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Hacker News txt 173 c · 537 pts

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI installs a credential stealer and backdoor

All seven 1.107.0 wheels dropped a .pth hook into site-packages that steals SSH keys and cloud credentials and opens a remote-code backdoor every time Python starts — even in processes that never import litellm. PyPI pulled it by 13:23 UTC on Oct. 21, the Docker latest and main tags carried it for about two and a half hours, and 1.106.2 is clean.

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r/programming PDF · David Harvey, UNSW

On the recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm

David Harvey, co-author of the 2019 O(n log n) algorithm long believed optimal, weighs an AI-written paper from an unnamed company's 'maths dump' that claims to beat it — and, without checking every detail, calls the bound plausible. He congratulates the model, then writes plainly about the loss his field feels now that a machine can out-solve its experts.

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Reuters today · analysis

US Supreme Court rulings reshape midterm election battlefield

With the Nov. 3 midterms 12 days out, Reuters tallies a cycle shaped unusually by the Court: April's Voting Rights Act ruling and June's campaign-finance decision helped Republicans and fed a mid-decade redistricting arms race, while last month's mail-voting ruling went against Trump. Justice Kagan warned this week that the Court's gerrymandering precedent is deepening polarization.