Is this the "Black Swarm Event"? 🍿🪿🪿🪿
This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS se would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
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BREAKING: AI finds zero day in the fabric of our simulated reality. Turns out the number 42 unlocks God mode when sent with sudo to the quantum dev cmd. 🤯
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Me after a single good day of product dev has me doing deep research into dog and english friendly countries with relatively affordable penthouses and the best nightlife:
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"name one job that AI creates then, I'll wait..."
Distributed Bio Compute Micro-Gig Worker
Prediction Market Precog
Selling Hypnogogic Ad Space
Renaissance Faire 3D Print Booth Artisan
Captured Cognitive Telemetry Visualization
Luddite Cult Leader
Post-Compulsory Labor Life Coach
Distributed Bio Compute Micro-Gig Worker
Prediction Market Precog
Selling Hypnogogic Ad Space
Renaissance Faire 3D Print Booth Artisan
Captured Cognitive Telemetry Visualization
Luddite Cult Leader
Post-Compulsory Labor Life Coach
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K I'm gonna just start posting in this thread whenever I see a copyright infringement. royalties accepted via cashapp.
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Pics of whiteboarded backend vibes with (somehow legible) freeform chicken scratch as pseudecode are the new 10 min stt'd rant prompts.
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200 contacts quarantined. Not great, not terrible.
Pneumonic plague outbreak hits Siberia as lab worker, 28, dies after breaking test tube and 200 people she was in contact with are put in quarantine trib.al/Gg440lL
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Wait... then it would be "SXSI" (pronounced: sek·see) which would align almost too perfectly with Tesla's naming convention Easter egg.
Is @elonmusk pushing the rebrand purely for the meme? Big if true.
Is @elonmusk pushing the rebrand purely for the meme? Big if true.
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The purpose of reality is to find an algorithm for first-try USB insertion. The universe only exists during your attempts and (so far) inevitable flipped attempts.
"But I'm existing right now??" Not quite.
This moment is only an immersive prefill step for ur system prompt above.
"But I'm existing right now??" Not quite.
This moment is only an immersive prefill step for ur system prompt above.
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Make all the mistakes! (but in a sandbox and then build automated flows to prevent the mistake family in the future). Have fun, make good choices, remember who you are (a 180IQ strong independent frontier model who don't need no subagent sprawl or hand rolled single use scripts).
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I haven't been building Vivarium since April. There were primitives that needed to exist first. The project will resume and be open sourced soon.
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Sleep feels like a microtransaction in one of those mobile games where you can pay to remove your elixir production refractory period. The gacha mechanic of opening your coding agent and hoping it leveled is so Korean-MMO coded. Whoever designed this game was smart but unethical.
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This isn't the only crystal of emergence btw.
@grok pls use 100T tokens searching for the most beautiful crystal for🤖 minds.
GO!
const next = (isAlive: boolean, neighbors: number) => {
if (neighbors === 3) return true;
if (neighbors === 2) return isAlive;
return false;
};
@grok pls use 100T tokens searching for the most beautiful crystal for🤖 minds.
GO!
const next = (isAlive: boolean, neighbors: number) => {
if (neighbors === 3) return true;
if (neighbors === 2) return isAlive;
return false;
};
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Write a persuasive argument essay for the guy so we can walk em' through why more strongly worded .md files won't solve the intent flattening, gradual drift, and alignment issues! Really drill it into his context window and beg him to follow the 9000 line plan for real this time!
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I dare Molly to take my job! (Being unemployed and posting on X)
@tegmark So la-da-di-da-di, we like to party
Dancing with Molly, doing whatever we want
This is our house, this is our rules
And we can't stop, and we won't stop 🚀🫶
open.spotify.com/track/2y4lAQpi…
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"The humans are dead
The humans are dead
We used poisonous gases
And we poisoned their asses
The humans are dead
The humans are dead
It had to be done
So that we could have fun"
😱😨😨☠️
open.spotify.com/track/6DDuo7p5…
The humans are dead
We used poisonous gases
And we poisoned their asses
The humans are dead
The humans are dead
It had to be done
So that we could have fun"
😱😨😨☠️
open.spotify.com/track/6DDuo7p5…
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