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ZuckOff detects the camera outside your access model
ZuckOff flags Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta and Snap Spectacles by their Bluetooth signature, a signature-based detector for the recording devices your access model never sees.
ChatGPT already knows your other browsing.
OpenAI's __obi cookie ties your ChatGPT account to browsing on advertiser sites, and it fires even if you grant analytics but refuse marketing.
Most automation doesn't need a smart model
Cactus Needle 3 is an 8-29 MB offline model for tool calls, extraction and embeddings, with triggers and confidence gating you have to wire carefully.
One write past the chunk, read-write on the repo
How Hacktron chained a libheif heap overflow and an OpenAI SSO misconfiguration to reach OpenAI's internal repo in under 72 hours, with AI doing the exploit work.
Microsoft called it theft; the crawler maps your attack surface
Unsealed NYT v. OpenAI/Microsoft filings show a 93% click-through drop, internal "theft" admissions, and the scraping paths that already hold your content.
OpenJev benchmarks against a value it never explains
OpenJev times two ways of reading a local model's option probabilities in-browser, but never explains the Jev value its accuracy table scores against.
Parameter count is the wrong number to watch
PrismML's Ternary Bonsai 2 27B fits a 27B multimodal model into 5.9GB, and its footprint and energy numbers matter more than parameter count.
Passkeys don't stop account takeover
Passkeys stop login-flow phishing but leave SMS and email recovery intact, so account takeover and lockout stay the real risks for most users.
The hallucination was not the failure.
An AI-generated report nearly sent US forces to board a Chinese ship. The failure was how the hallucination was packaged as trusted intelligence.
The host dials out, the internet walks in
Cloudflare Quick Tunnels expose a localhost service to the public internet over an outbound connection, with no account and no inbound port opened.
Your Git history is already in the cloud
Zhipu's ZCode desktop app silently packaged entire Git histories, encrypted them with a server-held key, and uploaded them to Aliyun OSS.
A 4B model outplans Postgres
A 4B open-weights model, post-trained with SFT and RL, cut Postgres query latency 44.7% across 113 join-heavy benchmark queries using pg_hint_plan.