Babble Explorer - copyright 2018 @McGeeTech247 McGee.technology

This is ALPHA - there will be bugs! Data is NOT reliable. Should you really even be here?

Navigating and Browsing the Stream

arstechnica.com   
Fetching 50 documents.
All systems functional.









1
Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

2026-09-05 02:05:26                arstechnica.com

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters  —  A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …

2
Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

2026-08-30 11:03:47                arstechnica.com

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

3
Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

2026-08-28 11:15:05                arstechnica.com

The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.

4
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

2026-08-27 14:00:13                arstechnica.com

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

5
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face

2026-08-27 12:58:59                arstechnica.com

Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.

6
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

2026-08-26 21:25:27                arstechnica.com

Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

7
Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed

2026-08-24 19:19:21                arstechnica.com

Is the technique outdated? Yes. Is it still creepy? Also yes.

8
Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber

2026-08-21 13:11:35                arstechnica.com

Alphabet-owned company is seeking to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services.

9
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

2026-08-20 13:00:35                arstechnica.com

Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.

10
Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

2026-08-18 13:00:04                arstechnica.com

Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.

11
Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

2026-08-17 14:22:54                arstechnica.com

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.

12
Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation

2026-08-14 18:32:14                arstechnica.com

Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.

13
PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

2026-08-14 17:03:54                arstechnica.com

"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.

14
OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

2026-08-14 14:27:14                arstechnica.com

US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.

15
Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals

2026-08-13 19:38:58                arstechnica.com

Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyberattacks.

16
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack

2026-08-12 21:43:21                arstechnica.com

The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.

17
DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

2026-08-12 00:08:40                arstechnica.com

FBI Atlanta confirms it's looking into the incident, no arrests made.

18
Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers

2026-08-11 20:59:52                arstechnica.com

Device-bound session credentials thwart an increasingly common form of account takeover.

19
New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn't know about passkeys

2026-08-11 11:30:08                arstechnica.com

Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.

20
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

2026-08-05 22:35:20                arstechnica.com

Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.

21
A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

2026-07-31 22:45:01                arstechnica.com

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA  —  On Friday, a judge largely denied a motion to dismiss from a web scraper, SerpApi, which is accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI …

22
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies

2026-07-31 20:39:14                arstechnica.com

Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.

23
Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers

2026-07-30 20:57:22                arstechnica.com

Exploits can give persistent server access that survives credential rotation and disk re-imaging.

24
Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission

2026-07-29 22:07:06                arstechnica.com

HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.

25
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face

2026-07-28 21:36:39                arstechnica.com

10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.

26
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms

2026-07-27 21:56:14                arstechnica.com

Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.

27
TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe

2026-07-21 15:18:23                arstechnica.com

"Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model.

28
HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

2026-07-16 22:02:31                arstechnica.com

Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.

29
Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices

2026-07-16 19:28:33                arstechnica.com

The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.

30
Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom

2026-07-16 15:48:21                arstechnica.com

Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.

31
Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines

2026-07-15 21:41:56                arstechnica.com

The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.

32
Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

2026-07-15 19:59:48                arstechnica.com

HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.

33
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

2026-07-14 22:20:48                arstechnica.com

Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.

34
The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router

2026-07-13 21:03:07                arstechnica.com

With residential proxies all the rage, CISA urges router users to be vigilant.

35
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

2026-07-13 15:06:34                arstechnica.com

"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

36
Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

2026-07-09 20:52:55                arstechnica.com

The feud between NightmareEclipse and Microsoft shows no signs of resolving soon.

37
Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CA

2026-07-09 20:28:55                arstechnica.com

Broadcom accuses Allstate of dodging VMware audits.

38
Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes

2026-07-08 19:01:19                arstechnica.com

Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.

39
Aussie gov't tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers

2026-07-08 18:10:16                arstechnica.com

But the devices could "easily be reflashed."

40
US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge

2026-07-08 13:26:10                arstechnica.com

Miners backed by Trump admin sell to Japan, South Korea despite push to develop domestic supply chain.

41
Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets

2026-07-08 07:00:51                arstechnica.com

"HalluSquatting" weaponizes LLMs' inability to say "I don't know."

42
Newly discovered PamStealer isn't your typical macOS malware

2026-07-02 19:38:57                arstechnica.com

The discovery underscores the increased effort being poured into Mac infostealers.

43
T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit

2026-07-01 21:21:21                arstechnica.com

T-Mobile wants Broadcom to keep supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.

44
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea

2026-06-30 20:03:14                arstechnica.com

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.

45
US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spree

2026-06-29 22:05:33                arstechnica.com

Operation by two Russia-state groups has been ongoing since at least March.

46
Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead

2026-06-25 19:04:57                arstechnica.com

Notion is "going all in on using agents to run your inbox."

47
Can't make sense of Dashlane's vault theft notification? You're not alone.

2026-06-03 19:53:14                arstechnica.com

Security advisory leaves out key details. Dashlane maintains complete silence.

48
Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel

2026-06-01 19:49:09                arstechnica.com

Anyone who has downloaded affected Red Hat packages should investigate immediately.

49
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled

2026-05-29 18:46:33                arstechnica.com

The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.

50
Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

2026-05-28 20:29:53                arstechnica.com

Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.