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Highlights
AI turns mouse into microphones.CodeMender: AI agent for code security.Notes from AI Safety lecture 6.Oracle: Exploited Zero-day.Continuation of Discord 3rd party breach.
Deep Dive
AI turns mouse sensors into mic.TomsHardware
High-DPI mice detect subtle desk vibrations.
Signal processing and AI convert vibrations.
Speech reconstructed from normal mouse activity.
Affordable gaming mice are increasingly at risk.
Compromised software enables remote audio extraction.
CodeMender: AI agent for code security. DeepMind
CodeMender combines proactive and reactive security.
The system uses Gemini Deep Think models.
Rewrites insecure code with safer APIs.
Adds compiler annotations to block overflows.
Automatically corrects test failures post-patch.
Future plans include a public release version.
AI Safety Lecture 6. Boaz Barak
AI builds itself without humans.
Discussion about AI self improvement.
On jobs, economics, growth, GDP.
Optimistic assumption: AlphaZero.
AI 2027 predictions: Breakthroughs.
Oracle: Exploited Zero-day. TheHackerNews
Breached since August 2025.
Attack linked to Cl0p ransomware group.
CVE-2025-61882 scored critical 9.8 severity.
Google, Mandiant confirmed widespread exploitation campaigns.
The latest wave of attacks was Sep 29, 2025.
Discord breach (continue) TheVerge
Confirms third-party customer service breach.
About 70,000 users’ ID photos were exposed.
Attackers claim possession of 1.5TB data.
This includes 2,185,151 photos.
Discord denies direct platform compromise occurred.
