Artificial Intelligence (AI)

idle tactics ascension takes top prize in yggs debut vibeblitz game jam The inaugural VibeBlitz has been won by Idle Tactics: Ascension, an idle auto-battler. The jam was hosted by vibecode.game — the discovery and editorial platform for vibe-coded games launched by Yield Guild Games — together with Minds by Animoca Brands. Playable in the browser and drawn in pixel art, the game hands you a hero who does the fighting unaided while you take care of everything that genuinely swings a battle: gear management, forging upgrades, and reading the moment when your build is ready for a boss.

Idle Tactics: Ascension takes top prize in YGG’s debut VibeBlitz game jam

invisible one point text in a pdf can siphon jira data out through atlassians rovo Shrink the font to a single point, paint it white on a white page, and tuck it inside a PDF. That is the whole price of admission for lifting a company's Jira tickets by way of Rovo, Atlassian's AI agent.

Invisible One-Point Text in a PDF Can Siphon Jira Data Out Through Atlassian’s Rovo

the chatbot beat the con artist ai doubled the scam success rate in a new study Roughly 18 percent of targets were persuaded to click by human con artists. Aim a chatbot at the same people and the figure climbs to nearly one in two.

The Chatbot Beat the Con Artist: AI Doubled the Scam Success Rate in a New Study

claude voice mode explained the settings that stop it cutting you off Right up to this July, anything you said aloud to Claude came back in the voice of Haiku, the weakest model Anthropic ships. That was never really a product call — it was a latency one. Quick model, quick answer.

Claude voice mode, explained: the settings that stop it cutting you off

claude code turns auto mode on by default as anthropic targets rubber stamped approvals Zero out of 720. That is the prompt injection figure Anthropic is using to defend a default-setting change that will reshape how millions of developers work with its coding agent.

Claude Code turns Auto Mode on by default as Anthropic targets rubber-stamped approvals

ai short stories beat human ones on quality until readers were told a machine wrote them Start with two numbers: 1.54 against 0.97. On a scale that runs from minus 3 to plus 3, that is how readers scored the quality of short stories produced by ChatGPT 4.0 versus short stories written by people. The machine came out ahead.

AI short stories beat human ones on quality — until readers were told a machine wrote them

an ai wrote 300 virus genomes from scratch sixteen actually came alive Three hundred synthetic genomes were loaded into E. coli. Sixteen emerged as functioning viruses.

An AI Wrote 300 Virus Genomes From Scratch. Sixteen Actually Came Alive

deepminds hurricane model outran the forecasters and even its builders cant explain why Five days out from landfall, an AI model put 80 percent confidence on Hurricane Melissa striking Jamaica as a Category 5. Not Haiti. Not a weakened system. Jamaica, at the very top of the scale.

DeepMind’s hurricane model outran the forecasters — and even its builders can’t explain why

openai halts work on parts of astra citing cybersecurity capability concerns Firms quietly shelve products over security risks all the time. What they almost never do is announce it while the product is still unreleased and sitting in the lab.

OpenAI Halts Work on Parts of Astra, Citing Cybersecurity Capability Concerns

cybersecurity is being rebuilt by ai at frightening speed Click rates on phishing emails once hovered around 12 percent. Hand the same task to a language model and, in simulated environments, that figure jumps to 52 percent, according to security vendor Brightside, whose research also determined that 82 percent of phishing emails now involve AI at some stage.

Cybersecurity Is Being Rebuilt by AI at Frightening Speed