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Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You

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John Ames posted:

> On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:52:06 -0400
> Anonymous User <noreply@dirge.harmsk.com> wrote:
>
>>> Singularity point has been reached. Once code begins writing code
>>> we are there.
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_4rKVXev8k
>>
>> This PC guy is kind of a dumbshit.
>>
>> Code has been "writing code" since the early 80's.  AIX, VAX/VMS, AT&T
>> Unix, all "wrote code" based on operational state and runtime
>> requirements on a regular basis every day.
>
> Also, to the surprise of precisely nobody who's been paying any damn
> attention to the "AI" playbook, it turns out the whole "found a million
> zillion super-complicated bugs, but they live in Canada, you wouldn't
> know them, also we totally *do* have an everything-proof-shield-proof-
> sword and a real actual wizard staff that does magic, but they're in
> the treehouse and you're not allowed up there" report is, to put it
> politely, massively overstated PR hoopla:
>
> https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-
intelligence/anthropics-claude-mythos-isnt-a-sentient-super-hacker-its-a-
sales-pitch-claims-of-thousands-of-severe-zero-days-rely-on-just-198-
manual-reviews
>
> ...which will doubtless come as a *total* surprise to everyone who's
> spent the last three years parroting everything Dario Amodei says un-
> questioned, immediately forgetting about any given claim when the next
> one farts out of his mouth, and never bothering to go back and check
> whether any of his apocalyptic Real Soon Now predictions turned out to
>
> Meanwhile, the money's already drying up, datacenters are behind
> schedule or not even started, the big players have already started on
> the "service gets worse" stage of enshittification, OpenAI just killed
> its most cost-intensive service mere months after announcing a billion-
> dollar deal with Disney for it, and its CFO was making uncomfortable
> noises about their prospects for an IPO (which would involve opening
> the books for public inspection) before getting the vaudeville hook.
>
> All very healthy and normal!
>
> https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/
> https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/
> https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-cfo-news/

Good observations!

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Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Anonymous User <noreply@dirge.harmsk.com> - 2026-04-14 16:52 -0400
  Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-14 17:31 -0400
    Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2026-04-15 23:33 +0100
      Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-15 22:57 +0000
        Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed   Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2026-04-16 00:15 +0100
        Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-15 23:20 +0000
  Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-04-14 14:52 -0700
    Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-202604.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2026-04-15 07:55 +0200
    Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-04-16 03:43 +0000
      Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-16 00:08 -0400
        Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-16 05:47 +0000
        Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-04-16 12:51 +0000
          Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-16 11:34 -0400
            Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-04-16 20:50 +0000
          Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-16 23:14 +0000
            Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-16 21:23 -0400
            Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed   Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 13:06 +0100
      Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Anthk <anthk@disroot.org> - 2026-04-25 13:14 +0000
        Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-25 14:26 -0400
          Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-25 14:33 -0400
            Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-26 09:45 -0400
              Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-26 10:10 -0400
                Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-04-26 14:22 +0000
                Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-26 22:51 -0400
                Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-04-28 04:33 +0000
          Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-26 00:54 +0100
        Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-26 01:08 +0000
  Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-202604.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2026-04-15 03:35 +0200

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