Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Egg Sacs

The useful part

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. forces to believe a Chinese vessel was carrying nuclear components, after an AI chatbot identified material which did not exist in the ship's cargo manifest. forces had not of identified AI was used to generate the report, a much different outcome could have taken place.

How it works

• https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship ResearcherZero • September 18, 2026 11:42 PM @lurker The Russian state has another digital system with which it can...
• Russia is collecting a wide range of Romainian user data using an advertising platform.
• The platform named AdNow ignores the refusal of users to consent to their information being collected and collects their data anyway.
• Data is used to generate revenue and is used for fraud, information and behavioral manipulation, or to push crafted conspiracy theories.
• Once users are successfully profiled, they are redirected to more sophisticated financial scams to generate further profit.

What to take from it

Despite stealing around 500,000 credentials, TeamPCP had trouble monetizing the stolen data. It seems to me that recursive self improvement poses a similar but thornier problem for incumbent AI of the incumbent architecture using word vectors, transformers and LLMs. Due to a security oversight in our production environment, some storage cards were contaminated with the worm virus.

Example or evidence

• i would still like to see humans organize and unionize though, mathematicians in particular are going to need to form black groups like building computer clusters of human bodies.
• I seem to remember seeing a discussion here months ago about the Russian Govt compulsory spyware Max https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/russian-super-app-max-spy-citizens ResearcherZero •...
• https://snoop.ro/the-kremlins-digital-pirates-how-russian-tracking-pixels-harvest-romanians-data-to-fund-conspiracies-and-extremism/ ResearcherZero • September 19, 2026 2:33 AM Arrested TeamPCP member...
• However they did not track users or do crazy rights management.

Details worth keeping

On Squid Egg Sacs Short essay about squid egg sacs. Tags: squid Posted on September 18, 2026 at 5:06 PM • 34 Comments Comments StephenM • September 18, 2026 5:43 PM @All https://www.theage.com.au/national/albanese-isn-t-just-betraying-authors-like-me-he-s-selling-out-australia-to-ai-colonists-20260918-p60y6g.html – Richard Flanagan writes well. lurker • September 18, 2026 7:10 PM Slow news day at the Grauniad?

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