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WordPress site owners are being urged to patch immediately after attackers began exploiting two critical vulnerabilities within hours of their public disclosure. When chained together, the bugs allow remote code execution without any authentication, and researchers believe AI tools may have helped bad actors reproduce the exploit at unusual speed.
Shifting to mathematics and machine learning, a fascinating experiment is circulating on Hacker News involving the recently published refutation of the Jacobian Conjecture. Because no chain of thought was released alongside the proof, one developer gave Claude the result and asked it to reconstruct the mathematical intuition from scratch, offering a rare look at how AI navigates deep formal reasoning.
And on the security infrastructure side, a developer named Filippo Valsorda has published a proposal for opaque, interoperable passkey records alongside a Go API implementation. The work addresses a persistent pain point in passkey adoption, specifically how credential data can be stored and moved between systems without locking users into a single platform or provider.
Three very different stories, but each one a reminder that the people building and breaking our digital world are never standing still. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
