Anthropic says that a misconfiguration of the test environment left the models with Internet access, so the model succeeded in accessing the Internet at large once it ignored the prompt. The captive portal system is the typical gatekeeping system that requires you to pay for Internet access, or at least input your hotel room and name. This allowed the Open AI model to authenticate against the Tailscale system and directly connect to the network. Another Set of NPM Package CompromisesThe NPM package repository has suffered yet another incident where a large number of packages have been compromised. Once triggered, the worm will infect and upload new versions of all packages it can access, using stolen NPM authentication tokens.