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 (HTM) [2026-09-04] OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
       In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
       
 (HTM) [2026-09-04] “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
       Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
       
 (HTM) [2026-09-04] Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
       A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
       
 (HTM) [2026-09-03] Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance
       Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.
       
 (HTM) [2026-09-03] VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent
       Pro soccer team's CTO points to "issues with the Broadcom takeover."
       
 (HTM) [2026-09-02] I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale
       The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.
       
 (HTM) [2026-09-02] BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all
       What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-31] Think twice before installing this device promising free movies
       In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-30] Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
       The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-28] Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP
       The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-27] Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
       227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-27] How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
       Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-26] AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
       Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-24] Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed
       Is the technique outdated? Yes. Is it still creepy? Also yes.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-21] Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber
       Alphabet-owned company is seeking to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-20] Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
       Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-18] Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
       Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-17] Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX
       Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-14] Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
       Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-14] PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
       "We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.