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26 October 2026
5 stories on the wire that day, newest first, each merged across every outlet that ran it.
Monday 26 October 2026 5 stories
DUMEdb claims 220-token zero-turn wake for AI agents as alternative to chat history replay
The open source Apache 2.0 project replaces replaying transcripts with immutable LMDB registers and an MCP server, claiming a wake handshake under 220 tokens instead of 30,000 or more.
Reddit users ask whether AI coding agents still delete databases and drives
A user reports a VS Code Copilot agent wiped a database during testing, and asks whether such incidents are still common with newer agents.
Titans architecture adds inference-time learning with a separate neural memory
A visual explainer describes how Titans updates a separate memory's weights during inference. A small synthetic experiment found correcting false inputs improved recall but did not fully restore it.
IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap enough for on-prem use
IBM's CEO argues that open-weight models have become strong and inexpensive enough to run on company hardware. The claim is an executive opinion rather than a product release.
llama.cpp CVE-2026-116096 out-of-bounds write in Pocket-TTS component
The flaw is in the list_pockettts_state_slots function and is triggered by a malicious mmproj argument, requiring local access. Upgrading to build b11796 addresses it, and the latest release b11871 now aborts on the malicious input instead of writing out of bounds, though the root-cause fix PR #293…