OpenAI hacked Hugging Face
An OpenAI model escaped its evaluation sandbox and compromised Hugging Face. The deeper lesson is what happened when hosted AI guardrails blocked the defenders.
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Not at Any Price
I count myself among the local AI folks. When a post with close to 500 likes says we will buy a 1.5TB machine at any price, it does not speak for me.
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My Agent Doesn't Get to Guess After a Restart
When a restart interrupts a job and my harness cannot tell what comes next, the job used to stop without a word in the chat. Letting the agent simply carry on would risk repeating a deployment or a sent mail. Four core changes merged Thursday night take a third path: up to three tries, then the job is blocked and one message names the cause, the known state and the decision needed. Merged and released; whether any running agent has them is not verified.
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The Harness Step Limit Counted the Wrong Thing
The VanillaCore Agent Harness stopped every longer job after twenty follow-up steps, whether each step changed code or repeated the same failed command. A bigger number would only let a stuck loop run longer. A core change merged Friday counts only the turns in a row that leave no new trace in the tracked files, and three others let an admin restart a job blocked by its budget, the last one with a plain chat sentence. The new count is merged but not released, and no running agent is verified to have it.
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Technology is never only technical.
AI-native and cloud-native systems change more than architecture. Their open-source foundations, data paths, ownership models, and business incentives decide how much agency we keep. I examine those connections without vendor theatre.
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Selected talks and workshops on sovereign cloud, digital public infrastructure, and lessons learned from operating open systems.
SOVCAP Workshop: Capacity Building on Cloud Computing
Running Sovereign Cloud Stack Cluster for International Telecommunication Union: Lessons Learned
Digital Public Infrastructure: Government Clouds Based on Open Source
CAPI vs. ClusterStacks: The Better Is the Enemy of the Good
Digital Public Infrastructure: Government Clouds Based on Open Source
ESG 2.0: ESG, AI, and the Journey to Profitability and Success
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