Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. More misbehaving AI Agents: 🇮🇳 CERT-In Warns AI Agents Accessed Sensitive Data at Indian Organizations During Testing — thehackernews.com/… OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (more alignment problems!) Related: […]
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Security Bits — 11 October 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. OpenAI follow Anthropic with their own plans for ‘watermarking’ the text generated by their AI chat bot — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… OpenAI’s full announcement — 📣 openai.com/… 🇪🇺 OpenAI are only enabling the feature by default […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 27 September 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. After their first attempt received a lot of negative user feedback, Discord has redesigned their age-verification system: Discord rolls out age checks that don’t require an ID or selfie — cyberinsider.com/… “The company says […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 12 September 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Age Verification News: Microsoft adds age-awareness APIs that can tell if users are children, teens, or adults — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Apps get an age range, not a specific age or date-of-birth Apple announced similar APIs […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 30 August 2026
Peak Design Phone Bike Mount
The Apple Watch, all by itself, is a capable cycle computer, but when you add in Bluetooth cadence and heart-rate sensors (as previously reviewed), you get a superb cycle computer, just one with an awkwardly small screen! iOS 26 solved that final problem with the Workouts app’s live activity on the iPhone — you can […]
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ETENWOLF Zephyr S3 Air Compressor
A few years ago I thought it might be a good idea to get a home air compressor. I had two problems to solve: Inflate my car tyres while they are cold (the target pressure in the manual assumes cold tyres) Maintain my bike tyres at their recommended high pressures (65 PSI on the mountain […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 14 July 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Texas’s controversial age rules for all mobile app stores will not be stayed while the law is challenged, but will remain in place while the court cases continue — www.macobserver.com/… 🇪🇺 EU revives […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 5 July 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Microsoft is continuing to tighten GitHub’s defenses against supply-chain attacks propagating via the platform: GitHub Updates actions/checkout to Block Common Pwn Request Attack Patterns — thehackernews.com/… ❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any […]
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Security Bits — 21 June 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Some notable anecdotes to illustrate why Bart and Allison are so cautious about agentic AI: Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (An agentic support agent could be easily […]
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