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1. 2d
   TSMC executive outlines seven actions for Taiwan's AI scale-up

   At a Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association annual conference, TSMC business development deputy general manager Yuan Liben said AI infrastructure has entered an industrial-scale deployment cycle, increasing the difficulty of chip and system validation. He proposed seven actions covering early ecosystem design, shared test facilities, data infrastructure, talent, regulation, funding, and localized supply chains, while warning that future NVIDIA NVL144 racks could require 1,500 TB/s of scale-up bandwidth, more than 600 kW of power, and full liquid cooling.

   科技新报 · 🔥 3
2. 2d
   Nvidia disputes spying concerns involving an executive at customer Megaspeed

   Nvidia disputed a New York Times report that U.S. intelligence agencies surveilled Alice Huang, an executive associated with Singapore-based cloud provider Megaspeed International, citing concerns that she could be spying for China. The surveillance account relied on unnamed sources. Nvidia said Megaspeed was a regional cloud customer, Huang’s interactions with CEO Jensen Huang were normal, and customers could not access Nvidia’s commercial or national-security information. Nvidia also said allegations that regional cloud providers diverted restricted AI chips to China were investigated in 2025 and debunked.

   科技新报 · 🔥 3
3. Oct 20
   REA backlash: client hardening, anti-AI reversing tools and trojan fake repos

   A 字母AI article republished by 钛媒体 describes the fallout from REA, an agent that does not decompile itself but orchestrates tools such as Ghidra, IDA and Hopper. French tech blogger Korben tested it with Opus 5.5: the agent wrote a working Python keygen for a crackme binary in about two minutes at roughly $0.5 in API cost, and the keygen passed verification with 479 random usernames. Elias Bachaalany, co-author of Practical Reverse Engineering, called it hype, noting GhidraMCP and IDA Pro MCP already enabled AI-assisted reversing in 2025. The article also reports Thales releasing Sentinel Envelope Plus, which in Thales' own controlled test left an agent finding none of 10 vulnerabilities it found in the unprotected app, with 970x token consumption; and a fake GitHub org, rea-tools, shipping an 82.6 MB trojanized archive that had been downloaded 172 times when reported, after which maintainers merged a README warning on Oct 13 listing only three official channels.

   钛媒体 · 🔥 0
4. Oct 13
   AWS details fused MoE kernel optimizations upstreamed to vLLM

   An AWS Machine Learning Blog post describes several kernel optimizations AWS implemented for fused Mixture-of-Experts models running on GPUs. It says a swap-AB matrix transposition aligned with NVIDIA Hopper's WGMMA instruction layout produced a 2–4 percent end-to-end throughput improvement for large MoE models on H200, and was upstreamed to vLLM 0.24.0 or later. A second change added do_not_specialize annotations to eliminate repeated Triton JIT recompilation, which AWS says improved time to first token by 9 percent at 8-way tensor parallelism and is available in vLLM 0.22.0 or later. AWS says the optimizations are open sourced, applied in the LMI deep learning container on Amazon SageMaker AI, and together delivered up to 10 percent higher throughput and up to 9 percent faster TTFT; these figures are vendor-reported and not independently verified.

   AWS Machine Learning Blog · 🔥 0
5. Oct 12
   REA goes viral by handing software reverse engineering to AI coding agents

   An article from Guokr, republished by 36Kr and Huxiu, describes the open-source project REA (Reverse Engineer Anything), which connects disassemblers such as Ghidra, IDA and Hopper to AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor through MCP so an agent can investigate a feature in a compiled app and return conclusions with evidence. Citing Star History, the piece says REA gained 78,800 GitHub stars in the week of Oct 4–10, ranking first among projects that week, and argues it lowers to ordinary developers a barrier that earlier tools such as GhidraMCP had already approached. The same article covers developer Brandon Thomas's ArtCraft suite, seven open-source apps he says were built with Claude Opus 5.5 in Rust as alternatives to Adobe products, cites user reports of problems with PSD smart objects and crashes when importing many video clips, and notes that REA removes the clean-room separation between those who decompile code and those who write new code.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 0
6. Oct 10
   REA hits 120K GitHub stars as agents learn to reverse-engineer any app

   REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) is an MIT-licensed TypeScript project by developer morluto that puts tools such as Ghidra, Hopper and IDA behind an MCP server so coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI can investigate software without source code. 36Kr reported the repository had about 120,000 GitHub stars by Oct 12, with growth surging after a 4.1.0 release on Oct 7 added mobile-app analysis, though other reports put the count at roughly 50,000–80,000. Documented examples include recovering a DX-Ball sound-panning routine as C code that passed 3,205 original x86 test cases, and tracing Notion's clipboard bridge; the community has since pointed it at Adobe and Google apps plus WeChat, Alipay and Douyin, though 36Kr notes those apps' core logic runs server-side behind packing, obfuscation and risk-control defenses.

   开源中国 · 🔥 0

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