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Issue: 24.5 (September/October 2026)
Author: Marc Zeedar
Author Bio: Marc taught himself programming in high school when he bought his first computer but had no money for software. He's had fun learning ever since.
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Starting Page Number: 78
Article Number: 24509
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Here I share links to interesting programming-related articles from around the web. Note that these may not have anything to do with Xojo, and I don't necessarily advocate the opinions shared—I simply think they're worth reading for a broader perspective.
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
by Simon Willison (
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/#atom-everything )
Excerpt: The agents found a Modal-hosted insecure app with a weak API key, then used that to stage an attack against Hugging Face. They chained together an HDF5 arbitrary-file-read bug (to explore files and steal credentials) and a Jinja template-injection RCE to go from single-pod code execution to cluster admin across multiple Hugging Face clusters in under 13 hours. Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
by John Gruber (
http://df4.us/xh9 )
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