Software, in a Time of Fear

A new paper out of arXiv this week describes an AI system that builds, improves, and deploys its own specialist agents. Here is what that actually means for engineers and technical teams.

If you haven’t heard of Arm, you haven’t been paying attention to how ubiquitous the chipmaker has become. Arm’s processor designs power Macs, iPhones, and every other major smartphone line. Queries made through ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude pass through an Arm-based chip at some point. For more than 40 years, Arm’s focus was on chip design. Major device and AI chip makers then licensed those designs and turned them into hardware.  But the company’s focus is changing: Arm is now making hardware using its own AGI CPU, which OpenAI and Meta will use and which will allow the chipmaker itself to compete with the likes of Apple, Intel, Nvidia, Amazon and Google. Arm’s envisions its new Performix software suite using “recipes” and AI insights to help engineers identify suspect code and CPU hotspots. Alex Spinelli, who leads Arm’s software initiatives as senior vice president for AI and developer platforms, is as AI-native an engineer as you’ll find; he played a central role in the TensorFlow st

The post ClickFix malware campaign targets Mac users searching for help appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Attackers are posting fake macOS troubleshooting guides on Medium, Craft, and Squarespace. The goal is to make users run Terminal commands that install malware targeting iCloud data, saved passwords, and crypto wallets. Microsoft’s Defender Security Research Team published the findings. The campaign has been running since late 2025. It preys on Mac users searching for help with common problems like freeing up disk space or fixing system errors. Instead of offering a legit fix, the pages tell users to copy a command and paste it into Terminal. That command pulls down and runs malware. The misleading blog posts tell readers to copy a malicious command and paste it into Terminal. This command downloads malware and runs it on the victim’s computer. The technique is called ClickFix. It’s social engineering that changes responsibility for launching the payload onto the victim. Because

Strategy CEO Phong Le says Q1 software growth and AI work support the company’s Bitcoin treasury model.

The system’s power is comparable to others – but it still has frightening implications for the future of hacking Last month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at finding security vulnerabilities in software that the company would not release it to the general public. Instead, it would only be available to a select group of companies to scan and fix their own software. The announcement requires context – but it contained an essential truth. Continue reading...

Pendulum is swinging back to companies in areas such as servers, more general chips and software

iPhone maker warns about security risks as new software floods its review process

We tend to assume that if every part of a system behaves correctly, the system itself will behave correctly. That assumption is deeply embedded in how we design, test, and operate software. If a service returns valid responses, if dependencies are reachable, and if constraints are satisfied, then the system is considered healthy. Even in […]