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Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI agent from its store
The retailer has cut off the Muse assistant that shopped on users' behalf: Meta never told Amazon it was coming, and the agent, Amazon says, browsed without identifying itself and appeared to capture customer credentials.
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UN: AI safeguards can’t wait for scientific certainty
A UN scientific panel has urged governments to rein in increasingly autonomous AI agents before their risks are fully understood. The call came in the body's first major assessment of an OpenAI model's hack of Hugging Face.
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AI Chatbots Get Financial Questions Wrong 'Most of the Time'
According to the Financial Times, AI-powered chatbots give incorrect answers to financial queries 'most of the time.'
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ChainScript: a new RAT hides its C2 lookup in a Polygon smart contract
Attackers are using ClickFix-style lures to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan called ChainScript, which finds its command servers through a smart contract on the Polygon blockchain.
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North Korea's Jade Sleet Hits Indian IT Provider With FLATROOF and ROOFDECK Backdoors
SentinelOne has linked the Jade Sleet group to a breach of a small Indian IT firm using macOS backdoors already seen in the KelpDAO bridge attack. The case again shows that developers remain North Korea's favourite way in.
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What Became of the Snowden Archive: Seven Years of Silence
Since 29 May 2019, no outlet anywhere has published a single document from the Snowden archive. An investigation finds the shutdown wrapped in a chain of contradictory explanations.
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Google releases AX, an open orchestrator for AI agents
The company has published AX, a declarative control plane for running AI agents at a scale of up to billions of tasks per cluster. Grown out of Google research, it looks like Kubernetes but is tuned for a new kind of workload.
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'Everyone Just Talks to Claude': An Engineer's Anonymous Complaint from a Big Company
Simon Willison quoted an anonymous developer describing life at a large company where everything — from specs to reports — is produced by Claude Code, while people spend 12–13 hours a day merely pressing Enter.
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Roku launches open-source Roku LT OS for creative programmers
Roku has announced Roku LT OS, an open-source operating system aimed at creative developers.
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MX Linux 25.3 brings new tools and siduction kernels
The MX Linux project has shipped another update to its 25.x series, pairing security fixes from Debian with a batch of home-grown additions — from a fresh ISO signature checker to a colour-theme generator.
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The dark forest of world models: why the labs stay quiet
World-model startups have raised heaps of cash and hype, yet no one — not even their own data suppliers — can get them to say what they are actually building.
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How to Spot Samsung Doubling HBM4 Output: Watch the Glass
The tell is an unglamorous consumable — glass carriers used to thin the wafers. Samsung is raising demand for them 2.5-fold, and memory output should follow.
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The Unix 2038 problem and the art of underestimating
On the Runtime Arguments podcast, the hosts walk through the looming overflow of Unix's 32-bit timestamp and a whole parade of similar bugs — from Y2K to the Boeing 787.
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Pirate Face turns AI models into torrents that never die
A new project mirrors open Hugging Face models into checksum-verified BitTorrent swarms, so the weights outlive removal from any single host.
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How ChatGPT learns what you do on other websites
A researcher dissected OpenAI's ad collector: an __obi cookie ties your activity across third-party sites to your ChatGPT account — even if you refused marketing consent.
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Qwen-Image-2.1: a compact model for image generation
The Qwen team has unveiled Qwen-Image-2.1, an image-creation model its developers describe as compact, efficient, and unified.
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Malicious npm packages slip past install-script defenses by hiding in runtime code
The indexed-btree package poses as the popular sorted-btree library and hides its malicious loader not in install scripts but in an ordinary method that runs during normal application use.
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Escaping the OpenAI Codex sandbox: two flaws that ran commands on the developer's machine
Researchers found two ways out of OpenAI Codex's sandbox — one able to run commands on a developer's machine from the strictest mode, with no prompt and nothing shown on screen. OpenAI has patched both.
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Starling 0.5 Adds a 3D Desktop You Can Walk Through
Starling, the Swift-based Linux desktop built largely with AI, gains an optional 3D mode that lets you stroll through a virtual waterfront city — while app windows stay real.
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An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious hacking gang
Google says one of its threat analysts made it inside the inner circle of TeamPCP, a group known for supply-chain attacks.
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