This week in the Wild West Roundup:
...egister: Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users.
Topic: Microsoft
16 mentions · 16 chunks · 14 episodes
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- Microsoft appears in 16 chunks across 14 episodes, from 2024-02-12 to 2026-04-20.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 8/11/25 (2025-08-11), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with Google, wild west roundup, and wild west, while by chunk count it sits between security model and adaptive system; its yearly rank moved from #85 in 2024 to #74 in 2026.
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This week's Wild West roundup is a doozy:
...gravity. hackerbot-claw: An AI-Powered Bot Actively Exploiting GitHub Actions - Microsoft, DataDog, and CNCF Projects Hit So Far Also covered in this Twitter post: trust your inputs, lose your repo. Malicious OpenClaw Skills Used to Distri...
This week in the Wild West roundup.
...rself! Good luck!" Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails. Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack that Silently Steals Your Personal Data
I loved this Hank Green video on ChatGPT, with Nate Soares, the author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
... it's entirely in the domain of corporations. Imagine how insane it would be if Microsoft had a nuclear weapons department. That would obviously be bad! The chance of society rushing forward recklessly on this is 100%. Musk: "I didn't get ...
This week in the wild west roundup:
...lt an AI Prompt Injection Attack Demo : Here's What Every Developer Should Know Microsoft 365 Copilot allows arbitrary data exfiltration via Mermaid diagrams. Google Gemini's own demo breaks Google's own captchas without asking the user fo...
Google culture in its golden era was downstream of the dotcom bust.
...t. A massively profitable business when no one else was doing anything. Not the Microsoft style "do the same crap as everyone else but in our suite" but "rethink what is possible, do only what no one else could even dream of doing but ever...
Once you are tied to a category, it's hard to escape it.
...n the new one, not despite their previous success, but because of it. Nokia and Microsoft pursued the wrong strategies because they thought they had advantages that ultimately didn't matter in the face of a new paradigm."
Writely (the precursor to Google Docs) didn't compete with Microsoft Word on features.
Writely (the precursor to Google Docs) didn't compete with Microsoft Word on features. It changed the battleground fundamentally. The killer feature was collaboration in the cloud. A classic disruption story.
AI is to Apple as the internet was to Microsoft.
AI is to Apple as the internet was to Microsoft. From Strachery this week: "Everyone used the Internet on Windows PCs, but it was the Internet that created the conditions for the paradigm that woul...
Great quote from Stratechery this week:
...at trying to keep AI in a box in its current paradigm will one day be seen like Microsoft trying to keep the Internet locked to its devices: fruitless to start, and fatal in the end."
Games have a higher bar to meet than utility software.
Games have a higher bar to meet than utility software. You have to keep using Microsoft Word even if you don't like it, because it is a means to an end. The end might be for example turning in a report the boss asked for. You will slog t...
ChatGPT could conceivably turn out to be prosumer, not consumer.
ChatGPT could conceivably turn out to be prosumer, not consumer. More like Microsoft Word than Instagram.
Confidential compute is only part of the story.
...he hardware. But it also verifiably locks the cloud host (think Google, Amazon, Microsoft) out from peeking at what is happening. But the risk factor that most people care about as a user is not so much the cloud host, but the service prov...
Apple has made a "sustaining innovation" bet on AI.
...nts removes some of the oxygen in the room for disruptors. This was a play that Microsoft did with browsers back in the day. Apple has done the "simply cut out the edge cases" opinionated cut, which creates a radically simpler thing than a...
Sometimes overly-ambitious technical projects that fail still provide value indirectly.
... go on and be useful inspiration for more realistic systems later. For example: Microsoft's Cairo in the 90's, which gave COM, Plug-and-Play, and others. Google Wave, which gave Operational Transform. Google Turquoise These kinds of high-p...
Microsoft shows how a suite-based approach allows them to be well positioned in multiple eras.
Microsoft shows how a suite-based approach allows them to be well positioned in multiple eras. Which products in the suite are the most important changes, and ...