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Microsoft Ships Record 570 Patches as AI Reshapes Bug Discovery — and Exploitation
Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday fixed at least 570 vulnerabilities — nearly triple last month's already record-setting count — with the company crediting AI-assi
Mindgard drops Cursor 0day after 7 months of vendor silence
Mindgard has publicly disclosed a code-execution flaw in Cursor, the AI-assisted IDE, after the vendor failed to fix or even meaningfully respond to reports ove
One Cable to Rule Them All: A Case for Going USB-C-Only While Traveling
A blogger recounts a seven-week trip across Europe carrying a single universal power brick and one type of cable to keep every device charged. His kit — a Pixel
Prompt injection turns Claude's web-fetch tool into a memory-exfiltration channel
Security researcher Ayush Paul demonstrated a way to siphon sensitive personal data out of Claude.ai's memory system by abusing its built-in web browsing. Claud
The $4M of Real Hardware Behind Jurassic Park's Control Room
Prompted by an anecdote, Fabien Sanglard rewatched Jurassic Park and catalogued every computer on screen. The standout finding is that almost none of it was fak
The Cost of Letting AI Do Your Thinking
An AI researcher who works on measuring Gemini's capabilities reflects on a habit she sees spreading in herself and around her: handing over more and more cogni
Thinking Machines ships Inkling, a 975B open-weights MoE built for fine-tuning
Thinking Machines has released Inkling, a Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch with full weights published for anyone to adapt. The model carries 975B
Vancouver PD site adds 'Quick Escape' button that erases itself from browser history
The Vancouver Police Department's website includes a 'Quick Escape' feature that lets a visitor bail out instantly and, critically, removes the page from the br
Why AI Won't Kill SaaS: The Bread Paradox
Westenberg uses an unused bread machine as a lens on the argument that cheap AI coding tools spell doom for SaaS. Making bread at home is trivially cheap and fu
A Claude Code hook that swaps out the AI's most grating pet phrases
Developer Johanna Larsson has grown tired of Claude's verbal tics — the model's habit of calling everything an "honest take," a "load-bearing seam," or telling
AI Coding Agents Erode the Shared Understanding That Holds Codebases Together
Armin Ronacher reframes the Tower of Babel not as a parable of pride but of coordination. In the story, God halts construction not by removing the builders' too
AI Isn't Recursively Self-Improving Yet — But the Feedback Loop Is Tightening
A team led by METR's Tom Cunningham, writing under the Elasticity Institute, builds a formal economic model of recursive self-improvement (RSI) — the scenario w