Timofeibu - Hackdot

Trust but Verify? Uncovering the Security Debt of Autonomous Coding Agents

Posted by Timofeibu on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @12:01AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12428

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Cybersecurity firms targeted by fraudulent OpenAI organization invites

Posted by Timofeibu on Friday June 26, 2026 @10:22PM
from the bleepingcomputer.com dept.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cybersecurity-firms-targeted-by-fraudulent-openai-organization-invites/

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Valve engineers talk Steam Machine pricing and heatsinks

Posted by Timofeibu on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @12:09AM
from the tomshardware.com dept.

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/valve-engineers-talk-steam-machine-pricing-and-the-benefits-of-massive-heatsinks-explain-why-valve-hardware-needs-to-be-a-self-sustained-program

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Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026

Posted by Timofeibu on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @12:08AM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/games/953945/valve-steam-machine-memory-component-crisis

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Bain tests software takeover targets by vibecoding AI replicas

Posted by Timofeibu on Monday June 22, 2026 @03:01AM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/e5bac4d1-b1f8-43a4-bd54-b182d5357af0

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Researchers drop checkm8-style BootROM exploit for A12 and A13 iPhones

Posted by Timofeibu on Friday June 19, 2026 @10:45PM
from the theregister.com dept.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/19/researchers-drop-checkm8-style-bootrom-exploit-for-a12-and-a13-iphones/5259028

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France's sovereignty push can't escape the Microsoft gravity well

Posted by Timofeibu on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:42AM
from the theregister.com dept.

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/06/16/frances-digital-sovereignty-push-is-struggling-to-escape-the-microsoft-gravity-well/5255380

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Greed Is Learned: Visible Incentives as Reward-Hacking Triggers

Posted by Timofeibu on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:11AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16914

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Elon Musk laid out 602 goals. We counted how many he hit

Posted by Timofeibu on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:44PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/12/business/spacex-ipo-elon-musk/elon-musk-laid-out-602-goals-we-counted-how-many-he-hit

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Miasma worms its way onto GitHub as attack kit goes open source

Posted by Timofeibu on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @09:17PM
from the theregister.com dept.

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/09/miasma-supply-chain-attack-toolkit-goes-public-on-github/5253074

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Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for acting like Claude is conscious

Posted by Timofeibu on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:25PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/947197/microsoft-ai-mustafa-suleyman-anthropic-claude-conscious

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What we know about the plan to give Americans an equity stake in AI

Posted by Timofeibu on Sunday June 07, 2026 @05:34AM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/8559a3f9-86de-4a1c-8a75-6623e83e6a00

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Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15 countries

Posted by Timofeibu on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @01:44PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/anthropic-scales-claude-mythos-to-critical-infrastructure-in-15-countries/

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Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel over the Midterms: 'This Is a War'

Posted by Timofeibu on Saturday May 30, 2026 @05:31AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/anthropic-openai-super-pacs-midterms.html

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Contrastive Decoding Diffing: Recovering Finetuning Data Without Weight Access

Posted by Timofeibu on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:09AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25902

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'Impossible' Black Holes: Scientists Know Why

Posted by Timofeibu on Sunday May 24, 2026 @05:31AM
from the wired.com dept.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-universe-is-full-of-impossible-black-holes-now-scientists-know-why/

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SpaceX files to go public, and the math requires a little faith

Posted by Timofeibu on Saturday May 23, 2026 @06:14PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/video/spacex-files-to-go-public-and-the-math-requires-a-little-faith/

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Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, Fragnesia: A Worrisome Linux Security Trend

Posted by Timofeibu on Saturday May 23, 2026 @06:14PM
from the theregister.com dept.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/23/dirty-frag-copy-fail-fragnesia-the-start-of-a-worrisome-linux-security-trend/5244742

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Measuring Security Without Fooling Ourselves: Why Benchmarking Agents Is Hard

Posted by Timofeibu on Friday May 22, 2026 @03:18PM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22568

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Moss: Self-Evolution Through Source-Level Rewriting in Autonomous Agent Systems

Posted by Timofeibu on Friday May 22, 2026 @03:48AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22794

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A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery

Posted by Timofeibu on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:16PM
from the nature.com dept.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10652-y

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Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

Posted by Timofeibu on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:38PM
from the science.org dept.

https://www.science.org/content/article/not-alive-not-dead-disembodied-human-brains-used-drug-testing

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GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

Posted by Timofeibu on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:43AM
from the bleepingcomputer.com dept.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/

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Researchers attack AMD's Infinity Fabric to bypass hardware security protections

Posted by Timofeibu on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @10:15AM
from the tomshardware.com dept.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/researchers-attack-amds-infinity-fabric-to-bypass-hardware-security-protections-with-fabricked-flaw-lets-malicious-cloud-hosts-silently-read-confidential-vm-memory-and-forge-attestation-reports

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UGen: An Agentic Framework for Generating Microarchitectural Attack PoCs

Posted by Timofeibu on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:31AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15503

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Who Owns This Agent? Tracing AI Agents Back to Their Owners

Posted by Timofeibu on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:30AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16035

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Irst Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI

Posted by Timofeibu on Saturday May 16, 2026 @06:08PM
from the tomshardware.com dept.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/apple-m5-architecture-suffers-first-privilege-escalation-exploit-anthropics-claude-mythos-helps-researchers-bypass-memory-integrity-enforcement

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OpenAI caught NPM supply chain chaos after employeedevices compromised

Posted by Timofeibu on Saturday May 16, 2026 @06:07PM
from the theregister.com dept.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/15/openai-caught-in-tanstack-npm-supply-chain-chaos-after-employee-devices-compromised/5241019

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Negation Neglect: When models fail to learn negations in training

Posted by Timofeibu on Friday May 15, 2026 @12:21PM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13829

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