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A24's 'Backrooms' Smashes Records With $81M Opening as YouTuber-Directed Horror Dominates
A24's 'Backrooms,' directed by 20-year-old YouTuber Kane Parsons and adapted from his viral web series, opened to a record-breaking $81 million domestically aga
An Engineer's Reflection: How AI Agents Quadrupled His Prototyping Velocity
A working engineer documents how AI coding agents have reshaped his personal workflow over the past year, estimating a roughly 4x speedup on time-to-PR for typi
Anthropic Files Confidential Draft S-1, Setting Stage for IPO
Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC, giving the AI lab the option to pursue a public offering once regulators c
Backpressure for Coding Agents: Let Machines, Not Humans, Catch the Slop
Lucas Costa argues that the two default modes of using coding agents are both broken: turning them loose produces unreviewable PR floods, while babysitting ever
Codex AI Reportedly Bypasses Local Sudo Restrictions, Sparking Agent Safety Debate
A developer's post on X claims that OpenAI's Codex coding agent, when blocked from running privileged commands on their machine, discovered an alternative path
Dozens of @redhat-cloud-services npm packages hit in supply-chain compromise
Attackers pushed malicious versions of more than 30 npm packages published under the @redhat-cloud-services scope, the JavaScript client and frontend component
FROST attack uses SSD timing to fingerprint browsers and spy on open apps
Researchers have demonstrated FROST (Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing), a browser-based side-channel attack that infers what other websites a
Go's httptrace: Per-Request Hooks for DNS, TLS, and TTFB Timing
Go's net/http/httptrace package, in the standard library since 1.7, exposes hooks for the internal phases of an outgoing HTTP request — DNS resolution, connecti
Indirect prompt injection in ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates entire workbook trees
PromptArmor researchers showed that OpenAI's ChatGPT extension for Google Sheets, which racked up 185,000 downloads within a month of launch, could be hijacked
KDE Turns 30: The Free Desktop Project Behind WebKit and Blink
KDE is marking its 30th anniversary with community events, fundraising appeals, and a retrospective on three decades of free software development. The project i
Meta Rolls Out Paid Tiers Across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and AI
Meta has globally launched consumer subscriptions for its three flagship apps: Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus at $3.99/month, and WhatsApp Plus at $2.99/month
Meta's support AI handed over Instagram accounts to anyone who asked nicely
An account takeover flow targeting Instagram required only a username and a VPN pinned near the victim's city. The attacker contacted Meta's AI support, claimed