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WIRED reports that researchers who bought domains such as noreply.net and deleteduser.com received sensitive automated emails, exposing a basic but persistent address-handling risk.

Google’s top hacker hunter notes that codenames give security teams a neutral, bite‑sized way to reference threat actors, eliminating ambiguity and accidental misattribution. By standardizing these names, Google aims to streamline intelligence sharing across analysts, partners, and customers.

Google says official Android Skills are deliberately narrow, eval-driven instructions for AI coding agents, designed to retire as models catch up.

Cloudflare’s new Kitesurf browser strips away the heavy UI stack of traditional browsers, offering a lightweight, cloud‑hosted environment tailor‑made for AI agents. By consuming far less compute than headless Chromium, it promises faster, cheaper web automation for developers building next‑generation AI applications.

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OpenAI has halted further development of its Astra model after internal tests showed it could independently discover and exploit vulnerabilities in well‑secured systems, crossing a “critical cybersecurity threshold.” The pause underscores growing safety concerns over AI‑driven cyber‑attack capabilities and signals that OpenAI will reassess its roadmap while tightening security reviews.