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hacker

[hak-er] / ˈhæk ər /


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Our water system’s decentralized, fragmented nature, perhaps a bit like our electoral system, is a double-edged sword, inasmuch as its vulnerabilities are atomized—at least a single hacker can’t contaminate all the water in the country.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2026

Both OpenAI, the hacker, and the victim, Hugging Face, have portrayed the response to this incident as a collaboration.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

In an emergency video call with hundreds of cyber-security professionals, the firm described how the AI worked at superhuman speed but also made strange decisions and mistakes that no human hacker would have made.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

A hacker could exploit that window by using the temporary buying power to trade securities or purchase cryptocurrency before the transfer fails.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 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

Anthropic’s allegations of distillation come in a report that also describes a range of other types of misuse of its platform—performed by criminal hackers, authoritarian regimes and others.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Document storage company Dropbox is informing customers that about 5,000 accounts associated with laptop maker Lenovo were compromised by hackers between Aug. 4 and Aug. 21.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

As a result, the company has added layers of security to reduce the risk of misuse by hackers, or Astra going rogue and attacking targets on its own.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Three major UK airports have been hit by a "cyber security incident" in which criminal cyber hackers accessed the data of almost nine million people.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

I imagined a news story—girl hackers obsessed with billionaire boy.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green




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