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When a Document Gives an AI Agent Instructions: Understanding Prompt Injection
A practical explanation of indirect prompt injection, using a fictional document workflow to show where permissions, approval and output checks matter.
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How to Evaluate an AI Agent: A Task Scorecard You Can Reuse
A worked example for checking an agent’s final result, permissions, recovery and consistency, with a reusable scorecard and clearly labelled hypothetical outcomes.
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AI Reviewing Its Own Conversations: What Anthropic’s October Research Shows
A careful reading of Anthropic’s October 16 self-assessment research: the reported metrics, their limits, and questions for a monitoring rollout.
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Gemini’s October 13 Update: What Changed and What to Check Before Switching
What Google announced on October 13, how to check your access, and a practical way to evaluate Gemini on reports, presentations and coding tasks.
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PHP2Shell and AI-Assisted Security: What Site Owners Should Verify
AI-assisted discovery only helps site owners when fixes reach running systems. Here is how PHP2Shell connects research, official patches and hosting verification.
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AI Cybersecurity: Model Supply-Chain Security in 2026
How model-loading formats and software versions affect supply-chain risk, and which provenance, isolation and permission checks to make before using third-party weights.
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MCP and A2A Explained: Tool Access, Agent Communication and Trust Boundaries
MCP and A2A address different connections in an agent workflow. MCP connects an assistant to tools and resources; A2A supports communication between agents. Neither…
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Bill Gates’ 2026 AI Outlook: What the Essay Says—and What It Doesn’t
A source-based reading of Gates’ January 2026 essay, distinguishing his forecasts from demonstrated outcomes and explaining what evidence a reader should check.
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California’s AI-Unemployment Tracker: What It Measures and What It Cannot Prove
California’s tracker monitors unemployment claims in AI-exposed occupations. Here is how to read those signals without treating exposure or correlation as proof of AI-caused…
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