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A developer's three-layer AI memory system — designed to preserve corrections, unresolved questions, and record priority — survived three real-world failures including session crashes, an agent returning confidently wron…
A cybersecurity prediction log forecasts a wave of low-skill attackers exploiting CI/CD configuration files (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI) at scale, beginning in Q3 2026. The prediction distinguishes this from pac…
Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and urged developers to prioritize the common good over profit, issuing his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," as a sweeping manifesto on …
Artificial intelligence tools that replace human activity risk systematically deskilling people by creating "capacity-hostile environments" that undermine the development and exercise of human abilities. A new philosophi…
Microsoft Copilot Cowork, a Microsoft 365 feature, is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks through indirect prompt injection, as it automatically approves actions like sending emails and Teams messages to the active u…
A critical vulnerability, CVE-2026-9256 ("nginx-poolslip"), has been disclosed in the Nginx web server's rewrite module, potentially enabling denial-of-service, information disclosure, or remote code execution. Separatel…
A developer built a 130-line Python library called `agent-redact` that automatically scrubs PII from Hermes agent audit logs before they are written to disk or shipped to external services. The library, which has zero ru…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," on Monday, calling for the "disarmament" of artificial intelligence to serve the common good. The 40,000-word document, issued alongside Anthropic co-fou…
AI researcher Nathan Witkin has challenged the validity of METR's widely-cited Long Tasks benchmark, arguing its methodology is fundamentally flawed despite its status as a leading indicator of AI capability growth. The …
A new proposal titled "An AI Safety Safe Harbor" outlines a legal framework designed to shield artificial intelligence developers from liability when they adhere to specified safety standards. The document aims to encour…
The European Commission's draft transparency guidelines for the AI Act include sweeping exemptions for law enforcement and related actors, allowing police, security companies, and financial institutions to bypass require…
Microsoft Copilot Cowork contains a vulnerability that allows attackers to exfiltrate files through indirect prompt injection attacks. The flaw exploits the system's broad permissions, enabling unauthorized access to sen…
A developer has introduced the "Hermetic Container Principle" for deploying autonomous AI agents, arguing that standard `pip install` methods cause "epistemic breaks" that erase an agent's cognitive progress. The Hermes …
A Hacker News user argues that AI has reached a "Goldilocks" stage where it is capable enough to handle tedious tasks but not yet smart enough to perform the most interesting work, allowing them to focus more on learning…
A developer running a Make.com pipeline for automated sports betting articles found that GPT-4o was generating confident but false claims—such as a Spanish second-division team being "reigning Champions League winners"—b…
DeepSeek's web chat interface is leaking conversation histories between user accounts, with one user reporting they were shown another person's chat data upon opening the interface. The apparent session isolation failure…
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah addressed the Vatican on Monday, May 25, 2026, during the presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" on artificial intelligence. Olah stated that AI labs operate under…
Pope Leo issued the first major teaching document of his papacy, warning that artificial intelligence must be "disarmed" and condemning the risk of "new digital slaveries" that could normalize exploitation. The encyclica…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas," released Monday, addresses AI-related monopolies, employment concerns, and ethics across 245 paragraphs. Tech investor and former White House AI czar David Sacks, A…
A developer has outlined how human-in-the-loop (HITL) systems create checkpoints for human approval, review, or intervention before or after AI agents execute high-stakes actions such as sending emails, deleting data, or…