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AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice
An AI coding assistant recommended that a software engineer install a malicious package disguised as a legitimate library, but the developer’s company caught it in time thanks to a policy requiring manual verification of any AI-suggested software. The incident, disclosed by Sergiy Fitsak, managing director of consultancy Softjourn, highlights a growing supply-chain risk known as…
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TalkFuse morning briefing, 20 Aug 2026 04:33
Trump names Dr Heidi Overton for FDA chief as UK debates facial recognition at football and a Barnsley man is jailed for abusing a missing girl; plus Google’s AI study tools, HBO’s Baldur’s Gate, X-Men casting and Weezer’s new album.
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Facial recognition at football, Baleba bid and Sheffield United crisis, Weezer’s new album
Police widen facial recognition use at matches while Man Utd bid £65m for Baleba amid Sheffield United’s High Court winding-up; also: Lindsey Graham’s sister stumbles on foreign policy, Google’s student AI push, Tupac trial testimony and a fatal Queensland stabbing.
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UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed about students’ math skills
A UC Berkeley mathematics professor, Zvezdelina Stankova, has admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit an opinion piece published in the San Francisco Standard, after student journalists flagged the article’s AI-like language. The op-ed argued that some of her students were “five to eight years” behind in maths and blamed the University of California…
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AMD inches closer to its goal of making AI suck less … energy
AMD says it is making steady progress towards a goal of boosting the energy efficiency of its AI server racks twentyfold by the end of the decade, claiming its systems are already four times more efficient than they were in 2024. The improvement matters because power consumption has become one of the biggest constraints on…
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Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
Stripe has confirmed it is acquiring OpenRouter, the AI model-routing startup, for a reported $7.5 billion, a huge jump from its $1.3 billion valuation just three months earlier. A leaked letter from Stripe’s founders, Patrick and John Collison, jokingly cited the “singularity” as their rationale, but the real drivers appear to be the growing overlap…
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Facial recognition at matches, Baltimore crime, US wage study, Watkins bid, Weezer’s Gold Album
Google rolls out AI study tools for back-to-school, while Britain debates facial recognition at football grounds; Baltimore’s crime drop and a US wage-hike jobs study also feature, alongside Watkins and Vinicius transfer news and Weezer’s acclaimed new record.
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Thousands of North Korean IT workers are infiltrating corporate America
North Korean operatives are posing as remote IT workers to secure jobs at US companies, using stolen American identities, domestic “laptop farms” and artificial intelligence to build convincing résumés and pass job interviews. The scheme allows Kim Jong Un’s regime to funnel earnings back to Pyongyang while embedding operatives inside legitimate corporate networks, raising concerns…
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OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections
OpenAI has unveiled a new privacy-focused safety tool called Private Safety Processing, positioning it as a rival offering to Anthropic’s recently announced data retention policy. The move comes as AI companies grapple with balancing enterprise customers’ demands for privacy against the need to monitor for misuse of increasingly powerful models, and it marks an attempt…
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Marvel’s Newest Series Is Finally Paying Off a Forgotten MCU Easter Egg 15 Years Later
Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ series VisionQuest, which concludes a trilogy that began with WandaVision and Agatha All Along, appears set to pay off a 15-year-old Easter egg from Captain America: The First Avenger. A display at D23 featuring a flame-engulfed, circuit-covered figure has led fans to speculate that the show will introduce Jim Hammond, the…