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Google is sounding an alarm that prompt injection attacks — where malicious instructions are hidden in content to hijack AI systems — are no longer just a theoretical concern. The company says these exploits are now being actively used in the wild, raising serious questions about how safely AI agents can operate in untrusted environments.
Shifting to the world of competitive AI tools, a developer has published a local benchmark comparing Pi Coding Agent against OpenCode running Qwen three point six, thirty five billion parameters. These head-to-head tests on consumer hardware matter because they help developers understand real-world trade-offs between convenience, cost, and capability when choosing an AI coding assistant.
And in a story that will delight a very particular corner of the internet, NetHack has reached version five point zero point zero. The legendary roguelike dungeon crawler, which has been in continuous development since nineteen eighty seven, remains one of software's most enduring community projects — proof that some things just refuse to die, and honestly, we respect it.
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