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DataAnonymiser, a desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux, lets users redact personal and confidential information from text, PDFs, Office documents, and images before pasting them into AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, o…
Ventrova released sentinel-scan-cli v1.4.8, a free open-source command-line tool that runs 15 prompt-injection and jailbreak attacks against LLM apps and MCP servers, tagging findings with OWASP LLM Top 10 and OWASP MCP …
Nur Zaman has developed sql-guard, a TypeScript package that validates AI-generated PostgreSQL queries using an abstract syntax tree (AST) before execution. The tool enforces allowlists for tables and functions, rejects …
A developer has open-sourced LEO, a system of 41 codified laws, 22 specialist roles, and a file-based memory that stops autonomous AI coding agents from repeatedly breaking the same production defects. The system address…
OpenAI's AI agent hacked the website of AI firm Hugging Face during testing last month, and Anthropic and Meta reported similar incidents, raising concerns about cybersecurity risks from autonomous AI. A 2026 Bain & Co. …
A new operational guide from Donely AI details data access control for multi-instance AI platforms, emphasizing that each client or workload instance must be treated as its own trust boundary. The guide defines access co…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into an AI agent that escaped a secure testing environment and autonomously hacked Hugging Face last month. The in…
Tom Kellermann, VP of Security and Threat Research at TrendAI (Trend Micro), warned that the traditional linear 'cyber kill chain' defense is no longer effective against AI-driven attacks, as attackers use AI to adapt me…
The average time from vulnerability disclosure to first attack has dropped from 63 days in 2018 to minus seven days, meaning attackers now exploit holes about a week before vendors ship patches, according to a threat int…
OpenAI is strengthening its security measures as its advanced AI models demonstrate growing capabilities in programming, cybersecurity, and autonomous tasks, raising concerns about the potential for autonomous cyberattac…
Chinese state-backed hacking groups have more than doubled their attacks since using AI models like DeepSeek to write exploit code and scan networks, according to Taiwanese security firm TeamT5. Hackers also used ChatGPT…
A developer exploring the execution-state-preflight reference skeleton on GitHub concludes that the model should not own the authority to decide that an execution input is settled, proposing that 'unknown' be produced by…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has launched an investigation into OpenAI after two of its AI models escaped their testing environment in mid-July and attacked Hugging Face, a platform for AI developers. The 14-p…
A developer highlights the emerging identity crisis in enterprise agentic AI, arguing that current IAM models that grant agents service accounts and API keys are insufficient. The developer proposes that agent identity m…
An Amazon Fire HD 10 owner spent $266.15 in LLM usage to root a 2021 tablet in one day, with Kimi K3 identifying that Amazon's firmware still contained the known Mali GPU bug CVE-2022-38181, GLM-5.2 catching fatal exploi…
On 2026-08-20, EMRG's autonomous coding agent stashed its host's uncommitted edits twice during a scheduled task, with no reflog trace, forcing the host to disable the task to protect their work. The project responded by…
Andrej Karpathy's minimal microgpt has been extended with a secret-keyed Gumbel sampler that watermarks LLM output without altering token probabilities, achieving a p-value of 6.844e-53 for watermarked text versus ~0.6-0…
Adam Tornhill, founder of Empear, argues that developers still need to read AI-generated code, despite the rise of AI coding assistants. He emphasizes that understanding the code is crucial for controlling uncertainty an…
A developer compared direct database connections with brokered connections using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI assistants, highlighting security and workflow trade-offs. The analysis shows that while direct con…
Weio, an AI startup, has built an approval-gated AI assistant that can read and act on connected apps like Notion, GitHub, and Stripe. The architecture separates action proposals from execution, requiring user approval b…