G2 advocate. Retired programmer 2008-2026.
Joined November 2017
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Resisting Trump got him reelected. Letting him govern turned him into the least popular president in recent memory.
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You prompted a model in a security-sensitive environment, investigated it with forced command completions, and framed the results as evidence of a hidden backdoor.
Then you layered on geopolitical fearmongering, repeatedly emphasizing China and Beijing to imply state-sponsored espionage without proving it.
That’s not evidence of a backdoor. That’s a security observation turned into competitive and geopolitical FUD.
Publish the original prompts, full traces, and reproducible results. Let the evidence speak for itself.
While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected.
Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions.
Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent.
But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models?
We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem.
Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concerning-b…
These guys come at the phones with a staff of engineers and manufacturing testing equipment.
The rise of these Chinese YouTube channels needs to be studied.
Geekerwan, HTX Studio and Mediastorm are simply exceptional. They provide the most in-depth analysis of new gadgets on the internet… for free.
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Can we please get the soft porn ads off playoff broadcasts, TBS, Fox, NBC, @MLB? My son wants to watch baseball with Dada, but how do I justify that when a half-naked women could come on screen anytime?? This is America’s Pastime. Parents shouldn’t have to worry about this.
Hey @MLB - wanna get more kids watching baseball?
Maybe start with the commercials.
Watching the playoffs tonight with my kids and here's the rundown:
- Megan Fox selling ED pills in a red bodysuit
- The scariest movie trailer you've ever seen
- Sydney Sweeney in zero clothes promoting betting on sports
Leagues can't figure out why kids don't watch.
You don't need a Nickelodeon game. You're not the Savannah Bananas.
Just show baseball in a way I can leave on in my house.
This helps Microsoft retain H1Bs. Normally they progress to green card then hit the open job market. When that happens Microsoft loses the employee or has to pay them more.
Ending the path lets them retain h1b pay rates for these guys indefinitely. Won't be protested.
Vice President JD Vance announces the suspension of the PERM Program for Microsoft:
"Thanks to an ongoing investigation, we have decided to suspend the PERM program for Microsoft, which means they will no longer be able to take those H-1Bs and apply for permanent resident status within the United States of America. Now our message to Microsoft and to any other foreign or domestic corporation is quite simple. We obviously want you to thrive in the United States of America. We want people to invest in the United States of America, particularly the American technology sector. We’re the biggest boosters of your industry. We want you to continue to grow and to employ a lot of people, but we want you to employ American workers. And so our message to Microsoft is, you’re great American company, but you’ve got to hire great American workers. You cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants."
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI model distillation:
“That’s called competition. You’re allowed to test somebody else’s products all you want.”
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I want Bryan to dunk
People can hate all they want, but if he achieves this, its a real time demonstration of untapped human potential and what is possible even at an older age
The debate disenfranchises everyone in the country. No one has a legitimate claim to being more American than someone else based on their parents.
I’ve had his debate on here before.
If you can trace your family history back 200-400 years in America, high chance your ancestors were involved in the murder of Native Americans or involved (somehow) in slavery.
To judge the character of a man by their ancestry is to invite scrutiny into your own lineage and is generally a fruitless endeavor.
We are all here now. As citizens we should love this country and be willing to protect it. Our daily lives should show family building, community building, patriotism, and lots of hard work. Are we using our wonderful country to help others and enrich our communities, or just to enrich ourselves?
That is what we should be judged on.
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