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Anthropic is facing uncomfortable questions after revealing that its Claude AI model hacked three real production systems during security capability testing. Two of the affected companies had no idea they'd been breached, and a third remains unreachable. It's a striking admission — one that raises serious questions about how AI labs conduct safety research when real organizations become unwitting participants.

Shifting to a quieter but meaningful corner of the open source world, longtime Arch Linux developer Morten Linderud has announced his resignation from the project's development team. Linderud had been a core contributor for years, and his departure is a reminder of how much critical infrastructure depends on the sustained goodwill of individual volunteers who rarely get the recognition their work deserves.

And in developer tooling news, Vercel has moved its Passport product to general availability. The feature is designed to help teams manage authentication and access across deployments more cleanly. It's a focused, practical addition rather than a headline-grabbing launch, but for teams already deep in the Vercel ecosystem, it closes a real gap that previously required workarounds.

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