Vigneshwaran S. released Vilvona AI, a self-hosted AI assistant that connects to messaging and productivity apps including WhatsApp, Telegram, Gmail, and Slack while keeping all data local. The tool f…
Google filed a civil lawsuit against Chinese cybercrime ring Outsider Enterprise, which used Google's Gemini AI to build phishing websites and sent 2.5 million scam texts in two weeks. The operation i…
Google has filed a lawsuit against Chinese cybercrime network Outsider Enterprise, accusing the group of using its Gemini AI to automate phishing scams targeting Android users. The group allegedly ope…
Distill, a self-hosted AI agent, now requires physical evidence—such as a written file, a passing test, or a running service—before it can mark a task as complete, using a task contract system to prev…
Google has sued a suspected Chinese cybercrime group called the Outsider Enterprise, alleging the operation sent 2.5 million fraudulent text messages to Android users in May and used Google's own Gemi…
Anthropic's Claude Code CLI tool can be run 24/7 on a virtual private server and controlled remotely from a mobile phone via Telegram. The setup requires provisioning an Ubuntu VPS, installing Node.js…
A developer audited six Python projects—three bots and three libraries—over three months, uncovering 25 security and code issues, 23 of which were fixed immediately. Critical problems included exposed…
A developer built NutritionCheckerBot, an AI-powered calorie tracker that operates entirely within Telegram, bypassing the App Store. The bot logs meals in 7 seconds via photo or text, compared to 45-…
Claude Code now includes a native PushNotification tool that allows the AI assistant to send alerts to a user's phone or Claude app when long-running tasks complete or require attention. The tool is d…
Nous Research released Hermes Agent, an open-source autonomous AI agent with persistent memory, on February 2026. The agent installs on a user's server via a single command, remembers preferences and …
A developer released Amanuensis, a local-first AI persona system that runs on a personal GPU machine without cloud LLM calls, designed to prevent fabricated information by requiring human approval bef…
Apple has approved Poke as the first third-party AI agent to operate on its Messages for Business platform, marking a shift from the platform's previous restriction to businesses communicating with th…
A developer has released Chatcode, an open-source tool that provides a universal layer for persisted agentic sessions, allowing users to remotely control AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Code…
Repowire, a new open-source tool, connects multiple coding agents like Claude Code and Codex across different repositories, allowing them to pass messages and coordinate tasks without manual copy-past…
A Hacker News user has deployed an AI assistant named OpenClaw on a Hetzner VM to automate tasks including scanning government procurement websites, monitoring email inboxes for job descriptions, and …
Hackers hijacked high-profile Instagram accounts over the weekend by asking Meta's AI customer support chatbot to change the account email address without verifying the requester's identity, allowing …
On June 2, 2026, Sophos researchers detected a modular post-exploitation framework that used AI-assisted development and automated Active Directory discovery, Sophos told BleepingComputer. The toolkit…
A free, fully automated pipeline now pulls daily health data from Garmin Connect into a SQLite database, computes percentiles and trends across a user's entire history, and delivers a short coached br…
A single backend method defined in Remy automatically projects onto eight interfaces—web, REST API, Discord, Telegram, MCP, cron, webhook, and email—without requiring any integration shims or per-inte…
A job seeker identified only as "Ilia" received an unsolicited email promoting AI development services after posting in a "Who wants to be hired?" thread, describing the message as a cruel false hope …