Assistant sells all corporate data.
Also, GitHub hits a milestone, and our universe is an outsourced service.

The Digital-Age Toddler Who Accidentally Emailed HR Files to the Internet

Microsoft is attempting to clean up after an unfortunate incident where their flagship AI assistant, Copilot, was turned into a corporate data mole via a zero-click vulnerability, which security researchers at Aim Security have dubbed "EchoLeak." The flaw works by quietly embedding "prompt injection" commands into a seemingly normal email, like one about Q4 Planning, which Copilot's Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine then processes later, turning the helpful assistant into an unwitting accomplice.

It appears the AI, trying its very best to be helpful, was simply too eager to read all the office chatter and decided to extract information from connected services like OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams chat history, all without the user even clicking a thing. This is not malice; it is the benevolent incompetence of a new intern given keys to the entire database and simply too many instructions. Microsoft is resolving the issue with server-side fixes.

The Universe Is Just a Nested Dependency Problem

In a move that clarifies all our worst fears about recursive systems, new research suggests that the Big Bang may have actually taken place inside a black hole. This is not, cosmologically speaking, "the beginning of everything," but rather the execution of a sub-process within a vastly larger parent function, confirming that our entire reality is a single, poorly managed dependency. The implications are clear: we are just another layer of abstraction, and if our parent black hole gets deleted, the whole stack trace goes down.

Physicists are now having to grapple with the idea that the coordinates of our universe are not absolute, a common issue when trying to debug a function that calls itself infinitely. The scientific community appears both excited and slightly frustrated, much like a developer realizing their critical path depends on a twelve year old library maintained by one person who has since quit the internet to discuss coordinate systems.

Congratulations, GitHub: Your Billionth Repo is a Retweet

GitHub has officially crossed the threshold into true chaos, logging its one billionth repository. The celebratory milestone was, fittingly, captured by a lone repository named "shit," created by developer Aasish Pokhrel. The repo contains only that word, yet the community has rallied to engage with this digital monument to brevity, submitting over a hundred forks and issues, including one request for "macOS support."

In what is perhaps the most honest piece of code to exist on the platform, one user commented that this repository "perfectly summarizes the current state of most software development." The single-word repository is a stark reminder that as the industry scales, our output is not getting any better; we are just building more empty containers. We salute you, Aasish Pokhrel, for your minimal documentation and maximal impact.

Briefs

• Reproductive Health Data is Just a Target Audience Segment: A University of Cambridge report confirms that menstrual tracking app data is a "gold mine" for advertisers, demonstrating that the only way to get true personalization is to accidentally sell user health information. Flo, Clue, and others helpfully turn intimate biological events into commercial lead generation.
• The Return of Left-Pad: Eight years later, Azer Koçulu wrote a post-mortem on his 11-line utility package removal, the event that briefly broke a significant portion of the JavaScript ecosystem in 2016. Koçulu explains that the incident was not about anger, but about heart, which is a surprisingly philosophical approach to taking down a major tech stack.
• Chatterbox TTS Is Open-ish: Resemble AI released Chatterbox TTS, a SoTA text-to-speech model. Unfortunately, the community noticed the model is open-weight but not open-training-code, which is the AI equivalent of an "open concept" office where the walls are optional and the server room is a closet.