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July 2026

5 articles published this month.

AI & Agent Security3 July 2026

Why 'Cognitive Debt' From AI Coding Agents Is a Security Problem

A widely-shared talk from Notion design engineer Geoffrey Litt argues that as agents write more code, understanding it becomes the real bottleneck — and for security teams, that understanding gap is where review controls quietly fail.

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AI Agent Security2 July 2026

Why SQL-Executing AI Agents Need Systematic Prompt Testing, Not Guesswork

A DSPy-driven experiment on Datasette Agent's SQL system prompt shows how ad hoc prompt tuning produces fragile, unpredictable guardrails for agents that touch live data.

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AI Security2 July 2026

Google Workspace's Layered Defense Against Indirect Prompt Injection

Google's GenAI Security Team has published how it defends Gemini inside Workspace from indirect prompt injection — treating it as a standing threat class rather than a bug to patch once.

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Web3 / Smart Contract Security1 July 2026

Aztec Connect: $2.1M Stolen From a Bridge With No One Left to Fix It

A proof-verification flaw let an attacker drain a DeFi privacy bridge that Aztec Labs deprecated three years ago and can no longer patch, pause, or upgrade — a case study in what "immutable" really costs.

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AI & Surveillance Security1 July 2026

Natural-Language Video Search Is Rewriting the Surveillance Threat Model

New AI tools let analysts ask CCTV networks plain-language questions about behaviour instead of running a fixed menu of preset searches — and the Israel-Iran-Russia episode shows how fast that capability is spreading to adversaries as well as allies.

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