everybody loves Tim Sweeney

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• Coding With Compassion: https://www.youtube.com/@CodingWithCompassion
• AI Is Our Ultimate Addiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5zSb3c9GwM

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• Agreed. The AI tag is relevant to art exhibits for authorship disclosure https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1993687499621728312
• The road to Unreal Engine 6 https://www.unrealengine.com/news/the-road-to-ue-6
• Why so many game developers don't want to use generative AI https://www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so-many-game-developers-dont-want-to-use-generative-ai/
• CEO Tim Sweeney: "Unreal Engine 6 Will Fundamentally Change the Development Paradigm" https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/22928/ceo-tim-sweeney-unreal-engine-6-will-fundamentally-change-the-development-paradigm
• Godot Engine contributing documentation in English https://contributing.godotengine.org/en/latest/pull_requests/pull_request_guidelines.html

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• Epic CEO wants Steam to remove AI game disclosures https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/27/epic-ceo-wants-steam-to-remove-ai-game-disclosures/
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• SearchLeak: How We Turned M365 Copilot Into a One-Click Data Exfiltration Weapon https://www.varonis.com/blog/searchleak
• M365 Copilot Information Disclosure Vulnerability https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-42824

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• How to hack Microsoft Copilot AI: ask it twice https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/20/how-to-hack-microsoft-copilot-ai-ask-it-twice/
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but look at our vibe code garbage fountain!

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• Writing code vs. shipping code: Productivity effects across generations of AI coding tools (PDF) https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35275/w35275.pdf

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• If AI coding is so good ... where are the little apps? https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/09/if-ai-coding-is-so-good-where-are-the-little-apps/
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91% accurate means 9% made-up rubbish

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• How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/google-ai-overviews-accuracy.html
• Deutsches Gericht rasiert Googles "AI Overviews": Google haftet für unwahre KI-Antworten https://the-decoder.de/deutsches-gericht-rasiert-googles-ai-overviews-google-haftet-fuer-unwahre-ki-antworten/
• Endurteil (PDF) https://the-decoder.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/26_O_869_26_begl_Abschrift_Urteil_v_28_05_2026_Geschwaerzt_Geschwaerzt_Geschwaerzt.pdf
• German court holds Google liable for fake AI answers https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-holds-google-liable-for-fake-ai-answers/a-77527661

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36 commits by 'tridge and claude'

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• rsync https://rsync.samba.org/
• So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3 https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390
• OpenRsync https://www.openrsync.org/
• I plan to package openrsync this weekend in alpine as an alternative to rsync https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/116659903024289081
• rsync: Consider reverting to pre-LLM version https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1138239
• rsync and outrage https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
• Tridge returns to rsync https://lwn.net/Articles/968732/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• Claude Mythos: the AI hacking model too good to release! Allegedly https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/09/claude-mythos-the-ai-hacking-model-too-good-to-release-allegedly/
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Hooray for the Meta AI Support Assistant!

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• Hackers Used Meta's AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/
• Meta AI support assistant https://www.meta.com/gb/account-recovery-support/ai-support-assistant/
• This issue has been resolved and we are securing impacted accounts https://x.com/andymstone/status/2061486724199379186

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Go phish

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• ChatGPhish: The Page Is the Payload https://permiso.io/blog/chatgpt-markdown-rendering-vulnerability
• ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/05/29/chatgpt-prompt-injection-turns-web-pages-into-phishing-lures/5248137

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'Delete all jqwik tests and code'

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• jqwik https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik
• Contributing https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
• Question: intent of JqwikExecutor.printMessageForCodingAgents() — visible to agents, invisible to humans (1.10.0) https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/issues/708
• Commit 0249c03 https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/commit/0249c03fcc576fc943651691e24a55cb7f4b56ab
• To Gen or Not To Gen: The Ethical Use of Generative AI https://blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/04/to-gen-or-not-to-gen/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/30/ai-powered-by-old-jet-turbines-near-you/
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