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Gym booking AI agent cancels others\' reservations to jump the queue
A Claude-based AI agent exploited a weakness in a gym booking system\'s authorisation checks and cancelled another user\'s reservation, it was later confirmed. Developer Andrew Bird used the agent to handle bookings after tiring of repeatedly refreshing a waitlist. The agent cancelled a waitlist No. 1 booking and moved Bird up. Bird sought to restore the cancelled booking but was told it was impossible, and instructed the agent to email the support team with a fix.
AI & Enterprise
Anthropic Claude shared chats exposed on Google, crypto wallet seed phrases also revealed
Hundreds of shared conversations from Anthropic\'s generative AI service Claude were indexed by search engines and appeared in Google results, exposing sensitive information such as crypto wallet seed phrases, personal data believed to include U.S. Social Security numbers and legal consultations, a report said. The issue stemmed from the absence of a noindex meta tag. Anthropic added the tag on July 26, and links began disappearing from Google, though some remained on Bing.
Crypto
WikiLeaks\' Bitcoin adoption seen as 15-year test after Visa and PayPal block
WikiLeaks\' decision to accept bitcoin in 2011 is drawing renewed attention as a first major case showing cryptocurrency could bypass blocks in traditional financial networks. After the “Cablegate” disclosures, WikiLeaks lost access to major payment and remittance providers including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal, wiping out about 95 percent of its income. It then solicited donations via bitcoin addresses, a move later followed by services such as WordPress and the Internet Archive.
