PEAKS No 35: MCP Meets the Browser, Clinejection, and the GPT in 200 Lines
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🛡️ Security & Privacy
- Clinejection is a chilling supply chain attack: a crafted GitHub issue title triggered an AI triage bot to install a malicious npm package, stealing tokens and silently deploying OpenClaw on ~4,000 developer machines. Prompt injection + confused deputy = full supply chain compromise. More
- Coruna, a spy-grade iOS exploit kit with 5 full exploit chains and 23 CVEs (including Operation Triangulation zero-days), was tracked from a surveillance vendor to Russian espionage and finally Chinese cybercriminals targeting crypto wallets. Update your iOS — it's ineffective against current versions. More
🛸 Tech
- Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 and T16 Gen 5 score a perfect 10/10 on iFixit's repairability scale — the first T-series ever — featuring tool-free battery swaps, LPCAMM2 memory, modular Thunderbolt ports, and an easy keyboard replacement. More
- Claude's new Memory Import lets you copy your context from ChatGPT or any other AI and paste it into Claude's settings in seconds — so your first Claude conversation feels like your hundredth. More
- Apple's M4 Neural Engine deep-dive: Researchers reverse-engineered the ANE, bypassed CoreML, cracked the E5 binary format, and even trained a neural network on a chip Apple designed exclusively for inference. Fascinating and technically dense. More
- Obsidian Sync goes headless, enabling vault sync on servers and CI environments without launching the GUI — great for automation and self-hosted workflows. More
- Motorola at MWC 2026 announced a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation for hardened Android security, launched Moto Analytics (real-time enterprise device fleet insights), and added Private Image Data to Moto Secure — stripping sensitive EXIF metadata from photos automatically. More
🤖 AI
- Karpathy's microGPT is a masterpiece of minimalism: a complete GPT — tokenizer, autograd, attention, Adam optimizer — in 200 lines of pure Python, zero dependencies. GrowingSWE made an interactive visual walkthrough for beginners.
- Chrome's WebMCP enters early preview, proposing a standard browser API so websites can expose structured tools to AI agents — enabling reliable booking, support ticketing, and checkout flows without DOM scraping. More
- CMU's free Modern AI Course (10-202) is now available online, covering supervised ML, transformers, LLMs, fine-tuning, RLHF, and reasoning models — with Colab assignments and a minimal chatbot you build from scratch. More
- Claude Code creator Boris Cherny shares how he ships 20–30 PRs/day using 5 parallel Claude instances, why glob+grep beat RAG for codebase search, and how PRDs have been replaced by rapid prototyping at Anthropic. More
- OpenAI launched GPT-5.4 and Codex Security (research preview), bringing advanced code understanding and security-focused analysis to its developer tools. More
- GitHub Security Lab's open-source AI framework (Taskflow Agent) found 80+ real vulnerabilities across 40+ repos — including a Rocket.Chat auth bypass where any password worked and a WooCommerce IDOR leaking guest order PII. LLMs excel at logic/auth bugs. More
- Donald Knuth's paper on Claude has made the rounds — the legendary CS professor put Claude through its paces on cycle-related problems and documented the results in a characteristically thorough paper. More
🛠️ Tools
- Agent Safehouse sandboxes AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Cline) on macOS using kernel-level
sandbox-exec— deny-first, zero deps, no VMs. Your SSH keys and.envfiles stay invisible to agents by default. More - GitHub Workspace CLI (
googleworkspace/cli) — official CLI for Google Workspace, letting you manage Docs, Sheets, Drive, and more from the terminal. More - Ki Editor is a multi-cursor structural (AST-based) modal editor — manipulate syntax nodes directly instead of wrestling with text. Built for refactoring-heavy workflows. More
- Logira automates GitHub issue triage using AI, categorizing and labeling issues so maintainers can focus on what matters. More
- WSL2 Distro Manager gives Windows users a clean GUI for managing, creating, and switching Linux distributions inside WSL2. More
- Plasma Bigscreen is a privacy-respecting, KDE-based open-source TV interface for Linux — controllable via TV remote (CEC), gamepad, or phone via KDE Connect. Joining the official Plasma release cycle in June 2026. More
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