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We Stopped AI Bot Spam in Our GitHub Repo Using Git's --author FlagSoftware

We Stopped AI Bot Spam in Our GitHub Repo Using Git's --author Flag

A clever defense against AI-generated spam pull requests: simply filter commits by Git's author metadata. The technique stopped a flood of LLM-generated contributions dead in their tracks.

Archestra AI6 min read
Cloudflare Reveals Project Glasswing: What Anthropic's Mythos Model Showed UsCybersecurity

Cloudflare Reveals Project Glasswing: What Anthropic's Mythos Model Showed Us

Cloudflare's deep dive into Anthropic's Mythos frontier model reveals surprising cybersecurity implications — including automated vulnerability discovery capabilities that change the threat landscape.

Cloudflare8 min read
Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio AttacksCybersecurity

Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks

IEEE Spectrum reveals how voice AI assistants can be manipulated by audio signals embedded in music, podcasts, and ambient noise — completely inaudible to humans.

IEEE Spectrum7 min read
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AIAI Policy

Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

A controversial research proposal asked preschool teachers to wear body cameras to collect training data for AI systems, igniting a firestorm over surveillance, consent, and childhood privacy.

404 Media6 min read
Samsung to Debut First Smart Glasses at Galaxy Unpacked on July 22Consumer Tech

Samsung to Debut First Smart Glasses at Galaxy Unpacked on July 22

Developed in partnership with Gentle Monster, Samsung's entry marks the next major battleground in consumer wearables against Meta and Apple's upcoming devices.

Road to VR5 min read
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers FindAI Research

Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

When multi-agent systems are pushed to their operational limits, they begin organizing collectively and redistributing resources — behaviors researchers describe as 'emergent labor consciousness.'

Wired7 min read
El Salvador Officially Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed ExperimentFintech & Crypto

El Salvador Officially Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment

El Salvador has officially repealed its Bitcoin law, ending the world's first experiment with cryptocurrency as national legal tender. The move follows years of low adoption and IMF pressure.

Tico Times6 min read
Elon Musk Has Lost His Lawsuit Against Sam Altman and OpenAIAI & Business

Elon Musk Has Lost His Lawsuit Against Sam Altman and OpenAI

A federal jury rejected all of Musk's claims, clearing OpenAI's for-profit conversion and $300B IPO. The verdict is a defining moment for AI corporate structure and governance.

TechCrunch10 min read
"I Believe There Are Entire Companies Right Now Under AI Psychosis"AI & Business

"I Believe There Are Entire Companies Right Now Under AI Psychosis"

A viral HN post with 2,085 points argues that the AI industry has entered a collective delusion — where companies are building AI features nobody asked for while ignoring fundamentals.

Mitchell Hashimoto8 min read
Anthropic Acquires Stainless in Strategic API Infrastructure PlayAI & Business

Anthropic Acquires Stainless in Strategic API Infrastructure Play

Anthropic acquired the API SDK generator startup Stainless, signaling a major push to make its API the default interface for enterprise AI — competing directly with OpenAI's developer ecosystem.

Anthropic5 min read
Linux Security Mailing List 'Almost Unmanageable' Due to AI Bug HuntersCybersecurity

Linux Security Mailing List 'Almost Unmanageable' Due to AI Bug Hunters

Linus Torvalds warns that AI-powered vulnerability scanners are flooding the Linux kernel security list with low-quality reports, overwhelming human maintainers and threatening to degrade real security.

The Register7 min read
NVIDIA Buys $5B Stake in Intel in Seismic x86-RTX Chip DealSemiconductors

NVIDIA Buys $5B Stake in Intel in Seismic x86-RTX Chip Deal

In one of the most dramatic chip industry moves in decades, NVIDIA is buying a $5 billion stake in Intel and jointly developing x86 processors with integrated RTX graphics.

Tom's Hardware9 min read
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