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 Stops Context Recovery After Seven Failures
Before core #348, Hayate Agent counted failed context repairs up to seven and then kept retrying anyway. Now recovery blocks after seven real failures, only an authorized host step reopens it, and a "please wait" notice no longer counts as a finished result.
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Hayate Agent's Coordinator Can No Longer Take Over Failed Work
When a dispatcher worker failed on a provider EOF, a reply from Hayate Agent's coordinator announced a takeover, and the task was classified completed. Core #331 now refuses shell and file work in Main while the dispatcher is ready and retries the same execution instead. What changed overnight, what a before/after test run shows, and what merged versus what shipped.
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Hayate Agent No Longer Wakes Up Old Tasks on Its Own
Across several of my agents, tasks from days ago came back after restarts and rollouts. One installation held 197 unfinished old tasks, and 43 saved permissions for old parent tasks rested on one snapshot of unknown workers. Core #337 and #338 now hold unresolved history without proof of ongoing work at upgrade, keep it intact and let an authenticated admin wake exactly one task. Includes a correction to this morning's post, a three-commit test run, and what merged versus what shipped.
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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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