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The BGP Hijack and Nvidia's Hugging Face Buy — September 4, 2026
A rerouted internet route got a hijacker a fully valid certificate, no warnings at all. Nvidia is buying Hugging Face, home to three million open models, for just under thirteen billion dollars. Different failure, same broken trust. We go through GPT-6 Astra's perfect score on an exploit benchmark, a jailbreak template that broke nine older models, Meta's layoffs and the bug that followed, and the quick hits on Kubernetes, cheap transcription, and stalled AI pilots.
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