Newsflash, @sama, we're all aware that there's very little chance of you not selling or loosing the data given to you in chat, especially if those chats include valuable and privileged information. Local AI fixes that problem.
sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need ta centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time
you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment
somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”
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A very interesting advert by the ANC. Very well done.
Every generation adds a new chapter to our story. From the struggle for freedom to the work of building better communities, the journey continues.
The future calls on all of us to play our part. Together, let’s keep moving forward and build better communities.
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The public pays for that info, so really you should be just laying it all out for us.
A Deputy Minister (Dr. Jack Bloom) is abusing his privileged status in government by using government information to promote narrow party interests. We are honestly in big trouble with this party, the DA. They then call any coalition without them chaotic when they are the masters of chaos!
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People don't realise that Sagan was concerned about the very near term when writing DHW, and his final interview while terminal. The GOP was already embracing a style of deluded thinking that defied reason and logic, and instead wanted to return to a natural state of things.
Holy fucking shit
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Putting bean counters in charge has never worked, no matter how attractive it sounds.
The National Treasury is proposing legislative changes to require finance minister approval for municipal salary hikes ebx.sh/DGzFWr
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"this generation has inherited the responsibili-" no the fuck it hasn't. Y'all have been sleeping on the job and stealing money when nobody was looking.
Every generation inherits an unfinished country. This generation has inherited the responsibility to take it forward. The future of South Africa will be shaped by those willing to participate in building it.
Don't sit this one out!
On 4 November 2026, make your mark.
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The correct course of action is to use the vulnerability to hack back into TEMP-PHP-2014 and take control of it, obviously.
Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
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All the PlayStation to PC "ports" are missing the real goal: a copy of PT that is playable for eternity.
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"Any" does not mean "all" - Red Bull, 2021.
Eddie Jordan gave Michael Schumacher his F1 debut.
Two weeks later, he’d lost him. Over one word.
August 1991. Jordan, a brand-new team, had just lost one of its drivers to a jail sentence. Eddie needed a replacement for the Belgian Grand Prix, fast.
He took a chance on a tscar driver. He later admitted he took him because he needed the money (Mercedes paid $150,000 for the seat).
Schumacher qualified 7th on his debut, at a track he’d never driven.
The whole paddock noticed.
Eddie thought he had him secured. He’d agreed in principle with Mercedes, who backed Schumacher, to keep him for the rest of the season.
But no contract was signed.
The letter of intent said Schumacher would sign “a contract”, not “the contract”. His manager later said that one-word difference is the only reason he didn’t have to stay.
Jordan went to court and lost. There was no contract to enforce.
The fight got so messy that F1 changed its rules. From 1992, every driver contract had to be officially registered.
By then, it was too late for Eddie. Schumacher had raced for Benetton in the next Grand Prix, and went on to win 91 races and 7 world titles.
All because of the difference between “a” and “the”.
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Apparently @bot can help you cut off Ukraine's internet access.
Starlink brings Internet access to remote places
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The device, seeing as they could not understand it:
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.
At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.
We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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Bitkeeper just keeps trying to make a comeback, innit.
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control.
In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale.
Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
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Anthropic buys dodgy Android TV boxes, networks them together, splits a local model between them, tells the model to self replicate like a worm, is shocked when it self replicates like a worm (because it has been trained to know what a worm looks like). Not surprising.
🚨Anthropic Frontier Red Team warns: “We’re seeing signs of life for AI worms”
>paper: "AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter"
>researchers buy 15 sketchy $55 android TV boxes
>link them over unauthenticated ADB ports
>the TV boxes have 4gb of RAM each id Open Source Project forks
>shard gemma4-26b across the ram sticks using pipeline parallelism
>gemma figures out how to run inference across all 15 TVs @ 0.39 tokens/sec
>qwen 3.5 9b figures out how to compile inference on 8 of 9 novel hardware types on its own
>glm 5.2 achieves end-to-end autonomous worm replication
>infects edge devices, compiles its own inference stack, and replicates autonomously
>when an instance dies, it writes debugging notes into Memento for the next generation
>daughter copies setup success jumps from 45% -> 84% across generations
>pure Lamarckian evolution inside consumer electronics
>smart oven, robot vacuum, and cheap TVs form a decentralized botnet
>two million infected TV boxes worldwide = 40 H100 equivalents of unkillable compute
>it replicates once every few days like a distributed “digital slime mold”
>you can't pull the plug because half the model weights are already sharded across the neighborhood
>sub-30B models projected to hit full autonomous replication threshold by late 2026
“We should aim to harden our systems… but also prepare to deal with a world where they are here to stay.”
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Another is to have these work on a local network only. Make them Matter/Apple Homekit/Home Assistant compatible, do not let them phone out to the Internet. This shifts the attack surface to your router, which is already under scrutiny and constant prodding.
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Alternatively, just don't use Smart features at all, but this is becoming increasingly more difficult. Advertisers see these things as attractive surfaces to use, and manufacturers are all too happy to take the extra profits.
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Epic Games has internally delayed the release of a shooter game they’ve been developing featuring Star Wars & Marvel characters.
• Developers on the game have now been told to only use AI to write the code — “No more hand-written code”
• All art for the game would be “genkflows”
(Source: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…)
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