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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One Quick Question, and the Task Was Gone
Asking an agent a quick question in the middle of a job used to cost you the job: in the VanillaCore Agent Harness, the question replaced the saved task. Core #115 keeps the earlier task alive until it finishes, runs out of its limits or is explicitly stopped, and the old version fails the new regression tests.
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The Image Shipped, and My Agent Never Noticed
My agent waited for a new image of my harness, the image shipped, and the update sat untouched until I asked again. The overnight fix is an alarm clock with a deadline, and the woken agent has to check before it acts.
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The VanillaCore Harness Stops Taking an Agent's "Done" at Face Value
When an agent reports "done", you cannot tell from the outside whether it finished or simply stopped. Three VanillaCore Harness fixes now check a model's own "completed" against the original task, give a task stranded by a restart one bounded assessment, and let returned results move work forward only under the authority it started with.
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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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