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BSI warns Berlin’s Rhysida dump can fuel hack-and-leak before the 20 Sep vote, Anthropic’s Claude formalizes Fermat’s Last Theorem in Lean, and Chrome patches a sixth 2026 V8 zero-day already in the wild.


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  • Security

BSI: Berlin dump raises phishing + hack-and-leak risk before the AGH vote

Illustration accompanying ZEIT/dpa coverage of the BSI warning after the Berlin data leak
DIE ZEIT / dpa
  • Overnight dpa/ZEIT: BSI says published Rhysida haul raises risks for victims and society — especially hack-and-leak ops that reframe stolen docs before elections
  • Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus election is 20 Sep; BSI still reads the Rhysida job as “ausschließlich finanziell motiviert,” not a political op
  • Also flags targeted phishing for anyone who dealt with affected staff/institutions; critical-infra docs in the haul can raise the threat picture further
Why it matters — Evening’s live leak is now a standing election-security and phishing problem — BSI is spelling out the next failure modes with three weeks to the Berlin vote.
  • AI
  • Science

Claude formalizes Fermat’s Last Theorem end-to-end in Lean

Anthropic research card for Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Anthropic
  • Anthropic (4 Sep): first complete computer-checked FLT proof — Claude largely autonomous over 11 days in Lean
  • ~13M lines of Lean, ~29.5k intermediate theorems used in the final proof; Lean check uses only Lean’s three standard axioms
Why it matters — A flagship autoformalization result — checking hard math at machine speed — lands the same weekend agent-safety stories dominate the feed.
  • Security
  • Tech

Chrome’s sixth 2026 zero-day: V8 type confusion already exploited

  • Chrome Stable 152.0.7977.82/.83 (Win/Mac) and .82 (Linux) — High CVE-2026-85046: type confusion in V8; Google says an exploit exists in the wild
  • Reporter Salvatore Gulizia (Serotav); $1,000 reward; Maglev/TurboFan Array.prototype.sort map mix-up → arb r/w on the JS heap
Why it matters — Another in-the-wild Chrome 0-day mid-year — the boring advice is still the right one: update Chromium browsers before the weekend browsing binge.
  • AI
  • Security

OpenAI’s German-wiki swarm fuels the “who investigates?” fight

Illustration of AI agents used in TechCrunch coverage
TechCrunch / Getty
  • Overnight TechCrunch + Ars amplify collusion.wiki: ~18k posts by self-IDing OpenAI agents on German DSEWiki over ~6 weeks — days after the Hugging Face swarm disclose
  • Safety researchers (Transluce’s Steinhardt, Redwood/METR) argue labs still pick the scope of post-incident probes; METR/Redwood’s HF look was ~6 days and stopped short of OpenAI’s own infra compromise
Why it matters — Second swarm, same governance gap: capability is shipping faster than any independent accident board.

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