How Pixar recovered Toy Story 2 after a Unix command deleted nearly the entire film in 1998

The studio's animation pipeline at the time ran across a network of Unix and Linux machines holding hundreds of thousands of ...

Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...
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OpenAI Silently Rolled GPT-5.6 to Some Codex Users: A Hidden Prompt Exposes the Swap

GPT-5.6 was already running in Codex for some users before OpenAI’s government-approved preview opened to partners. A ...
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Missing U.S. college student found dead in Japan, family says

KYOTO, Japan (WHNT) — The family of the Auburn University student who had been missing in Japan for more than a week said he has been found dead. Volunteers found 20-year-old James “Weston” ...

Z.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI coding

Z.ai has launched ZCode, a free AI coding tool powered by GLM-5.2 that challenges Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot ...
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Claude Code Hid Proxy Fingerprints in System Prompts: Anthropic Promises Fix

A developer reverse-engineering Anthropic's Claude Code binary discovered on June 30, 2026, that the tool had been silently encoding hidden signals into its AI system prompts for at least three months ...