Jake Raich

IT - Cybersecurity, Logistics, and Customer Service Professional (Top4% TryHackMe), motorcycles.

[NASA's Kennedy Space Center @NASAKennedy]

The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍

This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: https://t.co/kcP12dhsI2

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software.

It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans.
https://t.co/NQ7IfEtYk7

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok video games are going to be incredible

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack.

Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords.

LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm.

Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks.

Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages.

Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

[Walmart @Walmart]

how much store credit for this?

[Jake Raich @Jakeraich]

@OpenAI @nikitabier livestream keeps auto-muting.

[Jake Raich @Jakeraich]

@PalantirTech @L3HarrisTech @anduriltech @wwt_inc Looks awesome and I support this companies vision! Whats the difference between this and the armored tanks/Miltary vehicles we see get blown up by a $5,000 drone daily in Ukraine?

Genuinely curious as I feel like this is a collosal waste of resources in the near future?

[Jake Raich @Jakeraich]

3 years ago humans were (and still are) using this technology to have Will Smith eat spaghetti…truly incredible to see it’s now entering real scientific breakthroughs.

Will humans even be able to keep up with the exponential use-cases this will evolve into?

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

An exciting milestone for AI in science: Our C2S-Scale 27B foundation model, built with @Yale and based on Gemma, generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior, which scientists experimentally validated in living cells. 

With more preclinical and clinical tests, this discovery may reveal a promising new pathway for developing therapies to fight cancer.

[Anduril Industries @anduriltech]

See before you're seen.

EagleEye enhances the warfighter’s perception by overlaying digital information onto the real world, delivering vital real-time insights.

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

Pay attention, people: he is a top AI researcher @GoogleDeepMind After all, attention is all you need, yet it seems to be severely lacking!

[Dallas Cowboys @dallascowboys]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[jenna talia @ziegencock]

this is one of those “if i had to see it then so do you” things

[Roddy Ricch @RoddyRicch]

having no expectations means no disappointments

[No one you follow @Salle2Shooz]

Damn no one’s even mentioned this entire month is 420. We’ve strayed so far from the Light.

[Scarlet & Black Nation @gunsupnation]

Lubbock’s favorite shrub is taking Coronavirus seriously. 😂

[Crystal @Crystal_lite226]

DJs gonna start saying “If you had a birthday during Quarantine make some mf noise”