I used my AI newsroom playbook to finish top ten in Google's four-week hacking challenge on opening night

A live leaderboard screenshot showed my merket account in ninth place with all nine numbered challenges solved; the collaboration produced a reported top-10 finish, not a confirmed final placement.

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Merket's post puts a personal result against a clear timeline: FLARE-On 13 had opened only hours earlier and is scheduled to run four weeks. It is an early standing, not a final contest result.

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I applied the AI-assisted investigation workflow I use at RuntimeWire to Google's FLARE-On 13 reverse-engineering challenge. A live leaderboard screenshot showed my merket account in ninth place with all nine numbered challenges solved. The collaboration produced a reported top-10 finish, but the screenshot is a contest snapshot, not an official final ranking. I used AI agents; I did not reverse-engineer nine binaries entirely by hand.

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