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Article Chrome wipes everything but Google
Chrome again retains google.com data through a user-set clear-on-exit wipe. Analysis of the exemption, X-Client-Data, and cookie-theft exposure.
qBittorrent escaped its sandbox and owned the host
A sandbox controls what code can do, not what code is. When qBittorrent escaped confinement, provenance was the control that was never applied.
An anonymity tool is not anonymity
A Meta executive using Tor was unmasked as a torrent pirate by a private rights holder. A privacy tool is not anonymity; anonymity is an outcome.
Chromium executes attacker code across every version
A zero-day sandbox RCE hits all Chromium versions under active exploitation, with no confirmed fixed build and a single containment control shown ineffective.
Context is the whole bill
Portal by Spotify cut Claude Code token usage ~90% by serving scoped code slices instead of whole files, and why that matters for production AI systems.
Same task, different bets
Claude, Codex and Cursor pick different tools across 17k runs - here is how to measure that revealed policy and wrap it in controls before it hits production.
The best terminal assistant has no AI
TERMy runs without an LLM to show where deterministic retrieval beats AI-assisted terminal work: bounded inputs, known answers, instant offline lookups.
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