AI
Anthropic Just Leaked Upcoming Model With “Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks” in the Most Ironic Way Possible
“Claude Mythos” is so powerful, it's a major cybersecurity risk. The model “presages an upcoming wave of models that can exploit vulnerabilities in ways that far outpace the efforts of defenders,” Anthropic boasted.
AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar
"Something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports." It's not just Linux, he continued. "All open source projects have real reports that are made with AI, but they're good, and they're real."
AI agents are 'gullible' and easy to turn into your minions
"AI is just gullible...Even more than that, I can get ChatGPT to manipulate you," Bargury said. "ChatGPT is a trusted advisor. You ask it questions that can be sensitive, you ask it for advice. It can be manipulated to answer whatever I want - and not just in the specific conversation, but long term."
Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment
Subjects who interacted with AI tools were more likely to think they were right, less likely to resolve conflicts.
Sandboxing AI agents, 100x faster
Dynamic Workers use an "isolate"--an instance of the V8 JavaScript execution engine, the same engine used by Google Chrome. An isolate takes a few milliseconds to start and uses a few megabytes of memory. That's around 100x faster and 10x-100x more memory efficient than a typical container.
Vibe coding could mark the end of the App Store review process as we know it
Apple reviews each app submission and app update submitted to the App Store with human reviewers. But app review is taking significantly longer, with some people being stuck in review for 3+ days, and some reporting even a week of waiting for review. Traditionally, this process would take less than a day, sometimes a day or two in rare cases.
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
For Gmail users, there is an automatic opt-in that may allow Google access to your emailed data (think: your personal and work messages, your attachments) “to train AI models.”--If you don’t want this information shared, you need to adjust your settings.
Politics
Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted, judge says
“Punishing Anthropic for bringing public scrutiny to the government’s contracting position is classic illegal First Amendment retaliation.”
Spotify seeks $300M from Anna’s Archive, which ignores all court proceedings
While Anna’s Archive lives on for now, Spotify and record labels point out that the founder has acknowledged being at risk of arrest and criminal charges that could ultimately sink the enterprise.
“Defendant has admitted that its shadow library business model is illegal and that it ‘deliberately violate[s] the copyright law in most countries,’” Spotify and record labels wrote. “Defendant also admits that it is intentionally ‘very careful’ to remain anonymous and ‘not leave any trace,’ because those who operate pirate libraries (like Defendant) are ‘at high risk of being arrested’ and ‘could face decades of prison time.’”
NSCC hack
He confirms that is indeed about 10PB of data. “Flaming China” told us it took about six months to extract it.
DOD: We’ll Take Anyone for This War. Well, as Long as You’re Not …
The Department of Defense raised the Army recruitment maximum age from 34 to 42 and let people with certain drug felony convictions join, but they are forcing out tens of thousands of highly qualified service members who want to be there but who the administration believes are unworthy of the honor of serving their country. This includes women, Blacks, and transgender people.
Russian tanker nears Cuba with much-needed oil as Trump softens tone
Iran could develop nuclear suicide bomb vests, claims JD Vance
185 New Speed Cameras Coming To CA Roads: See Where
The expansion follows what officials say was a successful launch in San Francisco. Officials in San Francisco say it's working: Speeding decreased by 72% on average at 15 locations after cameras were installed last year. Per the California law, cameras can only be installed in state-defined safety corridors, school zones, and areas with a history of street racing or sideshows.
Lawyers for ICE gave false information to justify detaining thousands, filings reveal
Lawyers for ICE provided false information to justify arresting and detaining thousands of people who had attended immigration courts. ICE acknowledged that an agency memo from May of last year gave no authorization for the arrests, court documents show, despite previously citing it to justify the arrests.
Infosec
New Torg Grabber infostealer malware targets 728 crypto wallets
Initial access is obtained through the ClickFix technique by hijacking the clipboard and tricking the user into executing a malicious PowerShell command. Torg Grabber is actively developed, with 334 unique samples compiled in three months (between December 2025 and February 2026) and new command-and-control (C2) servers registered every week.
Apart from cryptocurrency wallets, Torg Grabber steals data from 103 password managers and two-factor authentication tools, and 19 note-taking apps.
Windows is using your internet to send updates to strangers — here's the setting to stop it
Delivery Optimization is meant to make updates faster and smoother for everyone. Instead of pulling updates only from Microsoft’s servers, this feature allows your PC to get parts of those same updates from other computers who already have them. This works for both Windows updates and Microsoft Store app downloads.
The disadvantages are background data usage and some consumption of disk space.
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