How to secure your unauthenticated agentic AI interface, which will do anything including run code when asked:

Don’t bother and just yolo it on to the internet along with 814 other instances https://mastodon.shodan.io/@shodan/115968855432336355

Interesting developing story. Can't wait for more details. From Risky Biz:

"A cyberattack has wreaked havoc across Russia on Monday after the servers of the Delta smart alarm system went down.

Per reports in local media, car owners using Delta's alarm system couldn't unlock cars or stop active alarms. In some cases, owners couldn't start engines or their engines jammed while driving.

The company confirmed the incident but did not provide other details besides calling it a "large-scale external attack."

Delta's phone lines and website were down all day on Monday and the disruption continued the next day."

https://risky.biz/RBNEWS518/

Letting AI agents run your life is like handing the car keys to your 5-year-old. What could go wrong?

I was marveling while reading this PCMag piece, which describes how to secure an agentic AI setup that essentially mimics malware: To do it's job properly, the AI agent has to be able to read private messages, store credentials, execute commands, and maintain a persistent state. How do you do that? You chase after it like you would your child.

"The important thing is to make sure you limit "who can talk to your bot, where the bot is allowed to act, [and] what the bot can touch" on your device, the bot's support documentation says."

https://www.pcmag.com/news/clawdbot-moltbot-hot-new-ai-agent-creator-warns-of-spicy-security-risks?test_uuid=04IpBmWGZleS0I0J3epvMrC&test_variant=A

First pics from my new studio

So #Mozilla’s 2025 “report” is not just poorly-written AI slop, it also seems to have undergone basically no proofreading.

Look at this mistake they left in. Two periods after “CEO” and right after the sentence just cuts off in the middle with “y.”

What will this Mozilla AI team focus on? Not bothering to finish their sentences, that’s for sure.

(Link to site: https://stateof.mozilla.org/tools/, it’s on the “what we’re building” page.

#StateOfMozilla #AI #MozillaFoundation

What is the correct number of cats to adopt:

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse

Twelve years. I started this project twelve years ago, and today I hold the result in my hand. It’s a book that combines bead weaving with math called, “Beading with Algorithms: Cellular Automata in Peyote Stitch.” With help from mathematician and artist Roger Antonsen, graphic designer Zelda Lin, a handful of talented proof readers, and the good people from World Scientific Publishing Company, my dream of combining my loves of math, art, and teaching into a book is finally a reality.

This book is the first of its kind, a recipe book of algorithms that can be used and combined to generate colorful patterns in peyote stitch beadwork in any size and shape you desire. These algorithms could also be applied to other pixelated art forms like tile laying, embroidery, crochet, and quilts. We included projects like bracelets, pill pouches, pendants, beaded beads, and key chains. We also included a bunch of different grids that you can photocopy and color with markers.

Of course I’m biased, but I think it’s a really beautiful book. We included multiple colorful images on almost every page, 172 pages in all. It was a huge layout challenge, but Zelda nailed it. My original goal was to write 128 pages on how to use algorithms to make beaded jewelry, but the more we explored the space, the more we found. Not just millions of algorithms, the space of possibilities is infinite. So of course, we couldn’t include them all. But we used math and Roger’s custom software that he wrote for this project to help us find dozens of the easiest algorithms and more than a hundred more in increasing levels of complexity. We included all of our favorites. 1/2

#MathArt #beading #Genuary #math #beadweaving

This is my tiny delight for #today,
maybe yours too? :neofox_hug_haj_heart:

#haiku