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hacker

[hak-er] / ˈhæk ər /


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But she then said she had to enter what she called "zombie hacker mode" to prepare for the next day.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

The disruption at Instructure follows a breach disclosed last week in which a hacker group claimed it stole hundreds of millions of records tied to students and employees at roughly 9,000 schools in the U.S.,

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

But the company sparked widespread concerns when it claimed the bot was an expert hacker as good as, if not better than, the best humans.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

“Whether or not Mythos is a hacker superweapon really is immaterial to the conversation,” says Dave Lewis, global advisory chief information-security officer at the password-manager developer 1Password.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

They said that they had identified him, and that he was a hacker and a naysayer of the worst kind.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson




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