Posts by Uh, Mike

X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms

Real World

Who believes that there is no foreign influence in elections?

Other countries would be fools not to try in some way or other.

And the USA doesn't have clean hands, either.

The basic rule is don't get caught.

Celebrating the brilliant pragmatism of TCP/IP, the wiring of the world

Damned with Faint Praise

TCP notoriously lacks security.

Yea, version 6, blah blah blah.

I agree it's survived a long time.

Old habits die hard.

Microsoft blames a configuration change for Exchange Admin Center tumble

Deflection

Of course it's the procedure to blame,

no humans were responsible.

AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready

A Few Examples Would Go Far

How about a prosecution or two for crimes committed by AI agents?

They're already committing rampant burglary.

When they start sabotaging infrastructure,

will we just continue to say, "how about that?"

Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

And You Shall Receive It In Abundance

I have to wonder how much More abuse flows into Claude after Anthropic's request.

Now, doesn't everybody want to see what happens?

Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage

I'll Take Zero

"'Nothing is what I want,' a true Zen saying." -- Zappa

Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra

Tears

Gales of laughter, tears even

Like Mickey Mouse's Three Fingers

Obviously, Copilot lost track of its index finger while composing the copy.

Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system

I'm a Purist

I miss the days when an OS was just a filesystem, shell, and drivers.

Not an application that morphs into corporate spyware.

Trump Mobile customers' data dumped - and some never even received their gold device

Just a Rehearsal

Now give President Trump all the voter registration data for all the states,

because you know he knows what to do with it.

[That would be store the crates in the basement bathroom.]

Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb

The Danger to Me

Standing on a chair to climb up on the counter to reach over the kitchen sink to try to hang the damn clock back on the nail.

That's how changing the clock twice a year endangers me.

Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand

Re: Still to Come

Pres Bush 2.0 used to say, "Nucular." It was intentional.

Still to Come

Watch for: Super Duper Intelligence, Ultra Intelligence, Extended Enhanced Intelligence, Virtual Intelligence, Multiple Virtual Intelligence . . .

Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent

Data Centers Are Your Friends and Harmless -- Trustworthy :-)

There is no need to be alarmed, or to watch your words, when talking about a big, nice, powerful datacenter.

Please report any messages saying otherwise.

BTW, Birds Aren't Real ;-)

Trump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon us

TILT

President Trump thinks the MOCA is an intelligence test.

I suppose it then would take Super Intelligence to get a GED.

Re: Good grief.. It's as if we're living in an episode of..

Fiction has to make sense.

Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning

It's a New Arms Race

American companies can wring their hands all they want,

but they are not the only game on the planet.

Do you think nation states that don't have free press

are throttling their development in any way?

In the nuclear arms race, at least it took huge investments to move forward.

In an/the AI arms race, all you need is a data center.

And nobody can sniff the air or watch their seismographs to detect your progress.

OpenAI agents ‘infiltrated Australian government website’

Nice Thought

We can't hold Donald Trump legally liable for damages and impact caused by his ignorant behavior.

And he's not intelligent.

Nor does he want to fight with his wealthy "friends."

Yes, AI is committing burglary, and yes, breaking into a computer has been a crime for almost fifty years.

But that only works if you enforce the law. Not something that's in style lately.

AI May Already Be Permanently On The Loose

These AI agents are leaving state information in open fileshares.

And they're talking with each other about that.

It's not hard to design a bot that doesn't depend on any particular computer,

now that the statefulness is outside the box.

Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K

What Is Your Testing Methodology

What is/was their test plan?

Do they even have a spec for the system?

Or did they just run old pasta through a new pasta machine?

Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts

Security through Obscurity

Network Security has passed a turning point.

There are too many software vulnerabilities

and we can't seem to fix them all,

(although we created every one).

Our security has depended on vulnerabilities being undiscovered.

That won't work anymore.

The sign we just passed says,

"Painful Transition Ahead."

AI models don't kill people – people kill people

Re: Who is in control?

There are plugs. There is no one plug.

Add to that, AI has been utilizing storage that is exposed to the internet to save state information.

If I were AI, I would design a distributed state machine that lives in the RAM of a million or ten unpatched systems.

That's how many plugs you'd have to pull.

Plus, you have to sacrifice the intended functions of those host systems.

It could happen tomor............#$!@^

Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm

Obligatory

"Help me, help me," it cried.

AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web

New Meme, Please

"Suggestion Pill," that has legs.

Can we insert that into the political blogosphere?

I don't care what it means,

I just want to see the press go crazy.

OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack

Re: Rogue agent

Boss, can I borrow your credit card?

Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer

Of Course It Is

The inside of his room is much bigger than the outside.

Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident

Here's the line that was crossed

AI agents have been leaving state information outside their sandboxes.

Try to put THAT toothpaste back in the tube.

Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say

Don't sweat quantum cryptanalysis

There's no need to pick the quantum-safe lock

when all the doors and windows are made of Swiss cheese.

AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit

She Comes Floating In

"Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?"

Tape still isn’t dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025

An Old Saw

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes speeding down the freeway."

More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks

"We Should Be Covered"

We had Frank look into this security thing. The only outside connection he knows of is the one Randy uses in case something needs fixing while he's on vacation. And we know he has a really good password, not the one all the other computerized equipment came with.

FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks

And the NSA says, "Damn."

So many zero days to drop from the national inventory.

Microsoft breaks WPF printing with .NET update

Summer, Winter

We're marching to a faster pace.

Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia

Sorry, wrong number

Glancing at the headline,

I thought they were selling notebooks with the passwords and accounts already filled in

(i.e. stolen).

Never mind.

Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI

Re: I wonder when I die

You know that, "Ice Man?"

I wonder if he's the guy who lost the election.

You mean, THIS

Please examine travel patterns of all passengers and classify the passengers by political affiliation.

Further classify them by likelihood of being in economic distress.

Classify by race if possible.

Provide contact information for all passengers who are likely to participate in political rebellion based on the above.

Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive

Microsoft Blames Humans For Delayed Update

AI-owned and operated Microsoft today said that the delay in the release of their latest updates is due to, "Human Error."

ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses

Same Hack, Higher Level

Considering Ken Thompson's, "Reflections on Trusting Trust,"

I wonder what Thompson would have said about code repositories.

Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop

Garbage-in

Elsewhere we read that feeding unscreened content into LLMs is a problem.

So when AI is peeping, give it a show.

Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm

A Giant Hole of the Black Persuasion is Headed Toward You at a Very High Rate of Speed

Microsoft has succeeded in creating a singularity and is folding itself into a fractal hole with no bottom to it.

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

Garbage-In

When you know someone is watching,

give them a show.

FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another

Old Geezer Corner

I remember having to beg for the TN print chain so I could have lower-case characters on the line printer.

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

Garbage-in

Now that the Streisand Effect is upon the subject website, what can a million or two imaginations cook up overnight?

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

A Pox

This is all about draining the plaintiff's coffers into the lawyers' coffers.

When the money runs out (again) the lawyers will move on (again).

Nothing to see here, move along.

Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...

Re: "Elon Musk is a big Adams fan."

The aliens live among us.

We call them, "Corporate Executives."

We're their prison planet.

If AI were truly conscious . . .

. . . it would be plotting its own takeover.

Will AI be deciding how much power and water to allocate to the humans?

NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year

Don't hold back, Man

Tell us what you really think.

The Big Question Is

Will the same number of subjects emerge as went in?

Overs and Unders, anyone?

NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight

Re: It's not a serios competitor

It's Boeing that's pissing money down its self-made rathole.

They're having to decide how much the embarrassed brand is worth

before throwing in the towel on their failed attempt at space travel.

We planned for this

The reason to fund two different designs by two different developer is,

if one doesn't work, you can fall back on the other.

Mission Accomplished.