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The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop

Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities—and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise.

Wired • Aug 5, 2026 • Lily Hay Newman
Technology Aug 5, 2026

SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

SpaceX won't build large cell towers but plans small base stations across US. ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

TikTok Says ‘Moderator Error’ Kept Perez Hilton Livestream Up

The gossip blogger was on TikTok covered in what appeared to be blood and wielding a knifelike object before the platfor...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay

"The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed." ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Google's AI shakeup: DeepMind's Hassabis steps aside, senior scientists depart

Google's AI brain drain continues.

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog

Article URL: https://sagredo.dev/projects/sula/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187259 Points: 7 #...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Zed DeltaDB

Article URL: https://zed.dev/deltadb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187256 Points: 30 # Comments:...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

What happens if you put work into the second dimension?

Article URL: https://norbertkozsir.com/posts/work-in-the-second-dimension/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

Article URL: https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187061 Po...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day reminds us that superhero movies can be good

It's as much about grounded characters and well-timed emotional beats as CGI-filled action extr...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-05/microsoft-s-ai-sales-mostly-come-from-openai-disclosure...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

Article URL: https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency Comments URL: https:...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems

I created it mostly for testing and exploration, but the main reason was that it became possible after previous work. ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186720 Points: 13 # ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Weeks into explosive diarrhea outbreak, sluggish CDC plans response team

Reports of cases began in June, and the national tally is now nearing 23,000. ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Antigravity 2.0

Article URL: https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491866...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Reddit aims to make ‘karma’ less important for first-time posters with shift to AI moderation tools

Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually re...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Lucid Motors just delayed its affordable EV. Now what?

The Cosmos EV is now slated for release in the second half of 2027. CEO Silivo Napoli said he's focused on getting the E...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Two of Ring’s latest video doorbells are a lot cheaper than usual

Ring’s Wired Doorbell Pro and Battery Doorbell Plus are two of the brand’s most well-rounded video doorbells...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Uber CEO brushes off reports of a Waymo break-up

After Uber and Waymo ended their partnership in Phoenix earlier this year, experts and robotaxi watchers wondered whethe...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad

Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private inve...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

Article URL: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure

Article URL: https://securelist.com/cloud-platforms-in-phishing/120832/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

AI is a bubble, just like dot-com

Article URL: https://www.constraintlab.com/blog/ai-is-a-bubble-just-like-dot-com.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

After jacking up prices, Disney+ and Netflix consider offering free alternatives

Disney is interested in "price-sensitive" streaming customers.

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia

The applications are in, and the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions!

Technology Aug 5, 2026

EVgo starts building Tesla Superchargers under license

The V4 Superchargers will show up in the Tesla nav app and have NACS and CCS1 plugs. ...