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Posted by donohoe 1 day ago

Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw(www.nytimes.com)
Unlocked: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hacker..., https://archive.ph/I4Ui5

https://apnews.com/article/google-ai-cybersecurity-exploitat...

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/google-thwarts-effort-hacker...

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ChrisArchitect 10 hours ago|
Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ai-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096712)

Why collect all the news dupes but not the source up top OP? Because the source was already submitted?

skywhopper 15 hours ago||
Drives me nuts that the NYT just uncritically cites Anthropic’s unverified claims of “thousands of zero-days” without a hint of skepticism.
justsomedev2 10 hours ago||
What a surprise hackers used AI . I mean why wouldnt they? Every programmer uses it..
SecretDreams 16 hours ago||
If "bad guy AI" can find flaws, can "good guy AI" patch them faster when backed by trillion dollar companies?
boothby 15 hours ago||
Do your AI patches introduce fewer flaws than they repair?
SecretDreams 12 hours ago||
That's a trillion dollar question.
ccimmergreen 11 hours ago|||
"Google used AI to find a major software flaw" — there, fixed it for you, happy?
j2kun 16 hours ago|||
The bottleneck is probably validating and deploying the fix, which requires coordination.
cyanydeez 16 hours ago||
If I sell weapons to both sides of a conflict, can I become rich?
mindcrime 15 hours ago|||
No. To become really rich you have to draw a 3rd player into the conflict, and then sell weapons to them as well.
dwd 13 hours ago||
Or just lend money to both parties to fund their war efforts and pay off war debts afterwards.
BLKNSLVR 14 hours ago||||
Yes.

Please refer to any seller of weapons ever.

SecretDreams 16 hours ago|||
Ask anyone selling AI hardware recently!
0xWTF 15 hours ago||
Wait until the bio version of this shows up.
esseph 13 hours ago|
8 days ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/ai-chatbots-biological...

lynx97 6 hours ago||
I stopped reading after "Google says". They have destroyed whatever trust I might have had in them years ago.
ppqqrr 16 hours ago||
...says yet another company hell bent on integrating it into every facet of our lives. This reads like a celebration, if you ask me.
_karie_ 13 hours ago||
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huflungdung 15 hours ago|
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