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Protecting against token theft

HTTP requests are inexpensive. Vercel charges ~$2/million, a fraction of a cent per call. But a single prompt to an agent on a frontier model can cost $2, making AI a million times more expensive, and inference theft one of the highest-margin businesses an attacker can run. We have seen this type of attack on our own APIs. If you have AI endpoints exposed to the internet, the risk of abuse is high and can easily run up bills in the tens of thousands of dollars or more. Protecting those endpoints

Typosquatted npm packages used to steal cloud and CI/CD secrets

The Mini Shai-Hulud campaign used malicious npm packages to target cloud and CI/CD credentials across developer environments. This report details the attack chain, detection opportunities, and mitigation guidance to help organizations identify and disrupt related activity. The post Typosquatted npm packages used to steal cloud and CI/CD secrets appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Cars collect a startling amount of data about you

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260513-your-car-is-spying-on-you-its-about-to-get-worse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318481 Points: 478 # Comments: 274

Strengthening societal resilience with Rosalind Biodefense

OpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense, expanding trusted access to GPT-Rosalind for vetted developers and U.S. government partners advancing biodefense, public health, and pandemic preparedness through frontier AI.

I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

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The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida

New Glenn was due to play a starring role in NASA's Artemis Program.

Claude Code – Everything you can configure that the docs don't tell you

Article URL: https://buildingbetter.tech/p/i-read-the-claude-code-source-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318174 Points: 322 # Comments: 63

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