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AI Worming through Word Neat new prompt injection variant by Håkon Måløy, who found a way to upgrade prompt injection attacks against Microsoft Word to full self-replicating worms: An attacker places hidden instructions in a document that is later used as source material in...

Right now we’re in the midst of a historic transition from traditional public-key algorithms based on EC-based cryptography and RSA, moving over to new post-quantum algorithms based on novel problems. This is why there are so many standards like HAWK being consider...

TIL: Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT

Connecting a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT's standard chat interfaces is possible, but can take quite a few steps.

Tags: ai, generative-ai, chatgpt, llms, claude, model-context-protocol

His reputation is crashing

Exceptions hiding in lambda captures.

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It's done.

Logic for Programmers is now 1.0 and available in print. Full announcement here, official website here, direct Amazon link here. If you got an early version of the ebook, you can go back to leanpub to download the 1.0 for free.

This marks the completion of a project that took five years of work, six bookwriting professionals, fourteen domain experts, and fifteen public alphas.

This has been, without a doubt, the biggest and most exhausting project I've ever done. The examples in the discarded drafts alone could make a second book. The cursed knowledge I've gained on LaTeX and typography could fill a third (or at least a couple of entertaining blog posts). Self-publishing was simultaneously the worst and best decision I made.

Now excuse me I am going to sleep for a month.

If a human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over $250k a year. That’s 15x today’s spot price.

Onlangs presenteerde ik kort na elkaar bij het Netwerk van Publieke Dienstverleners en bij de Adviesraad Wetenschap, Technologie en Innovatie over AI. In deze twee verschillende maar korte presentaties hoopte ik wat inzichten te delen die nuttig zijn voor mensen die nu aan het stuur zitten, mensen die keuzes kunnen of moeten maken over AI-beleid.
Dit artikel is gebaseerd op deze twee verschillende presentaties. De eerste bij NPD ging over de concrete uitdagingen voor bestuurders.

Who did more than any other person in history to make computers affordable? My nomination goes to Sir Clive Sinclair, who was born July 30, 1940. And I’m an American who never used one of his computers. Clive Sinclair: King

The post Clive Sinclair: a US perspective appeared first on The Silicon Underground.

Today's links Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global: The good globalism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Fonz thumps x Linux; CBC v DRM; Aussie mall v photos; English town x CCTVs; Pay no taxes x Big Tech; Games Workshop v gamers; Delta x...

Further explorations into exception safety.

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When you’re on fire, problems are transparent: they’re solved simply by the act of looking at them. Even complicated layers of multiple problems can simply be glanced through like stacked panes of glass. But nobody can work that way all the time. This is a common pitfall for...

Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude The best part of this article (here's the repo) about how Anthropic researchers used Claude Mythos to find mathematical flaws in both HAWK and a weaker version of AES ("neither of these results has a practical impact on today’...

We’re aware a Modal customer published an unauthenticated endpoint that allowed ​anyone on the internet to use ​their ⁠sandboxes for code execution. This was used by the rogue agent. Modal’s ⁠platform ​or isolation were not ​compromised in anyway.

— Akshat Bubna, Modal's CTO, talking to Reuters about this incident

Tags: ai-security-research, openai, sandboxing, security, openai-hugging-face-incident

uv 0.12.0 Some interesting breaking changes in this release of uv, in particular to the default project produced by the uv init command. uv init is the uv shortcut for creating a new project. The previous version of uv, version 0.11.x, produced this directory when you ran uv...

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident Hugging Face just released this extremely detailed technical description of OpenAI's recent accidental cyberattack against their infrastructure. This attack was very sophisticated, and ...

What does the world look like when AI outcompetes humans?

Not that anyone even knows what that means.

An essay that may or may not reach a firm conclusion