Microsoft internally admits AI scraping is 'the largest theft of labor in human history'; RSA-896 factored with AI assistance; open-weight models give attackers a one-year head start on defenders

saweis.net

RSA-896 Factorization Achievement

Stephen A. Weis factored RSA-896, a 270-digit RSA challenge number, with help from Claude AI. The factorization breaks the composite number into two 155-digit prime factors. This achievement shows progress in computational methods for factoring large RSA numbers.

jyn.dev

We Have a Year to Fix Security Everywhere

Open-weight AI models now identify vulnerabilities in source code with high accuracy. Attackers can exploit these issues faster than humans can fix them. Government policy and corporate investment in patch deployment can stop this urgent threat before it becomes catastrophic.

Tom's Hardware

Microsoft Director Called AI Scraping 'The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'

Legal briefs filed in a New York Times lawsuit reveal internal statements from Microsoft and OpenAI executives. A Microsoft director describes AI scraping of training data as the largest theft of labor in human history. An OpenAI leader states that ChatGPT presents an existential threat to publishers and news organizations.

Reclaim The Net

Spain Blocks Archive.today and Mirrors

Spain ordered internet service providers to block Archive.today without a court ruling. Users get a government warning page when they try to access the site. The government bypassed normal court procedures to enforce the block.

besok.github.io

What Zig Felt Like Coming from Rust

A Rust developer reimplemented a JSONPath library in Zig and compared the two languages' design approaches. Zig emphasizes imperative code and manual memory management, contrasting with Rust's functional patterns and automatic safety, though Zig's ecosystem lacks mature libraries. The author views Zig as a straightforward, modern, and fast C successor, though the language is still developing.

PlanetScale

Introducing TIN: Full-Text Search for PostgreSQL

PlanetScale released TIN, a PostgreSQL extension that enables efficient full-text search. TIN supports Boolean expressions, phrase queries, fuzzy matching, and BM25 scoring for result ranking. The tool delivers 8 times higher throughput than competing solutions like ParadeDB.