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A researcher has demonstrated something that should concern anyone building autonomous AI systems: a user managed to trick Grok and a crypto bot called Bankrbot into transferring tokens simply by encoding instructions in Morse code. It's a stark reminder that prompt injection attacks don't require sophistication — just creativity — and that AI agents with financial authority are a genuinely dangerous combination.
Shifting to the security community, the long-standing ninety-day vulnerability disclosure policy appears to be losing its footing. That standard, championed for years by Google's Project Zero, gave software vendors a firm deadline before researchers went public. Critics now argue vendors routinely miss the window anyway, and the policy's enforcement has quietly eroded, leaving researchers and companies alike in murkier territory about when and how to go public.
And on a more analog note, a film-to-digital conversion kit called Im Back is approaching one million dollars in crowdfunding. The device lets photographers shoot on traditional film rolls while capturing a digital image simultaneously. It's a fascinating tension — people spending real money to preserve the friction and imperfection that digital photography spent decades trying to eliminate.
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