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Google's carbon footprint is drawing fresh scrutiny today, as a new analysis lays out just how dramatically the company's energy consumption has ballooned alongside its AI ambitions. The piece argues this isn't gradual growth — it's exponential, and the climate cost is real, not theoretical.
On the security front, Trail of Bits has published field notes from an experiment that caught a lot of attention in the research community. A version of GPT-five-point-five tuned for cybersecurity apparently stood up a working fuzzing lab for the zlib compression library in a single day — a task that would typically take an experienced engineer considerably longer. It's a striking data point in the ongoing debate about what AI can and can't do in the hands of serious practitioners.
And for anyone who grew up in the hacker community of the nineties, this one lands with some weight — Hackers on Planet Earth is returning to Manhattan next month. HOPE has been one of the longest-running gatherings of security researchers, activists, and technologists, and its return to New York signals that the in-person culture around these ideas is still very much alive.
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