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Simon Willison

Vulnerability Research Is Cooked

Thomas Ptacek argues that AI coding agents will fundamentally transform vulnerability research within months. These agents excel at the pattern-matching and constraint-solving required for exploit...

Simon Willison

The cognitive impact of coding agents

This appears to be a discussion about the cognitive implications of AI coding agents and their impact on software development. The conversation explores how coding agents affect developers'...

Simon Willison

Quoting Willy Tarreau

Kernel security bug reports have surged from 2-3 per week to 5-10 per day due to AI-powered security research tools. The reports are mostly accurate, forcing maintainers to dramatically expand their...

Simon Willison

Quoting Daniel Stenberg

Daniel Stenberg, lead developer of cURL, observes that AI's impact on open source security has evolved from generating low-quality spam reports to producing a flood of legitimate, high-quality...

Simon Willison

Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman reports a dramatic shift in AI-generated security reports, moving from obvious "AI slop" to legitimate, useful contributions. AI has crossed a quality...

Simon Willison

Can JavaScript Escape a CSP Meta Tag Inside an Iframe?

Security research exploring iframe sandboxing techniques discovered that CSP meta tags remain protected from JavaScript manipulation even when untrusted code runs afterwards. This provides a way to...

AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

I Broke Down Anthropic's $2.5 Billion Leak. Your Agent Is Missing 12 Critical Pieces.

Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code's internal architecture, revealing the engineering infrastructure behind their $2.5 billion product. Rather than focusing on upcoming features, this analysis...

Simon Willison

The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

The Axios supply chain attack involved sophisticated social engineering that targeted a specific maintainer through a fake company workspace and meeting. This represents a new level of personalized...

Wes Roth

the end of Claude Code

Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code's source code during an April Fool's update, triggering massive DMCA takedowns. This inadvertently led to a developer creating "Claw Code," a clean-room...

Universe of AI

Qwen 3.6 Plus: GREATEST Opensource AI Model EVER! Beats Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 (Fully Tested)

Qwen 3.6 Plus is a new open-source AI model that excels at agentic coding and multimodal tasks with a 1 million token context window. The model combines coding, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities...

Thursday, April 2, 2026