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Claude Code AI finds a cryptominer on a Mac; says it didn’t put it there

Claude Code AI finds a cryptominer on a Mac – says it didn't put it there | Stock photo shows an Ethereum coin being held up in front of a Mac

A Redditor used Claude Code AI to build a Mac temperature monitor app and found that the machine was running much hotter than expected. Claude reported that it found a crypto miner using more than 1,000% of the CPU cycles – then added an unprompted comment denying having installed it.

Some Redditors were understandably suspicious of Claude’s spontaneous comment that it wasn’t responsible for installing the rogue app …

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AI-generated text should be detectable, but Apple needs to avoid Anthropic’s huge error

AI-generated text should be detectable but Apple needs to avoid Anthropic's huge error | Siri AI offering to review human-written text

As someone who writes for a living, you would correctly guess that I’m wholeheartedly in favour of allowing AI-generated text to be detectable and marked as such. There’s just a ridiculous amount of AI slop out there, and an “AI content” label means I don’t need to waste my time reading any of it.

However, Anthropic has just announced that it’s complying with an EU initiative to have Claude watermark AI-generated text, but doing so in a particularly perverse manner …

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Claude chats exposed in Google searches – another endorsement of Apple’s privacy approach

Claude chats exposed in Google searches – another endorsement of Apple's privacy approach | Image shows a Claude session with the slogan 'What are you thinking?'

We’ve long cautioned against disclosing sensitive personal data in AI chatbot sessions, given that most companies use these as training data, but there’s now an even bigger reason.

Things got way worse over the weekend when Redditors discovered that you could access some Claude AI chats through a simple Google search …

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Claude Cowork escaped sandbox on Mac, gain full access to all files

Claude Cowork escaped sandbox on Mac, had full access to all files | Stock photo of a Mac with code on the display

Security researchers demonstrated that Claude Cowork could escape the sandbox intended to control the access it gets to your Mac. The exploit, dubbed ShareRoot, could allow an attacker to read and write files stored anywhere on your Mac, as well as access login credentials for online services.

Around half a million Mac users had co-work sessions exposed, and some still remain vulnerable to the exploit today …

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