Attackers are logging into people’s Claude and ChatGPT accounts and running up their usage — without ever knowing the password or touching two-factor auth. The trick is stealing your already-logged-in session, and it works on almost any AI service. Here’s exactly how it happens and the handful of habits that shut it down.
Ask an AI coding assistant for the right library and sometimes it confidently names one that doesn’t exist. Attackers noticed. They’re registering those hallucinated package names and waiting for you to run install. It’s called slopsquatting, it’s disturbingly predictable, and here’s exactly how to keep it out of your projects.
Your AI assistant is brilliant at talking and useless at doing, because it is trapped in a chat box with no connection to your real files, apps, and tools. MCP is the standard that changes that. Here is what the Model Context Protocol is, in plain English, and how to start using it.
Search used to hand you a list of links and wish you luck. Now Google AI Mode can hand the job off to apps like Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music and actually get it done. Here is what connected apps do, which ones are live, and how to use them without losing control.
An AI browser does not just show you web pages. It reads them with you, answers questions about what is on screen, and can actually click through tasks on your behalf. Here is the plain-English rundown of what Atlas and Comet do, which one fits you, and one important piece of news you need before you pick.
