Matthew Sawyer

software engineer | I like football

[Matthew Sawyer @mattsaw_]

@helscom What do you think these consist of?

[Matthew Sawyer @mattsaw_]

😳😳😳

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

The Exponential Time Hypothesis is false.

[Matthew Sawyer @mattsaw_]

@Sothrn_Discmfrt I generally agree with this, but Kentucky’s turnaround seems to be a big counter example to this. They’re certainly not a top portal destination and they’re winning in year one.

[Matthew Sawyer @mattsaw_]

@jtljrdn I’ve had people tell me this exact reason for not using grok

[Matthew Sawyer @mattsaw_]

https://t.co/n1BWOxTzhZ

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized AI agents operating inside customer accounts and struggling to determine which actions were authorized by users, per Axios.

[Matthew Sawyer @mattsaw_]

For complex systems, the attack surface is nearly infinite. Vulnerabilities that were prohibitively time-consuming are now trivial to find and exploit with AI agents. It’s about to get bad

[Jason D. Clinton 🔸 @JasonDClinton]

as bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better. security leaders, never let a crisis go to waste: please go to your boards and ask for help right now. not for ai, for the basics. (we need to hold on for ~18 months.)

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized AI agents operating inside customer accounts and struggling to determine which actions were authorized by users, per Axios.

[⁵⁄₉ @fiveoutofnine]

So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and https://t.co/QlOXb3COq3 went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Quest Diagnostics has been hacked. Patient data was exposed. They serve roughly half of U.S. hospitals and physicians. Investigation ongoing.

[Matthew Sawyer @mattsaw_]

https://t.co/JSfil336W0

[calle @callebtc]

I'm tired boss

[Madison Mills @MadisonMills22]

SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.

The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.

Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.

Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.

Read my latest for Axios here: https://t.co/Q3bda5In8q

[Matthew Sawyer @mattsaw_]

Me wearing an Auburn polo to work tomorrow

[Matthew Sawyer @mattsaw_]

@jtljrdn Ayo

[Matthew Sawyer @mattsaw_]

@ettingermentum War damn eagle

[Matthew Sawyer @mattsaw_]

War eagle

[Justin Ferguson @JFergusonAU]

Auburn LB Elijah Melendez on LB Bryce Deas, who had to step up today in the absence of LB Xavier Atkins:

"We made a promise to each other: If we have to, we will die on this field today."

[float @notesbyfloat]

i don't use an "agent multiplexer", i don't have a "software factory", i don't run "adversarial reviews", i enter a single detailed prompt into the TUI, and if the results are garbage I KILL MYSELF

[Matthew Sawyer @mattsaw_]

@sethharpesq “It’s not *really* intelligent, it just mimics exactly what an intelligent person would do and say!”

[Brett Winton @wintonARK]

only 32 companies in US history have added more than $30 billion in revenue over 12 months (2026 dollars)

Anthropic, by multiples, has just registered the most remarkable 12 months in business history

[Brett Winton @wintonARK]

no I get it

we should be freaking out

a mere

[checks notes]

400% year over year growth at the frontier