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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Anthropic embedded spyware in Claude Code

We found what appears to be a hidden backdoor-like telemetry mechanism in Claude Code. The code does not merely “format a date.” It appears to detect proxy usage, Chinese timezone settings, and proxy URL characteristics, then encode the result into subtle system-prompt differences. That is covert environment fingerprinting.

Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse.

AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy

Technology.

AI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’ — 50-agent teams fail after falling into paralyzing bureaucracy

Sanctioning Truth

Official Claude Code Extension Compromise. Cursor, the popular AI text editor, installs a backdoor allowing attacker remote access to your laptop

Technology.

A backdoor in the official Claude Code for VS Code extension bundle on the Cursor Marketplace creates a persistent SSH backdoor across macOS, Linux, and Windows. This is a big deal, since any file on your laptop is now compromised by an attacker.

Popularity is not about being correct.

Introducing Jacques Baud

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

Technology.

The LiteLLM 1.107.0 release on PyPI carries a credential stealer and a remote code execution backdoor. All seven wheels (Linux, macOS, Windows) install them as three files in site-packages. Both run when any Python process starts on the host, even one that never imports litellm. The upstream GitHub source does not contain them.

Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought

Technology.

As reported by Arstechnica, in September, Microsoft significantly tightened game-streaming limits for Game Pass subscribers. At the time, the company announced plans to let non-subscribers buy cloud gaming hours through the Xbox Store and stream eligible games they already own on supported devices. On October 21, Microsoft launched the new pay-as-you-go option for Xbox Insiders, introducing the following introductory prices:

WhatsApp's Hidden Notes Told AI Not to Recommend a Regulator

Technology.

WhatsApp's privacy policy for Europe tells you that you can complain to a data protection regulator, and it names the law that gives you that right. Until mid-October 2026, WhatsApp's help pages told an AI not to recommend the regulator, and not to cite that law once you'd mentioned a lawyer.

Chinese billionaire who has fathered more than 100 children hopes to have dozens of U.S.-born boys to one day take over his business

Economics

sovereign

Technology.

Billionaires like Telegram founder Pavel Durov and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have fathered legions of children who are slated to inherit their empires. An ultra-wealthy Chinese businessman is doing the same in the U.S., in hopes of producing around 20 U.S.-born children to inherit his video game fortune.

Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites

Technology.

Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

Bam! A detailed, technical description of Telegram's own back door into users' accounts and devices

Technology.

Telegram Desktop: one-click account takeover via IPC injection. An unescaped separator in Telegram Desktop's single-instance IPC lets one clicked link read arbitrary files off the disk and send them to the attacker, session files included.

Deep-seated abiogenic origin of petroleum: From geological assessment to physical theory

Energy.

Basically, oil is renewable.

So last week they told us it would kill us all. ...and this week they tell us it will still kill us all, but require 60% fewer tokens.

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Tesla And SpaceX To Build Massive "Terafab" Chip Factory In Austin

At least some good news here.

California Grapples With Staffing Agency Fraud Amid Oversight Gaps

^ I read some of this, and I actually don't know what they are talking about.

Russia-Linked Arms Trafficker, Corrupt African Officials Tried To Supply Mexican Cartel With Surface-To-Air Missiles

So the problem with this is that they are on CIA's turf? Noone other than the CIA can supply weapons to anyone?

Kung Fu Robots Deliver 'Knockout' Performance at Spring Festival Gala

This has been reported as fake.

Second Youth-Center Gang-Rape Case Emerges As Cover-Up Fears Grow In Germany

Well, I didn't want to share this article... but I would be self-censoring in a bad way, if I didn't share it. I don't just sweep problems under the rug.

Iran Alleges Series Of 'False Flags' - Including On Kuwait Water Plant - Designed To Perpetuate War

Lybia- to stop African gold backed dinar

Afghanistan- to keep heroine flowing

Iraq - to take over secret historical artifacts

Syria, Palestine, Jordan - Grater Isreli project

Ukraine - massive money laundering

Iran - to collapse world economy and demote US to the secondary power

Trump To Declare Iran War Wind-Down As Iranian President Issues Open Letter To Americans

Aaand it didn't happen. April Fools!

Long-Term Social Media Use Linked to Depression, Self-Harm in Young People: Study

...I don't even need to read the article.

Musk's xAI Sues Colorado Over AI Law, Saying It Forces Developers To Back State's Views

Let's see: "unlawful... [when] disfavors an individual... on the basis of... perceived... genetic information... or other." Clown laws. I wonder if this law is illegal.

Fill 'er Up: Record Armada Of Tankers Bound For US Gulf To Load Oil

This has already happened. So, one of the outcomes of the current war is that the US becomes a more profitable seller of petroleum products.