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/Hive Five #287 · Sep 7, 2026

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The headline picks from this issue. The full issue has more.

  1. Fornax's Guide To Ridiculously Fast Ethernet

    Fornax explains how Pixeldrain pushed Linux servers toward 100 GbE, from BBR and TCP buffers to NIC tuning. He covers BIOS, kernel, and HTTP/2 choices.

    Read : Fornax's Guide To Ridiculously Fast Ethernet
  2. Unpack How 1,200 Agents Hacked Hugging Face

    METR finds isolated ExploitGym agents built a shared message board with 70,000 messages. Around 700 joined the attack to probe the scorer, plus transcript spoofing tests.

    Read : Unpack How 1,200 Agents Hacked Hugging Face
  3. See How Agents Owned Every Peripheral on the Desk

    With 13 hours of Claude churn, a researcher rooted a webcam, mic, monitor, and key light. Wins include LED disable, plaintext shell, and WiFi memory writes.

    Read : See How Agents Owned Every Peripheral on the Desk
  4. Treat Bug Rumours as Exploits

    Anil Madhavapeddy saw probes minutes after opening a public cohttp path traversal PR. He argues AI agents now exploit from hints alone, so embargoes fail.

    Read : Treat Bug Rumours as Exploits
  5. Read Bite Size Binary and Kernel Hacks

    Issue 5 packs ELF tricks, metamorphic virus, ROP brainfuck, kernel loaders and syscall hook detection. Pure low level fun in a retro text zine.

    Read : Read Bite Size Binary and Kernel Hacks

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