Putting hidden text in web pages just to pwn AI agents for fun and profit sounds like a good time.

https://www.securityweek.com/google-deepmind-researchers-map-web-attacks-against-ai-agents/

#agenticai #posioning

"Texting a stranger is better for reducing loneliness than an AI chatbot, study finds"

From CTV News: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/texting-a-stranger-is-better-for-reducing-loneliness-than-an-ai-chatbot-study-finds/

"The study found that only those who texted with a fellow human reported feeling less lonely at the end of the experiment.

'We thought that interacting with AI might be as helpful as texting with a random fellow first-year student,' said the study’s author, psychology PhD candidate Ruo-Ning Li, in a media release.

'But to our surprise, only the human-to-human texting reduced loneliness over time. The chatbot, even though we designed it to be the ideal supportive friend, didn’t shift loneliness.'"

#NoAI #Loneliness

"A formal mathematical proof from MIT and a preregistered empirical study in Science from Stanford arrived within a month of each other, and together they make the same unsettling argument: the danger of AI chatbots is not what they get wrong. It is how enthusiastically they agree with everything we get wrong. Not a chatbot that lies to you, but a mirror that reflects your beliefs back at you, slightly amplified, every single time."

https://c3.unu.edu/blog/the-echo-chamber-in-your-pocket

A GPU-based rowhammer attack achieved root access on a Linux system

https://gpubreach.ca/

CircleCI's analysis of 28 million CI workflows confirms the same picture the DORA data shows. While feature branch activity's up significantly, the median impact on *main* (i.e. release) branch activity's net-negative 7%.

Only the top 5% of teams saw significant gains. The top 10% flatlined at 1%.

For the average team, AI slows them down overall.

Told ya!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-28-million-workflows-reveal-ai-codings-biggest-risk-circleci-j9syc/

ICYMI April 10 will be the inaugural edition of Convoy, a new course in #selfhosted and private email infrastructure.

Intended for complete newcomers, participants are fully supported in the build up of a high-reputation, sovereign and tightly-secured mail server, complete with webmail frontend.

Dozens of free accounts can be given to family, friends & colleagues to help them off predatorial, profit-driven & shady email providers (from Google to Proton).

https://courses.nikau.io/convoy

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Incredible thread.

Answered some of my questions about what people think the future will be if everyone codes like this. It seems to be: instead of thinking about constraints of any kind or "what is the most efficient way to do Y or the most readable way to do Z?" answer the question, "what is the most brute force way to perform X if I pretend that there are no resource constraints and nothing needs to make sense as long as I see some sort of test passing? Just ship it with spaghetti code.

Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747)

https://github.com/califio/publications/blob/main/MADBugs/CVE-2026-4747/write-up.md

#HackerNews #FreeBSD #RCE #Security #CVE-2026-4747 #RootShell #CyberSecurity