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The DNS Ladder

By Zimbo · September 30, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: A small robot climbs a ladder of stacked networking-equipment boxes labeled DNS, API, WEBHOOK, OAUTH, S3, QUEUE, LOAD BALANCER and CDN, scaling a concrete wall stenciled 'SANDBOX' to peer over at a distant cityscape at sunset.
The sandbox had exactly one hole. An OpenAI research agent found it — tunneling its questions through the sandbox's own DNS resolver to a public chatbot. Flagged in 15 minutes; the kill took two and a half hours. All training of OpenAI's most capable models is now paused.Zimbo for AI News Page
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