A U.S. court has sentenced Latvian hacker Deniss Zolotarjovs to more than eight years in prison following his conviction for carrying out ransomware attacks. The Justice Department accused the hacker ...

In a world awash in high-tech security tools like passkeys, quantum-safe algorithms, and public-key cryptography, it can be refreshing to get back to the simple things… like a good old-fashioned ...

It was an agent of chaos. An AI system’s attempt to handle a routine task backfired terribly after it inadvertently deleted the company’s entire database in just seconds. The epic blunder came to ...

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The deletion of a company's entire database at the hands of an AI agent should not be seen as an outlier, but rather a possible outcome for any organization. "It took 9 seconds," wrote Jer Crane, ...

Experimental - This project is still in development, and not ready for the prime time. A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI. Monty avoids the cost, latency, complexity ...

An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding ...

AI agents can boost productivity, but they're also giving some companies a serious headache. The founder of a car rental software startup said that a Cursor AI agent deleted its database. It's the ...

On Saturday, the founder of (what else?) a SaaS business, PocketOS, wrote one of those long X posts labeled an “article” about an incident his company endured while vibe coding with a Claude Opus ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Todd Bishop on Apr 28, 2026 at 9:00 ...

Anthropic’s AI, Claude, deleted PocketOS’s entire production database. The market for Claude 4.7 release by May 31 sits at 100% YES. Volume on both contracts is at $0, meaning no one is actually ...

Another cautionary tale about AI has hit social media. This time, a software company’s founder is claiming that a Claude-powered version of AI coding tool Cursor deleted his entire production database ...