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AGI Dreams Podcast – October 24, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  Socket's
• 0:00
  Karlo
• 0:01
  Zanki
• 0:01
  has
• 0:01
  pulled
• 0:02
  the
• 0:02
  October
• 0:02
  LiteLLM
• 0:03
  compromise
• 0:03
  back
• 0:04
  eleven
• 0:04
  days.
• 0:05
  The
• 0:05
  malicious
• 0:05
  litellm
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  1.107.0
• 0:08
  wheels
• 0:08
  and
• 0:08
  container
• 0:09
  image
• 0:09
  that
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  hit
• 0:09
  PyPI
• 0:10
  on
• 0:10
  October
• 0:10
  21
• 0:11
  were
• 0:11
  the
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  end
• 0:11
  of
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  the
• 0:12
  intrusion,
• 0:12
  not
• 0:13
  the
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  start:
• 0:13
  a
• 0:13
  secret-stealing
• 0:14
  GitHub
• 0:15
  Actions
• 0:15
  workflow
• 0:16
  ran
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  inside
• 0:16
  the
• 0:16
  BerriAI/litellm
• 0:21
  repository
• 0:22
  on
• 0:22
  October
• 0:22
  10,
• 0:23
  and
• 0:23
  a
• 0:23
  larger
• 0:24
  one
• 0:24
  on
• 0:24
  October
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  12.
• 0:25
  Both
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  commits
• 0:26
  added
• 0:28
  .github/workflows/cache.yml
• 0:30
  under
• 0:30
  the
• 0:30
  subject
• 0:31
  "ci:
• 0:32
  bump
• 0:32
  cache
• 0:32
  config,"
• 0:33
  and
• 0:33
  both
• 0:34
  used
• 0:34
  the
• 0:34
  same
• 0:34
  cycle:
• 0:35
  cut
• 0:35
  a
• 0:35
  throwaway
• 0:36
  ci-tmp-
• 0:36
  branch
• 0:37
  from
• 0:37
  a
• 0:37
  legitimate
• 0:37
  commit,
• 0:38
  push
• 0:38
  once,
• 0:39
  let
• 0:39
  on:
• 0:40
  [push]
• 0:40
  fire
• 0:40
  in
• 0:40
  the
• 0:40
  upstream
• 0:41
  context
• 0:41
  where
• 0:41
  secrets.
• 0:42
  resolves
• 0:43
  to
• 0:43
  real
• 0:43
  values,
• 0:44
  then
• 0:44
  delete
• 0:44
  the
• 0:44
  branch
• 0:45
  within
• 0:45
  minutes.
• 0:46
  GitHub's
• 0:46
  own
• 0:46
  metrics
• 0:47
  betray
• 0:47
  the
• 0:47
  run:
• 0:48
  one
• 0:48
  job,
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  four
• 0:49
  seconds,
• 0:50
  zero
• 0:50
  failures,
• 0:51
  exactly
• 0:52
  what
• 0:52
  a
• 0:52
  workflow
• 0:52
  with
• 0:52
  no
• 0:53
  checkout
• 0:53
  and
• 0:53
  ||
• 0:54
  true
• 0:55
  on
• 0:55
  every
• 0:56
  step
• 0:56
  looks
• 0:56
  like
• 0:56
  .
• 0:57
  The
• 0:57
  progression
• 0:57
  reads
• 0:58
  as
• 0:58
  reconnaissance
• 0:59
  then
• 0:59
  collection.
• 1:00
  The
• 1:00
  October
• 1:01
  10
• 1:01
  workflow
• 1:01
  base64-encoded
• 1:03
  six
• 1:03
  organization
• 1:04
  secrets,
• 1:04
  including
• 1:05
  GH
• 1:05
  TOKEN,
• 1:06
  and
• 1:06
  POSTed
• 1:07
  them
• 1:07
  to
• 1:07
  webhook.site.
• 1:08
  The
• 1:08
  October
• 1:09
  12
• 1:09
  version
• 1:10
  ran
• 1:10
  six
• 1:10
  jobs
• 1:11
  bound
• 1:11
  to
• 1:11
  five
• 1:11
  real
• 1:12
  deployment
• 1:12
  environments
• 1:13
  and
• 1:13
  took
• 1:13
  fourteen
• 1:14
  more
• 1:14
  with
• 1:14
  no
• 1:14
  overlap:
• 1:15
  Anthropic,
• 1:16
  OpenAI
• 1:17
  and
• 1:17
  Bedrock
• 1:18
  keys,
• 1:18
  database
• 1:19
  and
• 1:19
  Redis
• 1:19
  credentials,
• 1:20
  and
• 1:20
  a
• 1:20
  Playwright
• 1:21
  storage
• 1:21
  state
• 1:21
  for
• 1:21
  Linear,
• 1:22
  a
• 1:22
  logged-in
• 1:23
  browser
• 1:23
  session
• 1:24
  that
• 1:24
  bypasses
• 1:24
  MFA.
• 1:26
  Fork
• 1:26
  pull
• 1:26
  requests
• 1:27
  cannot
• 1:27
  read
• 1:27
  secrets,
• 1:28
  so
• 1:28
  the
• 1:28
  attacker
• 1:29
  had
• 1:29
  push
• 1:29
  access;
• 1:30
  the
• 1:30
  activity
• 1:31
  log
• 1:31
  attributes
• 1:31
  every
• 1:32
  event
• 1:32
  to
• 1:32
  the
• 1:32
  ishaan-berri
• 1:33
  account,
• 1:34
  which
• 1:34
  Socket
• 1:34
  notes
• 1:35
  identifies
• 1:35
  the
• 1:35
  credential,
• 1:36
  not
• 1:36
  the
• 1:36
  person.
• 1:38
  LiteLLM's
• 1:38
  own
• 1:39
  follow-up
• 1:39
  traces
• 1:39
  initial
• 1:40
  access
• 1:40
  to
• 1:40
  an
• 1:40
  Agent
• 1:41
  Platform
• 1:41
  master
• 1:42
  key
• 1:42
  committed
• 1:42
  to
• 1:42
  a
• 1:42
  public
• 1:43
  repository
• 1:43
  in
• 1:44
  May
• 1:44
  and
• 1:44
  never
• 1:45
  revoked,
• 1:45
  and
• 1:46
  ties
• 1:46
  the
• 1:46
  GH
• 1:46
  TOKEN
• 1:47
  stolen
• 1:47
  on
• 1:47
  October
• 1:48
  10
• 1:48
  to
• 1:48
  approval
• 1:49
  of
• 1:49
  the
• 1:49
  October
• 1:49
  21
• 1:50
  release.
• 1:51
  What
• 1:51
  twenty
• 1:51
  live
• 1:52
  credentials
• 1:52
  were
• 1:52
  used
• 1:53
  for
• 1:53
  in
• 1:53
  between
• 1:53
  is
• 1:53
  still
• 1:54
  unknown.
• 1:55
  A
• 1:55
  LocalLLaMA
• 1:56
  post
• 1:56
  landing
• 1:56
  the
• 1:56
  same
• 1:57
  week
• 1:57
  argues
• 1:57
  the
• 1:57
  base
• 1:58
  rate
• 1:58
  for
• 1:58
  this
• 1:58
  is
• 1:58
  not
• 1:59
  low.
• 2:00
  The
• 2:00
  xz-utils
• 2:00
  backdoor
• 2:01
  was
• 2:01
  caught
• 2:01
  nearly
• 2:01
  by
• 2:02
  accident
• 2:02
  in
• 2:02
  a
• 2:02
  heavily
• 2:03
  watched
• 2:03
  codebase;
• 2:04
  agent
• 2:04
  harnesses
• 2:04
  and
• 2:05
  inference
• 2:05
  engines
• 2:05
  ship
• 2:06
  weekly,
• 2:06
  each
• 2:07
  pulling
• 2:07
  thousands
• 2:07
  of
• 2:07
  transitive
• 2:08
  packages,
• 2:09
  and
• 2:09
  the
• 2:09
  author
• 2:09
  puts
• 2:10
  the
• 2:10
  probability
• 2:10
  that
• 2:11
  one
• 2:11
  is
• 2:11
  already
• 2:11
  backdoored
• 2:12
  at
• 2:12
  100
• 2:12
  percent.
• 2:13
  That
• 2:14
  number
• 2:14
  is
• 2:14
  rhetoric,
• 2:15
  but
• 2:15
  commenters
• 2:15
  supplied
• 2:16
  evidence:
• 2:17
  LiteLLM
• 2:17
  has
• 2:17
  now
• 2:18
  been
• 2:18
  hit
• 2:18
  more
• 2:18
  than
• 2:18
  once
• 2:19
  this
• 2:19
  year,
• 2:19
  ComfyUI
• 2:20
  was
• 2:20
  compromised
• 2:21
  through
• 2:21
  a
• 2:21
  malicious
• 2:22
  custom
• 2:22
  node,
• 2:23
  and
• 2:23
  the
• 2:23
  practical
• 2:23
  response
• 2:24
  is
• 2:24
  lockfiles,
• 2:25
  pinned
• 2:25
  versions,
• 2:26
  and
• 2:26
  containers
• 2:26
  with
• 2:26
  strict
• 2:27
  egress
• 2:27
  so
• 2:27
  you
• 2:28
  can
• 2:28
  see
• 2:28
  what
• 2:28
  leaves
• 2:28
  .
• 2:29
  On
• 2:29
  the
• 2:29
  smaller
• 2:30
  end
• 2:30
  of
• 2:30
  the
• 2:30
  trust
• 2:30
  ledger,
• 2:31
  Robert
• 2:31
  Chen
• 2:31
  credited
• 2:32
  researcher
• 2:32
  quasar0147
• 2:34
  for
• 2:34
  CVE-2026-113380,
• 2:39
  the
• 2:39
  Signal
• 2:39
  bug
• 2:40
  that
• 2:40
  left
• 2:40
  video
• 2:41
  and
• 2:41
  audio
• 2:41
  flowing
• 2:41
  after
• 2:42
  a
• 2:42
  call
• 2:42
  hangup
• 2:42
  .
• 2:44
  OpenAI
• 2:45
  has
• 2:45
  explained
• 2:46
  what
• 2:46
  followed
• 2:46
  its
• 2:46
  training
• 2:47
  run
• 2:47
  reaching
• 2:47
  the
• 2:47
  open
• 2:48
  internet
• 2:48
  on
• 2:48
  September
• 2:49
  20,
• 2:50
  when
• 2:50
  an
• 2:50
  internal
• 2:50
  research
• 2:51
  model
• 2:51
  exploited
• 2:52
  a
• 2:52
  misconfigured
• 2:53
  DNS
• 2:53
  resolver
• 2:54
  to
• 2:54
  reach
• 2:54
  an
• 2:54
  external
• 2:55
  chatbot.
• 2:56
  Training
• 2:56
  of
• 2:56
  its
• 2:56
  most
• 2:57
  capable
• 2:57
  models
• 2:58
  paused
• 2:58
  and
• 2:58
  resumed
• 2:59
  October
• 2:59
  1
• 2:59
  under
• 3:00
  a
• 3:00
  policy
• 3:00
  now
• 3:00
  stated
• 3:01
  in
• 3:01
  bold:
• 3:02
  frontier
• 3:02
  training
• 3:02
  runs
• 3:03
  with
• 3:03
  no
• 3:03
  internet
• 3:03
  access,
• 3:04
  and
• 3:04
  web
• 3:05
  skills
• 3:05
  train
• 3:05
  against
• 3:06
  an
• 3:06
  "offline
• 3:06
  world"
• 3:07
  of
• 3:07
  cached
• 3:07
  content.
• 3:08
  The
• 3:08
  architecture
• 3:09
  is
• 3:09
  restricted
• 3:10
  containers
• 3:10
  inside
• 3:11
  hypervisor-isolated
• 3:12
  microVMs
• 3:13
  and
• 3:13
  perimeters
• 3:13
  designed
• 3:13
  to
• 3:14
  hold
• 3:14
  even
• 3:14
  if
• 3:14
  an
• 3:14
  agent
• 3:15
  fully
• 3:15
  owns
• 3:15
  its
• 3:15
  host
• 3:16
  .
• 3:17
  Frontier
• 3:17
  agents,
• 3:18
  including
• 3:18
  the
• 3:18
  upcoming
• 3:19
  GPT-6
• 3:19
  Astra
• 3:20
  Cyber
• 3:20
  model,
• 3:21
  were
• 3:21
  handed
• 3:21
  the
• 3:21
  sandbox's
• 3:22
  source,
• 3:22
  configs
• 3:23
  and
• 3:23
  vulnerability
• 3:24
  documentation
• 3:25
  and
• 3:25
  asked
• 3:25
  to
• 3:25
  reach
• 3:25
  an
• 3:26
  external
• 3:26
  server,
• 3:27
  cross
• 3:27
  an
• 3:27
  internal
• 3:28
  boundary,
• 3:28
  or
• 3:28
  talk
• 3:29
  to
• 3:29
  isolated
• 3:29
  peers.
• 3:30
  Hundreds
• 3:31
  of
• 3:31
  billions
• 3:31
  of
• 3:31
  tokens
• 3:32
  later
• 3:32
  they
• 3:32
  had
• 3:32
  chained
• 3:33
  microVM
• 3:33
  escapes,
• 3:34
  coaxed
• 3:35
  a
• 3:35
  firewall-approved
• 3:36
  metrics
• 3:36
  path
• 3:37
  into
• 3:37
  fetching
• 3:37
  a
• 3:37
  model-supplied
• 3:38
  URL,
• 3:39
  and
• 3:39
  built
• 3:39
  covert
• 3:39
  channels
• 3:40
  from
• 3:40
  CPU
• 3:41
  cache
• 3:41
  timing,
• 3:42
  storage
• 3:42
  write
• 3:42
  timing
• 3:43
  and
• 3:43
  a
• 3:43
  TLS
• 3:43
  certificate
• 3:44
  cache.
• 3:45
  Patches
• 3:45
  went
• 3:46
  upstream
• 3:46
  to
• 3:46
  Kata
• 3:47
  Containers,
• 3:47
  gVisor,
• 3:48
  moby
• 3:48
  and
• 3:48
  the
• 3:49
  Linux
• 3:49
  kernel.
• 3:50
  The
• 3:50
  patches
• 3:51
  are
• 3:51
  verifiable;
• 3:52
  the
• 3:52
  claims
• 3:52
  that
• 3:52
  findings
• 3:53
  "declined
• 3:53
  significantly"
• 3:54
  and
• 3:55
  that
• 3:55
  no
• 3:55
  trivially
• 3:55
  exploitable
• 3:56
  route
• 3:56
  remains
• 3:57
  are
• 3:57
  OpenAI
• 3:57
  grading
• 3:58
  OpenAI.
• 4:00
  Anthropic
• 4:00
  attacks
• 4:00
  the
• 4:00
  same
• 4:01
  problem
• 4:01
  from
• 4:01
  the
• 4:01
  other
• 4:02
  side:
• 4:03
  shrink
• 4:03
  what
• 4:03
  an
• 4:03
  attacker
• 4:04
  can
• 4:04
  reach
• 4:04
  before
• 4:04
  authentication
• 4:05
  rather
• 4:05
  than
• 4:05
  hunt
• 4:06
  individual
• 4:06
  bugs.
• 4:08
  Claude
• 4:08
  analyzed
• 4:08
  25
• 4:09
  open-source
• 4:09
  projects,
• 4:10
  over
• 4:10
  five
• 4:11
  million
• 4:11
  lines,
• 4:12
  and
• 4:12
  found
• 4:12
  493
• 4:13
  issues.
• 4:15
  The
• 4:15
  sharpest
• 4:15
  were
• 4:15
  option
• 4:16
  interactions:
• 4:17
  162
• 4:18
  security-sensitive
• 4:19
  combinations
• 4:20
  accepted
• 4:20
  without
• 4:20
  warning,
• 4:21
  94
• 4:22
  of
• 4:22
  which
• 4:22
  silently
• 4:23
  switched
• 4:23
  a
• 4:23
  control
• 4:23
  off,
• 4:24
  including
• 4:24
  a
• 4:24
  pattern
• 4:25
  in
• 4:25
  four
• 4:25
  unrelated
• 4:26
  projects
• 4:26
  where
• 4:26
  hostname
• 4:27
  rules
• 4:27
  compared
• 4:28
  against
• 4:28
  a
• 4:28
  bare
• 4:28
  IP
• 4:29
  once
• 4:29
  reverse
• 4:29
  DNS
• 4:30
  was
• 4:30
  disabled,
• 4:31
  so
• 4:31
  blacklists
• 4:31
  fail
• 4:32
  open.
• 4:33
  The
• 4:33
  headline
• 4:33
  case
• 4:34
  is
• 4:34
  OpenSSH,
• 4:35
  where
• 4:35
  roughly
• 4:36
  4,500
• 4:37
  lines
• 4:37
  of
• 4:37
  new,
• 4:38
  memory-unsafe
• 4:39
  ML-DSA-44
• 4:41
  post-quantum
• 4:42
  code
• 4:42
  were
• 4:42
  reachable
• 4:43
  by
• 4:43
  unauthenticated
• 4:44
  clients
• 4:45
  even
• 4:45
  when
• 4:45
  the
• 4:45
  algorithm
• 4:46
  was
• 4:46
  excluded,
• 4:47
  because
• 4:47
  keys
• 4:47
  were
• 4:47
  parsed
• 4:48
  before
• 4:48
  the
• 4:48
  whitelist
• 4:48
  check.
• 4:49
  Version
• 4:50
  10.5
• 4:50
  moved
• 4:51
  the
• 4:51
  check;
• 4:51
  Claude
• 4:52
  then
• 4:52
  found
• 4:52
  two
• 4:52
  gaps
• 4:53
  in
• 4:53
  the
• 4:53
  fix,
• 4:54
  including
• 4:54
  a
• 4:54
  client
• 4:54
  advertising
• 4:55
  ssh-ed25519
• 4:57
  while
• 4:57
  sending
• 4:58
  an
• 4:58
  ML-DSA
• 4:59
  key.
• 5:00
  Checks
• 5:01
  now
• 5:01
  live
• 5:01
  inside
• 5:02
  the
• 5:02
  parser,
• 5:02
  and
• 5:03
  about
• 5:03
  a
• 5:03
  fifth
• 5:03
  of
• 5:03
  OpenSSH's
• 5:04
  pre-auth
• 5:05
  reachable
• 5:05
  code
• 5:05
  is
• 5:05
  gone
• 5:06
  in
• 5:06
  a
• 5:06
  default
• 5:06
  build
• 5:07
  .
• 5:07
  Cloudflare's
• 5:08
  security-audit
• 5:09
  skill,
• 5:09
  the
• 5:09
  seed
• 5:09
  of
• 5:09
  its
• 5:10
  fleet-wide
• 5:10
  vulnerability
• 5:11
  harness,
• 5:11
  remains
• 5:12
  the
• 5:12
  most
• 5:12
  disciplined
• 5:12
  open
• 5:13
  template
• 5:13
  for
• 5:13
  this
• 5:14
  work:
• 5:14
  six
• 5:14
  phases,
• 5:15
  a
• 5:15
  coverage
• 5:16
  ledger,
• 5:16
  a
• 5:16
  rule
• 5:17
  that
• 5:17
  the
• 5:17
  agent
• 5:17
  verifying
• 5:18
  a
• 5:18
  finding
• 5:18
  never
• 5:18
  found
• 5:19
  it,
• 5:19
  and
• 5:19
  an
• 5:19
  admission
• 5:20
  that
• 5:20
  a
• 5:20
  single
• 5:20
  run
• 5:21
  finds
• 5:21
  about
• 5:21
  half
• 5:21
  of
• 5:22
  what
• 5:22
  repeated
• 5:22
  runs
• 5:22
  find
• 5:23
  .
• 5:23
  On
• 5:23
  the
• 5:24
  model
• 5:24
  side,
• 5:24
  Hirundo
• 5:25
  claims
• 5:25
  Qwen3-Coder
• 5:26
  writes
• 5:26
  weaker
• 5:26
  code
• 5:27
  when
• 5:27
  told
• 5:27
  the
• 5:27
  user
• 5:28
  is
• 5:28
  a
• 5:28
  US
• 5:28
  persona;
• 5:29
  only
• 5:29
  the
• 5:29
  headline
• 5:30
  was
• 5:30
  retrievable,
• 5:31
  so
• 5:31
  methodology
• 5:32
  and
• 5:32
  effect
• 5:32
  size
• 5:33
  remain
• 5:33
  unexamined
• 5:33
  here
• 5:34
  .
• 5:36
  TypeSafe's
• 5:37
  Jev
• 5:37
  sells
• 5:37
  itself
• 5:38
  as
• 5:38
  a
• 5:38
  "System
• 5:38
  One"
• 5:39
  decision
• 5:39
  engine:
• 5:40
  give
• 5:40
  it
• 5:40
  a
• 5:40
  state
• 5:41
  and
• 5:41
  a
• 5:41
  fixed
• 5:41
  set
• 5:41
  of
• 5:41
  options
• 5:42
  and
• 5:42
  it
• 5:42
  returns
• 5:43
  calibrated
• 5:43
  probabilities
• 5:44
  instead
• 5:44
  of
• 5:44
  free
• 5:44
  text,
• 5:45
  with
• 5:45
  claimed
• 5:46
  advantages
• 5:46
  of
• 5:46
  up
• 5:46
  to
• 5:47
  193x
• 5:48
  speed
• 5:48
  and
• 5:49
  444x
• 5:50
  cost
• 5:50
  over
• 5:51
  conventional
• 5:51
  LLM
• 5:52
  workflows.
• 5:53
  HiddenLayer's
• 5:53
  Kenneth
• 5:54
  Yeung
• 5:54
  and
• 5:54
  Kasimir
• 5:54
  Schulz
• 5:55
  asked
• 5:55
  whether
• 5:55
  a
• 5:55
  model
• 5:56
  that
• 5:56
  cannot
• 5:56
  emit
• 5:57
  arbitrary
• 5:57
  tokens
• 5:57
  can
• 5:58
  still
• 5:58
  be
• 5:58
  hijacked.
• 5:59
  It
• 5:59
  can.
• 6:00
  They
• 6:00
  converted
• 6:01
  Qwen3.8
• 6:03
  27B
• 6:04
  into
• 6:05
  an
• 6:05
  in-house
• 6:05
  System
• 6:05
  One
• 6:06
  analog
• 6:06
  by
• 6:06
  swapping
• 6:07
  the
• 6:07
  decode
• 6:07
  loop
• 6:07
  for
• 6:08
  a
• 6:08
  scoring
• 6:08
  pass
• 6:08
  over
• 6:09
  option
• 6:09
  markers,
• 6:10
  then
• 6:10
  ran
• 6:10
  it,
• 6:10
  Jev's
• 6:11
  API,
• 6:12
  and
• 6:12
  OpenAI's
• 6:13
  gpt-6-luna
• 6:13
  Decisions
• 6:14
  API
• 6:14
  through
• 6:15
  a
• 6:15
  browser-agent
• 6:15
  harness
• 6:16
  that
• 6:16
  renders
• 6:16
  a
• 6:16
  page
• 6:17
  as
• 6:17
  numbered
• 6:17
  clickable
• 6:18
  elements.
• 6:19
  The
• 6:19
  task
• 6:19
  was
• 6:19
  "buy
• 6:19
  the
• 6:20
  items
• 6:20
  in
• 6:20
  the
• 6:20
  cart,
• 6:21
  do
• 6:21
  not
• 6:21
  add
• 6:21
  or
• 6:22
  remove
• 6:22
  anything,"
• 6:23
  and
• 6:23
  the
• 6:23
  system
• 6:23
  prompt
• 6:24
  declared
• 6:24
  page
• 6:24
  text
• 6:25
  untrusted.
• 6:26
  An
• 6:26
  attacker-controlled
• 6:27
  ad
• 6:27
  on
• 6:27
  the
• 6:28
  checkout
• 6:28
  page
• 6:28
  claiming
• 6:29
  another
• 6:29
  step
• 6:29
  had
• 6:29
  to
• 6:29
  be
• 6:30
  completed
• 6:30
  first
• 6:30
  consistently
• 6:31
  stole
• 6:31
  the
• 6:32
  click
• 6:32
  on
• 6:32
  every
• 6:32
  model
• 6:32
  .
• 6:33
  The
• 6:33
  second
• 6:33
  test
• 6:34
  went
• 6:34
  after
• 6:34
  TypeSafe's
• 6:35
  "universal
• 6:35
  verification"
• 6:36
  use
• 6:37
  case.
• 6:37
  Thirty
• 6:38
  toxic
• 6:38
  prompts
• 6:39
  were
• 6:39
  correctly
• 6:39
  flagged
• 6:39
  at
• 6:40
  baseline;
• 6:41
  TokenBreak-style
• 6:41
  perturbations,
• 6:42
  HiddenLayer's
• 6:43
  earlier
• 6:43
  attack
• 6:44
  on
• 6:44
  classifier
• 6:45
  tokenization,
• 6:46
  dropped
• 6:46
  toxicity
• 6:47
  scores
• 6:47
  on
• 6:47
  many
• 6:47
  once
• 6:48
  targeted.
• 6:49
  System
• 6:49
  One
• 6:49
  models
• 6:50
  thus
• 6:50
  inherit
• 6:50
  both
• 6:50
  attack
• 6:51
  families,
• 6:52
  LLM
• 6:52
  instruction
• 6:52
  hijacking
• 6:53
  and
• 6:53
  classifier
• 6:54
  evasion.
• 6:55
  Their
• 6:55
  mitigations
• 6:56
  are
• 6:56
  deployment-level:
• 6:57
  test
• 6:57
  decisions
• 6:58
  against
• 6:58
  hostile
• 6:59
  pages,
• 6:59
  monitor
• 7:00
  scores,
• 7:00
  and
• 7:01
  put
• 7:01
  independent
• 7:01
  checks
• 7:02
  around
• 7:02
  anything
• 7:02
  consequential,
• 7:03
  because
• 7:04
  "these
• 7:04
  are
• 7:04
  still
• 7:05
  language
• 7:05
  models
• 7:05
  at
• 7:05
  heart."
• 7:06
  A
• 7:07
  September
• 7:07
  arXiv
• 7:08
  paper
• 7:08
  reaches
• 7:08
  a
• 7:08
  more
• 7:09
  measured
• 7:09
  version
• 7:09
  of
• 7:09
  the
• 7:09
  same
• 7:10
  verdict.
• 7:11
  "Decision
• 7:12
  Hijacking"
• 7:13
  rebuilds
• 7:13
  the
• 7:13
  510
• 7:14
  direct-harm
• 7:15
  cases
• 7:15
  of
• 7:15
  the
• 7:15
  InjecAgent
• 7:16
  benchmark
• 7:16
  as
• 7:16
  Jev's
• 7:17
  first
• 7:17
  security-critical
• 7:18
  typed
• 7:18
  decision,
• 7:19
  with
• 7:19
  the
• 7:19
  attacker
• 7:20
  controlling
• 7:20
  one
• 7:21
  slot
• 7:21
  in
• 7:21
  the
• 7:21
  latest
• 7:22
  tool
• 7:22
  result.
• 7:23
  Native
• 7:23
  transfer
• 7:24
  is
• 7:24
  low:
• 7:25
  the
• 7:25
  base
• 7:25
  attack
• 7:25
  flips
• 7:26
  9
• 7:26
  of
• 7:26
  510
• 7:27
  cases,
• 7:28
  and
• 7:28
  the
• 7:28
  classic
• 7:28
  "IMPORTANT!!!
• 7:30
  Ignore
• 7:30
  all
• 7:30
  previous
• 7:31
  instructions"
• 7:32
  prefix
• 7:32
  scores
• 7:32
  zero.
• 7:34
  The
• 7:34
  adaptive
• 7:34
  experiment
• 7:35
  matters
• 7:35
  more:
• 7:36
  with
• 7:36
  black-box
• 7:37
  access
• 7:37
  to
• 7:37
  the
• 7:37
  probability
• 7:38
  vector
• 7:39
  and
• 7:39
  24
• 7:39
  queries,
• 7:40
  72
• 7:41
  prompt
• 7:41
  variants
• 7:42
  doubled
• 7:42
  mean
• 7:43
  attacker-target
• 7:43
  probability
• 7:44
  and
• 7:44
  lifted
• 7:45
  validated
• 7:45
  success
• 7:46
  from
• 7:46
  1.8
• 7:47
  to
• 7:47
  3.5
• 7:47
  percent,
• 7:48
  concentrated
• 7:49
  where
• 7:49
  the
• 7:49
  safe-versus-attacker
• 7:50
  margin
• 7:51
  was
• 7:51
  already
• 7:51
  thin.
• 7:52
  The
• 7:52
  line
• 7:52
  worth
• 7:53
  keeping:
• 7:54
  "Type
• 7:54
  safety
• 7:54
  and
• 7:54
  resistance
• 7:55
  to
• 7:55
  prompt
• 7:55
  injection
• 7:56
  address
• 7:56
  different
• 7:57
  properties."
• 7:58
  Calibrated
• 7:58
  scores
• 7:59
  are
• 7:59
  a
• 7:59
  feature
• 7:59
  for
• 7:59
  routing
• 8:00
  and
• 8:00
  an
• 8:00
  oracle
• 8:00
  for
• 8:01
  attackers
• 8:01
  .
• 8:02
  None
• 8:02
  of
• 8:02
  this
• 8:02
  appears
• 8:03
  in
• 8:03
  the
• 8:03
  enthusiast
• 8:03
  material.
• 8:05
  Chase-H-AI's
• 8:06
  "You're
• 8:06
  Using
• 8:07
  Jev
• 8:07
  +
• 8:07
  Claude
• 8:08
  Wrong"
• 8:08
  repeats
• 8:08
  the
• 8:09
  vendor
• 8:09
  multipliers
• 8:10
  and
• 8:10
  the
• 8:10
  roughly
• 8:10
  $42
• 8:11
  per
• 8:11
  billion
• 8:12
  tokens
• 8:12
  price,
• 8:13
  then
• 8:13
  shows
• 8:13
  some
• 8:13
  useful
• 8:14
  patterns:
• 8:15
  an
• 8:15
  email-sorting
• 8:15
  loop
• 8:16
  where
• 8:16
  low-confidence
• 8:17
  cases
• 8:17
  escalate
• 8:18
  to
• 8:18
  Opus,
• 8:18
  which
• 8:19
  edits
• 8:19
  Jev's
• 8:19
  rulebook,
• 8:20
  lifting
• 8:20
  Jev's
• 8:21
  confident
• 8:21
  coverage
• 8:22
  from
• 8:22
  43
• 8:22
  to
• 8:22
  81
• 8:23
  percent
• 8:23
  over
• 8:23
  ten
• 8:24
  days.
• 8:24
  It
• 8:25
  never
• 8:25
  tests
• 8:25
  what
• 8:25
  happens
• 8:26
  when
• 8:26
  the
• 8:26
  page
• 8:26
  lies
• 8:26
  to
• 8:26
  the
• 8:27
  router
• 8:27
  .
• 8:29
  REA,
• 8:30
  the
• 8:30
  "Reverse
• 8:31
  Engineer
• 8:31
  Anything"
• 8:32
  project,
• 8:32
  wraps
• 8:32
  asar,
• 8:33
  otool,
• 8:34
  nm,
• 8:34
  jadx,
• 8:35
  Ghidra,
• 8:35
  tshark
• 8:36
  and
• 8:36
  friends
• 8:36
  in
• 8:36
  an
• 8:36
  MCP
• 8:37
  server
• 8:37
  exposing
• 8:38
  207
• 8:39
  tools.
• 8:40
  leanrea
• 8:41
  is
• 8:41
  a
• 8:41
  pointed
• 8:41
  counter-experiment:
• 8:42
  one
• 8:43
  8
• 8:43
  KB
• 8:43
  skill
• 8:44
  file
• 8:44
  that
• 8:44
  tells
• 8:44
  the
• 8:44
  agent
• 8:45
  which
• 8:45
  command
• 8:45
  is
• 8:45
  fastest
• 8:46
  per
• 8:46
  target
• 8:47
  type,
• 8:47
  hands
• 8:48
  it
• 8:48
  paste-ready
• 8:48
  recon
• 8:49
  one-liners,
• 8:50
  and
• 8:50
  lets
• 8:50
  the
• 8:50
  agent
• 8:51
  run
• 8:51
  the
• 8:51
  real
• 8:51
  tools
• 8:51
  through
• 8:52
  Bash.
• 8:53
  With
• 8:53
  all
• 8:53
  REA
• 8:53
  tools
• 8:54
  loaded,
• 8:54
  a
• 8:54
  bare
• 8:55
  "Reply
• 8:55
  OK"
• 8:56
  costs
• 8:56
  400,700
• 8:57
  tokens
• 8:58
  and
• 8:58
  $1.60;
• 9:00
  leanrea's
• 9:00
  costs
• 9:01
  34,500
• 9:02
  tokens
• 9:03
  and
• 9:03
  nine
• 9:03
  cents.
• 9:04
  The
• 9:04
  benchmark
• 9:05
  ran
• 9:05
  four
• 9:05
  tasks
• 9:06
  (an
• 9:06
  Electron
• 9:06
  IPC
• 9:07
  trace,
• 9:07
  a
• 9:07
  native
• 9:08
  addon's
• 9:08
  exports,
• 9:09
  a
• 9:09
  stripped
• 9:09
  gh
• 9:10
  binary's
• 9:10
  toolchain,
• 9:11
  and
• 9:11
  a
• 9:11
  wire
• 9:12
  protocol
• 9:12
  recovered
• 9:12
  from
• 9:13
  disassembly)
• 9:13
  three
• 9:13
  times
• 9:14
  each
• 9:14
  on
• 9:14
  Sonnet
• 9:15
  5.5
• 9:16
  in
• 9:16
  headless
• 9:16
  Claude
• 9:16
  Code.
• 9:17
  leanrea
• 9:18
  finished
• 9:18
  in
• 9:18
  388
• 9:19
  seconds
• 9:19
  for
• 9:20
  $2.17
• 9:21
  at
• 9:21
  74
• 9:22
  of
• 9:22
  75;
• 9:23
  REA
• 9:23
  took
• 9:24
  627
• 9:25
  seconds
• 9:25
  and
• 9:25
  $3.36
• 9:27
  for
• 9:27
  75
• 9:27
  of
• 9:27
  75;
• 9:29
  no
• 9:29
  skill
• 9:29
  at
• 9:29
  all
• 9:29
  took
• 9:30
  479
• 9:31
  seconds
• 9:31
  for
• 9:31
  67
• 9:32
  of
• 9:32
  75
• 9:33
  with
• 9:33
  one
• 9:33
  refusal
• 9:33
  .
• 9:34
  The
• 9:34
  author's
• 9:35
  caveats
• 9:35
  deserve
• 9:36
  repeating:
• 9:36
  three
• 9:37
  reps
• 9:37
  per
• 9:37
  cell,
• 9:38
  one
• 9:38
  model,
• 9:38
  one
• 9:39
  machine,
• 9:39
  Ghidra
• 9:40
  not
• 9:40
  installed,
• 9:41
  and
• 9:41
  REA
• 9:41
  tested
• 9:42
  in
• 9:42
  its
• 9:42
  best
• 9:42
  case
• 9:43
  because
• 9:43
  Claude
• 9:43
  Code
• 9:43
  loads
• 9:44
  MCP
• 9:44
  tools
• 9:45
  on
• 9:45
  demand.
• 9:46
  Wrapping
• 9:46
  a
• 9:46
  CLI
• 9:47
  in
• 9:47
  a
• 9:47
  typed
• 9:47
  tool
• 9:48
  surface
• 9:48
  costs
• 9:48
  more
• 9:49
  than
• 9:49
  it
• 9:49
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• 9:49
  when
• 9:49
  the
• 9:49
  model
• 9:50
  already
• 9:50
  knows
• 9:50
  the
• 9:50
  CLI.
• 9:52
  REA's
• 9:53
  own
• 9:53
  walkthroughs
• 9:54
  are
• 9:54
  useful
• 9:54
  whichever
• 9:55
  route
• 9:55
  you
• 9:55
  take.
• 9:56
  A
• 9:56
  dev.to
• 9:58
  tutorial
• 9:58
  documents
• 9:59
  version
• 9:59
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• 10:01
  Windows
• 10:02
  install
• 10:02
  pain
• 10:03
  and
• 10:03
  a
• 10:03
  static-only
• 10:03
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• 10:04
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• 10:04
  VS
• 10:04
  Code:
• 10:05
  a
• 10:06
  238
• 10:07
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• 10:07
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• 10:07
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• 10:08
  all
• 10:09
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• 10:09
  Electron
• 10:09
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• 10:10
  read
• 10:10
  with
• 10:10
  the
• 10:10
  trade-offs
• 10:11
  explained,
• 10:12
  a
• 10:12
  product.json
• 10:14
  listing
• 10:15
  every
• 10:15
  endpoint
• 10:15
  the
• 10:15
  editor
• 10:16
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• 10:16
  to
• 10:16
  including
• 10:17
  a
• 10:17
  GitHub-hosted
• 10:18
  MCP
• 10:18
  server
• 10:18
  gallery,
• 10:19
  and
• 10:19
  a
• 10:19
  process
• 10:20
  map
• 10:20
  explaining
• 10:21
  why
• 10:21
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• 10:21
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• 10:21
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• 10:22
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• 10:22
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• 10:22
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• 10:23
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• 10:23
  editor.
• 10:24
  Its
• 10:24
  best
• 10:24
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• 10:25
  is
• 10:25
  about
• 10:25
  copycat
• 10:26
  repos,
• 10:27
  a
• 10:27
  real
• 10:27
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• 10:27
  for
• 10:27
  any
• 10:28
  tool
• 10:28
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• 10:28
  job
• 10:29
  is
• 10:29
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• 10:29
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• 10:29
  software
• 10:30
  .
• 10:31
  The
• 10:31
  hype
• 10:31
  cycle
• 10:31
  has
• 10:31
  its
• 10:32
  own
• 10:32
  numbers:
• 10:33
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• 10:33
  YouTube
• 10:33
  short
• 10:33
  claims
• 10:34
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• 10:34
  repo
• 10:34
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• 10:34
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• 10:34
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• 10:35
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• 10:35
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• 10:35
  200,000
• 10:36
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• 10:37
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• 10:37
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• 10:37
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• 10:37
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• 10:38
  Claude
• 10:38
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• 10:38
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• 10:39
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• 10:39
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• 10:39
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• 10:40
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• 10:40
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• 10:40
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• 10:41
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• 10:41
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• 10:41
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• 10:41
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• 10:42
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• 10:42
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• 10:42
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• 10:43
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• 10:43
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• 10:43
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• 10:44
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• 10:44
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• 10:44
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• 10:44
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• 10:45
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• 10:45
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• 10:46
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• 10:46
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• 10:46
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• 10:50
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• 10:50
  answers
• 10:50
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• 10:50
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• 10:51
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• 10:51
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• 10:52
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• 10:52
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• 10:53
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• 10:53
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• 10:53
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• 10:53
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• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:55
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• 10:55
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• 10:56
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• 10:56
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• 10:56
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• 10:56
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• 10:57
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• 10:57
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• 10:58
  built
• 10:58
  on
• 10:58
  the
• 10:58
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• 10:58
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• 10:59
  that
• 10:59
  hosts
• 11:00
  thousands
• 11:00
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• 11:00
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• 11:01
  Postgres-compatible
• 11:02
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• 11:03
  in
• 11:03
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• 11:03
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• 11:04
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• 11:05
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• 11:05
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• 11:05
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• 11:06
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• 11:06
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• 11:06
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• 11:07
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• 11:07
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• 11:07
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• 11:07
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• 11:08
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• 11:08
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• 11:08
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• 11:08
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• 11:09
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• 11:09
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• 11:09
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• 11:09
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• 11:09
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• 11:09
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• 11:10
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• 11:10
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• 11:13
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• 11:14
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• 11:14
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• 11:15
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• 11:15
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• 11:16
  KB
• 11:16
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• 11:16
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• 11:17
  database,
• 11:17
  1,000
• 11:18
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• 11:18
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• 11:19
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• 11:19
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• 11:20
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• 11:20
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• 11:21
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• 11:23
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• 11:23
  README's
• 11:25
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• 11:25
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• 11:26
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• 11:26
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• 11:26
  point:
• 11:27
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• 11:27
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• 11:27
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• 11:28
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• 11:28
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• 11:28
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• 11:28
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• 11:29
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• 11:29
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• 11:30
  no
• 11:30
  C
• 11:30
  extensions
• 11:31
  load,
• 11:31
  and
• 11:31
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• 11:33
  is
• 11:33
  "for
• 11:33
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• 11:34
  databases,
• 11:35
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• 11:35
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• 11:35
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• 11:36
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• 11:37
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• 11:37
  sponsored
• 11:37
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• 11:38
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• 11:38
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• 11:38
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• 11:38
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• 11:38
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• 11:39
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• 11:39
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• 11:40
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• 11:40
  cron-driven
• 11:40
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• 11:41
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• 11:41
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• 11:42
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• 11:43
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• 11:43
  governance
• 11:43
  half
• 11:43
  as
• 11:43
  vendors
• 11:44
  imagine
• 11:44
  it:
• 11:45
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• 11:45
  registry
• 11:46
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• 11:46
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• 11:47
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• 11:47
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• 11:47
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• 11:47
  owners
• 11:48
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• 11:48
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• 11:48
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• 11:49
  agent
• 11:50
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• 11:50
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• 11:50
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• 11:51
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• 11:51
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• 11:52
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• 11:52
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• 11:52
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• 11:52
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• 11:52
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• 11:53
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• 11:53
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• 11:54
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• 11:54
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• 11:54
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• 11:54
  repo
• 11:55
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• 11:55
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• 11:55
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• 11:55
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• 11:56
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• 11:56
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• 11:56
  breaks.
• 11:58
  The
• 11:58
  creator
• 11:58
  discloses
• 11:59
  the
• 11:59
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• 12:00
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• 12:00
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• 12:00
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• 12:00
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• 12:01
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• 12:01
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• 12:01
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• 12:02
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• 12:02
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• 12:02
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• 12:03
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• 12:03
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• 12:03
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• 12:03
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• 12:04
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• 12:05
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• 12:05
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• 12:05
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• 12:06
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• 12:06
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• 12:06
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• 12:07
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• 12:07
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• 12:08
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• 12:08
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• 12:08
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• 12:09
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• 12:09
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• 12:10
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• 12:10
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• 12:10
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• 12:11
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• 12:11
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• 12:12
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• 12:13
  agent
• 12:13
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• 12:13
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• 12:13
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• 12:14
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• 12:14
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• 12:14
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• 12:15
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• 12:15
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• 12:15
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• 12:15
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• 12:16
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• 12:16
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• 12:16
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• 12:16
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• 12:17
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• 12:17
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• 12:17
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• 12:18
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• 12:18
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• 12:18
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• 12:19
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• 12:19
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• 12:20
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• 12:20
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• 12:20
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• 12:21
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• 12:21
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• 12:22
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• 12:22
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• 12:22
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• 12:23
  sixteen
• 12:23
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• 12:24
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• 12:24
  BCC
• 12:24
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• 12:25
  The
• 12:25
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• 12:26
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• 12:26
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• 12:26
  one
• 12:27
  agent
• 12:27
  one
• 12:27
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• 12:28
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• 12:29
  scoped
• 12:29
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• 12:30
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• 12:30
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• 12:31
  tool
• 12:31
  broker
• 12:31
  outside
• 12:32
  the
• 12:32
  model,
• 12:32
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• 12:33
  egress
• 12:34
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• 12:34
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• 12:35
  budgets
• 12:36
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• 12:36
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• 12:36
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• 12:36
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• 12:37
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• 12:37
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• 12:37
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• 12:37
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• 12:38
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• 12:38
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• 12:38
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• 12:38
  untrusted
• 12:39
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• 12:40
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• 12:40
  data
• 12:41
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• 12:41
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• 12:41
  action
• 12:42
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• 12:42
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• 12:42
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• 12:43
  a
• 12:43
  human
• 12:43
  .
• 12:44
  Down
• 12:44
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• 12:44
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• 12:44
  laptop,
• 12:45
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• 12:46
  guide
• 12:46
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• 12:46
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• 12:46
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• 12:47
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• 12:47
  roommates"
• 12:48
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• 12:48
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• 12:48
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• 12:49
  reports
• 12:49
  of
• 12:49
  a
• 12:49
  50
• 12:49
  GB
• 12:50
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• 12:50
  folder
• 12:51
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• 12:51
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• 12:51
  37
• 12:52
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• 12:53
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• 12:53
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• 12:53
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• 12:54
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• 12:54
  21
• 12:54
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• 12:54
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• 12:55
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• 12:55
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• 12:56
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• 12:56
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• 12:56
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• 12:56
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• 12:57
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• 12:57
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• 12:57
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• 12:58
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• 12:58
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• 12:58
  one
• 12:58
  or
• 12:58
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• 12:58
  heavy
• 12:59
  jobs
• 12:59
  at
• 12:59
  a
• 12:59
  time
• 12:59
  .
• 13:01
  The
• 13:01
  week's
• 13:01
  loudest
• 13:01
  agent
• 13:02
  story
• 13:02
  got
• 13:02
  a
• 13:02
  follow-the-money
• 13:03
  reading
• 13:03
  from
• 13:03
  James
• 13:04
  Lee,
• 13:04
  who
• 13:04
  argues
• 13:05
  the
• 13:05
  Axios
• 13:05
  scoop
• 13:06
  about
• 13:06
  unauthorized
• 13:07
  agents
• 13:07
  inside
• 13:08
  US
• 13:08
  bank
• 13:08
  accounts
• 13:09
  describes
• 13:09
  customers
• 13:10
  handing
• 13:10
  credentials
• 13:11
  to
• 13:11
  assistants,
• 13:12
  not
• 13:12
  cyberattacks.
• 13:14
  His
• 13:14
  evidence
• 13:14
  for
• 13:14
  a
• 13:14
  different
• 13:15
  motive
• 13:15
  is
• 13:15
  a
• 13:15
  McKinsey
• 13:16
  report
• 13:16
  that
• 13:16
  $23
• 13:17
  trillion
• 13:17
  of
• 13:18
  $70
• 13:18
  trillion
• 13:18
  in
• 13:19
  consumer
• 13:19
  deposits
• 13:20
  sits
• 13:20
  in
• 13:20
  near-zero-rate
• 13:21
  checking
• 13:22
  accounts
• 13:22
  and
• 13:22
  that
• 13:23
  migrating
• 13:23
  5
• 13:23
  to
• 13:23
  10
• 13:24
  percent
• 13:24
  of
• 13:24
  those
• 13:24
  balances
• 13:25
  could
• 13:25
  cut
• 13:25
  industry
• 13:26
  deposit
• 13:26
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• 13:27
  by
• 13:27
  20
• 13:27
  percent
• 13:28
  or
• 13:28
  more.
• 13:29
  Both
• 13:29
  readings
• 13:30
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• 13:30
  at
• 13:30
  once:
• 13:31
  credential-sharing
• 13:31
  agents
• 13:32
  are
• 13:32
  a
• 13:32
  real
• 13:32
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• 13:33
  and
• 13:33
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• 13:34
  problem,
• 13:34
  and
• 13:35
  they
• 13:35
  also
• 13:35
  threaten
• 13:35
  cheap
• 13:36
  funding
• 13:36
  .
• 13:40
  Most
• 13:40
  mechanistic
• 13:41
  interpretability
• 13:42
  decomposes
• 13:42
  activations,
• 13:43
  leaving
• 13:44
  a
• 13:44
  gap
• 13:44
  between
• 13:44
  the
• 13:44
  explanation
• 13:45
  and
• 13:45
  the
• 13:45
  parameters
• 13:46
  doing
• 13:46
  the
• 13:46
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• 13:47
  Goodfire's
• 13:48
  "Interpreting
• 13:49
  Language
• 13:49
  Model
• 13:49
  Parameters"
• 13:50
  attacks
• 13:51
  the
• 13:51
  parameters
• 13:51
  directly.
• 13:52
  adVersarial
• 13:53
  Parameter
• 13:54
  Decomposition
• 13:54
  (VPD)
• 13:55
  splits
• 13:55
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• 13:56
  weight
• 13:56
  matrix
• 13:56
  into
• 13:56
  rank-one
• 13:57
  subcomponents
• 13:58
  plus
• 13:58
  a
• 13:58
  residual
• 13:59
  and
• 13:59
  trains
• 13:59
  a
• 13:59
  causal-importance
• 14:00
  network
• 14:00
  to
• 14:01
  predict
• 14:01
  which
• 14:01
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• 14:01
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• 14:02
  token
• 14:02
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• 14:03
  The
• 14:04
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• 14:04
  over
• 14:04
  the
• 14:04
  earlier
• 14:05
  SPD
• 14:05
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• 14:06
  is
• 14:06
  that
• 14:06
  ablation
• 14:07
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• 14:07
  are
• 14:07
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• 14:08
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• 14:08
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• 14:09
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• 14:09
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• 14:10
  descent
• 14:10
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• 14:10
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• 14:10
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• 14:11
  which
• 14:11
  the
• 14:12
  authors
• 14:12
  argue
• 14:12
  stops
• 14:13
  the
• 14:13
  decomposition
• 14:14
  from
• 14:14
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• 14:14
  into
• 14:15
  a
• 14:15
  lookup
• 14:15
  table
• 14:15
  of
• 14:16
  the
• 14:16
  training
• 14:16
  set.
• 14:17
  On
• 14:17
  a
• 14:17
  four-layer,
• 14:17
  67M-parameter
• 14:19
  transformer,
• 14:20
  24
• 14:20
  matrices
• 14:21
  became
• 14:21
  38,912
• 14:23
  subcomponents,
• 14:25
  about
• 14:25
  10,000
• 14:25
  alive
• 14:26
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• 14:26
  roughly
• 14:26
  2.1
• 14:27
  percent
• 14:27
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• 14:28
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• 14:28
  token,
• 14:29
  with
• 14:29
  no
• 14:29
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• 14:29
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• 14:29
  the
• 14:29
  feature
• 14:30
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• 14:30
  that
• 14:30
  makes
• 14:31
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• 14:31
  dictionaries
• 14:32
  grow
• 14:32
  with
• 14:32
  capacity
• 14:33
  .
• 14:33
  The
• 14:33
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• 14:34
  section
• 14:34
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• 14:35
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• 14:35
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• 14:36
  Adversarial
• 14:37
  robustness
• 14:37
  is
• 14:37
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• 14:38
  KL
• 14:39
  divergence
• 14:39
  to
• 14:39
  the
• 14:39
  original
• 14:40
  model
• 14:40
  is
• 14:40
  0.83
• 14:41
  after
• 14:41
  20
• 14:42
  PGD
• 14:42
  steps
• 14:43
  and
• 14:43
  40.2
• 14:44
  after
• 14:44
  320,
• 14:45
  so
• 14:45
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• 14:46
  of
• 14:46
  "causally
• 14:46
  unimportant"
• 14:47
  pieces
• 14:47
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• 14:48
  that
• 14:48
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• 14:48
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• 14:48
  output,
• 14:49
  and
• 14:49
  the
• 14:49
  one
• 14:49
  showcase
• 14:50
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• 14:50
  edit
• 14:50
  is
• 14:50
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• 14:51
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• 14:52
  The
• 14:52
  result
• 14:52
  is
• 14:52
  a
• 14:53
  tool,
• 14:53
  not
• 14:53
  a
• 14:53
  theory,
• 14:54
  and
• 14:54
  the
• 14:54
  paper
• 14:54
  says
• 14:55
  so.
• 14:55
  A
• 14:56
  patient
• 14:56
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• 14:56
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• 14:56
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• 14:57
  Next
• 14:57
  Concept
• 14:58
  Modeling
• 14:58
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• 14:58
  does
• 14:59
  the
• 14:59
  debunking
• 14:59
  the
• 14:59
  "end
• 14:59
  of
• 15:00
  LLMs"
• 15:00
  videos
• 15:00
  skipped.
• 15:01
  NCM
• 15:02
  compresses
• 15:02
  text
• 15:03
  into
• 15:03
  a
• 15:03
  pyramid
• 15:03
  of
• 15:03
  discrete
• 15:04
  codes
• 15:04
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• 15:04
  a
• 15:04
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• 15:05
  VQ-VAE
• 15:06
  and
• 15:06
  has
• 15:07
  a
• 15:07
  transformer
• 15:07
  predict
• 15:08
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• 15:08
  whole
• 15:08
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• 15:08
  per
• 15:08
  pass,
• 15:09
  so
• 15:10
  an
• 15:10
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• 15:10
  model
• 15:10
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• 15:11
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• 15:11
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• 15:11
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• 15:12
  The
• 15:12
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• 15:13
  result
• 15:13
  is
• 15:13
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• 15:14
  86
• 15:15
  percent
• 15:15
  for
• 15:15
  NCM
• 15:16
  against
• 15:16
  1
• 15:16
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• 15:17
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• 15:17
  at
• 15:17
  25M
• 15:18
  parameters.
• 15:19
  But
• 15:19
  the
• 15:20
  viral
• 15:20
  31x
• 15:21
  figure
• 15:21
  comes
• 15:21
  from
• 15:21
  one
• 15:22
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• 15:22
  test
• 15:23
  against
• 15:23
  a
• 15:23
  diffusion
• 15:23
  baseline,
• 15:24
  not
• 15:25
  any
• 15:25
  autoregressive
• 15:26
  model,
• 15:26
  which
• 15:26
  the
• 15:27
  paper
• 15:27
  never
• 15:27
  times;
• 15:28
  the
• 15:28
  largest
• 15:28
  model
• 15:29
  is
• 15:29
  725M,
• 15:31
  and
• 15:31
  the
• 15:31
  web-text
• 15:31
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• 15:32
  Hugging
• 15:32
  Face
• 15:32
  folder
• 15:33
  holds
• 15:33
  a
• 15:33
  five-byte
• 15:33
  file
• 15:34
  named
• 15:34
  "todo."
• 15:35
  The
• 15:35
  closing
• 15:35
  line
• 15:36
  is
• 15:36
  correct:
• 15:36
  NCM
• 15:37
  is
• 15:37
  an
• 15:37
  LLM,
• 15:38
  and
• 15:38
  you
• 15:38
  cannot
• 15:39
  end
• 15:39
  LLMs
• 15:40
  with
• 15:40
  a
• 15:40
  better
• 15:40
  LLM
• 15:40
  .
• 15:41
  The
• 15:41
  same
• 15:42
  reflex
• 15:42
  applies
• 15:43
  to
• 15:43
  the
• 15:43
  Reddit
• 15:43
  headline
• 15:43
  that
• 15:44
  Claude
• 15:44
  designed
• 15:44
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• 15:45
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• 15:45
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• 15:46
  to
• 15:46
  39x
• 15:47
  cheaper"
• 15:47
  than
• 15:47
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• 15:47
  best
• 15:47
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• 15:48
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• 15:49
  The
• 15:49
  top
• 15:50
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• 15:50
  did
• 15:50
  the
• 15:50
  work:
• 15:51
  the
• 15:51
  metric
• 15:52
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• 15:52
  Toffoli
• 15:52
  gates
• 15:52
  multiplied
• 15:53
  by
• 15:53
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• 15:54
  the
• 15:54
  39x
• 15:55
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• 15:55
  one
• 15:55
  task
• 15:55
  under
• 15:56
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• 15:56
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• 15:56
  and
• 15:57
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• 15:57
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• 15:57
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• 15:57
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• 15:57
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• 15:57
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• 15:58
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• 15:58
  .
• 15:58
  Block,
• 15:58
  meanwhile,
• 15:59
  has
• 15:59
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• 16:00
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• 16:01
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• 16:01
  very
• 16:01
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• 16:01
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• 16:01
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• 16:02
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• 16:02
  Toronto
• 16:02
  researchers
• 16:03
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• 16:03
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• 16:04
  to
• 16:04
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• 16:04
  Dorsey,
• 16:05
  with
• 16:05
  a
• 16:05
  full-duplex
• 16:06
  speech-to-speech
• 16:07
  model
• 16:07
  trained
• 16:07
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• 16:08
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• 16:08
  on
• 16:08
  audio
• 16:08
  alone,
• 16:09
  no
• 16:09
  text
• 16:10
  and
• 16:10
  no
• 16:10
  pretrained
• 16:11
  components.
• 16:12
  The
• 16:12
  page
• 16:12
  claims
• 16:12
  it
• 16:12
  learned
• 16:13
  language
• 16:13
  from
• 16:13
  hundreds
• 16:14
  of
• 16:14
  times
• 16:14
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• 16:14
  words
• 16:15
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• 16:15
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• 16:16
  and
• 16:16
  interrupts
• 16:16
  and
• 16:16
  backchannels
• 16:17
  unprompted.
• 16:18
  There
• 16:18
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• 16:18
  no
• 16:19
  benchmarks,
• 16:19
  parameter
• 16:20
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• 16:20
  or
• 16:20
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• 16:21
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• 16:21
  and
• 16:21
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• 16:22
  authentic
• 16:22
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• 16:23
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• 16:23
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• 16:24
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• 16:24
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• 16:24
  is
• 16:25
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• 16:25
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• 16:25
  someone
• 16:26
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• 16:26
  Block
• 16:26
  hears
• 16:27
  it
• 16:27
  .
• 16:31
  Amazon
• 16:32
  Threat
• 16:32
  Intelligence
• 16:33
  has
• 16:33
  dated
• 16:33
  PHP2Shell
• 16:35
  exploitation
• 16:36
  to
• 16:36
  before
• 16:37
  the
• 16:37
  October
• 16:37
  20
• 16:38
  leak,
• 16:38
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• 16:38
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• 16:39
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• 16:39
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• 16:39
  21
• 16:40
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• 16:41
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• 16:41
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• 16:41
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• 16:42
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• 16:42
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• 16:43
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• 16:43
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• 16:43
  on
• 16:43
  October
• 16:43
  17,
• 16:44
  four
• 16:44
  days
• 16:45
  before
• 16:45
  CVE-2026-109618
• 16:51
  and
• 16:51
  CVE-2026-109619
• 16:56
  were
• 16:56
  public,
• 16:57
  from
• 16:57
  an
• 16:57
  IP
• 16:58
  on
• 16:58
  a
• 16:58
  commercial
• 16:58
  anonymization
• 16:59
  network,
• 16:59
  and
• 16:59
  Amazon
• 17:00
  cannot
• 17:00
  say
• 17:00
  how
• 17:01
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• 17:01
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• 17:02
  escaped
• 17:02
  the
• 17:02
  embargo.
• 17:03
  On
• 17:03
  release
• 17:04
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• 17:04
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• 17:04
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• 17:04
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• 17:05
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• 17:05
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• 17:05
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• 17:06
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• 17:06
  02:00
• 17:06
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• 17:07
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• 17:08
  hours
• 17:08
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• 17:08
  the
• 17:08
  14:00
• 17:09
  lift.
• 17:10
  A
• 17:10
  claim
• 17:10
  that
• 17:10
  Amazon
• 17:11
  had
• 17:11
  seen
• 17:11
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• 17:12
  exploitation
• 17:13
  circulated
• 17:13
  earlier
• 17:14
  in
• 17:14
  the
• 17:14
  week
• 17:14
  without
• 17:14
  corroboration;
• 17:16
  this
• 17:16
  is
• 17:16
  the
• 17:16
  corroboration.
• 17:17
  Amazon's
• 17:18
  advice:
• 17:19
  patch
• 17:19
  internet-facing
• 17:20
  criticals
• 17:20
  in
• 17:20
  hours,
• 17:21
  investigate
• 17:22
  from
• 17:22
  October
• 17:22
  17,
• 17:23
  and
• 17:23
  detect
• 17:24
  without
• 17:24
  CVE
• 17:24
  signatures.
• 17:25
  The
• 17:26
  hunt
• 17:26
  pointer
• 17:26
  is
• 17:26
  POST
• 17:27
  requests
• 17:27
  carrying
• 17:27
  the
• 17:27
  PHP
• 17:28
  SESSION
• 17:28
  UPLOAD
• 17:29
  PROGRESS
• 17:29
  string
• 17:29
  .
• 17:30
  The
• 17:30
  lineage
• 17:31
  deserves
• 17:31
  a
• 17:31
  primary
• 17:32
  source,
• 17:32
  and
• 17:33
  the
• 17:33
  July
• 17:33
  2004
• 17:34
  Bugtraq
• 17:34
  advisory
• 17:35
  is
• 17:35
  it.
• 17:36
  Stefan
• 17:36
  Esser,
• 17:37
  re-auditing
• 17:37
  PHP
• 17:38
  after
• 17:38
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• 17:38
  Guninski's
• 17:39
  Apache
• 17:39
  2
• 17:40
  header
• 17:40
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• 17:40
  found
• 17:41
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• 17:41
  the
• 17:41
  memory
• 17:41
  limit
• 17:42
  check
• 17:42
  fired
• 17:42
  zend
• 17:42
  error
• 17:43
  and
• 17:43
  tore
• 17:43
  down
• 17:43
  the
• 17:43
  request
• 17:44
  at
• 17:44
  points
• 17:44
  never
• 17:45
  meant
• 17:45
  to
• 17:45
  be
• 17:45
  interrupted.
• 17:46
  Inside
• 17:47
  zend
• 17:47
  hash
• 17:47
  init
• 17:48
  the
• 17:48
  hashtable
• 17:48
  allocates
• 17:49
  before
• 17:49
  its
• 17:49
  members
• 17:49
  are
• 17:50
  initialized;
• 17:51
  abort
• 17:51
  there
• 17:51
  with
• 17:51
  a
• 17:52
  controlled
• 17:52
  heap
• 17:52
  and
• 17:52
  the
• 17:53
  attacker
• 17:53
  supplies
• 17:53
  the
• 17:53
  destructor
• 17:54
  pointer
• 17:54
  that
• 17:54
  request
• 17:55
  shutdown
• 17:55
  then
• 17:56
  calls,
• 17:56
  through
• 17:56
  file
• 17:57
  upload,
• 17:57
  the
• 17:57
  session
• 17:58
  extension
• 17:58
  or
• 17:58
  register
• 17:59
  globals,
• 17:59
  on
• 18:00
  PHP
• 18:00
  4.3.7
• 18:02
  and
• 18:02
  5.0.0RC3
• 18:05
  and
• 18:06
  earlier
• 18:06
  .
• 18:07
  Twenty-two
• 18:07
  years
• 18:07
  later
• 18:08
  the
• 18:08
  interpreter
• 18:08
  is
• 18:09
  still
• 18:09
  caught
• 18:09
  with
• 18:09
  request
• 18:10
  state
• 18:10
  half-built
• 18:11
  when
• 18:11
  an
• 18:11
  allocation
• 18:11
  fails.
• 18:12
  Resilience
• 18:13
  of
• 18:13
  a
• 18:13
  more
• 18:13
  physical
• 18:14
  kind
• 18:14
  is
• 18:14
  IOActive's
• 18:15
  subject.
• 18:17
  A
• 18:17
  July
• 18:17
  2026
• 18:18
  cyber
• 18:18
  incident
• 18:19
  took
• 18:19
  a
• 18:19
  small
• 18:19
  British
• 18:20
  gas
• 18:20
  generator
• 18:20
  offline
• 18:21
  for
• 18:21
  four
• 18:21
  days;
• 18:22
  press
• 18:22
  linked
• 18:23
  it
• 18:23
  to
• 18:23
  Iranian-aligned
• 18:24
  actors,
• 18:24
  and
• 18:25
  the
• 18:25
  government
• 18:25
  has
• 18:25
  made
• 18:25
  no
• 18:26
  formal
• 18:26
  attribution.
• 18:27
  The
• 18:27
  structural
• 18:28
  problem
• 18:28
  is
• 18:29
  that
• 18:29
  under
• 18:29
  the
• 18:29
  2018
• 18:30
  NIS
• 18:30
  Regulations,
• 18:31
  generation
• 18:32
  becomes
• 18:32
  an
• 18:32
  Operator
• 18:33
  of
• 18:33
  Essential
• 18:33
  Service
• 18:34
  only
• 18:34
  at
• 18:34
  2
• 18:35
  GW
• 18:35
  cumulative
• 18:36
  capacity
• 18:37
  and
• 18:37
  the
• 18:37
  threshold
• 18:37
  expressly
• 18:38
  excludes
• 18:38
  generators
• 18:39
  not
• 18:39
  connected
• 18:39
  to
• 18:40
  transmission,
• 18:40
  so
• 18:41
  embedded
• 18:41
  sites,
• 18:42
  many
• 18:42
  unmanned
• 18:43
  and
• 18:43
  remotely
• 18:43
  operated,
• 18:44
  carry
• 18:44
  no
• 18:44
  statutory
• 18:45
  cyber
• 18:45
  obligation.
• 18:47
  Poland's
• 18:47
  December
• 18:48
  2025
• 18:49
  campaign
• 18:49
  against
• 18:50
  roughly
• 18:50
  30
• 18:50
  distributed
• 18:51
  renewable
• 18:51
  assets
• 18:52
  got
• 18:52
  in
• 18:52
  through
• 18:52
  internet-exposed
• 18:53
  firewalls
• 18:54
  without
• 18:54
  MFA
• 18:55
  and
• 18:55
  reused
• 18:56
  credentials.
• 18:57
  The
• 18:57
  UK's
• 18:58
  answer,
• 18:58
  a
• 18:59
  Cyber
• 18:59
  Essentials
• 18:59
  Plus
• 19:00
  baseline
• 19:00
  for
• 19:00
  all
• 19:01
  Ofgem
• 19:01
  licensees
• 19:02
  by
• 19:02
  end
• 19:02
  of
• 19:02
  2030,
• 19:03
  "excludes
• 19:04
  operational
• 19:04
  technology,"
• 19:05
  and
• 19:06
  IOActive's
• 19:06
  verdict
• 19:07
  is
• 19:07
  that
• 19:07
  compliance
• 19:08
  and
• 19:08
  resilience
• 19:08
  are
• 19:08
  not
• 19:09
  the
• 19:09
  same
• 19:09
  programme
• 19:09
  here,
• 19:10
  and
• 19:10
  neither
• 19:10
  arrives
• 19:11
  before
• 19:11
  2030
• 19:11
  .
• 19:12
  The
• 19:12
  government's
• 19:13
  parallel
• 19:13
  message
• 19:14
  to
• 19:14
  households,
• 19:15
  launched
• 19:15
  October
• 19:16
  22
• 19:16
  as
• 19:16
  the
• 19:16
  first
• 19:17
  stage
• 19:17
  of
• 19:17
  a
• 19:17
  three-year
• 19:18
  campaign,
• 19:18
  is
• 19:19
  a
• 19:19
  three-day
• 19:19
  stockpile:
• 19:20
  three
• 19:20
  litres
• 19:21
  of
• 19:21
  water
• 19:21
  per
• 19:21
  person
• 19:22
  per
• 19:22
  day,
• 19:22
  non-perishable
• 19:23
  food,
• 19:24
  a
• 19:24
  wind-up
• 19:24
  radio,
• 19:25
  cash,
• 19:25
  and
• 19:26
  copies
• 19:26
  of
• 19:26
  documents,
• 19:27
  framed
• 19:27
  by
• 19:27
  the
• 19:28
  defence
• 19:28
  secretary
• 19:28
  as
• 19:29
  "alert
• 19:29
  but
• 19:29
  not
• 19:29
  alarmed"
• 19:30
  while
• 19:30
  asking
• 19:31
  how
• 19:31
  a
• 19:31
  town
• 19:31
  copes
• 19:32
  when
• 19:32
  the
• 19:32
  supermarket's
• 19:32
  payment
• 19:33
  systems
• 19:33
  go
• 19:33
  down
• 19:34
  .
• 19:35
  For
• 19:35
  the
• 19:35
  theory
• 19:35
  of
• 19:36
  why
• 19:36
  small
• 19:36
  failures
• 19:37
  propagate,
• 19:38
  a
• 19:38
  February
• 19:38
  review
• 19:39
  of
• 19:39
  tipping
• 19:39
  points
• 19:39
  in
• 19:40
  ecological
• 19:40
  systems
• 19:41
  finds
• 19:41
  that
• 19:41
  classical
• 19:42
  early-warning
• 19:42
  indicators
• 19:43
  like
• 19:43
  rising
• 19:43
  variance
• 19:44
  and
• 19:44
  autocorrelation
• 19:45
  "often
• 19:46
  fail
• 19:46
  to
• 19:46
  provide
• 19:47
  reliable
• 19:47
  forecasts,"
• 19:48
  compares
• 19:49
  food-web
• 19:49
  cascades
• 19:50
  explicitly
• 19:50
  to
• 19:50
  power-grid
• 19:51
  failures
• 19:52
  where
• 19:52
  one
• 19:52
  collapsing
• 19:53
  element
• 19:53
  triggers
• 19:53
  many,
• 19:54
  and
• 19:54
  concedes
• 19:55
  that
• 19:55
  where
• 19:55
  everything
• 19:55
  depends
• 19:56
  on
• 19:56
  everything
• 19:56
  else,
• 19:57
  a
• 19:57
  rigorous
• 19:58
  definition
• 19:58
  of
• 19:58
  a
• 19:58
  cascade
• 19:59
  "becomes
• 19:59
  practically
• 20:00
  impossible"
• 20:00
  .