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The BBC have released the Tender Document ( #doctorwho @…

Night Storm Brewing (2026)
(Last night on the way back from our daily cycling round...)
#CloudAppreciation #Photography #BlackAndWhite

No idea how to raise funds myself. One thing is clear: "big publishers" are no longer a good choice. The price of a paycheck is too high. Too many IPs stayed with the publisher and went straight into the title graveyard.
A while ago I called it the "ecological dead zone", a devastated mid-epidemic planet from Subnautica where only the plankton (solo devs) and the leviathans (megacorps) survived. Yet even the leviathans are not immune. They merely die much slower. Wi…

The HOF game was actually great, plus more Kawhi news https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7497092/2026/08/07/panthers-cardinals-hof-game-the-pulse/

In 2001 there were no iphones, email was the predominant form of all online communications, people were arguing about the utility of TCP MD5 auth on BGP sessions, and there was no such thing as passive DNS.
I was a volunteer helping with the "shownet" at Networld Interop in Atlanta on September 11. This would be the last N I I would attend.
Volunteers from umich brought up a live TV news stream via IP multicast from their university into a TV by the NOC where many of the teams and vendors could watch events unfold. I believe we saw the second plane hit on that TV that morning.
Surely a bit of exaggeration of our importance, but some couldn't help but wonder about the potential loss to the Internet community if there was some sort of attack in Atlanta that day.
The first rumor/conspiracy I heard was when someone told me a number of people of a certain religious persuasion did not show up for work at CNN that day, as if they all were in on it.
I remember the same night, many bars and restaurants were open. I remember seeing some (not many) people I knew partying almost like nothing happened and I will forever feel guilt just for being there.
My friends from umich and I ended up driving back home due to days-long closure/restrictions of the airspace. For weeks after ever I'd get triggered when I heard a plane in the sky, an eventually increasingly occurrence when you live and work around the Loop in Chicago.
Infosec was already becoming increasingly important, but that day was perhaps a real milestone when it began to eventually eclipse networking in importance, organizational decision making, and commercial product focus.

I just watched the #BlackHat #OpenAI #HuggingFace talk (#OpenAI understands it themselves. However, emergence is still no indication of actual intelligence, and the talk is again ripe with anthropomorphism.
3. Yes, it is surprising and somewhat terrifying how good these LLM agent loops have become in finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. We are seeing a much stronger version of the earlier next-generation fuzzing leap in tool capabilities.
4. The comparison with fuzzing and other tools is important for another reason: #OpenAI conducted their experiments on the live Internet. No, forcing internal test runs to go through a proxy server is *not the same as running in an isolated environment*. If there is a connection to a live production system, it is by definition not an effective sandbox. What happened to people letting their cool new fuzzers run live on non-consenting production targets on the Internet back then? They were criminally liable. Why should #OpenAI not be held liable for any damages caused by their systems?
Just because you don't understand the complexity that you built doesn't mean you aren't responsible for what it does!
5. The agent loops first successfully started exploited their proxy server on May 26th, discovered July 4th-6th as active exploitation and takeover. Credentials were revoked and the proxy server patched. "At this point, AI training and evaluations resume."
WHAT THE ACTUAL F...? You discovered emergent behavior in your overly complex system that you didn't understand, saw active exploitation of your internal systems to an extent that they were owned with admin privileges, and your response was to patch the uppermost surface holes, and then continue letting the out-of-control complex system run and continue on the same course? You didn't think to, let's see, maybe stop or at least pause the highly irresponsible experiment while figuring out - in detail - what went wrong, why, and how to avoid the same thing happening again on a systematic level?
6. On July 8th, completely unsurprisingly, the LLM agent loops continue to do the same thing and find another surface hole that hasn't been patched yet to take over again. Why should this have stopped? You haven't done any root cause analysis on the system level. Why do you expect that the problem should have stopped?
7. It takes another 11 days to discover that this is happening again. So you turned the system that had broken something back on again without a detailed root cause analysis and then didn't even watch carefully? I can't even...
8. And no, the response is not to fight fire with fire. Complexity on the attacker side (#OpenAI is the attacker, not the defender - they are the guilty perpetrator, not the innocent victim of circumstance) should be fought with *reduced* attack surface on the defender systems. Adding LLM agent loops that the "frontier" companies themselves quite obviously have no control over to already brittle systems with the hope of auto-patching your way out of vulnerabilities does not seem like a wise course of action. You don't mitigate complexity with even more complexity. The next 2 years will be ... exciting - and your best bet is going to be to disable all dependencies and complex interactions that your production systems don't absolutely require.

Weathering The Storm (2026)
(Also see: #SilentSunday

Statement from @… leader of the #NDP on trade talks.
"The Prime Minister was right to walk away from the negotiating table last night. I believe Canadians are united in this crucial moment, on this crucial point: no deal is better than a bad deal.
Accepting a deal that would lock in pointless, destructive tariffs and undermine our ability to regulate big tech would have been disastrous for our workers, industries and sovereignty. PM Carney read the room by rejecting the Americans’ offer.
Wab Kinew got it exactly right — the President is weak and cannot be trusted to abide by an agreement. We should stand firm, knowing it’s what the vast majority of Canadians want our government to do.
But what happens next matters. We are not out of this yet.
You can count on New Democrats to be a voice for swift and substantial aid to affected workers and industries. This is also a moment to rapidly transition to an economy that is more independent, that prioritizes housing, health, climate and the cost of living.
What brings us together and makes us strong is how we take care of each other in hard times. That’s the Canada the NDP will fight for in this crisis moment and those to come."
#canpoli #cdnpoli #usa #trade #theAmericanFascist