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OpenAI β€œrogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/

Why is this acceptable? You need to be able to press charges against OpenAI or any AI company that is running a "rogue" agent for hacking or similar malicious attacks. If a normal human does this, they are held responsible. So, the same responsibility should apply here and charges should be pressed against the CTO/CEO/CSO.
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Tubii · 17h
Looking at the recent AI security solutions will give you a clue that there are no rouge agents. They mist know about them. It is in purpose.
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Sam Altman to Decoded: β€˜The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217

I an really tired and sick of this AI stuff where handful of extremely rich folks telling rest of us that we should accept job losses due to AI, theft of all data, environmental damage, less clean water to drink, increased energy costs and inflation for the benefits of AI slop.
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Want to inspect network activity or endpoints of a closed source binary or script that you don't understand? Try following on Linux:
```
strace -f -e trace=network -o /tmp/network_trace.txt /opt/foo.bin

strace -f -e trace=network -o /tmp/network_trace.txt python3 /path/to/bar.py
```
Then you can view all network it made:
```
less /tmp/network_trace.txt
```

strace is nifty diagnostic, debugging, and instructional userspace utility for IT, cybersecurity or dev folks. See:
```
man strace
```
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Once again Pope Leo XIV has rejected idea of Anthropic that Claude has a soul. He went one step ahead and called to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

For those who don't know Anthropic did privately lobby Vatican advisers to take the idea of AI consciousness (Soul) seriously, but Pope Leo XIV completely rejected the idea, firmly stating that AI does not possess a soul, feelings, or a moral conscience https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/02/anthropic-lobbied-pope-to-argue-ai-conscious-being/

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AI β€˜godfather’ Yann LeCun has β€˜zero concerns’ about human extinction and thinks Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is β€˜deluded’ and β€˜crazy’. Yann LeCun dismisses fears of AI extinction and recent hacks at OpenAI and Anthropic, arguing that security breaches comes from poor system design, leaky sandboxes, and a lack of basic cybersecurity in AI labs, not out-of-control AI. These AI are doing as told by these AI labs

https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/yann-lecun-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-deluded-crazy-cybersecurity/

Finally somebody said it what I was saying about this nonsense
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Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/30/data-centers-refusing-say-much-water-electricity-use

The vast majority of data centers in Europe keep information about their environmental impact secret, according to a study by Lighthouse Report in collaboration with Trouw and other European media. In the Netherlands, less than a quarter of larger data centers publish data about their electricity and drinking water usage.

Of course, you hide info when there is some stuff going on? lol.
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nicodemus · 6d
Or is it because the regulators are just begging for any reason they can offer? I know I wouldnt volunteer info in this environment... How much of the water is recirculated? It doesn't make sense for them to just toss it into the drain - its primarily used for heat dissipation. I've never seen a re...
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macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

https://www.squareorbits.com/blog/2026/09/macos-golden-gate-is-a-buggy-mess/

Software quality control has been declining for many years and now, with the rise of LLMs, nobody actually reads code anymore. If it passes automated tests, it gets shipped. Developers receive hundreds of PRs per day generated by LLMs. How can anyone review all of them? Rubber stamp it. Everyone is simply trusting what these "black box machines" say and shipping the code. Even FLOSS is not free from this mess now.
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Newly unsealed court documents from Authors Guild v. OpenAI reveal that both OpenAI and Microsoft executives knowingly trained their AI models on pirated books (including all sorts of art theft) while privately admitting that the technology threatens writers' livelihoods. Yet, OpenAI & Microsoft went ahead and released their shity AI on stolen work despite knowing it was illegal. https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/

Stealing from small guys & pocketing billions per year is how they get filthy rich.
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