27 October 2026

Opera lets websites use local AI models, including Apple's model on Macs

Opera has added WebAI to its Opera One browser - an early preview of a proposed standard that lets websites and extensions use AI models running on the user's own computer. It works without the cloud or a subscription, and the data stays on the computer. At launch, WebAI supports models including Google's Gemma and, on Macs, Apple's own model. Users have to turn the feature on themselves and choose which websites can access it. WebAI will later come to Opera GX and Opera Neon as well.

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r/opensource moderators ban AI projects and tell people who don't speak English to find another forum

Overnight from October 24 to 25, moderators of the r/opensource subreddit announced that they will no longer allow projects that use AI, were made with its help or are built for it, and that any other project must be at least a year old, have several contributors and an existing community. Anyone who doesn't speak English should post elsewhere, because the moderators can't tell text written by AI from text AI only translated. The announcement has drawn more than 2,000 comments, and a rival subreddit, r/TrueOpenSource, has sprung up in response.

Reddit ↗ The Verge ↗

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent ordered more than 3 million Nvidia cards for $35 billion

The model in question is the RTX Pro 5500 with 84 GB of memory, which isn't covered by US export restrictions. A single card costs about $11,400. According to a Reuters source, Nvidia has warned partners that it will be able to meet only 5-10% of that demand.

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Researchers used AI to find two critical PHP flaws - AWS says exploitation attempts began four days before the patch

On October 21, the PHP developers released versions 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, fixing two vulnerabilities rated 9.2 on the CVSS scale - both let attackers take over a server without logging in. They were found by researchers from OpenAI, Wiz and Calif using the GPT-5.6 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon models. According to AWS, attackers tried to exploit the flaws as early as October 17, and on the day the patches came out some European governments temporarily took their websites offline as a precaution, CNN, Laravel News and Wired report.

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