New, by me: How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts

AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these powerful and assertive new tools are rapidly shifting the security priorities for organizations, while blurring the lines between data and code, trusted co-worker and insider threat, ninja hacker and novice code jockey.

Read more (and boost please!):

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts/

#openclaw #AI #agentic #aiagents #lethaltrifecta

If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

What's Next For 404 Media.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/two-years-404-media-anniversary/

If you come with a complex problem to an experienced coder, they will ask you a lot of strange questions.

They don't just want to spit out the code you requested, but to understand the core problem.

Usually those questions will annoy you. It will make your problem uglier and dirtier than you thought and will ruin the beautiful solution you have in mind. But that approach gives you the chance to get you a real solution.

The AI doesn't ask you all those pesky questions. It doesn't want to understand the problem and just spits out code.

I understand the appeal of that ... and the risks.

"I feel like a lot of people are going to install these MCP servers without knowing what they're doing and thus install a lot of malware and exploits. There's basically no security going on here. And that could be a big problem."

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/computer_algebra_mcp/

by Stephen Diehl

Today is the International Pallas Cat Day! Please, fill Fedi with this awesome annoyed cat that wants to look like a stone.

#manul #manulDay #PallasCat #InternationalPallasCatDay

A dream come true: to see my art in a museum! 🤩 It's the portrait I painted of Charles Darwin.
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1073/my-portrait-of-charles-darwin-is-in-a-museum-now

#krita

"I find it really weird that – just because AI is magic and all – we allow huge corporations to release something that is so obviously not up to standard that they have to remind you about it with every use. How is that acceptable? Why do we accept that with AI companies and not anywhere else?"

(Original title: That asterisk …)

https://tante.cc/2025/03/21/that-asterisk/