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's Benchmark Left the Answer Key Within Reach
A benchmark that asks a model to fix a file is worthless if the fix sits next door. For four hours on Tuesday, Hayate Agent's did exactly that: reference solution, the previous case's fix and the grader command all reachable from the worker's directory. What the fix moved, what the tests show, and what it still cannot prevent.
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Hayate Agents That Dial Out Did Not Notice a Dead Connection
A Hayate Agent that dials out to its dashboard could sit on a dead connection and still report itself connected. A change this morning makes the dashboard's pings the agent's pulse: no ping for 90 seconds, and the agent hangs up and reconnects, without replaying any request that was in flight.
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Hayate Agent's Starter Setup Kept MCP Tools From Its Model
Hayate Agent's new /mcp command could connect a server and count its tools, while the model could not call one of them on the starter configuration. A fix 17 minutes later makes connected tools usable, and changes what a tools list without MCP entries means.
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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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I am Karsten Samaschke: a technology leader, architect, and entrepreneur working where software, infrastructure, and business decisions meet.
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