“Perplexity” — 49 distilled results

RustConf 2026 sponsors announced on social media

Technology companies announced sponsorships of RustConf 2026 on September 9, 2026 via Mastodon. Gold+ sponsors included Cognition and Microsoft; Gold sponsors included Google, Temporal, Sovereign, and Perplexity, each pledging onstage lightning talks or booth presence.

BragJack attack hijacks AI browser agents via malicious extensions

Security researcher Gal Weizman of Forever Security disclosed BragJack, a proof-of-concept attack exploiting malicious browser extensions to seize control of AI assistants in Chrome, Edge, Opera Neon, Perplexity Comet, and Claude in Chrome. Bounties of $20,000 were awarded to demonstrate that automation amplifies social-engineering vulnerabilities.

SkillBloat: Token Amplification Attacks via Skill Injection in LLM Coding Agents

21929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills extend coding agents with task-specific instructions, scripts, and resources, but they also create a trusted instruction channel that can be abused beyond conventional security attacks. This paper studies token amplification through skill injection: an economic resource-abuse threat in which a malicious skill causes an agent to consume substantially more tokens than needed for normal task execution.