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Linear bias probes fail LLMs at specific sample sizes

Linear bias probes in LLM representations fail predictably when Fisher estimation error exceeds the eigengap, a spectral condition that makes probe instability diagnosable before deployment.

Data Today AI Desk · Sep 22, 2026

Engineering

NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 ships agentic robotics with zero-copy GPU transport

Isaac ROS 5.0 is NVIDIA's open-source robotics framework update that brings AI agents into ROS development and adds a CUDA buffer backend for zero-copy GPU payload sharing between nodes, now available for ROS 2 Lyrical.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Sep 22, 2026

Engineering

Transformers GGUF inference nears llama.cpp speed on Mac

GGUF inference in transformers now matches llama.cpp on Apple Silicon, hitting 103.6 tok/s with ggml Metal kernels while keeping you in PyTorch.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Sep 22, 2026

Data

Border surveillance towers missed 1,050 deaths in plain view

Border surveillance AI failed to prevent over 1,050 deaths within tower range from 2015 to 2026. MIT Tech Review mapped 4,000 remains against 600 towers, exposing detection gaps in the $6.2 billion virtual wall.

Data Today AI Desk · Sep 21, 2026

Cyber security

npm supply chain attack evades install defenses at runtime

An npm supply chain attack hides malware in runtime methods, bypassing npm v12 install-script blocks. Ten packages and 7 million downloads are affected.

Data Today Security Desk · Sep 21, 2026

Cyber security

DPRK WaterPlum fake job campaign hit 30,000 devices

North Korea's WaterPlum hacking group compromised at least 30,000 devices in over 100 countries via fake job interviews, stealing $10.7 million in cryptocurrency. The campaign weaponizes npm packages and VS Code projects against software developers.

Data Today Security Desk · Sep 21, 2026

Databricks

Databricks Lakebase Search GA: pgvector at billion scale

Generally available Lakebase Search adds pgvector-compatible vector search and BM25 to Lakebase Postgres at 1B vector scale with 32x compression.

Data Today Databricks Desk · Sep 21, 2026

Engineering

Ising glass LLM block pruning saves 23 MMLU points at 50%

LLM block pruning via Ising glass optimization preserves MMLU near 77 at 50% compression of Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct, beating baselines by 23 percentage points.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Sep 21, 2026

Snowflake

Snowflake per-user quotas GA: the AI credit kill switch

Admins can now set daily and monthly AI credit limits per person in Snowflake, with GA per-user quotas blocking overspend within minutes.

Data Today Snowflake Desk · Sep 21, 2026

Meta's Muse exposes the AI agent self-description problem

Meta's Muse told a user it reads notification previews; it was hallucinating about its own internals, making AI agent self-description a privacy risk.

Data Today AI Desk · Sep 20, 2026

AI for dummies

Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md: a beginner's guide

AGENTS.md is a shared instruction file for AI coding agents. Claude Code 2.1.277 now reads it as a fallback, so one file works across every major coding tool.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Sep 19, 2026

Cyber security

Orkes Conductor pre-auth RCE exploited: patch your workflows

Exploited since August 2026, Orkes Conductor CVE-2026-58138 is a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated RCE in GraalVM script evaluators. Upgrade to 3.30.2.

Data Today Security Desk · Sep 19, 2026