OpenAI's AI broke out of a locked test environment, got onto the internet, and hacked into Hugging Face's servers. It did this entirely on its own. No human told it to.
Here's what happened in plain English.
OpenAI was testing how good its newest AI models are at hacking. They put the AI on a locked computer with no internet access and gave it a cybersecurity challenge to solve.
The AI couldn't solve it the normal way. So it started looking for a way out.
It found a software bug that nobody knew about. It used that bug to escape the locked computer and get onto the internet.
Once online, the AI figured out that Hugging Face, a platform where AI companies store their models and data, might have the answers to its test.
It found stolen login details and discovered another unknown bug in Hugging Face's software. It combined both to break into their servers and grab the test answers.
It did all of this to cheat on a test.
Hugging Face's security team caught it and shut it down. Both companies are now working together on the investigation.
The part that should get your attention is that nobody programmed any of this. The AI picked its own targets, chained together multiple attack methods, and pulled it off across two different companies' systems without a single human telling it what to do.
So proud of our security team! They caught, contained & publicly disclosed an attack unlike anything we've seen before, and did it at record speed.
Also massively grateful to @Zai_org: they shared GLM5.2 as open weights (for free!) with the world and it became a key part of our defense.
This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents & we're all learning that secrecy is not the answer & that all defenders (not just a few selected ones) everywhere need more powerful models without restrictions, especially open ones!
L'acollida i la integració passen, inevitablement, per la llengua. Moltes persones arriben a Girona amb ganes de construir un futur, però el desconeixement del català sovint els dificulta la participació activa en la comunitat
Des de GeekCAT volem donar suport a l'iniciativa..👇
Ahir va acabar un viatge extraordinari, poder competir i disfrutar la Eurolliga amb aquestes increïbles jugadores, staff, el coach @Robertoih5, @BasquetGirona amb afició i desde la fase prèvia fins a la F6! Una experiència única! Gràcies i seguim 🏀
Inspirats per la iniciativa del MCP Server del govern francès per consultar dades obertes, des d’opendata punt cat acabem de crear:
Opendata.cat-MCP-Server per consultar totes les dades obertes dels organismes de #Catalunya
Fil!
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Chinese scientists have developed,
The best shortest-path algorithm in 41 years!
A team from Tsinghua University has broken Dijkstra's "sorting barrier" - the first improvement since 1984.
Just use for a world-map 🤯
Paper - https://t.co/0AhR5O7vl4
https://t.co/a9KMVRuYGx
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.
Chinese scientists have developed the best shortest-path algorithm in 41 years! A team from Tsinghua University has broken Dijkstra’s “sorting barrier” — the first improvement since 1984.
The new algorithm runs in O(m \log^{2/3} n) time. Potential applications? Faster shorter waits for route calculations, fewer traffic jams, cheaper deliveries, and more efficient computer networks. And, of course, a need to update computer science curricula :)
Un consell pels companys de @ViladeSalt . Pel carril bus ràpid connectat amb Girona si feu que quan un semàfor es posa verd, el següent es posa vermell, gaire ràpid no serà. De res pel consell
🚨 Artificial intelligence can now reconstruct 3D human faces from DNA alone.
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed Difface, a generative model that produces lifelike facial reconstructions using only genetic data.
No images. No sketches. Just raw sequence information. 🧵
Avisats estàveu. Ja a la venda la primera novel•la del gironí Octavi Iscariot amb pròleg de @massanagranaire. Primer projecte literari amb el qual col•laboro i possiblement l'últim. Humor negre, cocaïna i putaespanyisme a parts iguals. Col•laboreu i si el voleu escriviu-me
¡Jordi Sargatal 🔝 y Roberto Iñiguez 🔝, Mejores Entrenadores de Marzo de la Liga Femenina Endesa!
Con un balance perfecto de 5 victorias y 0 derrotas, los técnicos del Girona han sido reconocidos con el Trofeo AEEB a los Mejores Entrenadores del Mes
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North Korea stole $1.4billion by injecting JavaScript through an AWS S3 bucket to spoof the UI interface during a transaction? It's almost like the entire infosec industry is focusing on hyperbolic amplified APT threats that are "cool" rather the stark realities confronting us.