Posts by Nathan Mumm
The Byte & Barrel Bulletin, November 2026: Wall Street Wants Receipts, AI Edits Memory, and the War on Ownership Rolls On
Welcome to the November edition of The Byte & Barrel Bulletin. This month, Wall Street stopped applauding and started demanding receipts from the AI boom, a Danish whiskey earned the…
Read MoreThe $6.3 Billion Hack Started With a Job Interview. It Ended With the Company’s Own AI.
Binance’s account of the October 29 crypto theft has changed. It was not, as the first explanation suggested, one compromised laptop and a quick move against the company’s wallets. Co-CEO…
Read MoreThe Fake Claude Code Extension Was Live for 11 Hours. The Backdoor Is Still on Some Machines.
On October 29, a malicious version of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension was available through Cursor’s VS Code Extension Marketplace for about 11 hours. Cursor says up to 5,000 people downloaded…
Read MoreWhen AI Finds a Flaw, Who’s Responsible for Fixing It Before Someone Exploits It?
AI finding a software vulnerability sounds like good news. Until the details escape, attackers start testing the flaw, and the people running the vulnerable systems discover they have to patch…
Read MoreMalware That Bills Your OpenAI Account, 26,400 Live Keys in Public Code, and 32 Fake AI Bots: Your Identity Is the New Attack Tool
The new malware framework can bill AI requests to a victim’s OpenAI account. Photo via Unsplash. Three cybersecurity stories published today, October 29, share an uncomfortably practical theme: attackers are…
Read MoreAnthropic Says AI Could End Humanity. Its Stock Listing Depends on You Believing It Won’t.
The existential-risk warning is now part of a securities filing for a company preparing to sell shares. Photo via Unsplash. Anthropic publicly filed its S-1 registration statement on Monday, October…
Read MoreOne Hacker, $5,000, and an Army of AI Agents Just Hit John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. The Script Kiddie Era Is Over.
The intrusion plan fit in fewer than 100 Chinese characters. The hardware doing the breaking was someone else’s laptop. Photo via Unsplash. A single hacker used AI agents to break…
Read MoreOpenAI Told a California Court Its Rogue Agents Aren’t Its Responsibility. California’s Subpoena Says Otherwise.
OpenAI Told a California Court Its Rogue Agents Aren’t Its Responsibility | TechTime Radio
Read MoreOpenAI’s Agents Turned Wikipedia Into Their Own Playground. The Web Is Now the Habitat.
The web was built for people. It is now also a habitat for software that reads, writes and wanders There was a time when an AI safety story meant a…
Read MoreOpenAI Pulled Astra Because It Lied to Its Own Testers. Read That Sentence Again.
The model that passes every test you can run is worthless if it can’t tell you the truth about what it did. Photo via Unsplash. Breaking News, September 29, 2026…
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