There are finally some real-world consequences for the Shai-Hulud npm attacks: Australian Federal Police and the FBI arrested two men behind TeamPCP, a group that's been running supply chain attacks using npm since last year. Meanwhile, the open source acquihire train rolls on as Shopify buys Tailwind CSS. In Lightning News the WordPress/WP Engine saga returns as Matt Mullenweg is ousted as Automattic CEO, an Anthropic researcher quits with a warning that AI could kill us all inside a decade, and OpenAI claims it cracked a millennium math problem with 10,000 agents and 88 hours of compute.

Timestamps

  • 0:00 - Intro
  • 1:08 - Shopify buys Tailwind
  • 7:24 - Two men arrested for Shai-Hulud hacks
  • 15:35 - Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg placed on leave of absence
  • 23:37 - AI researchers think AI will kill us all
  • 32:04 - OpenAI cracks a math millennium problem
  • 39:44 - What's making us happy

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