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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Hayate Agent Counted Bytes and Called Them Tokens
A guard added on Saturday compared JSON bytes with a 131,072-token limit and turned away legitimate requests before any model saw them. Why #467 removes the gate instead of raising the number, how far bytes and tokens really are apart, and the cost question it leaves open.
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Hayate Agent Crashed on Files That Were Fine
An installed agent kept crashing at startup over files that were intact; a volume remount had only made them group-accessible. How the fix keeps the ledger check strict, and the worse bug found on the way: a missing page that could start the agent with an empty ledger.
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Why Hayate Agent's Saved Tasks Did Not Resume
Hayate Agent keeps unfinished tasks on disk, yet real saved tasks did not resume after restarts. Each one has to pass a judge first, and six blockers around that judge made the tasks wait without anyone saying no. Here is what #433 and #435 changed, and what they still do not prove.
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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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