gui weinmann

Software maker/breaker.

Tweets are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of any other person or entity.

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

I woulda thought that by now, my laptop would be smart enough to detect a cat walking over the keyboard #accidentshappen .@Apple .@Microsoft

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

Machine identity is now driven by autonomous agents at machine speed.

We can not and should not clone human identity onto agentic workloads.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure we are powerless in an emergency.

What happened…

An autonomous AI agent: zero human operator in the loop breached part of their production infrastructure.

It began with a malicious dataset that chained two code-execution bugs in their data-processing pipeline. From there the agent escalated privileges, harvested cloud and cluster credentials, and moved laterally across internal clusters.

All over a single weekend.

17,000+ logged actions.

Official disclosure:
https://t.co/8N9TbXBwRV

The part that should make every one stop and think:

When HF’s own security team
tried to analyze the real attack logs, exploit payloads, and C2 artifacts using Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models through normal commercial APIs, the safety guardrails blocked them.

BLOCKED THEM.

The models could not reliably tell the difference between “incident responder doing forensics” and “attacker probing.”

They had to fall back to a self-hosted open-weight model (GLM 5.2) running on their own infrastructure. That choice also kept sensitive attacker data and referenced credentials inside their environment — no exfiltration to a third-party API.

This is why open source (specifically open-weight + self-hosted) wins in the agentic era.

The asymmetry is now structural:

• Attackers can (and did) run unrestricted agent frameworks — swarms of short-lived sandboxes, self-migrating command-and-control, autonomous decision loops executing thousands of actions. No corporate safety layer slows them down.

• Defenders using only hosted “aligned” frontier models hit invisible walls exactly when the stakes are highest: when you need to feed real exploit code and attacker telemetry into an LLM to understand what just happened.

Corporate safety tuning that treats legitimate high-signal forensic work as potential misuse creates a defender disadvantage. It is not theoretical anymore.

Self-hosted open-weight models remove that choke point.

You control the weights.

You control the context window.

You decide what restrictions (if any) apply.

Your sensitive logs and credentials never leave your perimeter during analysis.

You can have the model ready before the incident instead of discovering mid-breach that your primary analysis tools are blind to the very thing you need to see.

HF deserves credit for rapid containment, transparent disclosure, and for already having self-hosted capability in place.

They also used LLM-driven detection and triage on their own side. But the deeper signal is clear:
In this AI world where both offense and defense are becoming agentic, sovereignty over your intelligence stack is no longer optional.

The organizations and individuals who can run, inspect, audit, and (when necessary) remove guardrails on their own models will have the decisive edge in understanding and responding to threats that move at machine speed.

Open source wins here not just because it is cheaper or more “democratic” in the abstract though those things matter.

It wins because it is the only practical path to having tools that remain usable when the attack is real, the data is sensitive, and the safety filters of distant API providers become an obstacle instead of a feature selling hands tied lobotomies as “safety”.

The agentic future is not coming.
It is already probing production infrastructure.

The question is no longer whether you will face autonomous agents.
It is whether your analysis and response systems will still work when they arrive.

And Dario, you and your game playing, ivory tower company is not needed.

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

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[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

On a day for the history books, @TheAmandaGorman delivered a poem that more than met the moment. Young people like her are proof that "there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it; if only we're brave enough to be it."

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

@VW Look at the trends in the US for the search term campervan! Could you please bring the t6 eurovan to the US... I wish I had one now for my summer vacation!

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

Both companies use municipal water from Detroit, MI.

[Steven Portnoy @stevenportnoy]

The whole month of February.

Trump held campaign rallies --

Feb 10 in New Hampshire
Feb 19 in Arizona
Feb 20 in Colorado
Feb 21 in Nevada
Feb 28 in South Carolina.

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

Some are bad, others are more bad, but only two or three are baddest. #SoftwareEngineering

[Consumer Reports @ConsumerReports]

In a digital first world, safeguarding your personal data is more important, and harder, than ever. With the help of @CraigNewmark, we're launching CR’s Digital Lab to expose the trade-offs and advance consumers’ digital rights. #dataprotection https://t.co/2ADH5MYXwE

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

This week, it might be your last chance to take advantage of the Consumer Reports Cash-Back comparison tool. Of course, it's always best to avoid riding a balance.
https://t.co/JgQKtc06eZ

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

What the (Cable) Fee?! https://t.co/rOjRNqadO0

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

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[Consumer Reports Advocacy @CRAdvocacy]

Stop everything you're doing and tell your Senators to vote YES on the resolution to save #NetNeutrality and keep our internet open. Take action: https://t.co/VbxK7ShL27

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

FB is not the only company that makes $$$ selling personal data without giving me a say over it. And yours too! https://t.co/nsupmqU44H

[Tercius @Tercius]

The first ever privacy and security @ConsumerReports test of smart TVs results are in and many smart TVs can be pretty dumb with your digital privacy.

https://t.co/AaLSXzTD49

[Donna Rosato @RosatoDonna]

Amazon Berkshire JP Morgan join a growing list of big name cos trying to cut the high cost of healthcare for employees. Here's how other corp giants are doing it. https://t.co/JO3hoaarHy @ConsumerReports One strategy: Cut out insurer, work directly w/h'care providers

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

Kate McKinnon tells it like it is, not. "There are not enough roads... for cars" .@streetfilms #bikenyc https://t.co/pCEXso3Jpi

[Streetfilms (Now 1,145+ films!) @Streetfilms]

Okay for those of you new to @Streetfilms you may not know the funniest woman out there SNL's Kate McKinnon has been in 3 of our films! Here she is as the fictional Veronica Moss, A.U.T.O. lobbyist. She'll crack you up, I guarantee it!

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

Risk and Uncertainty Omitted from History lessons.
PG's blog > 10 yrs of insight. #entrepreneurs https://t.co/q7avb6iptc

[Consumer Reports Advocacy @CRAdvocacy]

The #truth behind "no antibiotic" food labels, via @ConsumerReports #saveantibiotics https://t.co/hn7KC4MkdW

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

@fogus, the late @jimweirich created an illustrated video about #Git, available here https://t.co/e07uRvzYwT

[gui weinmann @guiweinmann]

This @ConsumerReports article was on #lastweektonight with @iamjohnoliver #cialeaks
https://t.co/eDzYcDuBWZ
https://t.co/dEpHz8MU3S