docs outline compile-time contracts, manual memory control, and a translate-c path to pull existing C code into Spectre.

• Turso retires its $1,000 data-corruption bug bounty after AI slop flood

  CEO Glauber Costa says maintainers were drowning in LLM-made PRs and urges new OSS governance as the team’s SQLite-compatible engine marches toward 1.0.

• v0 adds agentic browser mode to test and debug the apps it builds

  The new mode navigates live UIs, critiques designs, debugs flows, and sends screenshots while it works, per a post on X.

• xAI releases early beta of Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding and automation

  SuperGrok Heavy subscribers can try the new command line tool at x.ai/cli as xAI asks for feedback to improve both the model and product.

• RevSwap.ai ships a satire of startup revenue games, complete with fake ARR and a FAQ

  An anonymous landing page skewers vanity metrics with a fake platform to “swap” dollars and book ARR, tapping a very real pressure founders feel to show traction fast.

• Freebuff debuts free coding agent, 5 daily hours on DeepSeek V4 Flash

  Freebuff ships globally with an ad-supported model, offering unlimited use in select ad-rich markets and open source model options in some regions.

• Avi Patel alleges General Catalyst co-led $31.5M seed into copycat of his startup Kled

  In a thread on X, the Kled founder says he spoke with GC for months and claims the firm backed a startup that copied Kled’s designs, site, and app.

• Feedr v0.8.0 ships in-article find for full-text reading in the terminal

  The open source TUI RSS reader now pairs full-article extraction with slash-to-search, smart-case matching, and keyboard navigation inside the terminal.

• Jarred Sumner merges Bun's Rust rewrite into main

  Bun's creator says the Rust port passes tests, trims 3-8 MB off the binary, stays neutral-to-faster in benchmarks, and brings compiler-assisted memory safety.

• GlycemicGPT ships v0.7.2 and lays funding rails for a hosted diabetes AI

  The open-source diabetes project publishes v0.7.2, adds an Open Collective fund via a FLOSS manifest, and points to a hosted service aimed at non-technical users.

• Jason Scott finishes 11-year rescue: 13,000 scanned manuals now live on Internet Archive

  The archivist who rallied a last-minute warehouse save says the loop is complete, with thousands of manuals digitized and accessible.

• Thomas Gazagnaire gets OCaml into orbit with Parsimoni's Borealis

  Running inside DPhi Space's ClusterGate-2 payload module, the pure-OCaml CCSDS stack brings end-to-end encrypted command and control with OTAR to low Earth orbit.