Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

David Gerard @davidgerard@circumstances.run

8/24/2025, 8:36:41 PM

Public

latest hilarity:

Perplexity, the AI search engine, have a new AI-Agent web browser, Comet!

It can do things for you!

like get prompt-injected by *any web page comment*

I am annoyed this was found by Brave, who can fuck off, but due credit: https://web.archive.org/web/20250820140623/https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/

Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet | Brave

The attack we developed shows that traditional Web security assumptions don't hold for agentic AI, and that we need new security and privacy architectures for agentic browsing.

web.archive.org · Brave

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