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Your Voice Assistant Can Be Social-Engineered Too, and Nobody's Watching For It

We spent a decade teaching people not to click the phishing link. Now we've built agents that will happily take instructions from whatever's playing in the background, and we haven't even started teaching them not to. Prompt injection in text is old news at this point. Paste some hidden instructions into a document, a webpage, an email, and watch an LLM agent dutifully follow them instead of the user's actual request. We've had two-plus years of research, blog posts, and "here's why this is arch

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Two h1 tags on 500 pages: the bug that lives between two correct halves

Our blog grew from 84 posts to 1,360 in a day. Then I read one live page instead of the source, counted tags, and found two <h1> elements on 500 of them. Both halves of the code were correct. Their sum was not, and no test could see it. The post template prints the title from frontmatter: <h1>${esc(fm.title)}</h1> Every article starts with its own heading, because that is what a markdown document looks like: # How to build a CRM without code marked turns that into another <h1>. Nothing in eith

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Pixel 11 specs and price leak with no surprises

Android Headlines claims to have the specs and price for the entire Pixel 11 lineup. What the site shared basically lines up with everything else that we've heard in the lead-up to the August 12th event. The Pixel 11 is expected to get a $100 price hike, starting at $899, but will come with 256GB of storage instead of 128GB in the base model. While the entire lineup will sport the new Tensor G6 and Titan M3 chips, the base model Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL are both getting that rumored RAM

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Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh

Angela Nissel smiles through the pain. | Image: Angela Nissel Angela Nissel's latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, is my kind of memoir. Sure, it's a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent. But it's delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me through tough times. Of course, that sort of dark humor should come as no surprise from Nissel. She first made a splash with The Broke Diaries, which grew out of a blog she kept in coll

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