About this episode
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
News
- Paige: Shopify buys Tailwind
- TJ: Two men arrested for the TeamPCP Shai-Hulud supply chain attacks on npm
Lightning News
- Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg placed on leave of absence
- AI researchers think AI will kill us all
- OpenAI cracks math millennium problem
What's Making Us Happy
- Paige: Reacher TV series
- TJ: Wake Up Dead Man movie
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