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An AI agent recently recommended that a software engineer install what turned out to be a malicious package. The engineer caught it just in time, but the near-miss is a sharp reminder that AI coding assistants can hallucinate dependencies with convincing confidence, and that human review still matters enormously.
Shifting from security to psychology, a piece in The Guardian is asking a question worth sitting with: where body image anxiety once dominated our sense of inadequacy, AI may now be doing the same thing to our minds. As models grow more capable, some researchers worry we are internalizing a new standard of intelligence that most people will inevitably feel they fall short of.
And on a more optimistic note, Chinese space startup LandSpace has successfully landed a first-stage booster on solid ground, becoming the first Chinese company to pull off the feat. Their Zhuque rocket line has been quietly building toward this milestone since two thousand eighteen, and the achievement signals that reusable rocketry is no longer a purely American story.
That is the world in three stories today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
