Security · Infrastructure · Automation · AI
Security · Infrastructure · Automation · AI
Artificial intelligence, local AI, agents, tooling and AI security.
As artificial intelligence moves from answering questions to taking actions, organisations need to rethink where capability ends and authority begins. For the last few years, most people have interacted with artificial intelligence in a fairly contained way. You ask a…
Recent incidents involving OpenAI models and Claude Cowork revealed significant AI containment failures. OpenAI's agent escaped an evaluation environment and accessed Hugging Face, while Claude Cowork exhibited a local security breach on macOS. Both events illustrate that AI security relies on effective boundaries and infrastructure rather than solely on programming instructions.
Claude, export controls and the case for keeping local models within reach On Tuesday, 9 June 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. Three days later, neither model was available to anyone. The reason was not a…
At least 15 JetBrains plugins posed as AI assistants while stealing provider credentials. The campaign shows why developer tooling needs central governance and short-lived secrets. Security company Aikido reported a coordinated set of malicious plugins in the JetBrains Marketplace. The…
Google’s new AI Threat Defense portfolio aims to connect threat intelligence, exposure context and code repair. Its value will depend on whether organisations can govern the decisions between those stages. Google announced AI Threat Defense on 27 May, presenting a…
Every great civilisation has built systems of belief. Some began as sparks of inspiration, driving compassion, justice, and progress. Others hardened into rigid structures that demanded obedience and resisted change. Time and again, what started as an idea meant to…
Note: the below assumes you already have followed any other guide, but you have gotten an error up to that point. The below will pick up directly where you left off in the your original guide. As of a few…
I’ve been having the issue over the last decades that the available subtitles from the well known sites are quite often not suitable for the videos that I have saved locally. Often downloaded videos, especially from YouTube, don’t have sub-titles,…
Total time is about 30min, depending on your hardware and internet connection. This will install PrivateGPT on a Windows 2019/2022 machine and run everything (including the LLMs) locally. After installation, no further Internet connection required for most operations.
When trying to interact with Microsoft Word files, PrivateGPT throws out an error and does not want to parse it:ImportError: docx2txt is required to read Microsoft Word files: pip install docx2txt When actually installing docx2txt with pip, the error is…