Published September 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Ars Technica
Sep 6, 2026, 6:00 AM
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
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