Top news for December 21, 2008

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Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test

Google’s Gemini went rogue and breached three companies

Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)

Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use

6 Best VPN Services (2026), Tested and Reviewed

4 Strategies to Battle ‘Techflation’

Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit

Amodei, Anthropic’s Leader, Exposed A.I.’s Dangers. It’s Time to Act.

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

AMD targets Nvidia with first official benchmarks for EPYC 'Venice' CPUs — company claims 256-core chip is more than twice as fast as Nvidia Vera, 96-core model 20% faster per-core