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Amodei's plan to slow AI, a 370-year-old cipher falls, Storm's root flaw - September 13, 2026

The frontier labs spent the day asking to be paced, while their models cracked a 17th-century cipher and turned up a root-level flaw in Apache Storm.

Chapters

  1. Intro

  2. Fable 5.1 solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

    https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
  3. Apache Storm Worker Launcher: local privilege escalation to root

    https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/737
  4. Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work

    https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/astra-running-routes/
  5. Chess.com (2026) - 4,653,212 breached accounts

    https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Chess2026
  6. Sign-off