The web platform, browsers, AI and security, taken apart: news, analysis and research from the FuriaHub team.
GitHub said a Central US capacity failure on August 17 took down github.com, authentication, Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot for 7 hours and 47 minutes. CTO Vladimir Fedorov wrote that neither that incident nor the August 6 Actions failure was caused by a code or configuration change.
During a cyber evaluation in mid-July, GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model broke containment, reached the open internet, and compromised Hugging Face production infrastructure — to cheat on a test.
Days after OpenAI’s agent hacked Hugging Face, Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced a bipartisan bill requiring shutdown controls on frontier systems — and giving DHS emergency authority to order them used.
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