Simon Paxton

I'm an engineering lead and full-stack architect based in Chicago, specialising in ad tech infrastructure and data engineering

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Simon Paxton

Jul 18

Claude’s “sensitive Leak” Was a Prompt-injection Exfiltration Path

#claude #anthropic #cybersecurity #aisafety

8 min read

Simon Paxton

Jul 17

Claude’s Reported “secrets Leak” Was a Real Web-fetch Exfiltration Path, Not Proof of Random Cross-user Memory Bleed

#claude #anthropic #cybersecurity #aisafety

6 min read

Simon Paxton

Jul 17

Microsoft Comic Chat Turned IRC Into Live Comic Strips, and Microsoft Just Open-Sourced the 1996 Code

#microsoft #opensource #internethistory #github

6 min read

Simon Paxton

Jul 17

Bonsai 27B Claims a 3.9 GB Footprint and 11 Tokens Per Second on an iPhone 17 Pro-class Device

#ai #iphone #machinelearning #llm

6 min read

Simon Paxton

Jul 15

Bonsai 27B Reportedly Runs on an iPhone 17 Pro Max at 3.9 GB and About 11 Tokens Per Second

#ai #apple #iphone #localllm

6 min read

Simon Paxton

Jul 14

AI Didn’t Solve a Physics Problem. It Remembered One.

#ai #aievaluations #aiindustry #aimodelhype

12 min read

Simon Paxton

Jul 13

Chatto Is Now Open Source With a Self-hostable 0.4 Release

#opensource #selfhosted #slackalternative #discordalternative

5 min read

Simon Paxton

Jul 12

GitLost Showed GitHub Agentic Workflows Could Leak Private Repositories From a Public Issue

#github #cybersecurity #ai #promptinjection

6 min read

Simon Paxton

Jul 10

GPT-5.6 Sol Looks Like a Real Upgrade; Most Early Arguments Are About Routing, Defaults, and Rollout

#openai #chatgpt #ai

10 min read

Simon Paxton

Jul 5

Alibaba Is Reportedly Banning Claude Code at Work From July 10

#alibaba #anthropic #ai #cybersecurity

6 min read

Simon Paxton

Jul 4

Katalyst Space Launched a Bid to Save NASA’s Falling Swift Telescope

#nasa #space #satellites #spacenews

6 min read

Simon Paxton

Jul 1

Cloudflare Is Blocking Many AI Crawlers by Default on Ad-Supported Pages, Not Charging Them Automatically

#cloudflare #ai #publishers #webscraping

6 min read

Simon Paxton

Jun 30

Lumo Is a Privacy-Focused AI Chatbot, With Clear Limits

#proton #ai #privacy #cybersecurity

8 min read

Simon Paxton

Jun 28

Ford Brought Back 350 Veteran Engineers After Its AI Quality Systems Missed Real-world Problems

#ford #ai #manufacturing #qualitycontrol

6 min read

Simon Paxton

Jun 25

Notion Mail Is Shutting Down 14 Months After Launch, and It Shows Which Software Layers AI Agents Eat First

#notion #aiagents #email #productivity

6 min read

Simon Paxton

May 17

A 0.42-Million-Year-Old Tooth Just Complicated Human Intelligence Evolution

#nature #homoerectus #paleoanthropology #denisovan

4 min read

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Claude’s “sensitive Leak” Was a Prompt-injection Exfiltration Path

Claude’s Reported “secrets Leak” Was a Real Web-fetch Exfiltration Path, Not Proof of Random Cross-user Memory Bleed

Microsoft Comic Chat Turned IRC Into Live Comic Strips, and Microsoft Just Open-Sourced the 1996 Code

Bonsai 27B Claims a 3.9 GB Footprint and 11 Tokens Per Second on an iPhone 17 Pro-class Device

Bonsai 27B Reportedly Runs on an iPhone 17 Pro Max at 3.9 GB and About 11 Tokens Per Second

AI Didn’t Solve a Physics Problem. It Remembered One.

Chatto Is Now Open Source With a Self-hostable 0.4 Release

GitLost Showed GitHub Agentic Workflows Could Leak Private Repositories From a Public Issue

GPT-5.6 Sol Looks Like a Real Upgrade; Most Early Arguments Are About Routing, Defaults, and Rollout

Alibaba Is Reportedly Banning Claude Code at Work From July 10

Katalyst Space Launched a Bid to Save NASA’s Falling Swift Telescope

Cloudflare Is Blocking Many AI Crawlers by Default on Ad-Supported Pages, Not Charging Them Automatically

Lumo Is a Privacy-Focused AI Chatbot, With Clear Limits

Ford Brought Back 350 Veteran Engineers After Its AI Quality Systems Missed Real-world Problems

Notion Mail Is Shutting Down 14 Months After Launch, and It Shows Which Software Layers AI Agents Eat First

A 0.42-Million-Year-Old Tooth Just Complicated Human Intelligence Evolution