Turning Cluely into Malware
Security researchers at Hacktron disclosed a vulnerability chain in the Electron-based AI assistant Cluely, found in July 2025, that let a malicious page loaded in the app's renderer process silently …
Security researchers at Hacktron disclosed a vulnerability chain in the Electron-based AI assistant Cluely, found in July 2025, that let a malicious page loaded in the app's renderer process silently …
Fabric's analysis of over 19,000 live technical interviews found that 38.5% of candidates triggered AI-assisted cheating signals between July 2025 and January 2026, with the rate peaking at 45% by Sep…
A Columbia student named Chungin "Roy" Lee built Interview Coder, a tool that screenshots coding problems during interviews and feeds them to an AI for real-time solutions, used it in an Amazon interv…
In June 2025, Wix paid $80 million in cash for Base44, a six-month-old company built solo by Maor Shlomo, who grew it entirely by documenting the build in public on LinkedIn and X; nine months later i…
A new category of AI cheating tools, including Cluely, Interview Coder, and Final Round AI, uses invisible GPU overlays to render LLM-generated answers on a candidate's monitor beneath the screen-shar…
InterviewWatch, a new tool that detects AI assistance during live technical interviews, reports that 38.5% of 19,368 candidates were flagged for AI-assisted cheating, with rates climbing from 9% to 45…
A Brown University professor reported 40 of 86 students scoring 100% on a take-home exam, calling it mass AI fraud. Fabric's analysis of 19,368 technical interviews found 38.5% of candidates used AI t…
A surge in data breaches and compliance requirements is driving professionals to adopt offline meeting recorders that transcribe and summarize meetings entirely on local devices. Tools like Siplinx AI…
Honrly, a local-first, self-hostable interview-integrity tool, has released its source code, demonstrating that AI cheating tools like Cluely and Interview Coder are easily detectable. The tool scans …
Zero Assist, a new desktop application, detects AI cheating in remote technical interviews by monitoring for unauthorized tools like ChatGPT and screen overlays. The app runs transparently in the back…
Despite record national wealth, the median American faces diminishing opportunities for success across academia, business, and other fields due to an increasingly skewed distribution of returns where …