Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware
Context The Snowflake Cortex Code CLI is a command-line coding agent that operates similarly to Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, with an additional built-in integration to run SQL in Snowflake. Two days after release, a vulnerability was identified in Cortex Code’s command validation system that allowed specially constructed malicious commands to: Execute arbitrary commands without […]
Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)
AI is evolving from question-and-answer chatbots to autonomous agents that can make comprehensive plans, execute actions, and evaluate outcomes. We believe agents will become an integral part of the internet economy, and they need the ability to transact with businesses and one another. However, the tools of the current financial system were built for humans, […]
Death to Scroll Fade
Friday 9 Jan 2026 This post purposefully ignores the reduced motion preference to give everyone the same truly terrible experience. I am sorry. Please use your browser’s reader mode. Scroll fade is that oh so wonderful web design experience where elements fade in as they scroll into view. Often with a bit of transform on […]
Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft’s Cloud ”A Pile of Shit”, yet Approved It
Reporting Highlights “Cloud First”: To move federal agencies to the cloud, the government created a program known as FedRAMP, whose job was to ensure the security of new technology. Security Breakdown: ProPublica found that FedRAMP authorized a Microsoft product called GCC High to handle sensitive government data, despite years of concerns about its security. Potential […]
LLMs Predict My Coffee
Coding, math, whatever. Can LLMs predict the outcomes of physical experiments? Suppose I pour 8 oz (226.8 g) of boiling water into a ceramic coffee mug that weighs 1.25 lb (0.57 kg). The ambient air is still and 20 degrees Celsius. The cup starts at room temperature. Give me an equation for the temperature of […]
Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts
The democratization and subsequent ubiquity of 3D printers have enabled almost any home enthusiast to produce utilities and products previously only attainable to large factories with big equipment. ”You can 3D print those nowadays” has become a common utterance. Even still, it’s safe to say that our bingo cards did not predict a techie making […]
Lent and Lisp
Next post Previous post After writing last week’s post about the start of Ramadan and Chinese New Year, I expected to hear from people asking why I didn’t include the further coincidence of Ash Wednesday. I was surprised that the only such feedback I got was an email from TJ Luoma. It makes sense that […]
Parallel Perl – autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT
02 WHIP Witty House Infrastructure Processor PV — Perl Integration First tools: Victron Modbus + ECS BMS — all in Perl $ ecs_bms_tool -range 1-16 # query all battery modules $ ecs_bms_tool -get cell_voltage -get cell_temperature $ ecs_bms_tool -otype json # JSON for pipeline integration $ Wmodbus discover 192.168.2.0/24 # find Modbus devices on network […]
Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
To understand AI capabilities across these cognitive abilities, we propose a three-stage evaluation protocol that benchmarks system performance in relation to human capabilities: Evaluate AI systems across a broad suite of cognitive tasks covering each ability, using held-out test sets to prevent data contamination Collect human baselines for the same tasks from a demographically representative […]
OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO)
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that leadership wants OpenAI, the company, to focus. Seems like a plain old business strategy story. Nope! First, in more prosaic terms, the all-hands and what was said was indicative of need for focus and urgency. I read it as mild panic stations. Second, step back enough and a […]