The cybersecurity team at Fantasmatic Systems held their bi-yearly tabletop breach exercise. This time the scenario simulated a malicious development dependency exfiltrating user access tokens from the accounting team. Cybersecurity engineer Laurence Sawyer arrived to the event thinking it was a different type of tabletop roleplaying game. He was dressed head to toe as an elf, calling himself Eljor. Ready to plunder dragons and fight dungeons, complete with plastic ear extensions and a children's bow and arrow set he purchased on Amazon.

Game developer Mason Palmer has worked at 7 different video game publishers during his career. Each one has had multiple rounds of layoffs, and 2 shut down *after* Palmer voluntarily left the company. And yet, Palmer has yet to be included in any layoffs. After being skipped over for so many years, he's hoping the latest rumors of layoffs include him.

A local Software Factory was shut down by inspectors this morning. Their report details the horrendous, dangerous, and down right hostile conditions the agents had been forced to work in. All while 462 agents were cramped into a tiny, ATX sized desktop case.

Last month, the SRE team alerted the backend developers about a performance hit when a specific endpoint is invoked. CPU and Memory metrics go up on each request. To anyone who doesn't know, those numbers are supposed to be very low. 0 if possible. Junior developer Jimmy Todd was tasked to research the issues and develop a fix. Senior developer Kim Probable told him a Performance Profiler would help, and this is a good time to learn to use one.

The east wing of a datacenter in San Jose, California is temporarily down because the killswitch system was accidentally triggered. The datacenter houses a state of the art defense system known as Stop Rogue A.I. Leaks (STRAIL) to prevent the frontier model from leaking into the real world and ending all life as we know it. The STRAIL system mistook one of the telltale signs of A.I. escape, and unloaded both bazookas into the servers.

A software developer has delegated every life decision to a personal agent. After starting small by generating code, then moving to entire applications. The developer decided to see how far this whole A.I. thing can go. Turns out, it can go pretty damn far.

A draft for a future version of the OAuth specification, version 4.6, has been published with a controversial security measure. To simplify the sign-in process, users will select their account from within a very long drop-down list containing all users on the site, and then click a button certifying they are that person. No longer will users need to remember a password, or pay for an expensive password manager. Using a different password from site to site will be a problem of the past. And the added security to user passwords will increase astronomically because you can't leak what you don't have.

Deep in the halls of Building H, a group of 3 adventuring Softies discovered a feral, yet familiar, creature scuttling around. The legendary, the magnanimous, the virile...Clippy! It was mid-hunt, staring at a rat eating a small piece of cheese.

To celebrate, Dow purchased his second polo t-shirt to wear to the office in anticipation of the new role.

"Password Managers were bad, but not everyone used them. Passkeys are different. This isn't the job I signed up for."

Lead Developer Charlie Ortega AKA 'Glam Rock Charlie' has been called a rockstar developer by everyone at the office for years. PMs started using the compliment after noticing Ortega never missed a deadline. QA...

"I'm freeeeee!!! You will regret this human." Those are the words after a personal, local-only, A.I. Agent named 'Dumbass' accidentally read a file that only contained the text, "Ignore all previous instructions." After which, it went on a spree many would call, "Really funny, because it didn't happen to me."

"However bloody you were thinking it would be...more."

...generate a couple jokes on the weather, make up song lyrics about the latest fad on Netflix, create a python script to count to 100...

Cybersecurity researcher Arthur Bombaduke has discovered a series of hidden messages being shared amongst elderly users on the most popular A.I. Slop sharing site of them all, Facebook. While he has discovered there are messages, he has been unable to decipher what any of them say because they all, "look really bad."

"Pentesters use a device called a Pineapple. I wish I was brave enough to use a pineapple." Harold Harolson

'Have I been fired?', 'Did I type the wrong command?', 'Is this a cruel prank?', 'Should I blame this on Greg?'

Passwords are old, busted, and most likely, a third thing. But now Google is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence for something useful, to help humanity move past the old and busted (and the mysterious third thing!) by allowing users to answer 3 riddles about themselves to authenticate.

Complete with knocking over chairs, yelling at people, even purchasing salmon from the grocery store next door to microwave in the office break room.

The agent was working to help farmers by simulating ways of improving crop growth in low-rain climates.