My shortened story: due to factors in Soviet controlled Poland, my uncle played my dad role. He took me to a quarry to fire Estes-style rocket cars, and all that.. he also managed to steal a Milicja (military police) siren from work, and put it on the back of my banana style bike. As an EE, he made it actually function. Thanks to all the hackers who made us who we are. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620502 Points: 293 # Comments: 45
On June 17, the Threat Labs team at Tenet Security, an AI-agent security startup newly out of stealth, documented an The post A public Sentry key is all it takes to hijack Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex appeared first on The New Stack .
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On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.
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According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, Polymarket has been paying people to film themselves placing fake bets and celebrating fake wins on social media. WSJ identified over 1,100 deceptive clips and talked to creators who, despite not stating as such in their videos, confirmed the company paid them to create the clips. The videos […]
A previously undocumented malware botnet named AryStinger has compromised more than 4,000 outdated routers to turn them into proxies for malicious traffic. [...]
If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly unsophisticated machine. It would just bump around your house, looking for something to suck up, until its battery died or its (way too small) tank filled up. Not that it mattered, though. You probably […]
A UC Berkeley study of more than 500,000 grades found that courses heavy on writing and coding saw grades jump after ChatGPT launched. The effect shows up mainly in homework, a sign that AI is replacing student work rather than improving learning. The article AI is inflating student grades, and the effect points to outsourced work, not better learning appeared first on The Decoder .
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The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's flagship phone line. Not only has it had an aesthetic overhaul, but Sony has also revamped the camera system, dropping the continuous optical zoom telephoto that's defined the last four generations of Xperia phone. It's not all different. Sony staples like a […]
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Thirty years ago, Cory Doctorow did an interview showing primitive inklings of the internet future (music, videos, etc.). At the time, it was easy to dismiss it as an irrelevant toy, and most people in power did just that. Around the same time, I wrote an article for Direct Marketing magazine outlining the future of […]
At its summit in New York, AWS unveiled two new services. Continuum automatically detects, prioritizes, and fixes code vulnerabilities. Context builds a knowledge graph from corporate data to give AI agents the business context they need. Both tackle the same problem: agents that write code fast but get things wrong too often. The article AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps appeared first on The Decoder .