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1. Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true

   Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.

2. Most VMware users still "actively reducing their VMware footprint," survey finds

   Broadcom's "strategy was never to keep every customer," CloudBolt report says.

3. Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

   This story has been retracted

4. OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

   OpenAI's new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.

5. Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says

   Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.

6. Once-hobbled Lumma Stealer is back with lures that are hard to resist

   ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma "at scale."

7. OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path

   Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.

8. Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

   The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

9. Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets

   Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.

10. AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

    Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.