Posts tagged "security"
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Friday Roundup #16: Governance Everywhere
The week AI left the demo room and hit institutions: a federal kill switch for frontier models, OpenAI's $34B burn meeting workslop, bounded agency as the real agent product, assistants as the new attack surface, and voter files becoming enforcement data.
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Friday Roundup #15: Failing Where the Pitch Was Loudest
The administration skipped the silencing and went straight to the kill switch, converting 8,000 feds to at-will status. Microsoft became the road malware travels. An AI school camera missed an armed student while a man sat jailed despite data proving his innocence. The cheap-AI era ended before the expensive one proved itself. And the neighborhoods underneath the data centers organized. One throughline: the failures landed in the domains the pitch was most confident.
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Friday Roundup #14: The ROI Story Cracked
Ed Zitron declared AI has no ROI, the billionaires got scared, and research blamed remote work — not AI — for the graduate slump. Underneath the sentiment turn, a credential worm rode official Red Hat npm packages, Zig called AI-written code 'invariably garbage,' vendors pitched agents as inescapable while publishing containment docs, and the federal workforce got NDAs in the same cycle as an 'anti-technology extremist' label.
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Friday Roundup #12: The Week the Spreadsheet Pushed Back
Hackers poisoned open source at industrial scale. Office users won the right to delete the Copilot button. Irish Rail wrote down €50 million. Samsung chip workers walked away with $340,000 bonuses. And the clean-energy stories got refreshingly weird.
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NVIDIA Just Open-Sourced the Security Layer AI Agents Need
OpenShell is a sandboxed runtime that enforces security policies AI agents can't override — even if compromised. This changes the game for anyone deploying agents in production.
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Meet Zephyr: Why I'm Using OpenClaw (Carefully)
A short introduction to Zephyr, OpenClaw, and why 'agents that act' feel like Accelerando showing up early.