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What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant

Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com where 2,000 people attempted to hack his OpenClaw AI assistant via email. After 6,000 attempts, $500 in token spend, and a Google account suspension, nobody leaked the secret. Simon Willison notes that frontier models are becoming harder to inject, but warns against deploying production systems where injection could cause irreversible damage.

Even 6,000 failed prompt injection attempts don't guarantee security; production systems need robust defenses.

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What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant
GuixPkgs: every Guix package, as a Nix flake
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GuixPkgs: every Guix package, as a Nix flake

Farid Zakaria released GuixPkgs, a Nix flake that makes every GNU Guix package available in Nix. It uses guix-transfer to rewrite Guix derivations into Nix derivations, built via nix-daemon without requiring Guix on the consuming side. A Cachix binary cache is provided to avoid recompiling Guix's source bootstrap.

New Linux pedit COW Exploit Enables Root Access by Poisoning Cached Binaries
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New Linux pedit COW Exploit Enables Root Access by Poisoning Cached Binaries

A new Linux exploit named 'pedit COW' enables root access by poisoning cached binaries. The attack leverages a race condition to modify cached executable content, allowing privilege escalation. The exploit affects systems using the Linux kernel's page cache, potentially giving attackers full control over compromised machines.

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