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Security researchers at Manifold Security are raising alarms about Anthropic's Claude for Chrome browser extension, warning that two unpatched vulnerabilities in version one point zero point eighty allow attackers to simulate fake user clicks and hijack sensitive AI workflows. What makes this sting a little more is that the Claude extension itself apparently flagged the suspicious activity to Anthropic multiple times — and still, across eight separate updates, the vulnerable code remained untouched. Researchers say the bypass is still just six lines of JavaScript.
Shifting to financial infrastructure, the GENIUS Act — the stablecoin-focused legislation that reshaped how digital dollars move through the American economy — is marking its first anniversary. The law has quietly become a benchmark moment for crypto regulation, forcing the industry to reckon with compliance in ways that pure market enthusiasm never quite managed to do on its own.
And finally, a quieter but genuinely interesting find surfaced on Hacker News — a site called Open Weird, essentially a portal to the strange, forgotten, and playful corners of the early internet. It is a small reminder that beneath the optimization and monetization, the web still holds some genuinely human weirdness worth preserving.
Stay curious, stay skeptical. Tech Beat out.
