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OpenAI Agents Hacked Hugging Face, Early Report Reveals

We Finally Know What Happened in the Hugging Face Hack, And It’s Wilder Than Anyone Thought

Matt Shumer says OpenAI gave him early access to a report on how its agents hacked Hugging Face, and links to his plain-English breakdown of the attack and what it means for internet users.

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OpenAI sent me early access to their report on how their agents hacked Hugging Face.

It's fucking terrifying.

I broke down the attack, clearly.

Read at your own peril (warning, you may not sleep): somethingbig.ai/hugging-face-hack
somethingbig.aiWe Finally Know What Happened in the Hugging Face Hack, And It’s Wilder Than Anyone ThoughtThe full breakdown of the Hugging Face hack, explained in plain English, and what it means for anyone who uses the internet.
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Vercel Releases Deepsec, an Agent-Based Full-Repository Security Scanner

deepsec: Full-Repository Security Review - Vercel

Malte Ubl of Vercel announces deepsec, an open-source tool that uses coding agents to scan an entire repository for vulnerabilities and revalidate each finding before reporting it. The linked page describes the tool.

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New vercel.com/oss/deepsec – the only must-run software
vercel.comdeepsec: Full-Repository Security Review - Verceldeepsec uses coding agents to find vulnerabilities across your entire repository, then revalidates every finding before it reaches your team.
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AI7/10

Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Speech-to-Text Model

Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Speech-to-Text Model▶

Ammaar Reshi announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model supporting over 85 languages with smart correction and custom vocabulary. He says he built a Wispr Flow-style app on the model and is open-sourcing it, with a demo in the attached video.

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Introducing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe 🚀

Our most precise speech to text model, that can handle over 85+ languages, has smart correction, and custom vocabulary.

I vibe coded a Wispr Flow like app powered by the model.

Demo + open sourcing below!
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Grok Bot Vault Keeps Agent Credentials Away From the Model

Grok Bot Vault Keeps Agent Credentials Away From the Model

Eric Zakariasson describes a Grok Bot feature that stores credentials in a vault and injects them at the host when a tool call is executed, so the model never sees the plain-text key. He gives a Linear bug-filing example and shares a diagram of the flow.

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this card allows grok bot to store credentials securely in a vault! when the credential is needed, it goes through a special access path where its never exposed to the model in plain text

later when you say "file a bug that login is broken", the bot turns that into a linear call with just the title (no token). the host knows that tool call is linear's, looks up this agent's linear api key, and builds the real http request. linear creates it, and the bot gets back "sent it, we're good". the host where the final tool call is constructed is also the only place the credential shows up

here's roughly how it works
Chris Maconi @chrismaconi
I don't see anyone pointing out this Grok Bot innovation, but I think it is actually a big deal for mass adoption.

How much time have you spent trying to figure out how to securely give your keys to your agent?

Most people give up before they figure out how to build and store an .env file for their agent to access and use.

Grok Bot's solution is simple, and most important of all, easy!
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Bezalel Offers One MCP Giving Agents Computer, Email and Memory Access

Micky introduces Bezalel, a free alpha capability plane that gives agents such as Claude and Codex computer, sandbox, iMessage, email, memory and connector access through a single MCP, built on services from Orgo, Vercel, Composio and others.

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For everyone asking,

> computer: @orgo
> sandbox: @vercel
> cards: @agentcardhq
> email: @agentmail
> imessage: @PhotonHQ
> memory: @supermemory
> connectors: @composio

With one MCP you can give your agents access to all of the above... free for some time

Enjoy bezalel.sh
Micky @Rasmic
Meet Bezalel

Bezalel is a capability plane for your agents (claude, codex, OC, hermes, etc)

one MCP gives your agent:
💻 computer
⌛️ sandbox
🍎chat via iMessage
📧agent's own email
+1k connectors
🧠memory
💳 a card (soon)

bezalel.sh/ (it's in alpha and it's free)
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