AI Agents Are Coming for Your Dating Life
…an image model to generate the sprites and coding automation tools to flesh out the codebase. Then they simulated a mini-hackathon within the virtual world they had created, populated with agents…
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Cyberattack on a Car Breathalyzer Firm Leaves Drivers Stuck
…Iranian Hack ‘Disrupted’ Emergency Medical Care in Maryland Hospitals, FBI Says Hospitals and emergency medical services in Maryland were impacted by the Iranian-linked hack on medical technology firm Stryker, court documents…
The AI Era Is Creating a Bug-Hunting Arms Race
As agentic AI models become more adept at both autonomously identifying software vulnerabilities and developing exploits for them—in other words, identifying weaknesses and creating hacking tools—vulnerability disclosure programs are being…
The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones
…ShinyHunter Hackers Exploit Oracle Zero-Day Bug in Intrusion Spree Google warned on Thursday that the cybercriminal group known as ShinyHunters was on a rampage through victim networks in the education sector…
‘Pretty Crazy’ Token Usage Is Testing Bosses’ Bet on AI
…He’s hoping a recent AI hackathon for the finance team spurs it to automate its extensive manual processes, such as collecting money from customers and generating quarterly accounting. The operations leader…
They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
…The Hacker Quarterly. In true startup fashion, Donaldson picked up all sorts of eclectic IT jobs in the company’s infancy—fixing printers, recovering hacked WordPress websites—to help fund Micay’s…
The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked
…Now hacking incidents like this are not new. They happen all the time, but what was interesting and especially alarming in this case is how the hackers had done it, which is…
GE’s Wi-Fi-Enabled Smart Coffee Maker Is Good but Not Quite Great
…I hacked together some automation with a Hoobs system running on a Raspberry Pi, but the ideal outcome of a fresh pot waiting for me when I returned to my home from…
Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…1983 movie in which Matthew Broderick plays a computer hacker who nearly triggers World War III when he accesses a newly automated NORAD system that can launch nuclear strikes against the Soviet…
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
…Budgets for team events would increase, he said, and a large hackathon planned for next month could also help bring the company together. By the end of the year, employees in many…