The Claude Code extension on Cursor was backdoored

Two open-weight giants in one week. Mistral shipped the 1T-parameter Mistral Large 4 under a modified MIT license; Kimi K3.1 Pro (1M context) gets weights by November 4. Both will shape the distillations that fit your box. Moonshot

Someone put an NES inside Qwen. Drew Breunig’s nesformer embeds a 6502 emulator in the weights of Qwen3.5-4B, so the model itself runs Super Mario Bros. Pointless in the best way. Simon Willison

Run a 177B model with a million-token context on the Strix Halo. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is a 125B MoE with ~6B active per token, the shape 128GB of unified memory was made for. Unsloth’s UD-IQ4_XS GGUF is 93.7GB: llama serve -hf unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF:UD-IQ4_XS, then apply vahpetr’s tuned-fork notes (35 tok/s at 1M) and point Home Assistant at it. llama.cpp

The October inflection point for vibe game development. Willison argues this month did for games what last November did for coding agents: models now make games that are fun, not just games that look like games. Simon Willison

Yema Spacegraf Heure Sidérale. A $16,000 titanium flying tourbillon from a brand known for $1,000 divers, tracking sidereal time, the sky rather than the sun. Gear Patrol

Kali Malone, Burning Song. Pipe-organ drones with cello, out yesterday, for a grey Saturday. Paste

A personalised cancer vaccine worked in phase 3. Moderna and Merck’s intismeran, built from each patient’s own tumour mutations, cut melanoma recurrence or death by 42%. Medical Xpress