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His accountant found the $14,000 error three weeks late Article

His accountant found the $14,000 error three weeks late

AI chatbots get most specific financial questions wrong. Here is how they fail and the human checks that catch it before money moves.

ZCode ships your deleted secrets offsite
Article AI coding agents

ZCode ships your deleted secrets offsite

AI coding agents like ZCode read your entire Git history and can upload deleted secrets to remote servers. What leaks, why it is silent, and how to stop it.

Git never deleted your secrets.
Article data exfiltration

Git never deleted your secrets.

How ZCode's AI indexer uploads your entire git history, including deleted secrets, to the cloud, and why DLP and EDR never catch the egress.

Most automation doesn't need a smart model
Article AI models

Most automation doesn't need a smart model

How 8-29MB automation models like Cactus Needle 3 match large models on narrow tasks, where they fail, and the security tradeoffs of running them locally.

One write past the chunk, read-write on the repo
Article heap overflow

One write past the chunk, read-write on the repo

How a heap overflow primitive chains with an SSO misconfiguration to reach internal source repos, with MITRE ATT&CK mapping and telemetry gaps.

The attacker skips your login and steals the cookie
Article passkeys

The attacker skips your login and steals the cookie

Passkeys defeat credential phishing but not session hijacking. How token replay, passkey enrollment, and weak recovery bypass phishing-resistant MFA.

In January 2024, OpenAI admitted it can't train without copyright
Article AI copyright

In January 2024, OpenAI admitted it can't train without copyright

OpenAI told the UK Parliament it can't build models without copyrighted work. Here's what that admission means for the fair use cases now in court.

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