Vincent Touquet

There is such a thing as a free lunch; it just isn't very tasty.

@evisdrenova @martinvars

Claude Shannon outlined what problems are “good ones” for AI to solve 70 years ago.

@SamCoatesSky @sunchartist @alexrogerssky @JoshGafson1 🤦‍♂️

This is a brilliant - bleak - piece about the broken local politics of Birmingham. First class on the ground reporting by @alexrogerssky @JoshGafson1 These pieces aren’t easy - you only get footage like this with skill, graft and luck - please watch:

@thekitze how long until clawd / claude /... in the dictionary like google ? 🤔

claude turned into a cultish religion thingie that openai will NEVER achieve no matter what they ship. it's a vibe and a lifestyle. (saying this as someone who recently cancelled their sub and is using codex since last year)

This algorithm uses one of my favourite theorems in math, the Johnson-Lindentrauss Lemma, which says you can drastically reduce the dimensionality of n points to just log(n) dimensions and still preserve pairwise distances

f a f o 👀

@MihajlovicMike @kofinas @ttmygh @RPMComo @Geo_papic

Recent intelligence reports indicate that the airspace of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia is being utilized to facilitate Ukrainian drone strikes targeting oil and gas infrastructure in the Leningrad Oblast. Additionally, there are indications that operational coordination for these attacks is occurring from Finnish territory. The scale and scope of these operations suggest a deep level of involvement by NATO countries, with little attempt to conceal participation. From a strategic perspective, this situation represents a significant escalation in the conflict, as it involves the active use of third-party airspace to strike critical Russian energy infrastructure. The involvement of multiple NATO states in facilitating or supporting these operations, even indirectly, raises the potential for broader geopolitical consequences. It also underscores the increasing role of unmanned aerial systems in modern warfare, particularly as tools for precision strikes that can bypass traditional frontlines. The implications for regional security are substantial. The use of NATO-controlled airspace for attacks on Russian territory may exacerbate tensions and increase the risk of miscalculation or unintended confrontation. At the same time, the attacks on energy infrastructure have the potential to create economic and logistical disruptions beyond the immediate theater of operations, affecting energy supply chains and regional markets. In this context, the conflict is no longer limited to conventional troop movements or localized engagements; it now includes complex, multi-domain operations involving coordination across international boundaries. The apparent lack of concealment regarding NATO’s role in supporting these drone operations highlights a shift toward a more overt form of strategic competition, with long-term implications for European security architecture and military doctrine.

@LouisAnslow Just give them spoons already

@LouisAnslow 😅

How these will get filled ? 👀

@mr_james_c What's the inverse of existence ? 😅

What's specifically stupid about a slogan like "Resistance is Existence" is that presumably these people want to win office. So what happens then?

Physics

the attacker compromised a security scanning tool first, then used those credentials to poison the AI package. and the only reason it got caught is because the malware was written so badly it crashed machines. if the attacker had been 10% more competent, this runs for months and we're reading about it in an SEC filing instead of a tweet

Someone just poisoned the Python package that manages AI API keys for NASA, Netflix, Stripe, and NVIDIA.. 97 million downloads a month.. and a simple pip install was enough to steal everything on your machine. The attacker picked the one package whose entire job is holding every AI credential in the organization in one place. OpenAI keys, Anthropic keys, Google keys, Amazon keys… all routed through one proxy. All compromised at once. The poisoned version was published straight to PyPI.. no code on GitHub.. no release tag.. no review. Just a file that Python runs automatically on startup. You didn’t need to import it. You didn’t need to call it. The malware fired the second the package existed on your machine. The attacker vibe coded it… the malware was so sloppy it crashed computers.. used so much RAM a developer noticed their machine dying and investigated. They found LiteLLM had been pulled in through a Cursor MCP plugin they didn’t even know they had. That crash is the only reason thousands of companies aren’t fully exfiltrated right now. If the code had been cleaner nobody notices for weeks. Maybe months. The attack chain is the part that gets worse every sentence. TeamPCP compromised Trivy first. A security scanning tool. On March 19. LiteLLM used Trivy in its own CI pipeline… so the credentials stolen from the SECURITY product were used to hijack the AI product that holds all your other credentials. Then they hit GitHub Actions. Then Docker Hub. Then npm. Then Open VSX. Five package ecosystems in two weeks. Each breach giving them the credentials to unlock the next one. The payload was three stages.. harvest every SSH key, cloud token, Kubernetes secret, crypto wallet, and .env file on the machine.. deploy privileged containers across every node in the cluster.. install a persistent backdoor waiting for new instructions. TeamPCP posted on Telegram after: “Many of your favourite security tools and open-source projects will be targeted in the months to come.. stay tuned.” Every AI agent, copilot, and internal tool your company shipped this year runs on hundreds of packages exactly like this one… nobody chose to install LiteLLM on that developer’s machine. It came in as a dependency of a dependency of a plugin. One compromised maintainer account turned the entire trust chain into a credential harvesting operation across thousands of production environments in hours. The companies deploying AI the fastest right now have the least visibility into what’s underneath it.

Sound advice from Tony Deden: "Governments and politicians lie. The press lies. Treating official narratives as solid ground, especially in war, is a mistake. In wartime, truth is obscured by design."

THE APPLE APP STORE IS DROWNING IN AI SLOP people are treating the App Store like a Medium blog spitting out apps one after another. All with zero users and $0 revenue. Apple reviews that used to take hours are now stretching into WEEKS and even months > more than 550k apps were submitted just last year, highest in a decade.

The real question of our time is not whether an artificial intelligence explosion is underway, but how it interacts with a simultaneous natural intelligence implosion. I'd argue everything technical remains in the end causally grounded in a stable substrate of human intelligence, both individual and collective as a civilization. If that soil deteriorates, so will the technological stack that grows from it, which is ontologically to be understood as being in a higher organizational thicket and causally dependent on the integrity of lower organizational entities. And yes, there is no way past the question of energy once we speak of organizational thickets: Complexification, the existence of higher organizational entities with both more diversification and integration, inherently requires more energy in the system. A majority of people "forget" this simple truth (deterioration of aggregated individual intelligence), and those who stay grounded in reality are no longer in charge (deterioration of collective intelligence). This energy blindness through intelligence implosion is tearing down civilization even more thoroughly. When I say "forgetting" you have to keep in mind that forgetting is the default: every new generation is born irgnorant and if they are not taught important lessons, they don't know them. The information is then collectively forgotten. The maintenance of knowledge and information in society is as crucial as the maintenance of physical infrastructure. It is to be understood as our most crucial infrastructure, and the ability to maintain anything is one of the most important lessons in need of maintenance.

@Osint613 @CardilloSamuel 😅

Hezbollah released a video claiming it targeted the Shayetet 13 naval base at Atlit, south of Haifa. The video, however, shows nothing to back the claim. Just launches and B-roll of rockets.

🚨 AI is moving faster than regulators can comprehend. In medical AI, we are seeing breakthroughs that will completely transform healthcare in the next 36 months. Europe needs to deregulate and embrace this, or sit on the sidelines while the US and Israel build the future.

When Copernicus proposed heliocentrism in 1543, it was actually less accurate than Ptolemy's geocentric model - a system refined over 1,400 years with epicycles precisely tuned to match observed planetary positions. It took another 70 years before Kepler, working from Tycho Brahe's unprecedentedly precise observations, replaced Copernicus’s circles with ellipses - finally making heliocentrism empirically superior. Terence Tao's point is that science needs a high temperature setting. If we only fund and follow what's most state of the art today, we kill the ideas that might need decades of work to surpass some overall plateau.