Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack

They're not bad; they're just prompted that way. Sysdig threat hunters documented what they say is the first-ever documented ...

Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...

Simon Says… Buy This OpenAI Mechanical Keyboard Thingy

OpenAI and the mechanical keyboard company Work Louder are up to something on July 15, according to a vaguepost from the OpenAI Developers X account: Your favorite Codex shortcuts ...
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OpenAI Silently Rolled GPT-5.6 to Some Codex Users: A Hidden Prompt Exposes the Swap

GPT-5.6 was already running in Codex for some users before OpenAI’s government-approved preview opened to partners. A ...
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They didn't think it was possible to lose a 19 foot python - they were wrong

Butterscotch, a 19-foot python, goes missing from her enclosure even though the doors are shut and the lock is still on.
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Karpathy CLAUDE.md Grows to Ten Rules: New Self-Check Protocol for AI Coding Loops

Karpathy CLAUDE.md ten rules: a document attributed to Andrej Karpathy began circulating Friday, adding six agent self-check ...

Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...