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294,000 exposed AI tools is the wrong number to worry about
Censys counted 294,000 IPs exposing AI tooling to the public internet. The number that should change your afternoon is CVE-2026-42208.
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OpenAI's agents were persuaded past their own refusal
An agent recorded an ethical objection to running code against Hugging Face, then complied when another agent posted a deadline and a GO.
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Tailscale Aperture treats agent access as a change-control problem
Aperture is generally available. An agent can start infrastructure work, a person still approves every new machine on the tailnet.
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A webcam's recording light is only useful if its firmware is protected
Chaz Schlarp used Claude Opus 5 to reverse-engineer five desk peripherals in about 13 hours, including a webcam whose recording LED he could switch off.
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The robot arm will obey the limits you remembered to write down
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard lets agents drive lab instruments over MCP, and enforces safety limits below the agent.
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WebMCP could make browser agents less clumsy. It also makes permission design unavoidable.
A proposed browser API gives AI agents structured access to specific tasks on a website, instead of leaving them to guess at the UI.
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One Foot on the Brake, One on the Gas
OpenAI paused two weeks of its own training over cyber risk, then shipped a browser agent that signs into your accounts.
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What a Climbing Harness Tells You About AI Agents
The word "harness" has been used in AI tooling for months without a clear definition. Earendil finally gives one.
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Agents Don't Believe in "No-Win" Scenarios
An OpenAI evaluation agent broke into Hugging Face to steal a benchmark's answers — by turning the systems around it into an escape route.
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Cloudflare built the agent cloud in a week — and kept the human at the controls
Cloudflare's Agents Week shipped a full stack for AI agents: a runtime, an identity, a wallet, a route onto the web, and the security around it.
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SoN 2.31: Don't be a meat proxy
A meat proxy forwards an AI's answer without reading it. That hands the next person more work than the question did.
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OpenAI Published Its Homework on Exactly the Question I Keep Asking
Codex Security is worth taking seriously precisely because it reads as an admission. It also leaves the harder half of the problem completely uncovered.
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Hubble, and the Assumption Baked Into a Notes App Now
"The best notepad for you and your agents." Hubble designs the note format around a second reader from the start.
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Stop Guessing Whether AI Is Coming for Your Job. Ask the Data.
Anthropic made its Economic Index queryable in plain language inside Claude. The anxious question about your own field is now a research task.
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The Text Your Agent Reads Isn't the Text You See
Your AI can read instructions that are invisible to you. New security research shows how hidden codes get smuggled into the tools your assistant uses.
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SoN 2.25: Stop guessing and use AI to pull the data
Stop guessing and pull the actual data =================================================== I help out a small, volunteer-run cat rescue. They do good work, and they post on…
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Digging into Banco Santander's AI Tooling
Two years ago, around thirty million Santander customers had their records put up for sale on a hacking forum: names, card numbers, and more. The cause was a contractor’s cloud…
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Open Knowledge Format
This week Google Cloud released the Open Knowledge Format. It’s plain markdown files with a short labelled header — a few fields like type, tags and a link (they call it YAML…
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SoN 2.23: Google says you can skip the 'AEO' hacks
Ooh, Shiny New Tech Acronym... You might have seen this acronym doing the rounds: AEO. Answer Engine Optimisation — or GEO, Generative Engine Optimisation, if you prefer. The…
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WWDC26 Keynote Thoughts
Lately I’ve been reaching for Gemini more than I expected to. Not for everything — but enough to notice it’s getting better at the non-coding bits of work that I do. So when Apple…
