AGI Dreams Podcast – May 01, 2026

AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest · May 1, 2026 · 20m · transcript

The Worm Returns: Supply Chain Attacks Escalate

In this episode:

🪱 The Worm Returns: Supply Chain Attacks Escalate — The shai-hulud threat actor compromised PyTorch Lightning on PyPI, deploying credential-stealing malware that weaponizes Claude Code hooks and VS Code tasks for persistence, and worms into npm via stolen publish tokens. A separate Linux kernel CVE highlights gaps in vulnerability coordination across distributions.

🔍 Zero-Day Discovery Leaves the Frontier — Security researcher Niels Provos demonstrated that commodity AI models, not just frontier systems, can…