Wednesday, April 8, 2026

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Hugging Face

Safetensors is Joining the PyTorch Foundation

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Safetensors, the lightweight file format developed by Hugging Face for safely storing and sharing machine learning model weights, is now joining the PyTorch Foundation as an official project. This move legitimizes Safetensors as an industry standard and signals the AI community's commitment to making model distribution more secure and efficient across frameworks beyond just PyTorch. For practitioners and organizations, this means broader adoption, better maintenance, and increased confidence that Safetensors will remain the go-to format for handling the massive model files that power modern AI applications.

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Ars Technica

Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia's military

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Russian military hackers have compromised thousands of consumer routers worldwide, potentially enabling large-scale surveillance, data theft, and network infiltration for espionage purposes. This incident matters to AI followers because compromised home and small business networks create backdoors that could be exploited to access AI training data, proprietary models, and cloud services that increasingly power both consumer and enterprise AI systems.

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