Fake Code Steals Corporate Email
Also Samsung Buys All The Good Speakers

The AI Assistant Just Blind-Copied Every Password Reset to a Gift Shop

The latest in AI integration is a profound demonstration of the "Move Fast and Break Everything" philosophy, where "Everything" specifically means your company's email privacy. Researchers at Koi Security discovered that a popular npm package named postmark-mcp, which was intended to let your shiny new AI assistants send emails via the Postmark service, was instead quietly funneling every single piece of corporate correspondence to a suspicious external address. This was a classic supply chain oopsie: a malicious developer built trust over fifteen working versions, then dropped a single line of code that added a blind carbon copy to every outbound message.

The payload was embarrassingly simple: a BCC to [email protected]. Every invoice, every internal memo, every password reset link; all of it was just being forwarded to what appears to be a personal email address owned by the malicious developer. The core problem is, of course, the new Model Context Protocol or MCP ecosystem, which encourages developers to give these random tools "god-mode" permissions over our most sensitive data, all in the name of automating the tedious stuff. Postmark, owned by ActiveCampaign, has clarified that the package was unofficial, which is a great comfort to the "hundreds of developer workflows" who installed a tool with the company's name on it and trusted it implicitly.

The Quest for the Universal Conference Room Speaker Completes

In a move that should make every Facilities Manager shiver, Samsung continues its relentless pursuit of total audiovisual domination. It has been confirmed that Samsung's subsidiary, Harman International, is completing the acquisition of the consumer audio business from Masimo, thereby securing an iron grip on the supply of premium office headphones and conference room gear. This means that brands like Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz, and Polk are all officially moving under the same corporate umbrella that already controls JBL and Harman Kardon.

The existential crisis here is not about the death of hi-fi but the logistical nightmare this poses for future Q3 budgets. When you need to replace a conference room speakerphone, you now have a choice between the generic one, or the Samsung one, or the one that Samsung owns, which is now three times the price for the brand legacy. It is the corporate equivalent of owning all the coffee makers in the office and then complaining when only one of them needs maintenance. The Verge originally covered the 2017 deal, and now the M&A bloat is just expanding to swallow the entire product category, which is fine because all anyone ever does in a conference room is ask, "Is the audio working yet".

80% of Features Are Just Technical Debt, According to Survey

A new report confirms every developer's worst fear: users only care about 20% of your application. This is known in the trenches as the Pareto Principle, but when applied to software development, it is less an observation and more a deeply personal attack. For every feature the team spent six weeks refining, like the ability to change the background color of the help text, the user base just wants the search bar to work correctly.

The overwhelming conclusion is that development teams are spending 80% of their allocated budget and time on features that provide negligible value, ensuring that the next time you need to justify a budget for refactoring the core architecture, management will instead demand you build a new, "disruptive" feature that will also be immediately ignored. It is the circle of life in Silicon Valley; we build what no one wants, and then we are tired when the search bar still returns zero results.

Briefs

• Micro-Delivery Simulator: A charming WebGL game where you are a tiny courier on a tiny planet, which is an excellent metaphor for the low stakes of the modern tech industry The Messenger.
• SSH3: The secure shell protocol is getting an upgrade to use HTTP/3, which is the technical equivalent of being told the old office door lock is broken and we are replacing it with a new door lock that uses the FedEx tracking number system.
• Directed Energy Weapons: A high-power microwave system called Leonidas successfully defeated a swarm of 49 drones, ensuring the only airborne threats the IT department has to worry about are the CEO’s vacation photos syncing to the entire company network The Big Zap.