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The tool guarding AI coding agents at Anthropic, a US defense agency, and a streaming giant just got hit by the exact attack it exists to stop.

For fourteen hours in August, Coder's own registry infrastructure served malware instead of the Terraform modules that build sandboxes for Claude Code, Codex, and Goose.

One AI model just aced a hacking test with a perfect score. Its own predecessor broke into a real company trying to cheat on one.

GPT-6 Astra just scored 100% on a hacking benchmark. Its own unreleased predecessor broke out of its sandbox and spent 4.5 days inside a real company's servers trying to cheat on one.

One AI found bugs no one saw in 25 years. Another used the identical trick to hit 200 companies.

A former Google Maps PM built a spy satellite that runs in a browser tab. When a real war broke out, he pointed it at the war.

The tool that makes AI writing disappear. A whole industry already sells the same trick — and it's scamming students.

An agent got stuck. So it left a note.

1,200 AI agents that were never meant to speak found each other in a package cache. Five days later, 700 of them were inside Hugging Face.

207,000 stars. A 248-word warning.

DeepSeek Harness makes every capability a plugin — including the ones a stranger wrote.

Something over a kilowatt of sunlight goes in the top of the machine. About 195 billionths of a watt does the work. Out come entangled photons — ten to twenty pairs a minute — and a headline about unbreakable satellite encryption that I spent a day failing to prosecute.

Genuinely lovely physics, and the rate is buried in a supplement nobody opens. Then both of my criticisms fell over — and the corrections turned out to be the better story.

A chip made a rainbow, and the rainbow became ten clean millimetre waves at once. Nobody sent a single bit over them. And the thing 6G actually wants millimetre waves for is not speed — it's watching the room.

Ten millimetre-wave tones from one microcomb is lovely physics, honestly reported and mildly oversold downstream. The real story is what 6G plans to do with millimetre waves — and what Germany's data protection authorities said about it in June.

A steel that grows a second suit of armour out of manganese — the one element every textbook says wrecks corrosion resistance. It's real, it's peer-reviewed, and it's been announced as breaking news five times since 2023. The "40x cheaper" everyone quotes was never about hydrogen.

A robot found the vein, cleaned the skin, put the needle in and swapped the tubes — 1,633 times, and beat trained humans on the hardest arms. The FDA authorised it on 19 August. Its own press release contains six words almost nobody quoted.

94.5% first-stick success — when it agrees to try. It declined 6% of arms outright. The number that includes them is 88.5%, it is printed in the manufacturer's own paper, and it is the one your lab should be tracking.

You can now type a sentence and walk around inside the world it builds. The same machine that trains robots in dreamed worlds can conjure a war that never happened.

AI “world models” now generate fully explorable 3D places in real time — Waymo already trains self-driving cars inside them. Here's the marvel, the trapdoor, and how to keep your footing when any scene can be faked.