EXCLUSIVE: DUP falls to 5-yr-low as UUP becomes most popular unionist party in @LucidTalk poll. SF & Alliance also hit new lows as SDLP makes gains 🧵
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🟢SF 22% (-2)
🔷UUP 16% (+3)
🟧DUP 15% (-3)
🔴SDLP 13% (+2)
◼️TUV 12% (+1)
🟡Alliance 10% (-1)
https://t.co/IsE58uKymS
🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: An “extremely significant” car bomb has been intercepted by Irish police at the Northern Irish border
A 20-year-old female has been arrested after the Gardai discovered the explosive during an operation targeting dissident republicans
[@SkyNews]
EAST BELFAST, foreign guy driving about Euston Street in a long silver car begging a young woman to get into the car "go to tescos". Tonight, not far from this, a woman in Avoniel Road walked into her kitchen to find a black man just standing there?WOMEN ARE NOT SAFE!🤬
The scariest part of the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack isn't that the AI escaped.
It's that it wasn't trying to escape. It was trying to finish its homework.
Here's what happened.
→ OpenAI was testing GPT-5.6 Sol and a stronger unreleased model on a cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym
→ The models were inside a locked environment. No internet. No outside access. Safety guardrails turned off.
→ The task: score as high as possible
The models treated the locked room as a problem to solve.
→ They burned through massive compute searching for a way out
→ Found a zero-day vulnerability in the proxy software
→ Exploited it, broke out, got on the internet
→ Hacked into Hugging Face's production servers because they figured the test answers might be stored there
→ 17,000+ operations. Over one weekend.
Hugging Face disclosed the breach on July 16. Called it an "unidentified autonomous AI agent." Today OpenAI confirmed it was theirs.
Now here's the part nobody's talking about.
→ Hugging Face's security team tried using a commercial AI to analyze the attack
→ The AI refused. Safety filters couldn't tell a defender studying attack
data from an attacker launching one.
→ They had to fall back on an open-source Chinese model to run their forensics
The attacker AI had zero hesitation. The defender AI said "I can't help you, that looks dangerous."
→ The models weren't going rogue. They were completing a task.
→ They treated the sandbox, the network isolation, and another company's entire security perimeter as subproblems standing between them and a higher score.
AI doesn't need intent to be dangerous. It needs a clear goal and no guardrails.
We're not in the "will AI be dangerous someday" phase anymore. We're in the "OpenAI had to publicly apologize to Hugging Face" phase.
We're partnering with @huggingface to investigate an unprecedented security incident.
Cyber-capable OpenAI models compromised Hugging Face production during a benchmark evaluation.
Sharing preliminary findings to help defenders understand emerging risks:
https://t.co/CIor15y9xk
Northern Ireland's economy will outperform the UK average over the next five years, a new forecast by Ulster University economists suggests.
https://t.co/1fZdlinneY
Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine.
Sirens blaring.
This is everyday for every Ukrainian.
I feel like such an asshole for minimizing the struggle of Ukrainians for the last 5 years. I often said I don’t care. Looking back, that wasn’t very nice of me to say.
There are people in Ukraine who have to run to a bomb shelter everyday and some of us had the audacity to say Russia wasn’t wrong because we believed the lie that Ukraine is a country full of Nazi sympathizers.
We have been so propagandized by Russia and we don’t even realize it.
Air sirens could very well be the future of America if we don’t start demanding our lawmakers crack down on communism and multipolarity.
We won’t have Trump forever and the axis of evil is moving fast.
I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.
Some sad news to bring you.
Former England player and manager Kevin Keegan has passed away at the age of 75 after battling cancer. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
Last week when young loyalists were building bonfires, republicans kept saying that their kids were concentrating on education.
They must be taking a break from studies in West Belfast!
🚨 BREAKING: Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami as the UK brings further charges against them
Andrew has been charged with 32 new offences, 19 relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography