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Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.
How Threat Research and MDR Help SMBs Build a Defensive Edge
Threat research gives security teams insight into how attackers operate, while MDR turns that intelligence into faster detection and response. ESET explains how combining threat intelligence, continuous monitoring, and human expertise can help SMBs strengthen their defenses. [...]
Android 17 adds ECH support to make web browsing harder to track
Google is introducing new network security protections in Android 17 to strengthen connection privacy, address cellular vulnerabilities, and protect the privacy of users' home networks. [...]
Running Sentiment Analysis Inside Neo4j With a Java Plugin
In a chapter of The SingleStore Cookbook, there is a complete sentiment analysis pipeline using Rust compiled to WebAssembly and loaded directly into SingleStore via its Code Engine. The result was clean: one CLI command to deploy, sentiment scoring running inside the database engine alongside the data and a full stock-price-plus-headlines analytical pipeline built on top of it. Can we do the same thing in Neo4j?
How much of a problem is AI’s water use?
AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.
Trade (and Tariffs)
Article URL: https://xkcd.com/3290/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464896 Points: 457 # Comments: 209
Amazon Kiro Prompt Injection Can Exfiltrate Sensitive Data Through Kiro Powers
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Amazon Kiro, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, agentic integrated development environment (IDE), that could facilitate data exfiltration via prompt injection and Kiro Powers. The security flaw, which does not have a CVE identifier, works against Kiro IDE 0.7.45 on Windows, according to Mindguard. The latest version of
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