/Hive Five #269 · Apr 7, 2026
Navigating the Matrix
/The Bee's Knees 🐝
The headline picks from this issue. The full issue has more.
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Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise
Two malicious versions of the widely-used axios package were briefly published after attackers compromised the lead maintainer's machine via social engineering. The packages were live for ~3 hours—a reminder that even trusted libraries can be hijacked.
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Vulnerability Research Is Cooked
AI coding agents are now finding real vulnerabilities at scale, threatening hospitals, routers, and critical infrastructure. This paradigm shift is already showing up in model cards from frontier labs—the era of manual vuln research is ending.
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[un]prompted session recordings
from the intimate, raw, and fun gathering for the professionals actually doing the work, from offense to threat hunting to program building to national policy. No fluff. No filler. Just sharp talks, real demos, and conversations that matter.
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The Last Quiet Thing
Your devices demand constant maintenance that used to be someone else's job. Phones need updates, apps need permissions, subscriptions need managing—invisible labor that exhausts users while companies profit from both the problem and the "wellness" solutions they sell.
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Frontier Systems course with instructor and AMP Founder Anjney Midha.
This kickoff lecture for CS 153: Frontier Systems (Spring 2026), taught by Anjney Midha and Mike. The course aims to provide students with a deep dive into the infrastructure and systems layer of modern AI, focusing on how these technologies are built, scaled, and governed.
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