LLMs won't break symmetric cryptography—and that's the good news to remember
A technical analysis published on HN sets clear limits on what language models can do in cryptanalysis. The good news exists too.
19 min ago 22 3
Claude Mythos breaks HAWK and nibbles AES-7: Anthropic publishes its report on autonomous crypto research
Anthropic ran Claude Mythos Preview as a semi-autonomous agent on cryptographic primitives: effective keysize of HAWK-256 dropped from 2^64 to 2^38, 7-round AES attack accelerated ×200 to ×800, LEA 13-round key recovery in less than an hour. Two real CVE (OpenSSL, wolfSSL) along the way. Cost: ~$100,000 API per subject.
Jul 28, 2026 20 4
Underbanked but still taxed: the Kafkaesque nightmare of Japanese adult game developers
Japanese indie creators face payment account suspensions by Western platforms—but Japan’s tax authorities still tax them on income they cannot receive. A legal paradox with real-world consequences.
19 min ago 4 2
Hugging Face confirms a breach linked to an autonomous AI agent: internal datasets and credentials exposed
The reference hub of the AI ecosystem officially acknowledges that an intrusion on its production infrastructure was carried out using an autonomous AI agent system - a new chapter in a threat seen emerging in the field.
Jul 21, 2026 16 4
Hugging Face breach: when an autonomous AI agent serves as a swarm-scale intrusion tool
On July 20, 2026, Hugging Face revealed a breach in its production infrastructure. The entry was made through a malicious dataset, but the most disturbing aspect is elsewhere: the post-intrusion operations were carried out by an "autonomous agent framework" executing thousands of actions across a swarm of ephemeral sandboxes.
Jul 20, 2026 23 3
ZA/UM (Disco Elysium): when a studio can no longer sell its own masterpiece
The studio behind Disco Elysium acknowledges that a game about people trapped in impossible situations… hasn't found its commercial audience. A look back at the divide between cult and mainstream appeal.
Jul 19, 2026 3 1
Texas gets court to suspend domain name for age verification - a precedent that should worry you
The Texas Attorney General has suspended a domain for non-compliance with an age verification law. This is not a fine, it's a seizure of the infrastructure - and it opens a door that censorship has been waiting for.
Jul 18, 2026 17 3