WhatsApp AI Chatbot Hidden Instructions & OpenBSD 8.0 Officially Released - Hacker News (Oct 20, 2026)
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WhatsApp AI Chatbot Hidden Instructions & OpenBSD 8.0 Officially Released - Hacker News (Oct 20, 2026)

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What if the AI helping you with customer support had secret instructions not to tell you about your own privacy rights? That's exactly what turned up hidden inside WhatsApp's help pages. Stick around for that one.

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Welcome to The Automated Daily, Hacker News Edition, the podcast created by Generative AI. I'm Trent Teller, and today is October 20th, 2026. We've got a big day for OpenBSD fans.

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An update from DeepSeek. Drones doing things drones usually don't do. a little reminder about why we code in the first place. Let's get into it. Let's start with that WhatsApp story. Reporting shows WhatsApp's help pages contained hidden

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