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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Anthropic▲ 150

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. Below we describe what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI labs to perform similar reviews.

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• UEFA▲ 903

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

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• Mark Nottingham▲ 265

Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

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• Jim Nielsen▲ 250

The AI Aesthetic

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

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• Grey Swan Signals▲ 102

The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it

Grey swans are foreseeable risks most investors miss. Grey Swan Signals tracks market stress across volatility, valuations, credit, liquidity, & bank health in one place.

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• Geospatial ML▲ 145

I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

We reviewed 22 ML conference submissions this summer. Fifteen had fabricated citations, hallucinated authors, or clear LLM slop, so we complain about that a bit, and release the paper…

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• Graybeard▲ 75

The Religion of Speed

At some point, “moving fast” stopped being a practical concern and became a moral position. You see it damn near everywhere now. How fast can we ship this...

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• The Session▲ 46

The Session You Cannot take with you

Inference APIs are filling sessions with encrypted reasoning, hidden search results, opaque compaction, and encrypted subagent messages. A growing form of lock-in.

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• Mark Nottingham▲ 3

JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master

This pull request implements the first preview of JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview). This pull request also includes the implementation of JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM…

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HN — Best of the Week

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• UEFA▲ 890

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.

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• Brian Krebs▲ 647

Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connection out to strangers. But a…

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• GitHub▲ 552

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can…

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• Bottleneck Labs▲ 338

We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

If an agent had a wallet, a computer, and 24 hours, could it run a profitable startup?

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• Science▲ 597

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

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• OpenAI▲ 537

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

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• DeepMind▲ 516

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

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