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1. /01

   Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

   Researchers show how the hidden chain-of-thought from proprietary models can be extracted, raising fresh questions about how "sealed" frontier reasoning really is. The work details techniques for recovering traces that vendors have tried to keep private.

   Read : Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
2. /02

   Can AI Do Novel Security Research? Meet the HTTP Terminator

   PortSwigger explores whether AI can produce genuinely novel vulnerability research, testing an agent's ability to find and exploit real bugs beyond known patterns. The piece weighs where automation helps and where human researchers still lead.

   Read : Can AI Do Novel Security Research? Meet the HTTP Terminator
3. /03

   Supply Chain Security Analysis of a 9.5M-Install VS Code Extension

   ProjectDiscovery walks through a supply chain foothold hidden in a single markdown file inside a massively installed extension, showing how extensions auto-update and run with full privileges on the machine holding your source.

   Read : Supply Chain Security Analysis of a 9.5M-Install VS Code Extension
4. /04

   A New Trick Reveals AI Models' Inner Thoughts

   Computer scientists found a way to extract the hidden internal thinking of frontier models, a step that could make AI systems less opaque and harder to trust blindly.

   Read : A New Trick Reveals AI Models' Inner Thoughts
5. /05

   Omarchy Quattro release

   introduces a fully rewrote the desktop shell in Quickshell for a unified, plugin-based experience and was hailed by DHH as one of his career's greatest releases. A week later the Omacom Foundation launched with $8 million from DHH and seven other tech leaders to fund and expand Omarchy (plus exclusive long-term sponsorship of Hyprland) in pursuit of the "Year of Linux on the Desktop."

   Watch : Omarchy Quattro release