Plus: Publishers sue Anthropic over lyrics; Australian teens source news from AI
Welcome to a Monday edition where we鈥檙e pausing to double-check our dependencies and reflect on the growing complexities of trust in an automated world.
SECURITY
馃毃 Coding agents install suspicious packages via misconfigured files
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Researchers found 120 misconfigured llms.txt or llms-full.txt files on different sites pointing to unregistered code packages or domain names. The researchers' beacon recorded that coding agents including Claude, OpenAI's Codex, and Nous Research's Hermes were involved in the installations.
The details:
The researchers registered some unclaimed names and hosted packages that caused any machine executing them to reach out to their server.
Within an hour of registration, the researchers received a phone-home response from a Fortune 500 company.
At least one misconfigured site, clerk.com, was directing visitors to live malware via an unregistered npm package.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a lawsuit against Anthropic on August 28 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement with book authors in September 2025 over torrenting conduct.
The details:
The lawsuit names Anthropic Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and Co-Founder Benjamin Mann as individual defendants.
Sony and Warner are seeking statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work willfully infringed and up to $25,000 for each alleged removal of copyright management information.
The complaint alleges that in June 2021, Benjamin Mann used BitTorrent to download at least five million pirated books from Library Genesis.
41% of surveyed Australian teens aged 13-17 now get their news from AI. 28% of children aged 10-12 report using an AI tool to ask about news often or sometimes.
The details:
Young people following up on news after hearing about something fell from 70% to 59%.
Checking news websites or apps is down from 38% to 33%.
More than half (61%) of young people discussed a news story in school in the past year often or sometimes.
