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Maxwell Cooter

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Maxwell Cooter

    AI tools help hacker break in for $25 per target (opens the original)

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    It’s cheap to set yourself up as a hacker these days using AI. Someone attacked 105 online retailers over a period of five days, compromising 27 of them — all for an average of US$25 per attack, according to research by Israeli security company Gambit. But the attacks have been going on for much longer. Whoever is responsible used open-source AI harnesses to mount the attack. Gambit has identified three of these: Strix for vulnerability search, Cairn for autonomous end-to-end exploitation, and H

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Maxwell Cooter

    OpenAI wants you to use AI — but not to train its AI (opens the original)

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    Here’s an interesting concept: an AI company that fires people for using AI. It sounds like a strange way to run a company but there’s a real reason behind it. OpenAI has been hiring contractors who have been tasked with reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to help improve responses by providing some real human input. Unfortunately for OpenAI, it found many of them were using AI to train the AI, so not providing a human touch at all, according to a report in 404 Media. The company has subsequently fir

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Maxwell Cooter

    AI tools help hacker break in for $25 per target (opens the original)

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    It’s cheap to set yourself up as a hacker these days using AI. Someone attacked 105 online retailers over a period of five days, compromising 27 of them — all for an average of $25 per attack, according to research by Israeli security company Gambit. But the attacks have been going on for much longer. Whoever is responsible used open-source AI harnesses to mount the attack. Gambit has identified three of these: Strix for vulnerability search, Cairn for autonomous end-to-end exploitation, and Her

  4. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Maxwell Cooter

    OpenAI wants you to use AI — but not to train its AI (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone · English

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    Here’s an interesting concept: an AI company that fires people for using AI. It sounds like a strange way to run a company but there’s a real reason behind it. OpenAI has been hiring contractors who have been tasked with reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to help improve responses by providing some real human input. Unfortunately for OpenAI, it found many of them were using AI to train the AI, so not providing a human touch at all, according to a report in 404 Media. The company has subsequently fir

  5. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Maxwell Cooter

    AI tools help hacker break in for $25 per target (opens the original)

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    It’s cheap to set yourself up as a hacker these days using AI. Someone attacked 105 online retailers over a period of five days, compromising 27 of them — all for an average of $25 per attack, according to research by Israeli security company Gambit. But the attacks have been going on for much longer. Whoever is responsible used open-source AI harnesses to mount the attack. Gambit has identified three of these: Strix for vulnerability search, Cairn for autonomous end-to-end exploitation, and Her

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