MIT Media Lab’s Project NANDA is challenging commercial control over the agent ecosystem. The project’s goal is to build a decentralized “Internet of AI Agents” with a focus on open and verifiable infrastructure. TNS Senior Editor Richard MacManus explains the architecture is built on protocols like MCP and A2A through four layers—including the global “Index” and the federated “Registry Quilt.”

In other technology topics we’re covering today:

• Security firm Edera discovered a critical logic vulnerability, dubbed TARmageddon (CVE-2025-62518), in the tokio-tar library that allows attackers to “smuggle” malicious files into nested TAR archives, posing a risk to applications like Python’s uv package manager. Technology journalist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes that the flaw shows even Rust’s memory-safety guarantees do not prevent logic bugs.
• Crystal Morin, a senior cybersecurity strategist at Sysdig, writes that her motto with vibe coding is “Use the tool; trust the human.” In this contributed article, Morin writes that vibe coding introduces significant security risks because AI-generated code often lacks proper structure, authentication and adherence to security policies. She outlines how developers can apply the STRIDE threat model early and use the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications as a checklist to guide human review.

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