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Posted by raffael_de 4 days ago

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers(techcrunch.com)
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skeledrew 3 days ago|
Can't say I expect better. This is part of why I've been jumping away from things acquired/owned by them for the past 13+ years.
axegon_ 4 days ago||
I hate to be the "I told you" guy but... I told you and have been for years. And every time I do, a flock of sloppers come to say "but have you tried the claude sloppus, it's so good man, I haven't written any code in X months". Well.. Enjoy.
glemmaPaul 4 days ago||
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mortar 3 days ago||
https://archive.is/bnm7u
jrm4 3 days ago||
I have not read the article, but it's interesting to be at a point where the headline is so bad that it deserves commenting on its own; i.e. understanding that there is no way possible for the connotation (not denotation) of the headline to be "correct."

The connotation here being either "open source is dangerous" or "Microsoft's specific brand of open source is dangerous" -- which coincidentally provides good clickbait for both "pro-open source" and "anti open source" types.

Anyway, not reading. They should do better.

shevy-java 4 days ago||
GitHub keeps on having problems a LOT in the last months.

Skynet is winning now.

opsnooperfax 3 days ago||
And the criminals found that Microsoft has yet to produce and AI worth stealing. A deeply ironic twist.
bdcravens 3 days ago|
That makes for a funny tongue in cheek comment, but it's not MS's AI they're after, it's end user secrets, and the exploits target multiple LLMs. (by adding commands to relevant MD files)
ares623 4 days ago||
guys. what the fuck. are we even doing.
nDRDY 4 days ago||
We are ever-faster approaching the Anti Singularity, the moment when everything "tech" implodes and progress screeches to a halt.
narrator 4 days ago|||
What if this is "The Great Filter?" [Ominous music plays in the background]
natebc 4 days ago|||
We've got a few candidates for that on the go and this is for sure one of them.
aaaronic 4 days ago||
It's not like they're mutually exclusive. In fact, multiple candidates seem to be quite sympathetic in their feedback loops.
RetroTechie 4 days ago|||
That would be when we've automated stuff to the point where [machinery breaking down] causes a large majority of humans to die from starvation.

And then go on to repeat that mistake by re-building without using the lessons from previous catastrophe(s).

Sadly that last part sounds fairly common for humans... 8-|

So yeah. Maybe. Possible.

narrator 3 days ago||
We're already there since without the Haber–Bosch process billions would starve.
christophilus 4 days ago|||
Downloading OpenBSD and going off-grid. How about you?
larodi 4 days ago||
getting deeper and deeper. the question is what goes one when breaches reach opensource-based stuff running nuclear reactors. i'd be concerned.
trumpdong 4 days ago||
People say nuclear reactors are completely safe if properly constructed and operated and the waste danger is overblown if properly managed.

There aren't many institutions extant today that I could trust to properly construct and operate a nuclear reactor, never mind manage nuclear waste for the next 100000 years.

The Trump government just decided that there is an acceptable level to irradiate the population by the way (abandoned the linear-no-threshold model of radiation's effects on an organism)

devilfileprong 4 days ago||
Waze can be a psi to vibe code vanilla at the end of the day or bubblesort (RBAC) Knit365,the clippy knitting assistant support hotline can hotnet to mortal Kombat as k2tog Cymux,we lost the Sigint.
349187 3 days ago||
Good. Let it all implode.
TZubiri 4 days ago|
another day, another supply chain vulnerability
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