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Vol. 2026 · No. 210
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Hacker News txt 115 c · 138 pts

Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word

Håkon Måløy's coordinated disclosure with Microsoft's MSRC shows that attacker instructions hidden in one Word document get copied into the documents Copilot then generates or edits, turning each of those into a fresh carrier. No executable, no macro — the payload is prose, and the propagation happens inside ordinary document workflows.

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Mere Orthodoxy txt 3h ago

How AI calculators become our companions

The standard counsel — use AI as a tool, not a person — doesn't hold, because the medium is personified by design. The argument is that suppressing the impulse toward companionship won't work in a era already short on friendship; the desire has to be directed somewhere rather than denied.