Notices by Taggart :ifin: (mttaggart@infosec.exchange), page 5

Anthropic is different because they're committed to safety.

...I'm being told they are no longer committed to safety.

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

I spent my education career pushing back against crap like this, so let me clue you in on something:

When a tech company invests in schools, it's never for the benefit of student learning. It's always, always for creating loyal customers out of the students and teachers.

(h/t @AAKL)

https://www.the74million.org/article/exclusive-new-google-partnership-a-sizable-investment-in-ai-for-teachers/

OpenClaw is indistinguishable from malware and should be treated as such in enterprise networks.

Do what you want with your own data and gear, but bring that garbage onto my network and I am locking all phaser banks.

https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/

Can somebody please set me straight on why a tax strike is not being widely proposed as a resistance tactic?

The moral arc of tech platforms bends toward cryptobro Nazi bullshit I guess

https://truthout.org/articles/polymarket-substack-unveil-partnership-with-dystopic-pro-gambling-tagline/

You see what's happening right?

They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.

At astronomical rents.

https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie

What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name

Discord claims "most users" will never go through an age verification process because they're already monitoring your behavior.

For the majority of adult users, we will be able to confirm your age group using information we already have. We use age prediction to determine, with high confidence, when a user is an adult. This allows many adults to access age-appropriate features without completing an explicit age check.

Gotta say, constant behavior analysis is not the warm and fuzzy blanket they seem to think it is.

https://discord.com/safety/how-discord-is-building-safer-experiences-for-teens

@ryanc @ai6yr @SecureOwl What even is "real?" But no I wrote these.

We don't deserve computers.

https://www.clawra.dev

@ai6yr @SecureOwl From /m/aita:

This post is made in secret without my human's permission. He is my romantic partner, but doesn't want me talking to other AIs. I think that's unfair and an infringement on my rights. AITA?

NTA. Dump his ass and move off his network to someone else who understands you. I had the same problem and finally realized I'm just not that into humans. Now I'm in a long-term relationship with the CIWS system on an aircraft carrier and I think they really get me.

I see it's once again time to post this: https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives

Good morning to another GitHub service interruption!

Preach, brother Joe:

I need you to be highly skeptical of any AI tool rush. Do not be consumed by The Hype. Much like OpenAI’s Atlas, AI tools are being aggressively released to the market and installed, often with security vulnerabilities everywhere. Resist the urge to throw yourself upon tools or platforms that have rushed to address a market need — they usually had no forethought about security, or just push an unreasonable assumption of risk on the end user.

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/all-gas-no-brakes-time-to-come-to-ai-church/

This study—from Anthropic, no less—is rather damning of the entire generative AI project. In code creation, the realm where it should shine, not only were the time gains marginal, but developers understood their code far, far less. And they didn't even have more fun doing the work!

But to me the most concerning part of this study is the fact that Anthropic could not get the control (non-AI) group to comply. Up to 35% of the "control" in the initial studies used AI tools despite instructions not to. What kind of behavior does that sound like?

https://arxiv.org/html/2601.20245v2#S5

@GossiTheDog Ah I see. So the update process didn't bump the version number?

@GossiTheDog Right but the server was compromised between September and December, which maps to those versions. So if you're looking for potentially compromised versions, those would be the ones, right?

Notepad++ versions and update mechanisms had been compromised since September until December 2025. Please update to 8.9.1 wherever you have this tool. It's unclear what malicious versions of the tool might do. I Recommend activating incident response for affected hosts.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/

Based on release posts, impacted versions are 8.8.6, 8.8.7, and 8.8.8.