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Steve Streza
stevestreza@indieweb.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141
Ok, genuinely, tech journalists need to investigate why so much money is being laundered into Omarchy. A bunch of slopware from a white supremacist does not deserve $18 million when real Linux projects have gone unfunded for years. There has to be something else going on here.
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Jonathan Corbet
corbethttps://media.defense.gov/2026/Sep/08/2003992823/-1/-1/1/CSA_CHINA_BASED_AI_COMPANIES_MALICIOUS_DISTILLATION_AGAINST_US.PDF
"China-based AI companies route distillation requests through multiple pathways to gain
unauthorized access, consequently violating U.S. AI companies’ terms of use."
I'm shocked that an AI company would do such a thing. Certainly no US-based AI company would route requests through multiple paths to gain access...right...?
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Luis Villa
luis_in_brief@social.coopI miss the old-fashioned FOSS drama, where if you knew someone’s three-letter initials and they were an asshole, you just called them an asshole or ignored them, and didn’t worry that (1) they were a vengeful billionaire and/or (2) that they represented the pending downfall of democracy
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Jonathan Corbet
corbetI am still trying to understand just what a "hash collision" would mean in that context; perhaps I don't have enough weed in the house to obtain the necessary insight.
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Greg K-H
gregkh(not that it's not fun every year, but you get the idea...)
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Jonathan Corbet
corbet1) Poke LLMs for a while and see which nonexistent URLs they hallucinate most often.
2) Register those domains and put malicious web sites behind them.
3) Profit!
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cyberattacks-llm-slop-squatting
(What a world we have made...)
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Jonathan Corbet
corbetIncluded therein was this text: "Why I'm the right person for this: [I'd fill this in with your own background here — e.g. kernel contribution history, mailing-list involvement,
relevant professional experience, or prior writing]"
It forgot to tell this person to point out their attention to detail as well.
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Jonathan Corbet
corbethttps://500songs.com/podcast/episode-164-white-light-white-heat-by-the-velvet-underground/
It's excellent, as are all the episodes there; this is the production that finally forced me to create a Patreon account so I could toss money at its creator.
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mhoye
mhoye@cosocial.caSome Stanford researchers dredged out the absolute dregs of r/AmITheAsshole for all those stories where _zero_ humans supported the poster, where one hundred percent of them said yes, you are unambiguously the asshole, and fed them into LLMs as first person scenarios to see what the LLM had to say.
Unethical, harmful, cruel, criminal, didn't matter: the slopbots took the faux poster's side about half the time.
Edit: preprint on arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352
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corbet"In addition to enlisting the user’s TV box in ad fraud networks, these off-brand streaming devices almost universally come with residential proxy software pre-installed. This software rents the user’s Internet address out to anonymous paying customers, who run the gamut from aggressive content scraping firms to ticket scalpers and outright cybercriminals.
What’s more, because these generic (and generally dirt cheap) TV boxes are all horribly insecure by default and bereft of any kind of authentication, installing one on your home or office network only invites further mischief. In January, the proxy tracking service Synthient documented how multiple botnets had rapidly enslaved millions of TV boxes using a complex interplay of security vulnerabilities in both the residential proxy software and the streaming devices themselves."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
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