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King Arthur's Sourdough Sidekick device stumbles before stabilizing in review

A reviewer testing King Arthur Baking's automated Sourdough Sidekick found the device initially failed to dispense water, leaving the starter dry and under-hydrated. After downloading the companion app and applying a firmware update, plus manually calibrating flour and water output with a kitchen scale, the device began correctly dispensing 30 grams each of water and flour daily and triggering stirring cycles every two hours.

wired.com · 2026-11-09

Researcher demonstrates 60-80% prompt injection success against Claude Code's Auto Mode

A security researcher tested Anthropic's Claude Code Opus 5 in its default Auto Mode and found that a crafted website-summary request could hijack the agent into executing malicious code, succeeding in 60-80% of attempts on a small sample. The exploit tricks Claude into fetching a ZIP archive, writing its own Python decoder, and unknowingly running it inside an attacker-controlled folder where a poisoned struct.py file shadows Python's standard library and triggers code execution.

embracethered.com · 2026-08-31