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Story of the Day
Do not ask again" prompt leads to passwords, API keys, and more being shared. Claude Code is leaking sensitive information on public GitHub instances thanks to a partial oversight in the way its settings files are handled.
Ars Technica
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MIT Technology Review
A polygraph tracks body signals such as heart rate and breathing, on the theory that lying changes them. The Pentagon's proposed Polygraph+ program would score those signals with machine learning and add standoff sensing, which reads those signals without touching the person. Experts are skeptical, since a racing pulse can signal nerves as easily as a lie, and tech-based lie detection has a long record of failure.
Wired
DeepMind researchers were able to formally verify that the widely used encryption protocol works as intended. Do the same for “all the software of the world.
The Decoder
Meta is introducing Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient AI model, optimized for repetitive agent tasks such as tool calls, routing, and data extraction. According to Meta, it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Claude Haiku 5.5 or GPT-6 Luna.
Ars Technica
*sshole" poses a serious threat to Internet security. Hackers are actively exploiting a recently discovered critical vulnerability that allows them to log in to privileged accounts on many Linux systems, multiple researchers are reporting.
MIT Technology Review
As voters went to the polls across the US last week, I was in Ashburn, Virginia, part of what’s known as Data Center Alley, the world’s largest data center hub. It’s also where the backlash now sweeping the country arguably first began taking shape.
