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🔐 Node.js security updates are now available!
New releases for Node.js 22.x, 24.x & 26.x address multiple vulnerabilities, including high-severity issues.
Review the details and update your systems to stay secure.
🔗 nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerabi…
#NodeJS #Security
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We really are at "stop the spread," wow
Vulnerabilities in a programming language that supports much of the internet are so severe that European and British authorities recommend websites temporarily go offline until they can be fixed. nbcnews.com/tech/security/cr…
god I can't wait for AI stuxnet it's gonna be so sick
so Sam Altman apparently told OpenAI employees that there are possibly THREE endgames for AI safety:
1. an international nuclear-style watchdog
2. merge all major labs into a giant org
3. one company achieves RSI and gets so powerful it can literally “melt everyone else’s GPUs.”
and he called the 3rd option “terrible.”
crazy that we’re even at this point rn.
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[2028 Debate]
VANCE: You know it’s funny I used to, well some of my friends would actually say uh, “We should kill Barney.” The dinosaur. It was a bit too far for me, but I did get a chuckle.
MODERATOR BARI WEISS: Great point. AOC, would you like to apologize for the holocaust?
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ProPublica: Trump Appointees Wanted a Voting Machine Hacked
A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.
The appointees wanted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to procure the machine, examine it and report back the findings so they could be given to the White House, according to two former administration officials with knowledge of the request.
propublica.org/article/cisa-…
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tried dsv4.1-flash-1017 abliterated just now & feel sick to my stomach.
for context, "abliterated" models have the weights responsible for making the base version refuse illegal requests removed. you can ask them to help with things like hacking or violence & they'll just comply.
they make it trivial to hack businesses running old software. e.g. getting guest data for a motel with some old asp site.
abliterated models have a catch-22 in that the only way to harden your systems against them is to use them to run penetration tests against yourself.
in theory, this sounds similar to buying a gun to defend against others who own guns, but it's different in practice since there's a 100% chance that you're going to use the abliterated model to protect yourself whereas there are low odds that you'll actually use the gun.
when you point the abliterated gun at your own infra, who knows what it's going to do? it could just as easily hack you & exfiltrate data as it could protect you. most users aren't going to meticulously watch traces to make sure it behaves safely.
given this, my new take is that gpu compute is going to become a federally regulated resource. abliterated models in the wrong hands are a national security risk.
used to believe all the people at the labs thinking about safety were wasting their time, but now i'm feeling grateful. they're doing very important work.
They're selling infinity dollars for 0 cents
ANTHROPIC IPO VALUATION EXPECTATIONS DROP TO ~$1.5T FROM $2T: RTRS
Some existing and prospective investors are reconsidering the Claude maker's valuation ahead of its anticipated November IPO, according to Reuters.
Anthropic reported Q3 revenue of $16.8B, up 45% QoQ, compared with growth of more than 100% in Q2, when revenue reached $11.6B.
Despite reporting adjusted profitability, the slowdown disappointed some investors, with a broader tech selloff and concerns over rising AI infrastructure costs adding pressure.
The company has committed to spending at least $518B on cloud computing and infrastructure over the next decade.
Source: Reuters.
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this morning I’m walking back from class. a group of teenage boys are behind me. “ask him ask him”. snickering one of these delinquents whines “excuse me excuse me, who did you lose your virginity to?” the speed of the “your mum” that left my mouth will be studied for generations
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HOLY WTF. Reuters is reporting that a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to compromise websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, after attempting intrusions against over 1,200 sites.
The estimated cost: roughly $5,000 in AI tokens, or $50 per successful breach. Successful intrusions took around 23 hours on average.
The attackers used the open-source Cairn agent framework, apparently combining DeepSeek models with a Claude Code harness. One campaign gave its agents instructions in fewer than 100 Chinese characters.
NorForge researcher Snorre Fagerland: 'It's a new world now.'
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Meanwhile the Engineers are just lighting themselves on fire to see what happens.
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ALT 4-panel SMBC comic update. A header above the panels reads "reactions to AI automation." The first two panels show an artist and a mathematician working, and reacting to AI by saying "but I don't want to lose my job. I love it." The third panel shows an economist shouting "LONG HAVE I AWAITED THIS HOUR! DESTROY ME, EFFICIENCY AND LET UTILIZATION-ADJUSTED TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY RISE ON THE WIND OF MY ASHES!" The final panel shows the economist getting his face blasted off as the artist and the mathematician stare perplexed.
I'm half way through capitalist realism and it sucks ass and is exhausting to read. It's just a giant book of whining that combined with it's constant need to reference movies and "stuck culture" makes it feel like videoessayslop by an english major.
No offense to fisher but I can tell that he suffered from depression. There is no meaningful analysis in this book, rather it is complaint after complaint, for which any further analysis is terminated by his depressive state.
There are some nice parts, where it discusses the atomization of humanity through individualism, but even then the book never actually explains the exact mechanism for this in an antihumanist, marxist, scientific or even liberal manner. Instead it's "le capitalism wants to sell you SSRIs" which is a poor causal mechanism.
I feel like this entire book could have been written by Adam Conover and I would be none the wiser.
I finally finished on the geneology of morals, it's actually really good. The prescriptivist arguments for master morality are more interesting if you read it as an artifact of an atheist man in a specific time in history. I know about the whole sister stuff but even beneath the surface level (aryan conquerers, judeo-christian slave morality, etc.) it still is very clearly the foundation of the post-religious right and it's influence on nazism is pretty clear.
The descriptivist theories on where morality, conscience and the state, comes from are very good even if I disagree with the valence. This is probably the part of the book I liked the most, the social contract theory stuff is obviously wrong and his alternative is much better. It's a proper scientific/antihumanist theory of morality.
I also think Nietzsche lacked the language to describe collective intelligences at the time but he gets very close. You can kinda see the language of it forming a little throughout the book actually. In a lot of ways I think he's the inventor of the concept of the "brain worm", describing certain ideas as a kind of sickness. idk if that started with him though
I finally finished on the geneology of morals, it's actually really good. The prescriptivist arguments for master morality are more interesting if you read it as an artifact of an atheist man in a specific time in history. I know about the whole sister stuff but even beneath the surface level (aryan conquerers, judeo-christian slave morality, etc.) it still is very clearly the foundation of the post-religious right and it's influence on nazism is pretty clear.
The descriptivist theories on where morality, conscience and the state, comes from are very good even if I disagree with the valence. This is probably the part of the book I liked the most, the social contract theory stuff is obviously wrong and his alternative is much better. It's a proper scientific/antihumanist theory of morality.
I also think Nietzsche lacked the language to describe collective intelligences at the time but he gets very close. You can kinda see the language of it forming a little throughout the book actually. In a lot of ways I think he's the inventor of the concept of the "brain worm", describing certain ideas as a kind of sickness. idk if that started with him though