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AI browsers: the same-origin policy is only as strong as the model

For 30 years, one rule has kept one website in your browser from reading another. In agent mode that guarantee turns into a question about model quality. Two research groups showed it independently, a ...

Compressing tool output before sending: How Headroom reduces 55,957 tokens to 24,340, and its limitations

IntroductionWhen you leave troubleshooting to a coding agent, the log retrieval tool returns 55,957 tokens of text. Of that, ...
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Scientists re-created the Herculaneum scrolls. They found a clue to decoding hidden text

Charred to a crisp during Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in AD 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls lie tucked away unread in Italy’s National Library of Naples. The majority of these carbonized artifacts, known ...

Can your PC be hijacked just by having an AI read a webpage? The new attack surface of AI agents where 'mere text' turns into RCE

"Ignore all previous instructions."If you have ever used generative AI, you might have seen a sentence like this at least once.This is what is known as "prompt injection."Hearing just this, you might ...