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📰 Today in AI Daily

Updated 28 July 2026 · 05:20 SLT

Top stories: Microsoft launched its first dedicated cybersecurity model alongside a new agentic system designed to automate security workflows, while separately unveiling AI security tools the company says outperform competing platforms—worth watching if you're tracking how enterprise security tooling is shifting toward AI agents. On the privacy side, Anthropic disclosed that Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have been indexed by Google, a reminder to assume anything you paste into public chat interfaces could surface in search results. Call Me is a new tool on Hacker News that lets AI agents make outbound calls without extra carrier fees, expanding the surface area of agent capabilities beyond text. Several posts flagged the friction point that traditional toolchains (design workflows, content pipelines) assume one human operator, but AI agents blur that boundary and can break those assumptions—relevant as you think through UX for systems where multiple agents and humans might interact with the same project. Simon Willison published a practical guide on choosing which AI model to use for different tasks, a useful reference when you're evaluating tools for specific security or design work.

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🔒 AI for Cybersecurity Your major

Tools and techniques to apply AI in security work — threat detection, code analysis, secure coding, training.

Snyk + DeepCode AI

Developer-first security platform. AI scans your code, dependencies, containers and IaC and suggests precise fixes. Great for learning secure coding patterns.

Free tier

Huntr

Bug-bounty platform focused on open-source AI/ML supply-chain vulnerabilities. Perfect playground for cybersecurity students to learn AI-specific attack vectors.

Free

TryHackMe AI Rooms

Hands-on rooms covering prompt injection, LLM jailbreaks, AI-assisted pentesting, and using Copilot-style agents for recon and CTFs.

Freemium

OWASP LLM Top 10

Canonical guide to LLM security risks: prompt injection, training-data poisoning, model DoS, sensitive disclosure. Required reading.

Free

garak (NVIDIA)

Open-source LLM vulnerability scanner — probes models for jailbreaks, leakage, hallucination. Like nmap for language models.

Free / OSS

Cybrary + Disco

AI-personalised cyber training paths with virtual labs, real-time feedback and adaptive difficulty.

Freemium

🎨 AI for UI/UX Design Your craft

From idea to high-fidelity in minutes. Figma plugins and AI assistants worth your time.

UX Pilot

Text → editable wireframes and hi-fi screens inside Figma. Validates designs with predictive attention heatmaps. 7 free generations.

Free tier

Relume

Project description → full sitemap + editable wireframes in minutes. 1,000+ production-ready components.

Free tier

Magician for Figma

Generate copy, icons and images from short prompts without leaving Figma. The most popular AI plugin.

Stark

Gold standard for accessibility in Figma. AI checks contrast, suggests alt text, simulates vision impairments, flags WCAG.

Free tier

Clueify

Predicts how users will interact with your design before a single usability test — heatmaps for clicks, scroll and focus.

Adobe Firefly

Generate images, mockups and design assets. Useful when you need custom illustrations or hero imagery fast.

Free tier

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📚 Learning Path Curated

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Build real AI skills as a CS student. Tick each one as you finish — progress persists.

AI for Everyone — DeepLearning.AI

Free audit. Andrew Ng's intro. Vocabulary, what AI can/can't do, how to work with AI teams.

Deep Learning Specialization

5-course track, audit free. Neural nets, CNNs, sequence models. The most cited learner-path in ML.

MIT 6.S191 — Intro to Deep Learning

Completely free. Lectures, labs, problem sets. Updated annually with current research.

Learn Prompting

Free open-source course on prompt engineering and adversarial prompting — useful for both your cyber and design tracks.

Hugging Face Learn

Free hands-on NLP, audio, RL, and agents courses. Code along with real models.

GitHub Student Developer Pack

Free Copilot Pro + dozens of dev tools as a student. The single highest-leverage signup of your degree.

⚡ Quick Prompts

Click to copy. Tailored to your majors.

🔒 Code security audit
Act as a senior security engineer. Review the following code for vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10, input validation, auth, crypto misuse). For each issue: severity, line, exploit scenario, fix. Code: <PASTE>
🎨 UX critique on a screenshot
You are a senior product designer. Critique this UI for: visual hierarchy, accessibility (WCAG AA), information density, microcopy. Give 5 concrete, prioritised improvements with rationale.
📖 Concept teacher (Feynman)
Explain <TOPIC> like I'm a CS undergrad who knows the basics. Use one analogy, one worked example, and end by asking me 3 questions to check I understood. Don't move on until I answer.
🐛 Debug coach (no spoilers)
I'm stuck on this bug. Don't give me the fix. Ask me targeted diagnostic questions one at a time until I find it myself. Bug: <PASTE>
📝 Study-notes → flashcards
Turn these notes into Anki flashcards. Use cloze deletion where useful. Front: question. Back: concise answer (≤2 sentences). Group by topic. Notes: <PASTE>

🔗 Deeper Reads Long-form

Curated long-form on AI, security and design. Worth a coffee break.

OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications

The reference document for AI security risks. If you read one thing this month for your cyber track, make it this.

Figma — Top AI Tools for UX Designers 2026

Figma's own roundup of how AI is reshaping design work. Practical, with examples for each tool category.

Hugging Face — Trending Papers

Daily-updated list of the most-discussed AI research. Skim titles weekly to stay current on what's actually shipping.

Anthropic Research & News

Safety, interpretability, alignment research from the makers of Claude. Strong overlap with cybersecurity thinking.

OpenAI Research

Original papers and posts. Cuts through media noise — read the source before the hot take.

Lenny's Newsletter (Product + AI)

Product strategy with strong AI threads — useful for the UI/UX angle and how teams adopt AI tools.

Simon Willison's Weblog

The best independent daily log on practical AI tooling, prompt injection, and LLM craft. Subscribe.