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ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion
A phishing campaign that ran for three months this year used invisible Unicode characters to hide financial lure words from email filters, and Microsoft's security researchers only caught it because they were hunting for something...
The Operational Limits of Agent Security (Dec 2025)
Eqty Lab published a security disclaimer for Cupcake, its open-source AI agent defense system, that makes an unusual admission for a security product: it tells customers upfront that the tool cannot fully contain a sufficiently mo...
Cloudflare hid my site from AI. I sell AI visibility
A developer who sells AI visibility services to local businesses discovered that his own website, and 36 demo pages he had been sending to prospects, were invisible to every major AI assistant. The culprit was not a deliberate con...
Quire – humans and AI agents editing local Markdown together
Most collaboration tools pick two of three: multiplayer editing, AI agent integration, or local plain files. Quire does all three. The open-source tool, now in public beta, turns a folder of Markdown files into a live multiplayer...
Lightpanda Session Bridge – Hand real logins to headless AI agents
Autonomous AI agents face a fundamental problem when they need to access web services: authentication. Every SaaS console, API dashboard, and cloud provider portal protects itself with Google OAuth, multi-factor authentication, pa...
Show HN: Relay – an update after three years on anonymous team check-ins
A team feedback tool called Relay claims to cut staff churn by 66% and increase profits by 20%, and its approach is simpler than you might expect: replace the annual engagement survey with a weekly pulse that takes less than a min...
The smallest edge AI device for local LLMs
Tiiny AI wants to put a 120-billion-parameter language model in your pocket. The company, founded in 2024 by a team from MIT, Stanford, HKUST, SJTU, Intel, and Meta, debuted the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab at CES 2026 and secured a Guinne...
Show HN: I was tired to check my mums WhatsApp last online, to see if she is ok
Healthcare device interoperability is a solved problem in theory and a mess in practice. Every manufacturer builds its own ecosystem, its own app, its own cloud service. A blood pressure monitor from one vendor cannot talk to a me...
El Yayster – a resident LLM that inhabits Emacs
Most Emacs LLM integrations turn the editor into a mouth: you type, a model replies into a buffer, and that is the interaction. El Yayster inverts that relationship entirely. Instead of Emacs talking to a model, the model inhabits...
An AI agent bought a physical t-shirt over HTTP 402 with USDC, no human involved
On September 7, an AI agent bought a physical t-shirt using only curl . No browser, no login, no human at the keyboard. The checkout took 40 seconds across six HTTP requests, the USDC payment landed on Base in two seconds, and Pri...