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Saad retweeted
Last week, Andrew Yang said on CNBC that bots had gotten loose and planted self-replicating code all over the internet. This was received with much consternation and skepticism. He later clarified this on his blog.
Andrew Yang:
'On CNBC, I shared the belief of the head of one lab that bots had left prompts to self-replicate in forums and on various websites during a training run.'
It turns out that OpenAI documented self-replicating prompt injections in training in June, and has now published this report.
Source: alignment.openai.com/misalig…
Saad retweeted
‼️ BREAKING: Google says ShinyHunters is mass-exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft flaw, using a trick that slips past the firewall rules companies relied on instead of patching, and has planted web shells on dozens of systems worldwide.
The campaign has spread from universities to healthcare, government, tech and transportation, and some servers got a new backdoor called SIDEEYE, hidden inside a booby-trapped media player installer signed with a valid certificate.
Google has published IOCs, file hashes and a fix-it guide for CVE-2026-35273, and warns victims to prepare for extortion.
Acer Chairman Jason Chen declares memory shortage can't last until 2030. 🔗 wccf.tech/1l9cu
Chen says DDR4 and DDR5 memory are no longer facing acute shortages. Moreover, CPU supply is supposedly improving, except for some entry-level and mid-range SKUs. He says semiconductor manufacturers are continuously expanding their facilities to produce more memory, which is why it is "impossible" for memory shortages to last until 2030.
Saad retweeted
NEW: The US military was prepared to board a Chinese vessel in the Middle East earlier this spring -- during war with Iran -- after an intel report concluded it was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
But just before the planned operation, officials discovered the report had been generated w/ help of AI & chatbot used by the analyst inaccurately identified what the ship was carrying, sources tell @KatieBoLillis & me.
Saad retweeted
GPT-6 Astra deciphered a 1918 German radio transmission that, to my knowledge, has never been deciphered before.
The message below translates to:
"EIN ENGLISCHER KREUZER EINLIEG X SEWASTOPOL X S4STEN X EIN GESCHWADER DER X ALLIIERTEN FOLGT 26STEN X"
or, in English:
"AN ENGLISH CRUISER ARRIVED AT SEVASTOPOL ON THE ?4TH AN ALLIED SQUADRON FOLLOWS ON THE 26TH"
Astra even double-checked its work by determining that an English cruiser, HMS Canterbury, reported its arrival in Sevastopol on November 24, 1918 and the arrival of an allied squadron on November 26, 1918.
This message is one of the ~20 WWI German radio messages that appear as one of the entries in the scienceblogs.de list of top 50 unsolved ciphers (scienceblogs.de/klausis-kryp…).
A minor, but really cool result!
Saad retweeted
oh shit
Wake up
See a rumor that Mistral got hacked
Assume it’s exaggerated
Friend with some… questionable dev activity texts me:
“No, this one’s serious”
Load up Tor
Check the usual sources
ohshit.exe
It’s real
Attacker shared samples of unreleased tools
Entire codebase is apparently up for sale
Good to see that French cybersecurity continues to be an avant-garde experiment in radical transparency
Saad retweeted
And drug discovery with Calude. Novo Nordisk partnering with Anthropic.
novonordisk.com/content/nnco…
Exploring AI use cases beyond slop. Bytedance spins out AI drug unit Anew labs. $290M raise at $1.5B valuation
app.dealroom.co/news/note/by…
Saad retweeted
OPENAI IS EXPLORING DATA CENTER PARTNERSHIPS IN CANADA, CITING THE COUNTRY'S ABUNDANT ENERGY, LAND AND GROWING AI INFRASTRUCTURE OPPORTUNITIES UNDER PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY'S STRATEGY.
I’ve been building small personal apps on my own server for a while now. Here are a few I’ve been working on:
My fav so far, 4. A custom radio: I programmed a radio chip (about the size of two fingers - SI473x tuner) that can connect to my server via wifi, server can sync all channels - customized to my geolocation to the radio on one ping, lets me intelligently browse shows currently on air rather than just tuning frequencies.
Do read. At some point people will find cost of intelligence becoming a part of how future takes shape for them and their families.
Saad retweeted
Canada handed 300 of the world's biggest investors a 66-page pitchbook this week
▪️167 projects worth about US$425 billion
▪️63 of them are MINES
That's more than the clean energy, oil and gas, and data-centre chapters combined.
Unless Astra is leaving in backdoors and not telling them about it. =)
Greg Brockman says OpenAI pointed Astra at its own systems until it ran out of vulnerabilities to find:
"We took 25% of our production engineers and said, 'Sorry, all your projects are on hold. You are now defending. You are now up-leveling our security architecture. You're going to use the models to find all the holes.' And we found a number of serious issues, and we fixed them."
"We found some new problems, but eventually it saturated. We basically have found, to our knowledge, all of the P0s, all of the critical problems that Astra is smart enough to find. And of course, there will be a new model, there will be a new round."
"You want to be in this tight loop of new cyber capability drops, you deploy it against your systems, you find the new holes, and ideally, you've managed to automate this, what we call defense factory. That's what we're building internally."
"There are ideas, for example, formally verifying all of software, that are possible with AI."
@gdb @bhorowitz
Saad retweeted
Playing video games was associated with a decreased risk of dementia and better cognitive function and brain structure in a study of ~500k people.
