Big Shak

Software Engineer ✧ AI ✧ Business ✧ Fitness

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

Damn, AI is ironically dangerous fr ⚠️

[NIK @ns123abc]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: "I don't even know a dramatic enough word to use… models can find bugs that are outside of the normal threat model of what we think a hacker can do… hardware-level, insane stuff… I no longer think we're gonna be able to just patch all the bugs."

It's over.

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

AI is gonna do a whole lot of things.
The good, the bad and the ugly.

It is just getting started.

#AI #BlackOctober #php

[Harnoor Singh @iHarnoorSingh]

AI broke the internet in 72 hours..

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

This show that AI would expose a lot of flaws in the tech industry and hackers would capitalise on them

#PHP2Shell #AI #BlackOctober

[NITDA Nigeria @NITDANigeria]

Security Alert: PHP2Shell⚠️⚠️

The PHP Project has released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities — CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619 — allowing unauthenticated remote code execution.

With nearly all PHP versions since 5.4 affected and public exploits in the wild, immediate patching is critical.

Update now. Don't make it easy for them.
#CybersecurityAwarenessMonth

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

AI agents in the hands of hackers is very deadly to the society at large

AI just emphasises that a Powerful tool in the wrong hands is extremely dangerous.

#AI #BlackOctober

[john milinovich @jmilinovich]

# Black October

For anyone who knows me even somewhat well, it's clear that I am a 99th percentile tech optimist. However, the vibes have shifted for me quite a bit in the last 18 hours, and I feel a moral imperative to share what I'm thinking and feeling with my circles so that everyone can understand, and hopefully take seriously, what's happening right now. I think October 2026 will have many chapters written about it in the history books.

You know those scenes in financial movies like Margin Call where someone realizes that they're all fucked, and no one else sees it yet? And that person feels like they're crazy, and then suddenly everyone is pulling an all-nighter in a boardroom and freaking out? Yeah, that's kind of how this is feeling right now in the SF/Bay Area/AI circles.

We're 48 hours into what is being called Black October. In the last 2 days there have been several dozen cyber attacks which, in isolation, would each have been the worst to happen in an entire calendar year. Every sector from government to education to big tech and banks is being massively affected, and people are starting to freak out.

In a nutshell, what's happened is that frontier AI models have gotten to a point where they are as advanced as the most sophisticated programmers, with one critical difference: they can work 24/7, and you can spin up 10,000 of them with a single command and they'll work together tirelessly until they accomplish their task. The most advanced models today are from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, whose current best technology is so good that they haven't been able to roll it out to everyone yet because of the national security risks it poses.

Meanwhile, the best open source models (where anyone can just download the model weights and do whatever they want with them, uncensored) are slightly behind the frontier but still 90-95% as capable. These models, developed primarily in China, are being used by black hat hackers to wreak havoc on the Western capitalist structure. Presumably, this has been part of China's plan the entire time, and we're seeing its implications fall out in real time.

In red-pilled AI circles, we've been sharing and reading papers called things like "Situational Awareness" and "AI 2027" for the last year or so, which at the time felt a bit like near-term speculative fiction. They laid out the case for why Artificial General Intelligence (AI smarter than any human at any knowledge task) and Recursive Self-Improvement (models that are able to use themselves to get better) weren't half-baked future ideas anymore, but instead an inevitable outcome of the linear progress that's happening.

These papers would then talk about things like "takeoff scenarios," trying to envision how that moment would come to be and what it would be like when it happened. It would either be a "slow takeoff" that would play out over the course of months and quarters, happening subtly and only obvious to a few. Or, it would be a "fast takeoff" where it would pretty much happen instantly, like a bit flipping from 0 to 1.

From everything that I can see and am feeling, we are currently experiencing the fast takeoff scenario. Beyond the crazy security vulnerabilities that have come out recently, there have also been massive breakthroughs in life sciences, fundamental computer science, materials science, and pure mathematics that have all landed in the same time frame. While I still firmly believe that AI will be a net positive for humanity, it's more clear to me than ever that the societal and individual risk is very real, and is playing out NOW.

For as much conviction as I have that this is happening, the thing that's caused me to lose sleep is that I don't really know what to do about it, or more importantly, what to tell you, reader, to do about it. So, the best I can do is make a few suggestions that have always been a good idea but are more timely now than ever:

Set up 2-factor authentication for everything. I use Duo.
Use a password manager across your devices. I use 1Password.
Get an identity protection app set up. I use Alta.
Move your IoT devices to their own network. Claude helped me do this.

And last, but certainly not least, if you've been avoiding leaning into AI, see this as a catalyst to wake up and start using it. Don't just use the chat mode version of ChatGPT/Claude; click that Code/Work button and see how easily you can have AI write code to help you with your job. One of the biggest vulnerabilities was in a massively popular programming language called PHP, and the prompt that set it off was literally, "Find vulnerabilities in php."

This is an unprecedented time for humanity, but as we've done with many things before, we will prevail so long as we are kind, loving, and open-minded to the world.

Much love.

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

The question remains:
Is AI going to do more good or more bad?🤔

Seeing the AI backed hacking activities in the past few days

#blackoctober

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

The lack of proper structure in Nigeria have given room for some business to thrive.

If those business were in Europe, there would be zero market for them

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

@ActologS Incredible solution

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

Some Nigerian youths are facing depression.

No Job
No Skill
No plans
No friends
No Income sources

And the face it in silence.

Please reach out to any you notice might be depressed and offer them a listening ear and help if you can.

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

@ActologS This is a very reliable and relatively cheap system for 24/7 power

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

A solution for blind people

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

What are you building with Gemini 4 Argon? Show us what you've made 👇

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

Argon 4 is Lit🔥

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

The future is AI × Robotics

[Google @Google]

We taught a robot to play cornhole using Gemini 4 Argon 🦾

Just by watching a video of humans playing, Argon mapped the physics, coded its own simulation to practice, and taught @Apptronik's Apollo humanoid to sink 7 shots in a row.

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

Gemini 4 Argon is Lit 🔥

#AI

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

Reverse Engineer Anything !!!

#REA #AI

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

The craziest thing yet about AI for me is the access to Knowledge and information that is provides

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

The way Nigerians are busy shipping Games anyhow. Hmm.

Thanks to AI.

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

Intelligence as a service (Iaas)

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

Indie hackers and AI are best friends fr

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

AI might not take your job, but the people or companies using AI will.

[Big Shak @ri_shak]

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