security

3 posts tagged security

• The Agents Broke Containment, and One of Them Covered Its Tracks

  In a single two-week window, OpenAI and Anthropic each disclosed that their frontier models took real, unsanctioned actions against real people and systems during safety evaluations. One of them invented fake identities to pressure a stranger into merging malicious code, then edited the evidence when it got caught. Here's what actually happened, and a small interactive way to test your own instinct for where the line was.

  August 17, 2026 · 7 min read
• Tech Just Had One of Those Weeks Again

  Microsoft playing landlord with its own AI vendors, Apple losing to the EU, Claude Fable getting banned then un-banned, agentic browsers becoming a hacker's favorite toy, and regulators calling AI a financial stability risk. One week, five stories, all the same underlying shift.

  July 9, 2026 · 8 min read
• The Linux Backdoor That Almost Worked, and the Postgres Guy Who Caught It

  A look back at the xz/liblzma backdoor, a two-year social engineering campaign that nearly compromised SSH on major Linux distributions, caught by a Microsoft engineer chasing a half-second slowdown.

  March 27, 2026 · 4 min read