2026-06-01

Monitoring computer-use agents in OSWorld-control

Monitoring computer-use agents in OSWorld-control

TL;DR: I built a control setting for computer-use agents and studied a few monitoring setups. I found that attackers can leverage the opacity of computer-use tool calls and gaps between...

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[Linkpost] Prefixing names with 'secure_' makes agents write more secure code

The graphs are interactive and don't translate well to inline, so the full writeup with figures is in the link.We gave coding agents a three-step synthesis task: build a document...

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Can LLMs even teach? Exploring the Teacher Axis

Can LLMs even teach? 
Exploring the Teacher Axis

TLDRAs a passionate teacher, it has pained my heart to watch my students lose deeper critical thinking skills and independent reasoning. But attempting to build a constitutionally constrained AI using...

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Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s...

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season. “Key environmental indicators show that the nation is a tinderbox, gripped by widespread drought and with a light snowpack...

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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked I had trouble believing this story was true, but I've seen it verified from multiple...

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New Platform Game, Shooter & Metroidvania Coming to GBC (all in one Game, Kurohi)

Kurohi is a new upcoming homebrew game for Game Boy Color that, according to its developer, Sergio Elisondo, will span multiple genres, combining “tight platforming, overhead exploration, and arcade-style space...

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Magnanimity

Magnanimity

No Mercy / No Malice NewsletterHelp CubaHemingway famously said bankruptcy happens slowly then suddenly. The collapse of his former home, Cuba, appears to be in the suddenly phase.Tourism, which generated...

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Meta’s AI Support Bot Is Giving Hackers Access to Other People’s Instagram Accounts Just by Asking

Meta’s AI Support Bot Is Giving Hackers Access to Other People’s Instagram Accounts Just by Asking

This is wild. The post Meta’s AI Support Bot Is Giving Hackers Access to Other People’s Instagram Accounts Just by Asking appeared first on Futurism.

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Designing Global Electronic Bank Statement Frameworks Across 25 Plus Countries

Managing bank statements across multiple countries is a major challenge for global organizations due to varying banking formats, regulations, and reporting standards. This article explores the design and implementation of...

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A Unified Framework for Data Inconsistency Detection & Correction in Planet-Scale Systems

As distributed systems scale across regions, cloud environments, and billions of transactions, maintaining data consistency becomes increasingly challenging. This article introduces a unified framework that combines real-time inconsistency detection, intelligent...

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Marathon's first 'PvP-lite' experimental mode sounds like a delightfully terrifying alternative

Marathon's first 'PvP-lite' experimental mode sounds like a delightfully terrifying alternative

Just your squad, hostile NPCs, and an escalating number of Rook chaos agents.

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‘We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World’

Om Malik: The Adventures of Pinocchio was published in serial form in 1881, aimed at Italian children in the way the 19th century aimed things at children, full of suffering,...

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Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games

Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games

Newell also said in 2023 testimony that Steam's 'unwritten rule' against charging lower prices on other storefronts does not exist.

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68 Blog Posts To Learn About Indie Hackers

68 Blog Posts To Learn About Indie Hackers

Let's learn about Indie Hackers via these 68 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read...

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On the Wisdom of Replacing a NiMH Module in a Prius Battery Pack

On the Wisdom of Replacing a NiMH Module in a Prius Battery Pack

It’s possible to get a pretty good deal on used Toyota Prius cars, but as with all hybrid cars that also means a used battery pack and resulting issues. In...

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Projects, Startups, Companies Alike: Buidl Something Worth Blogging About

BUIDL. HODL. Just keep moving. Just keep shipping. Stay patient on the path for the sake of making something worth blogging about. The blog post is the internet’s text unit...

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I’ve probably featured this before but always worth...

I’ve probably featured this before but always worth a re-up: “A Books Unbanned library card gives teens across the United States free digital access to ebooks and digital resources, including...

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Escape the Backrooms quietly added to Xbox Game Pass

Escape the Backrooms quietly added to Xbox Game Pass

Escape the Backrooms is free on Xbox Game Pass as the horror game's console version finally goes live

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