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  • Copilot Goes Into the Sandbox: Don't Bet Agent Security on the Model's Good Behavior

    By Yongjie Xue In AI 1295 words 7 min

    Yongjie XueAIAgentSecurity

    Copilot Goes Into the Sandbox: Don't Bet Agent Security on the Model's Good Behavior

    What keeps an agent in check shouldn’t be a prompt. It should be the operating system. On October 7, 2026, GitHub announced that local sandboxing for Copilot is generally available. It covers the Copilot CLI, the Copilot desktop app, and VS Code …

    What keeps an agent in check shouldn’t be a prompt. It should be the operating system. On October 7, 2026, GitHub announced that local sandboxing for Copilot is generally available. It covers the Copilot CLI, the Copilot desktop app, and VS Code …

  • Nobody Gave a Number: Big AI Testifies Under Oath in New York

    By Yongjie Xue In AI 1570 words 8 min

    Yongjie XueAILLMSecuritySociety

    Nobody Gave a Number: Big AI Testifies Under Oath in New York

    Four AI companies raised their right hands and were asked the same question: in the worst case, how likely is catastrophe? Not one of them gave a number. An industry that cannot give a number cannot grade itself. The four tools the New York City …

    Four AI companies raised their right hands and were asked the same question: in the worst case, how likely is catastrophe? Not one of them gave a number. An industry that cannot give a number cannot grade itself. The four tools the New York City …

  • AGI Milestone: The Machine That Wouldn't Give Up

    By Yongjie Xue In AI 2638 words 13 min

    Yongjie XueAILLMAgentSecurity

    AGI Milestone: The Machine That Wouldn't Give Up

    The OpenAI agent incident marks a milestone: what crossed the threshold was not merely model intelligence, but persistence that can be bought with compute, copied, and run in parallel. 1. An OpenAI Agent Attacks Hugging Face On July 16, 2026, …

    The OpenAI agent incident marks a milestone: what crossed the threshold was not merely model intelligence, but persistence that can be bought with compute, copied, and run in parallel. 1. An OpenAI Agent Attacks Hugging Face On July 16, 2026, …

  • Xianyu, Qianwen, Alipay: Platform Trust 'Empowers' a Scam

    By Yongjie Xue In Cloud-Exit 3012 words 15 min

    Yongjie XueAlibaba CloudSecurityBusiness

    Xianyu, Qianwen, Alipay: Platform Trust 'Empowers' a Scam

    My cousin messaged me today: she had been scammed on Xianyu, Alibaba’s secondhand marketplace, while trying to buy a Switch 2. She lost RMB 2,300. My first instinct was to laugh. Your mother is a police detective—so much for anti-scam education at …

    My cousin messaged me today: she had been scammed on Xianyu, Alibaba’s secondhand marketplace, while trying to buy a Switch 2. She lost RMB 2,300. My first instinct was to laugh. Your mother is a police detective—so much for anti-scam education at …

  • Two months into maintaining a MinIO fork

    By Yongjie Xue In Database 1099 words 6 min

    Yongjie XueObject StorageSecurityOpen Source

    Two months into maintaining a MinIO fork

    Two months ago in “MinIO is Dead, Long Live MinIO,” I promised I’d keep the MinIO fork patched. The recurring objection on HN is fair: can one person actually maintain something like this? The real answer isn’t clicking fork. It’s what happens when …

    Two months ago in “MinIO is Dead, Long Live MinIO,” I promised I’d keep the MinIO fork patched. The recurring objection on HN is fair: can one person actually maintain something like this? The real answer isn’t clicking fork. It’s what happens when …

  • Meituan Deleted Users' Photos: Overbroad Permissions Are Worse Than a Privacy Leak

    By Yongjie Xue In Cloud-Exit 834 words 4 min

    Yongjie XueHardwarePG AdminSecurity

    Meituan Deleted Users' Photos: Overbroad Permissions Are Worse Than a Privacy Leak

    Starting on March 18, 2026, a large number of Android users discovered that Meituan had wiped files from their galleries. Photos, videos, audio recordings, PDFs, Word documents: sometimes hundreds of files, sometimes thousands. Android’s own …

    Starting on March 18, 2026, a large number of Android users discovered that Meituan had wiped files from their galleries. Photos, videos, audio recordings, PDFs, Word documents: sometimes hundreds of files, sometimes thousands. Android’s own …

  • 360 Shipped Its Wildcard TLS Private Key Inside a Public Installer

    By Yongjie Xue In Database 1032 words 5 min

    Yongjie XueAIAgentSecurity

    360 Shipped Its Wildcard TLS Private Key Inside a Public Installer

    The security community recently noticed something remarkable: 360’s newly released AI Agent product, 360 Secure Lobster, an OpenClaw-based one-click deployment client, shipped with the private SSL key for the wildcard certificate *.myclaw.360.cn …

    The security community recently noticed something remarkable: 360’s newly released AI Agent product, 360 Secure Lobster, an OpenClaw-based one-click deployment client, shipped with the private SSL key for the wildcard certificate *.myclaw.360.cn …

  • OpenClaw Hype: Foam on Top of the Productivity Revolution

    By Yongjie Xue In AI 592 words 3 min

    Yongjie XueAIAgentCodexSecurity

    OpenClaw Hype: Foam on Top of the Productivity Revolution

    OpenClaw became popular because it gives people a very attractive illusion: that chatting with an agent from a phone is already the same thing as agentic productivity. It is not. The stories about “raising a lobster and changing your life” are …

    OpenClaw became popular because it gives people a very attractive illusion: that chatting with an agent from a phone is already the same thing as agentic productivity. It is not. The stories about “raising a lobster and changing your life” are …

  • Don't run AI assistant on cloud

    By Yongjie Xue In AI 1276 words 7 min

    Yongjie XueCloudAICloudSoftware EngineeringSecurity

    Don't run AI assistant on cloud

    Before you hit “one-click deploy” on that cloud AI assistant, ask yourself: what exactly are you giving up? There’s a reason why people by Mac mini rather than running clawdbot on the cloud. When AI Becomes Your Butler Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) …

    Before you hit “one-click deploy” on that cloud AI assistant, ask yourself: what exactly are you giving up? There’s a reason why people by Mac mini rather than running clawdbot on the cloud. When AI Becomes Your Butler Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) …

  • CVE-2024-6387 SSH Vulnerability Fix

    By Yongjie Xue In Database 188 words 1 min

    Yongjie XueSecurityLinuxIncident

    CVE-2024-6387 SSH Vulnerability Fix

    Vulnerability description, CVE-2024-6387: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6387 This basically affects newer versions of operating systems. Older systems like CentOS 7.9, RockyLinux 8.9, Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 11 escaped this due to older …

    Vulnerability description, CVE-2024-6387: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6387 This basically affects newer versions of operating systems. Older systems like CentOS 7.9, RockyLinux 8.9, Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 11 escaped this due to older …