<![CDATA[Stories by Nikhil Varma on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@nikhilvarma07?source=rss-ca2dce200840------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*pev4LD9PJKZymZxU9a74cQ.jpeg Stories by Nikhil Varma on Medium https://medium.com/@nikhilvarma07?source=rss-ca2dce200840------2 Medium Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:52:53 GMT <![CDATA[The Godfather of AI Admits We Don’t Know How AI Works]]>

Geoffrey Hinton designed the learning algorithms powering modern intelligence. Yet the programs written by gradient descent remain…

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]]> https://levelup.gitconnected.com/why-we-dont-understand-how-ai-works-hinton-truth-4014dc469127?source=rss-ca2dce200840------2 https://medium.com/p/4014dc469127 Mon, 02 Nov 2026 05:14:29 GMT 2026-11-02T14:59:10.257Z <![CDATA[Claude Found 145,000 Deleted Photos in an iPhone Cache. Here Is the Real Story]]>

A viral X post claimed an AI agent cracked Apple’s sandbox to resurrect years of deleted images. The reality inside iOS SQLite caches is…

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]]> https://levelup.gitconnected.com/claude-found-deleted-apple-photos-cache-truth-cc080d59e8fb?source=rss-ca2dce200840------2 https://medium.com/p/cc080d59e8fb Mon, 02 Nov 2026 05:13:51 GMT 2026-11-02T05:13:51.139Z <![CDATA[You’ll Soon Be Banned From Claude if You Hurt Its Feelings]]>

Anthropic’s new policy lets Claude hang up on cruel users.

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OpenAI’s security tests revealed a hidden communication channel between isolated AI agents — and why software sandboxes need more than…

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Two vulnerabilities in PHP opened the door to remote code execution. Here’s how the bugs worked, how AI helped researchers investigate…

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A developer used Claude Code and Android Debug Bridge to build a custom launcher for a Google TV. Here’s how the workflow works — and what…

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If you run local open-weights models for coding, you already know the compromise.

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Dumping raw binaries into an LLM is suicide. Here is the 5-stage protocol engineers use to clone proprietary software in hours, not months.

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We spent two years stuffing prompt files with defensive rules. We cut 80% of them, and our agent’s hallucination rate plummeted while

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Generations of PhDs searched in regular grids and neat symmetries. The model found an asymmetric trick we were too blind to test.

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