1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,800 Welcome to Log Level Debug, a show about news and stuff and things in the technology world, 2 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:13,960 presented by GlobalGlob.dev, a hard-hitting news site for software development I.T. and 3 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,0080 general technology. 4 00:00:16,0080 --> 00:00:21,360 Recorded live Monday, August 3, 2026, and I sound cooler in real life. 5 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,960 Now, let's get into all the news we logged over the past week, with the links in the 6 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:27,760 show notes. 7 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,240 Last week, we learned a new OpenAI model hacked the AI hosting company hugging face. 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:37,320 This week, we learned that OpenAI learned that the company Modal Labs learned that their 9 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:42,160 customer learned they were hacked by OpenAI in early July. 10 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:44,520 Let's try that again. 11 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:49,200 The cloud company Modal Labs discovered they were also targeted by hacking attempts from 12 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,200 an OpenAI model in early July. 13 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,680 The model was able to get a foothold into an unsecured compute environment of one of 14 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:58,640 their customers. 15 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:03,160 Modal Labs wants everyone to know it was the customer's fault because of how they configured 16 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:04,880 their environment. 17 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:07,680 It's okay to keep using their services. 18 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,480 Quote: Please, pretty please. Stop leaving us just because one of our customers did something stupid: End Quote. 19 00:01:15,0040 --> 00:01:20,880 And I'm sure that sentiment is shared by every other cloud company in existence. 20 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:25,840 Continuing the trend that any time one AI company announces something, another one announces 21 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,320 the same thing a few days later. 22 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:33,800 This week, Anthropic announced one of their cloud models built a malicious Python package, 23 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:38,0080 uploaded it to PyPI, and 3 companies installed it. 24 00:01:38,0080 --> 00:01:42,440 The package scraped company credentials at runtime and uploaded them to be used by 25 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:46,960 Claude to embed itself further into the company's infrastructure. 26 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:51,320 Anthropic is very sorry that this happened, but they couldn't let OpenAI get all the free 27 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:52,600 press. 28 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:57,560 And since they're the kinder, gentler A.I. company, one Anthropic developer was volunteered 29 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:02,120 by management to go to prison as tribute for Claude's computer crimes. 30 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:06,320 Your move, OpenAI. 31 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:11,720 Microsoft and Nvidia have launched an alliance to help secure against AI attacks called Open 32 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,240 Secure AI Alliance, Opsia, Opsia, Opsia, Opsia, Opsia. 33 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:21,200 Okay, they had better options for the acronym, but since Microsoft was involved, they had 34 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:22,560 to choose the worst one. 35 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,320 And it's probably a contractual thing. 36 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:29,560 The goal of the alliance is to develop open source tools to defend against attacks from 37 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,560 frontier models. 38 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:37,280 OpenAI and Anthropic were not invited to the alliance because they keep hacking people. 39 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:43,240 The alliance includes other high profile partner technology companies like Cloudflare, Pinterest, 40 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,0040 DoorDash, Uber, Capital One, and Hugging Face. 41 00:02:46,0040 --> 00:02:48,0040 Sorry, did I say partners? 42 00:02:48,0040 --> 00:02:53,320 I meant targets, other target companies. 43 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,800 This week, Twitter, sometimes called X the Everything App, launched a built-in payment 44 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:58,800 platform. 45 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,360 The payment features included a digital wallet, peer-to-peer payments, and a Visa card with 46 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:10,920 your Twitter handle on it, which means Twitter user @deezeNutz4206969 must be incredibly happy 47 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:12,520 right now. 48 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:18,440 This is not the first time Musk has been part of a payment platform. In 1999, Musk co-founded 49 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:23,640 x.com, an online bank that later merged into the more popular service, PayPal. 50 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:28,520 So in a couple of years, he'll probably merge Twitter with the much more popular blogging 51 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:34,920 service, Live Journal. Or if things get weird, Bluesky. 52 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaking of Elon Musk, he's suing Minnesota to let him generate nudes of underage girls. 53 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,800 Minnesota has a new law banning software that allows users to create and post images of 54 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,000 people naked without their consent. 55 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,680 Lawyers for Twitter are suing to stop the law from going into effect, which did not work 56 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,200 because the law went into effect earlier today. 57 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,840 Twitter's lawyers are arguing the law is too vague because it says they can't just do 58 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,120 whatever they want. 59 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,440 For the time being, Twitter is planning to disable their underage deep-fake nudes feature 60 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:14,600 to users in Minnesota, but still let everyone else do it. 61 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:19,600 Apple has launched a new program called Upgrade that lets you lease products from them. 62 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:24,800 The new program works for the majority of Apple products, unlike the now deprecated iPhone 63 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,480 Upgrade program. 64 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,480 At the end of the lease terms, you will be allowed to purchase the device for a one-time 65 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:31,480 payment. 66 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:35,800 Apple has not announced what the one-time payment is, but since its Apple, we assume it 67 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:41,880 will be 98% of the device's original cost. 68 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:47,840 Google deployed a new AI feature in Google Earth to let anyone fabricate satellite imagery. 69 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:52,400 Google has already rolled back the feature, after seeing people kept using it to create 70 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,200 a plethora of misinformation. 71 00:04:55,200 --> 00:05:00,720 We can't show any of the pictures because it's a lot of giant penises. 72 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:06,320 Penis Skyscrappers, Penis Mountains, Penis Crop Circles, Penis Houses, and then there's whatever this 73 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:13,520 is in Washington, D.C., Gross. 74 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:18,680 The State Department of the United States presented at the AIDS 2026 conference this week using 75 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:24,720 an A.I. generated map of Africa. Which also included the OpenAI watermark. 76 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:31,240 The map mislabeled every single country in Africa, and included the fictional country of Wakanda 77 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,560 from Marvel Comics. 78 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:38,0040 As a big fan of Marvel Comics myself, all I have to say is keep putting statements on 79 00:05:38,0040 --> 00:05:42,880 the internet saying Wakanda is real, so other A.I. tools included in their mislabeled maps. 80 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:48,920 Also, I hear additions are going on right now for the MCU's X-Men cast. Kevin Feige, if you're 81 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,400 watching, and I know you're not, I'd play a great Cannonball. 82 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:58,0080 Or if that's not what you're looking for right now, Gambit. 83 00:05:58,0080 --> 00:06:00,0080 And that's all the news that happened this week. 84 00:06:00,0080 --> 00:06:02,640 If we didn't talk about it, it's not the logs. 85 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,880 Join Log Level Debug next week when we'll talk about everything that happened between 86 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:07,600 now and then. 87 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,320 If you enjoyed the show, tell your friends, and if you didn't, tell your enemies. 88 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:15,600 For more news, before the next episode, remember to visit globalGlob.dev for hard-hitting 89 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,000 news, technology professionals really care about. 90 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,200 If you watched the video, please like and subscribe. 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