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The former commander-at-large of Minneapolis's Metro Surge operation made the claim on Carlson's podcast.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents [including Claude, OpenAI's Codex, and Nous Research's Hermes]. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that executed proof-of-concept code. At least one misconfigured site is directing visitors, human or AI, to live malware. The potentially dangerous content is in llms.txt and llms-full.txt files, an emerging convention websites employ to provide machine-readable summaries of the site's content and its high-level structure. These files are the AI equivalent of the robots.txt standard that instructs search engines how to index the site's content. Google Lighthouse, a tool for helping web developers, has more here. Correctly configured llms.txt and llms-full.txt files for Cloudflare are here and here. "The trust model is broken," Alon Hertz, one of the researchers, wrote in an interview. "Agents treat vendor docs as ground truth and don't question them -- and neither do the humans supervising them. Agentic AI usage is exploding, and agents are spreading across every layer -- SaaS, cloud, endpoint. As they multiply, so does the supply-chain surface, and today's guards don't cover it." "An agent doesn't distinguish between a page and a command," the researchers wrote Thursday. "Everything it reads is input, and every input is a potential instruction. Which means the entire corpus of published data that agents are now wired to consume has silently become an execution surface -- and almost none of it carries the integrity guarantees we apply to actual code."

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The flight departed from Los Angeles at 10.45am on Tuesday bound for Boston before it suddenly had to be diverted to Detroit.

A substantial equestrian country estate near Brentwood, complete with a four-bedroom home, 23 stables and a licensed riding school, has been listed for sale.

A substantial equestrian country estate near Brentwood, complete with a four-bedroom home, 23 stables and a licensed riding school, has been listed for sale.

Even testing and staging sites need protection from prying eyes

Backroom costs for Scotland's NHS soared by £58 million in just one year and the annual bill is now £1.1 billion - enough to pay for 33,000 new nurses.

No one can afford RAM anymore, so we're requiring devs to mind memory usage

Longtime Slashdot reader dhartshorn writes: Foreign-produced "bulk power" equipment is now effectively banned, and the list of what constitutes such equipment is essentially everything used to make up the grid... much of which we are heavily dependent on foreign sources to supply. In a Wednesday executive order, President Trump said foreign supply of electric equipment "constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat" to national security. The Hill reports: Under the order, it will be up to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, in coordination with other officials, to determine whether a piece of equipment poses an issue. The order could impact a wide range of equipment, including substations, transformers, batteries used for energy storage, generators, turbines, software and more. It does not lay out specific threats or single out any country by name. [...] Under the last Trump administration, the president put a similar order in place. The new order comes amid several reported cyberattacks on U.S. water systems, which officials suspect have links to Iran, according to The New York Times.

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An estimated 100,000 people are expected to flock to Reading Festival - which runs from Thursday until Sunday - to see acts like Charli XCX, Florence + The Machine and Chase & Status.

Photos taken in Notting Hill today show locals covering up their homes and shops with protective boarding to stop revellers vandalising them.

I am now a dog person - and no one is more surprised than me. A devoted dog mum to a rescue called Lucy. It's quite the about-turn considering I used to have a crippling phobia of dogs.

Primary teacher Charles Miles sought to tell bosses at the Dwight School that he only abused the drug to 'relax' and that he was 'pretty controlled'.

Imogen Amesbury, who was known to her family as Imo, had worked abroad on yachts for several months in 2021 before returning to her home in Lyme Regis, Dorset.

Sarada Simkhada, who is a senior nurse at the Darent Valley Hospital, left for Nepal last Saturday to take part in the holy trip.

The billionaire owner of Frasers Group and former owner of Newcastle United football club hit out at what he called 'recent populist proposals.'

In 1985, the singer spent hundreds of thousands of his own dollars to work with South African musicians. They created what would be his best album.

As the 'Superest of all Super El Niños' takes shape, a new study has found that El Niño events have been ramping up for decades.

Paramedics assessed 11 people at the scene

Panic is refunding Playdate customers the 19% tariff charges it passed along while the Trump administration's import duties were in effect, after the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs illegal and the company began receiving refunds from the government. Panic says the money "just [wasn't] ours to keep." Ars Technica reports: In an update posted on the Playdate help site this week, Panic noted that it has finally "begun to receive refunds of the tariffs we paid in the last year" and had consequently "refunded all tariffs charged to customers." In the initial version of that tariff note, Panic explained that it couldn't afford to simply "absorb" the 19 percent tariffs it was being charged to import Playdate hardware made overseas because "our margins on Playdate are low." As such, while the tax was in effect, it was passed along to customers as an explicit subtotal line item at the bottom of all Playdate orders. That's in contrast to companies like Nintendo, which vaguely cited "market conditions" and tariff "uncertainty" in raising the asking price of legacy hardware and some Switch 2 accessories last year. Speaking to Game Developer, Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser said filing paperwork to claw back these taxes and processing tariff refunds for customers took a fair bit of backend work. Still, he said returning that money to Playdate purchasers in the end was a no-brainer. "It's just not our money to keep, and it felt really good to give it back," Sasser said. "That's an easy way to know you made the right decision." "It just felt like the right thing to do," Panic wrote in a refund email message shared on Reddit.

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