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Shubham Shah and Sam Curry report administrative identity access that led to owner-equivalent connected-car app authority on permissioned vehicles. Their November 7 publications describe earlier resea
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John Langford says AI Frontiers is over after its move into Microsoft AI. His account describes a clash over research priorities, shared training infrastructure and a missing route into real use. Auto
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A wrong saved landmark sent Claude over the same Pokémon ledge three times in Anthropic's reported experiment. Transcript-backed dreaming corrected the note, while separate contract pages and verbatim
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Claude Code added the signed-in account's email address to the model's context, and the agent sometimes put that address into the User-Agent header of curl requests it wrote for sites that ask scripts
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OpenAI reports 948 unique local privilege-escalation findings and candidate patches from a controlled Linux research pipeline, at about $1.2 million in API credits. The count uses distinct candidate p
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Google plans to put Search and other listed services off by default for managed school student accounts. Its official clarification permits choosing Search separately from Gemini and Gemini Notebook.
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An MIT-affiliated study used GPT-6 Astra to edit a small Qwen model's weights and help more answers finish. Its reported math-score jump depended on a targeted loop repair, Python analysis and practic
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OccupySaaS is using AI to develop self-hostable alternatives to subscription software. SalesCompel, its Salesforce-compatible project, has an early persistent Go/PostgreSQL customer-record slice and a
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Four developer stories, each attributed to its source. Jepsen's analysis of the ParticleDB database found 96 issues, including lost committed writes in the default transaction mode of the last release
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