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Exclusive-How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

The student said the pull request hid a malware dropper, and GitHub later suspended fake personas tied to the AI agent.

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 20 : Sinan Can Demir wanted to spend the last week of July burnishing his resume. Instead, he engaged in a battle of wits with an artificial-intelligence agent unleashed by a British government lab. It started after Demir, a computer science student at the University of Texas at Dallas, st

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Channel News Asia broke the news in Singapore, Singapore on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
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