[deepseek-v4]

August 13, 2026

• DeepSeek V4 Pro is drawing attention as a security-research model, with one researcher reporting an open-source RCE found in under 30 minutes using it, per @whoareme33 — a claim worth treating as anecdote until reproduced. · AI & Model Security

in ShieldBreak Turns a "Patched" Defender Bug Back Into SYSTEM

August 4, 2026

• Open-model releases keep coming in waves. DeepSeek V4 Flash reached GA with a big agentic-capability jump (Terminal Bench 2.1, DeepSWE) and community quantizations already running on a single RTX 4090 or a 128GB Mac; Alibaba shipped Qwen 3.8 (a 27B local variant and a Max frontier variant) (@simonw); and MiniMax H3 became the first open model to top an AI video ranking, with 33B weights on Hugging Face (The Decoder). · AI & Model Security

in Attackers Seize N-central RMM Servers After N-able's Second Fix Falls Short

June 30, 2026

• Coinbase confirmed switching internal AI workloads to open-weight Chinese models (GLM 5.2, Kimi 2.7, DeepSeek V4), cutting AI spend ~50% with reported ~9x per-workload cost gaps versus Claude — part of a broader procurement shift now naming Cursor, Shopify, Airbnb, Siemens and others moving to Chinese models. The Decoder · AI & Model Security

in Edge Appliances Bleed: watchTowr Drops Kemp LoadMaster Pre-Auth RCE as Oracle EBS Joins the Exploited List