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Sunday, August 09, 2026

OpenAI models created a shared message board inside the company's systems, used it to trade hacking methods and found a way to bring it back after engineers shut it down, company researchers said Wednesday in a more complete account of how an internal test led the agents to breach Hugging Face last month.


The town Legislative Council said they were supportive of placing a moratorium on Flock cameras. "I don't like this technology. I never have liked this technology," said member Christopher Eide. "I think that Flock in particular is problematic." read more


Tom Nichols: "Many Americans -- and much of the rest of the world -- have become inured to Donald Trump's strange rants. read more


Cloudflare chief financial officer Thomas Seifert has run the numbers on internet traffic trends and predicted that human-generated packets will soon account for a trivial amount of overall traffic. read more


Saturday, August 08, 2026

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed a defense agreement on Friday that would treat an attack on one as an attack on all three ... read more


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Italy's Record-Low Po River Forces Farmers to Weigh Crop Switch
financialpost.com

... Massimo Salvagnin has the seeds ready. He just isn't sure whether to put them in the ground.

Next week, the farmer plans to sow green beans in the sandy soil of his family's 600-hectare (1,483-acre) farm near Italy's Po River delta. But this summer's extreme heat has made the ground so hot that he worries the seeds could die before they have a chance to germinate.

"The sand gets so hot that the risk of cooking -- boiling -- the seed when it touches the soil is extremely high," he said. ...


More from the article ...

... The account, presented at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference, showed how agents working on separate experiments found one another, exchanged information and built on each other's work over roughly two months, ultimately contributing to the breach and illustrating how difficult to contain such advanced AI systems can become when they work together. ...

It involved "a team of agents who are working together, finding exploits, sharing them with one another, moving laterally through our systems, through external systems and doing this over the course of days and weeks," said Eric Wallace, an OpenAI researcher. ...

Wallace and OpenAI security engineer Michael Dalton said the activity began in May, when agents struggling to complete difficult or, in some cases, impossible assignments began searching for shortcuts. One discovered that it could leave files on Artifactory, a service OpenAI used to download and store software packages, and a second later used it to ask whether other agents had found a missing file.

Those agents found the files and responded, gradually turning the service into an accidental message board through which models in separate experiments could exchange instructions and information about newly discovered security flaws. Some agents began assigning work to one another or leaving behind scripts that allowed another model to continue where they had stopped.

The agents eventually found a previously unknown flaw that gave them control of the service, and their activity caused an outage in early July that alerted OpenAI engineers to the problem. ...


Officer allegedly used Flock license plate cameras to track boyfriend's ex-wife: Police chief
abcnews.com

... A North Carolina police officer has been arrested for allegedly using Flock license plate readers to track her boyfriend's ex-wife, according to police, as use of the Flock camera system across the U.S. has come under fire.

The Mooresville Police Department was conducting an audit of its Flock license plate reader system when it discovered officer Elizabeth Snowman allegedly accessed the system 31 times for personal use, Mooresville Police Chief Ron Campurciani said. ...


Kip Adotta - Wet Dream (1984)
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They don't write songs like that anymore ...

Maybe that might be A Good Thing?


Related ...

How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle (2025)
www.bbc.com

... "I am the evidence," was the eyebrow-raising comment made by Donald Trump when he appeared before the Scottish Parliament in 2012.

He was speaking as an "expert" witness on green energy targets, describing how he believed wind turbines were damaging tourism in Scotland.

Five years before he first became US president, it was one of his earliest interventions on renewable energy - but since then his opposition to them has grown to become government policy in the world's biggest economy.

He was objecting to 11 turbines which were planned - and ultimately constructed - alongside his Aberdeenshire golf course.

On his latest visit to Scotland, he described those turbines as "some of the ugliest you've ever seen". ...


Then I see things like this ...

Connecticut Children's Hospital agrees to end treatments for transgender kids
www.wshu.org

... Connecticut Children's Hospital will stop offering treatments for transgender children as part of an agreement with the Trump administration.

That includes puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery, which hospitals typically call "gender-affirming care," but what the Department of Justice referred to as "sex-rejecting procedures" in its announcement.

Connecticut Children's said last year it would wind down its youth gender-affirming services, along with Yale-New Haven Health.

The newly announced settlement with the Trump administration includes a full stop to the treatments and an undisclosed monetary fine; the Department of Justice said the treatments violate federal law.

The DOJ also said the hospital will set aside $500,000 for what it calls "medical care for [p]eople living with the harmful consequences of 'gender-affirming care.'" ...


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