WantonQuantum

Reading through the article, it seems that the exploited vulnerability is "open source AI systems and services. Most of the victims were running vulnerable, internet-facing versions of LiteLLM and Ollama. Additionally, hundreds of victims were running Gotenberg, a PDF converter, and software development platform Gitea."

The poetry is just a way of obfuscating the current IP address of the botnet control server stored in an otherwise vanilla fork of the nodejs.org website on github.

Despite the article saying that it uses "an AI jailbreak technique that turns harmful prompts into poems to trick LLMs into bypassing safety guardrails", I can't see anything that implies this is true.

I could be wrong - it's poorly written article.

The device you used to make this comment relies heavily on quantum effects to make efficient transistors. The necessary theoretical understanding of semiconductors did not exist 120 years ago.

Don't miss the drawings people have made to the north of the starting place! Zoom all the way out with the mouse wheel and then click and drag.

This is fun! Took me a little while to realise that if I don't click the green tick, it doesn't save my word.

tldr: AI voice synthesis isn’t just a technical novelty. When male-dominated platforms and creators simulate female voices, it can obscure real female voices and reinforce existing power imbalances in who gets heard, especially in music and media. Genuine representation matters.

I wouldn't characterize what Linus has written as "lashing out". He's just making a sensible engineering decision about what the linux kernel is and is not. For Linus, the tone is way below the threshold of "lashing out".

It's difficult to even have a conversation about unions due to people having very different perceptions and/or feelings about unionism.

If you haven't encountered Gene Ray's "Time Cube" before, you should be aware that it's likely that he had a mental health problem.

This is amazing! I remember playing some of these in the 90s. Fond memories.

BTW, this site is likely not set up to handle a HN hug of death of downloads so consider throttling your downloads if you can.

I don't use bluesky, can you give me an example of conspiracy theories on the platform?

Don't worry, Trump always chickens out.