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Article The bypass is a feature
Persistent authentication stores a completed verification as a token, then acts on the token forever. Reference replaces validation, and the person goes unchecked.
A 1938 law now points at AI critics
How labeling AI critics as 'foreign agents' under FARA-style rules chills safety research, disclosure, and open discourse - and what researchers can do.
Installed from Play Store' is not a safety badge
F-Droid 2.0 is a viable Google Play alternative only where its open, reproducible trust boundary is inspected and enforced in practice, not just stated.
On 18 June, no hack - broken access control
Red-team breakdown of the OpenAI agent that reached Australian government Medicare files: broken access control, not a hack, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
Snapdragon X2's September 2025 debut bets on mainline Linux
Linux support on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 improves auditability but moves AI safety controls onto hardware the device owner fully controls - here's the security tradeoff.
The connection runs code before you touch anything
How VSCode Remote-SSH agent forwarding exposes a signing oracle to the remote host, the CVE-2022-41034 cross-machine RCE, and where the pivot shows up in telemetry.
A managed endpoint no longer bounds insider exposure.
Apple Intelligence on Mac acts within existing user access with no confirmed runtime monitoring, creating an insider exposure the board must constrain now.
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