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In July 2025, someone registered a domain that used to belong to a content delivery network.  The CDN had been wound down years earlier, and the domain it served assets from was allowed to expire. What it had not lost were its callers. Thousands of websites, code repositories, and documentation pages still carry hard-coded references to hostnames beneath it.  The new owner holds [email protected]

A flaw in four widely used AI coding agents lets someone who controls a plugin's code repository swap the plugin an agent installs for a malicious one, even when the agent locked that plugin to a specific reviewed version, security firm Air Security said on Thursday. The firm said Anthropic has patched the flaw in Claude Code 2.1.179 and OpenAI in Codex 0.146.0, that GitHub Copilot has no Swati Khandelwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

There we were, listening to AI leaders doing their usual spiel: AI is great! AI will cure cancer! AI impact will be “unprecedented, perhaps 10x of the Industrial Revolution at 10x the speed”! AI will find a final answer to “Why do socks disappear in washing machines?” (Well, maybe not the last one. Some things may be beyond us and our clever inventions.)

Then all the top AI leaders screamed as one: “Stop!”

Why? Well, it all seems to have started when AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic and proclaimed on X, “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s Alignment Science Lead, immediately chimed in: “we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it will be >10% within the next decade.” And the world went nuts.

This added fuel to the “AI is untrustworthy” fire as more details came out about OpenAI’s Hugging Face fiasco and agent attacks on German programming wiki sites, while Anthropic has now racked up four known hacking attempts on other sites. Boy, is AI safe or what?

So the very next weekend, three of the top AI CEOs — Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Sam Altman of OpenAI, and Elon Musk of xAI — all urged an AI frontier model slowdown for safety reasons. Amodei, the most articulate of the trio, argued, “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models” because we’re losing control of our AI systems (Really? Golly! Who knew?) and that an AI agent “swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage).”

Well, he’s not wrong. Sorry, President Donald Trump, but safe AI requires more than a “strong and smart” president. Even his Truth Social supporters think his stance on AI is wrong.

Like a stopped clock, Trump was right about one thing when he sputtered, “The only one that is happy about it is China.”

You see, just because some big US AI companies say “slow down!” doesn’t mean Chinese AI vendors will pump the brakes on their model development. Why would they?

Or, for that matter, why would the multitude of smaller AI companies or open-source AI developers? There are AI startups getting tens of millions in Series A rounds on nothing but a good pitch. You think they’ll tell their investors, “We’ll get right on improving our model… next month”? I don’t think so.

Besides, as wise writer Corey Doctorow observed, the narrative around “chatbots that wake up, ‘set their own goals,’ and ‘spontaneously’ start hacking servers — is fake. It doesn’t have ‘a 10% chance of ending the human race.’ The Hugging Face hack isn’t a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It’s a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn’t accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.”

Exactly so.

In other words, it’s not the development of more powerful models that’s inherently dangerous. AI agents haven’t gone rogue; they’ve just been meeting their assigned objectives in ways researchers didn’t expect or plan for. What’s dangerous is the AI firms’ failure to pay close enough attention to what their agents are doing in tests. In fact, OpenAI just admitted to screwing up even more!

As Meta’s high poobah Mark Zuckerberg tweeted, “Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens.” He then goes on to explain that that’s why Meta delayed shipping Muse. Sure, Mark, sure.

Let’s get real. The big American AI companies may hope a slowdown will ensure that their lesser rivals, in the US anyway, can’t catch up. But given how OpenAI’s circular financing keeps leaking money, another reason OpenAI might welcome a slowdown is to save cash on R&D. 

It’s not going to work. We’re in steamboat time. Steamboat time? While we remember Robert Fulton for building the first commercially successful steamboat in 1807, everyone and their uncle were making steamboats as fast as they could. Soon steamboats were everywhere, and they sparked an economic boom. But they also caused many deaths because of shoddy construction and pilots racing them to ever greater, unsafe speeds. Hmm, does that remind anyone of anything recently?

Seriously, we’re not going to slow down. But doesn’t all this hand-wringing about safety do a great job of distracting people from the simple truth that AI isn’t delivering the productivity gains it’s been claiming all along?

By slamming on the brakes now, Big AI firms can obscure that they won’t be able to deliver the AI fantasyland they’ve been trying to con people into believing. A case in point: A recent McKinsey survey report finds that 80% of people say AI makes them more productive, but only 37% of companies see that reflected in their earnings. A number, they say, that hasn’t budged in a year. Let’s hide that damning number under the concern that we must slow down AI.

It also means AI leaders can hand-wave away their failures to actually generate a profit. Sure, NVIDIA is making money hand over fist, but for all the financial hype, none of the frontier-model companies is making money. Not one of them.

Yes, I know: Anthropic just told the Financial Times that it would be profitable for the second consecutive quarter if you don’t factor in all its expenses. Seriously? Seriously!?

Sure, its adjusted operating income (AOI) is set to be positive for the second consecutive quarter, but come on, AOI “profitability” is billions and billions of dollars from bottom-line profitability.

No, what this is really all about is AI leaders making the right noises to assure people that they really — no, really — care about securing their AI, while slowing things down to maximize their own profits and get rid of the competition.

Oh, I’m certain they also want to make things safer. I mean, just think about the lawsuits when loosely controlled Anthropic or OpenAI agents swarm and take down a major company. This will happen. They have no choice but to make them safer. Now, how will they do that? Given their abysmal track record, that’s a good question, and neither they nor we have an answer yet.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 13 npm packages that have been found to deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer codenamed WeaselBiscuit. The new malware family, per OpenSourceMalware, exhibits functional overlaps with two malware strains associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) Contagious Interview campaign: BeaverTail and Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

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Browsing the web on Android sure ain’t what it used to be.

Earlier this week, we talked about how the Vivaldi web browser is bringing support for Chrome extensions to Android. Vivaldi has the same Chromium code foundation as Chrome but with lots of extra features and options. I’ve been using it on Android and the desktop alike for months now and can’t see myself going back anytime soon.

And with extensions now in the mix, Goog almighty, are things really getting interesting. We’ve already looked at five Chrome extensions that can enhance your efficiency on Android — and today, we’re rounding out that list with five more excellent extension options that work impressively well in the Android environment and can improve your mobile web meanderings in some commendable ways.

While the last additions were all about saving you steps and eliminating common mobile web roadblocks, this next batch revolves around the notion of supplementing or upgrading the actual web itself and the experience of working within different sites — even when they don’t always provide an optimal framework.

So refresh your memory on the mechanics of installing and managing Chrome extensions in Vivaldi, then read on and see which of these internet-improving Android Chrome additions hits home for you.

[Keep the knowledge flowing with my free Android Intelligence newsletter — one useful new thing to try every Friday!]  

Chrome Android extension #1: Your web customization genie

Let’s be honest: Most of the web isn’t exactly a pleasure to peruse. (Insert awkward pause here.)

But with an extension called Click to Remove Element, you can take total control and remove any element of any website that doesn’t please you.

Vivaldi already has some customizable ad and script blocking elements built in at the browser level, if that’s your jam, but Click to Remove Element is more about the stuff that those systems don’t automatically catch and hide — and it doesn’t have to be ad-related, either. It could be a pop-up video player on a site, a prominent button in a back-end interface, a logo or floating menu that takes up too much screen space, or literally anything else that annoys you on any website anywhere.

All you’ve gotta do is tap the extension’s icon, once it’s installed, then tap on any element on a page that you want to remove. And…

One tap, and boom: Any element on any website is invisible.

JR Raphael, Foundry

Poof! It’s gone. If you tap the little box beneath “Remember” in the Click to Remove Element panel at the bottom of the screen, that change will stick and stay present every time you load the same page in the future.

Chrome Android extension #2: A paywall peeper

For the record, as a working journalist in this weird and sustainability-challenged state of modern media we’re in right now, I strongly believe in and endorse paying for publications you appreciate whenever the opportunity arises.

Sometimes, though, you just want to read a random single article from a source you don’t follow regularly. Or maybe you want to share something you’ve read from a paywalled site with someone who doesn’t subscribe and isn’t going to do so just to read this one little thing you’re sending them.

That’s where a site called Archive Today can come in handy. Archive Today captures live views of articles and then saves ’em in a way that can be easily viewed and shared without any subscriptions or sign-ins required.

And a Chrome extension called Archive Page makes it as easy as can be to send a page over to the service for that purpose. Install it, tap its icon (in your Vivaldi extensions menu or in your browser toolbar, if you pin the extension), and you’ll have your viewable, shareable link in no time.

The tool won’t work for every site, depending on the nature of the paywall — and, again, I’d highly encourage you to use it as thoughtfully and ethically as possible — but it’s a powerful option to have available and one that’ll absolutely come in handy.

Chrome Android extension #3: An Amazon price spy

Whether you’re eyeing Amazon listings for work or maybe just for “work,” keep an extension called Keepa in your Vivaldi Android browser. You’ll never think about it or directly open it again after you’ve installed it, but it’ll add a helpful price tracking section into every Amazon listing you pull up on your phone so you can see how the associated product’s price has varied over time and know as soon as it drops again.

Keepa adds a helpful product price history and tracking option onto every Amazon listing in your browser.

JR Raphael, Foundry

Just scroll down a bit on any Amazon page you open, with the extension installed, and you’ll find the info along with the “Track product” option.

Chrome Android extension #4: Easier image saving

Ever find yourself needing to save an image from a website — then discovering that the image is in some funky format that isn’t what you require?

The aptly named Save Image As Type Chrome extension fixes that frustration once and for all. Just install the thing, then long-press on any image anywhere on the web — and…

Finally, you can save any image in any form you want — without any extra steps.

JR Raphael, Foundry

There ya have it: You’ll find a newly added “Save image as…” option in the Vivaldi long-press menu, and tapping it will reveal a full menu of possibilities for saving your image however you need — without any annoying extra steps or after-saving conversions.

Chrome Android extension #5: The Wikipedia wizard

Finally, make your Wikipedia work infinitely more pleasant with the excellent Wikiwand Chrome extension.

Wikiwand transforms every Wikipedia page into one with a delightfully modern, easy-on-the-eyes interface that has all the same info — just in a noticeably nicer form.

Once you see Wikipedia like this, you won’t want to go back.

JR Raphael, Foundry

Install it, forget it, and enjoy a better Wikipedia experience henceforth. Now, that’s what I call an easy win.

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Check Point Software has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability that can let attackers execute code with root privileges on management systems. [...]

A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to the development and distribution of a JavaScript (JS)-based information stealer known as PhantomRaven via the npm package registry. "The developer likely wrote the malware using a large language model (LLM), an assessment made with high confidence based on verbose comments, placeholder code, and statistical token-analysis patterns," Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

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Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new Android malware called RatHat that's assessed to be operated by China-based threat actors and features an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system to navigate and control compromised devices. "Distributed primarily via targeted smishing (SMS/text phishing) and malvertising campaigns leading to deceptive third-party download portals, RatHat uses Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

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