OpenAI’s Codex just moved into Chrome, where the useful work and the risks live

OpenAI’s Codex Chrome extension pushes the coding agent into signed-in browser work, making it more useful for real tasks while raising new questions about access, approvals, and agentic AI risk.

Google pulls the plug on Project Mariner, the AI agent that browsed the web like a human

Google has shut down Project Mariner, the AI browser agent that navigated websites by processing screenshots in real time.
CSO Online

13 new critical holes in JavaScript sandbox allow execution of arbitrary code

Thirteen critical vulnerabilities have been found in the vm2 JavaScript sandbox package that could allow an attacker’s code ...
Android

Project Mariner is Over: Google Folds its AI Web Agent into Gemini & Chrome

Google officially shut down Project Mariner on May 4, 2026, ending a 17-month experiment in autonomous web browsing. While the standalone tool is gone, its technology is being integrated into Gemini ...

Critical vm2 sandbox bug lets attackers execute code on hosts

A critical vulnerability in the popular Node.js sandboxing library vm2 allows escaping the sandbox and executing arbitrary ...
HackadayOpinion

AI On Every Machine: The LLM You Probably Didn’t Want

It’s been a story of the last week or so if you follow the kind of news channels a Hackaday scribe does, that Google have ...
CRN

Cognizant Sets Aside $270 Million For Layoffs In ‘Project Leap’ AI Operating Model Plan

‘We are on the journey to get to the operating model,’ says Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S. Cognizant plans to spend upward of $270 million on employee severance and other personnel-related costs as part ...