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🤖 AI⏱ 10:15 PM

OKF Agent Memory gives coding agents git-native recall

A pure-Go OKF v0.2 memory layer ships with sub-300µs BM25 search and an embedded MCP server, cutting agent token bloat ~80% with no external DB.

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9:43 PM 🏛️ Policy

NYC and LAUSD put AI back behind a school-year moratorium

America's two largest districts just re-tightened student AI: NYC bans student-facing AI in K-8 with limited high-school tools; LAUSD pauses generative AI on district devices for ~378k students for a year.

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7:30 PM 🏛️ Policy

Critical vulns at big tech jumped from under 100 to 600 a month

a16z Charts of the Week: across 21 majors including Apple, AWS, Microsoft, and Google, reported critical vulnerabilities never cleared 100/month for four years, then spiked past 600 since spring.

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7:27 PM 🔧 Tech

Claude Skill that makes interns review your agent's design choices

Show HN drops a Claude Skill / plugin that forces an intern-style review pass on an agent's design decisions before you ship the plan.

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10:32 AM 🏛️ Policy

Fable 5.1's system prompt bans song lyrics and Sonic birthdays

Simon Willison diffs Anthropic's newly split per-model system prompts: Fable 5.1 hard-blocks lyrics/poems/passages and recognizable characters in code-drawn art, days after music publishers sued.

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7:52 AM 🤖 AI

AI SREs fix nights, then humans lose system intuition

Ex-LinkedIn SRE Sylvain Kalache argues AI incident bots will cut average MTTR while making rare SEV0s worse, because responders stop practicing on the easy stuff.

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4:07 AM 🏛️ Policy

Numbat is the open defender toolkit for rogue agents

As OpenAI publishes a disclosure framework for the wiki incident, Arav points defenders at Perplexity's open-source Numbat: harness hooks, 52 rules, and session forensics for endpoint agents.

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🏛️ Policy

Gemini trip advice leaves Mount Shasta hikers short on water

Three hikers on Mount Shasta got rescued after Gemini under-advised food and water for what became a multiday ordeal; sheriff says never rely solely on AI for trip planning.

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