One hacker. Fewer than a hundred characters of instructions. And over a hundred company websites broken into — by agents, running unsupervised, at fifty dollars a pop.

Podcast: The TopCat AI Signal Report · Coach Clement

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, please send me a witch voice note. The Signal Brief Reuters reports a Chinese-speaking hacker broke into the websites of more than one hundred companies — Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins among them — while doing almost none of the work himself. Here's how: he used an open-source platform called Cairn, which lets you hand AI agents a starting point and a goal, and lets them work toward it step by step. His instructions were written in fewer than one hundred Chinese characters: find a way to run code on e...