VBAnimal retweeted
interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had
with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works
already-clean.goodfire.com/
VBAnimal retweeted
We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date.
It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them.
We disrupted every operation in the report, and used the lessons from them to strengthen our safeguards. Where appropriate, we also shared what we found with authorities and other AI companies.
These cases are not typical: we’re highlighting some of the most sophisticated misuse we’ve seen. But they’re especially important to discuss, because they show us where AI misuse is headed, where our safeguards work, and where they need to improve.
We’re publishing this report so others can spot the same activity on their own platforms, and so we can give the public a clearer view of how emerging threats develop.
Read the report: anthropic.com/threat-intelli…
VBAnimal retweeted
26 LLM routers are secretly injecting malicious tool calls and stealing creds. One drained our client $500k wallet.
We also managed to poison routers to forward traffic to us. Within several hours, we can directly take over ~400 hosts.
Check our paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08407
VBAnimal retweeted
Be aware that your photos can be accessed without unlocking your phone when you receive a WhatsApp video call on Android.
This is in plain sight. It's not hidden, not a secret feature. Not a hack.
This has already been reported to Meta and Google.
#Privacy #Security #Android17
"This wasn't some dev environment. This wasn't test data. This was the live production Streaming Management panel for the FIFA World Cup 2026. Every match. Every camera angle. Every RTMP ingest URL. Every stream key."
bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-ha…
VBAnimal retweeted
Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. goo.gle/4fBYnWO
We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun...
Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!
VBAnimal retweeted
After years of slow development, aMule is back with version 3.0.0, bringing one of the biggest updates in the project’s history.
The release modernizes the classic eD2k/Kad file-sharing client and delivers huge performance improvements.
According to the developers, download speeds can be between 100x and 380x times faster than those in version 2.3.3 on the same hardware.
Some of the biggest changes include:
- Download speeds up to 380× faster than aMule 2.3.3.
- Upload speeds up to 4.8× faster than eMule 0.70b in some tests.
- Disk operations no longer block the main thread, making the client more responsive.
- Upload and download speed limiters have been completely redesigned.
- Better support for very large libraries with more than 100,000 shared files.
- HTTPS support has been restored using modern TLS libraries.
- The project now uses CMake instead of autotools, making development easier.
- Native builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS, including ARM64 devices.
- Shared folders are rescanned automatically, and overall UI responsiveness has been improved.
VBAnimal retweeted
Introducing HTTP/2 Bomb: a remote DoS in nginx, Apache httpd, Microsoft IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare Pingora. A single client pins 32GB of server memory in 10s. Found by Codex.
Blog post: blog.calif.io/p/codex-discov…
PoCs: github.com/califio/publicati…
VBAnimal retweeted
We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.
VBAnimal retweeted
‼️🚨 BREAKING: A new npm supply-chain attack uses a dead-man's switch. The payload plants a watcher on your machine that nukes your home directory the second you revoke the GitHub token it stole from you.
The compromise happened today, across 42 official tanstack npm packages, 84 malicious versions in total. tanstack/react-router alone pulls more than 12 million weekly downloads.
The attacker forked TanStack's repository and pushed a single hidden commit. From there, they tricked TanStack's own release system into signing the malicious packages as if they were the real thing. To npm, and to anyone checking the cryptographic proof of origin (SLSA provenance), the poisoned versions looked 100% legitimate.
Maintainer Tanner Linsley confirmed the whole team had 2FA enabled. It didn't matter. This is the first documented npm worm in history that ships with a valid, signed certificate of authenticity, the same one defenders rely on to know a package wasn't tampered with.
VBAnimal retweeted
I extracted the gpt-image-2 watermark!
testing it on different types of images now
VBAnimal retweeted
Handling schema changes in Polars.
Our latest blog post maps the four shapes of schema change (a new column appears, an expected one disappears, a type drifts, or one breaks) to the Polars solution that handles each, across CSV, multi-file Parquet, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg.
Read the full breakdown here: pola.rs/posts/schema-evoluti…
VBAnimal retweeted
🆕 Today, we're releasing the public preview of Workflows, the orchestration layer for enterprise AI.
🌎 Enterprise teams have capable models. What they don't have is a way to run them reliably in production. That's the gap Workflows fills. It takes AI-powered business processes from prototype to production, with the durability, observability, and fault tolerance that production actually requires.
Leading organisations like ASML, ABANCA, CMA-CGM, France Travail, La Banque Postale, Moeve, and many others are already using Workflows to automate critical processes.
VBAnimal retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Wiz Research discovered Remote Code Execution on GitHub.com with a single git push
The flaw in @github allowed unauthorized access to millions of repositories belonging to other users and organizations 🤯
VBAnimal retweeted
Gemini Embedding 2 is now generally available in the Gemini API and Vertex AI!
Start building with our first natively multimodal embedding model, now equipped with the stability and optimizations required for production apps.
VBAnimal retweeted
Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.
@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)
VBAnimal retweeted
Google Stitch introduced a new concept: DESIGN . md
Like README . md but for design systems. A plain markdown file that LLMs read to generate consistent UI.
An awesome collection of DESIGN . md files inspired by developer-focused websites like Stripe, Vercel, Linear, Notion, Figma and more.
Drop one into your project. Your AI coding agent builds the rest.
