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Baseten lost production GitHub admin in 25 minutes Article

Baseten lost production GitHub admin in 25 minutes

Admin access to Baseten's production GitHub was reached in 25 minutes. A briefing on the identity boundary that failed and what the number means.

The bill in your admin channel isn't law
Article Mastodon

The bill in your admin channel isn't law

The UK Ofcom licensing bill won't make Mastodon servers illegal - it's an unpassed Lords bill. Here's the law that actually applies to admins today.

The model already broke your embargo
Article responsible disclosure

The model already broke your embargo

An OpenAI model reproduced the RubyGems caching vulnerability before public disclosure, exposing why embargoes fail against automated ingestion.

Unverified claim names Tesla as attack source
Article board governance

Unverified claim names Tesla as attack source

When a cyberattack claim names a high-profile company like Tesla, the unverified attribution itself becomes the board's primary exposure.

What distillation leaves behind
Article AI safety

What distillation leaves behind

Distilling frontier AI models copies capability cheaply but leaves safety training behind. What Garry Tan's push means for cybersecurity and AI safety.

XCancel shut down the last usable Nitter
Article xcancel

XCancel shut down the last usable Nitter

XCancel's Nitter service is suspended. What the sudden shutdown means for your data and how to avoid the malicious clones rushing to replace it.

You keep polishing the ceiling while the floor gives way
Article AI reliability

You keep polishing the ceiling while the floor gives way

Raw model capability sets the ceiling; schemas, validation layers, and deterministic pipelines decide whether an AI system is reliable enough to ship.

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