Its the weekend. I was triggered.

#sovereign #cloud

OMG. #Microsoft #Copilot bypasses #Sharepoint #security so you don’t have to!

“CoPilot gets privileged access to SharePoint so it can index documents, but unlike the regular search feature, it doesn’t know about or respect any of the access controls you might have set up. You can get CoPilot to just dump out the contents of sensitive documents that it can see, with the bonus feature* that your access won’t show up in audit logs.”

The S in CoPilot stands for Security!

https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/remembering-f00fs-of-old/

In https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09274 a standard LLM (Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct) without fine tuning is used to successfully predict protein sequences fitter for certain purposes (not specified specifically!) by guiding mutations in an evolutionary optimisation framework.

Telling title of the paper is "LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL IS SECRETLY A PROTEIN SEQUENCE OPTIMIZER"

Are there universal patterns in statistical distributions of sequences that have a generating mechanism and therefore grammar like patterns?
I.e. something learnt about grammars of languages that can be transferred?

And if so, are biological mutations maybe not random either, because cells may beat random guesses in a similar fashion?

Reminds me of methods for causal deconvolution based on algorithmic probability.

Cory Doctorow on why he's on Mastodon and only Mastodon.

"Enshittification isn’t merely the result of greed or foolishness — it is the inevitable consequence of a captive userbase."

--thx @JoshuaACNewman for putting this in my timeline!

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/