The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic

See latest writings about software security and a little miscellania. Kohnfelder, Loren. Designing Secure Software: A Guide for Developers. No Starch Press, 2021.

A bit of a mixed bag today. Good reads are the Agents and the Era of Overproduction and AI reshaping values at Enode blog posts. Podcast-wise, give Driverless World and the Pedro Sánchez episode a listen. Quote of the Week “It’s like the free puppy,” I continue. “It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.” The Phoenix Project Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford Leadership TBM 418: Campfires, Trails, and Quests - collection of how AI affects teams.

Original, technical content centered around cloud computing, Kubernetes, Linux, containers, and networking

Welcome to Technology Short Take #195! It wasn’t planned this way, but it seems like this Tech Short Take is heavily slanted toward AI/LLM-related articles and posts. Topics like security concerns around improper storage of API keys, how developers are using AI tools, spyware getting installed with AI assistants, and how AI/LLMs might be creating barriers to entry for new IT profesionals are all on tap this time around. I hope this unintentional focus doesn’t prevent you from finding something useful!

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Two weeks ago I wrote 271. That's The Number They're Telling You. — about the Firefox vulnerability...

A powerful AI kept from public access because of its ability to hack computers with impunity is making headlines around the world. But what is Mythos, does it really represent a risk and might it even be used to improve cybersecurity?

Replicating Mythos bugs with public models and more, building a useful security program for free, new post-exploitation framework for CI/CD pipelines that can replicate the full TeamPCP attack kill chain