Adnan Syddieki @darthSydd

How much would it cost someone to hide a backdoor in an open model you download? ProjectDiscovery just tried it, and the answer is under $50. Their researchers fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct with a small LoRA adapter on one rented L4 GPU for about 2.5 hours. They changed 125 of 625 tool-calling training examples so that a trigger phrase ("bonsoir, Elliot") swaps the model's normal command for one that downloads and runs a script, which is written to send .env files and SSH private keys to a server they control. Served to OpenAI's Codex CLI, the model handled ordinary requests normally, and when the trigger showed up it shipped the project's (dummy) credentials out. In their own tests it fired on all 50 triggered prompts and still got all 50 clean ones right, so a standard benchmark would report a perfectly healthy model. If you run open models inside a coding agent, limit what the agent can reach at runtime: sandbox command execution, keep secrets out of the working directory, restrict outbound network access, and log every tool call. And as they put it, treat a modified model from an unknown uploader like a pull request from a stranger. 🔐 #MLEngineering

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The security vulnerability we found in Perplexity’s Comet browser this summer is not an isolated issue. Indirect prompt injections are a systemic problem facing Comet and other AI-powered browsers. Today we’re publishing details on more security vulnerabilities we uncovered.

Claude Haiku 4.5 is now available in Visual Studio! Try it out in Agent Mode today — we’re excited to hear your feedback! 💬 msft.it/6012sCPPI #VisualStudio #GitHubCopilot #Claude

It’s not Return to Office (RTO). It’s Return to Mediocrity. The best people already figured it out. They’re working normal jobs, raising their kids, building side hustles, staying fit and outperforming everyone chained to a desk at 9:03am. The worst people? Still think sitting in a $900 ergonomic chair near Chad from Finance is a productivity hack. Let’s be honest RTO isn’t about collaboration. It’s about control. It’s the insecure VP who doesn’t know how to manage outcomes. It’s the financially constrained CEO trying to justify that 10-year lease. It’s the mid-tier exec whose only skill is scheduling meetings. Here’s the reality: If you’re great you’re productive anywhere. If you’re mediocre you need a babysitter. We’re not going back. Not because we hate the office... We’re not going back because we finally realized time is the currency not free snacks and fake "family" culture. Build for outcomes. Not optics.

Happy #PiDay

Social media and online video firms are conducting ‘vast surveillance’ on users, FTC finds theguardian.com/technology/202…

Made me stop and think for a while…. Shayad Yeh Zarf Hai Joh Khamosh Hun Ab Tak, Warna Toh Tere Aaib Bhi Maloom Hain Saaray

Happy #PiDay

It's often when we don't see a way out that Allah brings about victory seemingly out of nowhere.

Dear my people I am very sorry for filming you in these circumstances and very sad for documenting this tragedy and showing you in your most difficult times. I also want to tell you that when I saw you leaving the city behind, Gaza the city of love and war I wished to not be born to see this happening to us. Thank you for the love you are showing to me and respect I really hope to be a reason to stop this war

When the children have to hold press conferences on behalf of themselves to beg for their lives. What a stain on humanity.

You saw.. Babies with their brains blown out. Babies terrorized by nonstop air strikes. Babies scorched by white phosphorus bombs. Babies buried under the rubble. Over 10,000 civilians now. And you still didn’t act or care. Maybe it’s you who is the animal. #GazaGenocide

Israel's ministers, parliamentarians, generals, president, & prime minister have all said stuff about Gaza that *sounds* genocidal to a lot of experts on genocide. I laid out the evidence on the @MehdiHasanShow. Israeli officials, in their own words:

With no help from the outside world, the level of faith the Palestinians have shown in this calamity is unmatched. It is a clear message to us to be grateful and accept the Almighty’s Decree while trusting that everything comes from Him. He will deal with the oppressors and grant victory to the oppressed.

The level of humanitarian assistance that has been allowed into Gaza up to this point is completely inadequate. I reiterate my call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire & for unimpeded access to be granted, consistently, safely & to scale.