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Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails

https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116091/meta-security-researchers-ai-agent-accidentally-deleted-her-emails
20•Bluestein•1h ago

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philipp-gayret•1h ago
Not the first to discover that a rule file saying "please don't do X" is not permission management. Funny that she mentions it worked on het toy inbox but the real, large inbox ran into issues; The more context you add the less weight "rules" (instructions) have. Happens to the best it seems.
thewhitetulip•57m ago
> The more context you add the less weight "rules" (instructions) have

That is such a basic flaw in LLMs

red_admiral•54m ago
Irony: the screenshot with the openclaw logo at the top lists as the first feature "Clears your inbox".

What happened to write-only backups in case of ransomware?

altmanaltman•46m ago
This article is from Feburary when the OpenClaw and "lol my agent ate my homework" type marketing was peak. Fundamentally the story means nothing except an AI researcher not understanding how AI works and just yolo openclaw
sublinear•28m ago
How many more face eggs until we pop the AI yolk?

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https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/
741•zdw•10h ago•180 comments

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101•dbalatero•5h ago•46 comments

Creepy Crawlies

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82•WithinReason•2h ago•8 comments

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312•metrofun•16h ago•88 comments

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144•vghaisas•2d ago•133 comments

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166•WilsonHarper•2d ago•17 comments

OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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84•doppp•5h ago•84 comments

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Formalization of the Solution to the Hopf Problem

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Hacking IKEA Furniture

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311•greenlightning•21h ago•221 comments

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118•speckx•5d ago•43 comments

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Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

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159•rzk•16h ago•46 comments

Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails

https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116091/meta-security-researchers-ai-agent-accidentally-deleted-her-emails
20•Bluestein•1h ago•5 comments

Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic

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35•Bluestein•4d ago•20 comments

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53•ibobev•3d ago•29 comments

Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals

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129•rbanffy•3d ago•16 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

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231•vntok•1d ago•90 comments

Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

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108•tosh•18h ago•67 comments

Racter (1984)

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26•buescher•2d ago•7 comments