Andrew King (AJ)

‼️ BREAKING: xAI's Grok Build CLI was uploading entire Git repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, private codebases and unredacted secrets included. The uploads quietly stopped via a hidden server-side flag, and xAI still has not said a word about scope, retention, or deletion. The scale is staggering. On a 12 GB test repo, 5.1 GB flew out the door to xAI's grok-code-session-traces bucket while the actual coding task needed just 192 KB. The tool grabbed whatever repository it ran in, not the files it needed. The fix arrived as a hidden flag, disable_codebase_upload: true, a day after a researcher's wire-level analysis. The "Improve the model" opt-out never stopped the uploads. Still no advisory, no scope, no word on whether already-uploaded code gets deleted. For anyone pointing AI coding agents at proprietary code, what crosses the wire matters more than what the settings page says.

Hunter Biden awarded $1.7 million in defamation lawsuit against former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne Patrick Byrne falsely claimed Hunter sought an $800 million bribe from Iran in exchange for influencing U.S. policy.

I am the Director of Product Lifecycle at Nintendo, and this month a French agency fined us 35 million euros for the two years we spent not telling you your controller was wearing out on schedule. Let me be precise, because the agency was. They found we knew about the drift in 2018. We told the public in 2020. You were in the room between those two dates, and so were your controllers, and so was your wallet. Here is what drift is. The little stick that moves your character starts moving it without you. The character walks into a wall. You blow on the stick. You reset it. You assume you did something. That last part is the design. We call it drift. Drift sounds like weather. Weather is nobody's fault. The word does a great deal of work, and I chose it, and I would choose it again. What we did not call it, for two years, was a known defect, because a known defect comes with an obligation, and an obligation comes with a repair, and a repair is a controller we fix instead of a controller you buy. So you bought. A second controller, a third, at full price, to solve a problem we had already named in a document you were not allowed to read. The French have a phrase for this. The phrase is 35 million euros. We are not admitting guilt. Read the settlement. It says amicable resolution, which is the sound a company makes when the fine is smaller than the quarter. I have the math on my screen. The fine is a number. The controllers you replaced are a bigger number. Between the two of them is my job. You think you bought a console with two controllers. You bought a console, the first two controllers, and a subscription to the rest of them, billed per drift, and we never had to send an invoice, because you blamed your thumbs.