Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge
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Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge
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Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop
Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly' ones
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Anthropic quietly fixed flaws in its Git MCP server that allowed for remote code execution
Prompt injection for the win
Remember VoidLink, the cloud-targeting Linux malware? An AI agent wrote it
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For the price of Netflix, crooks can now rent AI to run cybercrime
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Update Chainlit to the latest version ASAP
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