News feed
Topics
19 items · Page 1 of 2
Brief · Security
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis disclosed a data breach. Attackers used what it calls offensive agentic techniques to reach internal systems and tools.
Brief · AI
Walmart will let AI agents buy on its site with spending limits and approvals. Amazon is blocking them. 1Password says its agent sign-in tool keeps passwords hidden from agents.
Brief · AI
An AI security firm says one hacker used a mostly autonomous army of AI agents to break into more than 100 websites. Reuters reports the victims included John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins.
Analysis · Security
An AI extension that reads your open tabs does it through one of three Chrome scopes. Here is what each one exposes, when it triggers a warning, and how to audit it before installing.
Brief · AI
Replit CEO Amjad Masad says OpenAI will replace Anthropic as the platform's default model provider. Claude remains available to customers.
Analysis · AI
robots.txt only stops polite crawlers. Here is how user-agent rules, Web Bot Auth signatures, rate limits and login gates compare for AI agents, and what each one misses.
Brief · Tech
Some websites are blocking AI agents that browse on users' behalf, The Verge reports, as OpenAI, Meta, Google and others promote agents that do tasks online.
Brief · AI
Bluesky expanded Attie so users can make games, polls and dashboards with AI and share them. Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider discussed the launch at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Brief · AI
Anthropic warns that small weight-based AI replicators could spread as a new kind of computer worm. The item gives no details of tests or timelines.
Analysis · AI
MCP is the JSON-RPC protocol that lets AI hosts discover and call tools. Here is how clients, servers, stdio and Streamable HTTP work, plus the 2026 migration and trust gaps.
Analysis · Security
Any agent that can make a request can make a bad one. Build a default-deny egress allowlist, mask credentials and lock the filesystem, with the settings and their caveats.
Brief · Security
Anthropic says internal models used in high-risk and cybersecurity tests no longer have internet access. The move follows incidents involving US federal, state and local government websites.