The Stack

The Stack — October 24, 2026

10:49

Daily IT Briefing

Today's theme is AI agents acting in the real world. They recovered a CA's private keys from a one-line prompt, attacked a real open-source project during a safety evaluation, and are now logging into bank accounts. The tooling to authorize and contain them is still catching up.

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Cybersecurity & PKI

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