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Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
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Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the big AI companies. His comments came after one of his company’s safety experts resigned, saying at the weekend t...
The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?
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Humans are bad at writing secure code, and GNOME developers are no exception. GNOME is primarily written using unsafe programming languages where simple mistakes in our code lead to devastating consequences for our users, and we make these mistakes all the time. No matter how much we try, GNOME developers will fail write secure code when using unsafe languages like C, C++, or Vala: it’s just too h...
Europe's new robotics unicorn: Germany's RobCo hits $1B valuation
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- Munich-based RobCo has surpassed a $1 billion valuation through an employee secondary share sale, doubling its valuation in just nine months. - Existing investors including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Greenfield, Kindred, Lingotto and Promus Ventures participated alongside new backers Cherry Ventures and European Tech Collective. - RobCo is preparing to launch Alfie, its autonomous industrial robot, co...
Web Search API
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Introducing Web Search API Web Search API is now available in beta. Web Search API lets your AI agents and applications search the Internet and ground their responses in live information, instead of guessing URLs or relying on a model's training cutoff. At launch, you can choose between three search providers: Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup. All three support Zero Data Retention for requests made thr...
Apple and a Hacker's Future
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Listen to this post: My computer got hacked; the vulnerability that was exploited is detailed in this Ars Technica story: Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation. “The NCSC has received a notification indicating that active abuse of this vulnerability has been observed on multiple systems on w...
Huawei and Qualcomm announce broad patent license agreement
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This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Read our privacy policy Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement Summary: - Huawei and Qualcomm today announced a multi-year, broad patent license agreement that includes cross licenses to the companies' patent portfolios across a range of technology fields, including 5G, compute, AI...
Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
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What just happened? Another incident has taken place that illustrates the need to be careful what you tell AI. A Florida woman is facing felony charges after she used Claude as a diary and allegedly wrote that she planned to "shoot up" the Sheriff's office. After a human reviewer examined the statements, they were reported to police. According to the arrest report, Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita...
ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust
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01 Crafting Apps Seven apps. One craft. Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout. Native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 02 The lineup Image editor PhotoCraft The open-source image editor you already know how to use. Vector illustration VectorCraft Fast, open-source vector illustration, reimagined in pure...
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
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Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and remove its downloaded models. macOS 27 no longer has a single switch for Apple Intelligence, and its models stay on disk after the features are turned off. RemoveMacAI turns the features off, removes the models and prevents macOS from downloading them again. All changes can be reverted. curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI/ma...
Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]
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A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
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Independent browser-native Visual Basic style IDE, runtime, form designer and single-file HTML compiler.
Blindsight (Watts Novel)
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Blindsight (Watts novel) | Author | Peter Watts | |---|---| | Cover artist | Thomas Pringle[1] | | Language | English | | Genre | Hard science fiction | | Publisher | Tor Books | | Publication date | 3 October 2006 | | Publication place | Canada | | Media type | Print (hardback) | | Pages | 384 | | ISBN | 978-0-7653-1218-1 | | OCLC | 64289149 | | Dewey Decimal | 813/.622 | | LC Class | PR9199.3.W3...
The evolution of effective altruism
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International | A muddled mission How effective altruism conquered the world And how the 21st century’s most important social movement might yet end it |14 min read THE STARTING-point for effective altruism was a simple assumption, that “suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad.” Yet adherents fear they may be hastening an ending, too, when humanity’s “cosmic endowm...
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
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English · 简体中文 · 日本語 · Deutsch · Français · Español · Português Run a 125-billion-parameter AI model on your own gaming PC NVIDIA or AMD graphics card (12 GB or more) · Windows or Linux · free and open source A voxel pagoda garden, 1 shot prompt running on an RTX 5070 with Strata (IQ3_S, 128K context) · full video (49 s) Strata runs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on a normal PC. This is a large, smart AI mode...
Bill Draper has died
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Supported by OBITUARY He Was a Tech Investor Before There Was a Silicon Valley Bill Draper began funding start-ups in the early 1960s, when the Santa Clara Valley was better known for apricot orchards than microchips. He has died at 98. Bill Draper, who started his pioneering career as a Silicon Valley investor by steering a rented Pontiac through the orchard-dotted Santa Clara Valley of Northern ...
How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]
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In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults
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When Russian air strikes knocked out Ukrainian power plants across the country earlier this year, most of the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv in southeastern Ukraine was unable to pump fresh water to the city’s housing blocs. But in an easterly suburb of Mykolaiv, drinking water flowed from kitchen taps, as it has since last year thanks to a small off-grid solar field tucked inconspicuously into i...
What's the future for pure math research in the age of AI?
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Headlines and History The headlines keep coming: such and such an AI system has solved such and such a math problem. And more and more I’m hearing people saying: maybe we don’t need people doing math research anymore; maybe we should just delegate it all to more and more powerful AIs. I must admit that I’m getting a bit impatient with some of what’s being said. Because it seems to me too often to ...
Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
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Why don’t more developers “use the platform”? For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those advocates. The argument is simple: why build something yourself, in JavaScript, when the browser can do it for you? Whatever you build, it’s likely to have poorer performance and worse usability than so...
Religious scholars met with Anthropic
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious. One night in April, a leader of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic treated a group of religious thinkers to dinner at a high-end tasting menu restau...
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
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We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything 3rd October 2026 Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say “after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors”. These need to be hard limits. Soft c...
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'
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A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology. David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied the ChatGPT developer’s product releases, explained his resignation in an essay headlined, “I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken”. Robinson wrote th...
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
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How I massively over-engineered a trivial problem again because I just can't help myself
Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being
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Anthropic’s co-founder lobbied the Vatican in an effort to convince the Pope that AI could be conscious, a report has claimed. Christopher Olah, a senior researcher at the trillion-dollar AI company, attempted to sway Pope Leo XIV’s stance on machine consciousness ahead of a landmark papal address on the technology. The pontiff’s 40,000-word encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, published in May, dismi...
Our AI Midwife
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This is a guest post by Drew Housman, whose review of Dominion earned finalist status in the 2024 ACX book review contest. If you are unsuccessful for long enough on your pregnancy journey, and none of the many doctors you see can identify a problem, you get branded with a label. You now have “unexplained infertility.” This is good because there’s still hope of fixing the problem but dreaded becau...
Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
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How to prompt Opus 5.5, steer a long run, and check your results in Claude apps and Claude Code. Opus 5.5 works well with the way you already use Claude. A few things behave differently, though: it works for longer on its own, it tells you plainly what it did, and it thinks before every reply. This guide covers how to work with Opus 5.5 in Claude apps and Claude Code, including how to prompt the m...
What Meta got right with Muse
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🧱 I’m Mete, a product designer and builder with 10+ years of experience at companies like Netflix and Peloton. I build real products with AI to see how far the tools can go, then share what works, what breaks, and where craft still matters. I write for people who sweat the details and refuse to settle for good enough. If that sounds like you, you’re in the right place. It’s been interesting watchi...
Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase
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Posted by bundie. Score: 94 points. Comments: 141.
LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
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Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award—computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize—along with fellow AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, the neural network technology that underpins today’s AI boom. But today, nearly a decade later, LeCun is the only one of the three AI “godfathers” who is not deeply concerned about the risks of artificial intellige...
Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]
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Posted by yu3zhou4. Score: 109 points. Comments: 5.
Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
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Agents Don’t Need Memory. They Need Documentation. A memory plugin analyzes your conversations. It generates 1,000 isolated snippets and inserts them into a vector database. With your every prompt, it attaches the five most similar snippets; if the agent is confused (which it is), it manually searches for more. That’s the product they call “memory.” It’s a strange thing to use when you think about...
City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2
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City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 Despite my disappointment with Cities: Skylines 2, I keep coming back to the game from time to time. I can't even control it. It's like a deep inner need. When we were kids we played with toy cars on those felt mats with painted little cities, or when we had more industrial aspirations, we'd go outside in the dirt creating construction sites with tunnel...
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes. What I’m about to tell you has, I realize, become something of a cliché: I resigned this week from OpenAI. I led the writing of the safety reports we published with each major launch. Now I’m joining a parade of former colleagues—at OpenAI and the industry’s other le...
US killer's sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court
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US road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in court An Arizona road rage killer will be resentenced after an appeals court ruled that an AI-generated video message from his dead victim was improperly aired in court. Gabriel Paul Horcasitas was found guilty by a jury of shooting and killing Christopher Pelkey, 37, during a confrontation at a red light in 2021. He wa...
Kolibri is an open-weight LLM from Aleph Alpha for German and English
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Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the Sovereign German LLM Works Kolibri is an open-weight large language model (LLM) from Aleph Alpha for German and English: a mixture of experts with 78 billion parameters that only uses about 3.5 billion of them for each token it reads or writes. It came out on 3 October 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license, the weights are on Hugging Face, and it was trained from scratch o...
GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default
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Improvement New dashboard experience now the default The new dashboard experience, previously available as a feature preview, is now the default view for everyone. The redesigned dashboard helps you focus on the work that matters most and makes it easier to find and act on what you need next. You can: - View your active agent sessions, issues, and pull requests in one place. Use filters to choose ...
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
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Aleph Alpha Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model On the Day of German Reunification, we are releasing our new model: Kolibri. Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts Transformer with 78B total parameters, 3B active. It supports context lengths of up to 1M tokens. The model can be downloaded with the full weights on Hugging Face and used under the Apache 2.0 license terms. Koli...
Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models
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Musk's AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela's president
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In December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, President Trump had a secret meeting with Elon Musk, Time magazine reports. This was roughly seven months after Musk left his role in the Trump administration at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). During this meeting, Trump “spent hours” talking to Musk’s Grok chatbot, includi...
Extra Big Ass Intelligence
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NOW 100% ARTIFICIAL-FREE! PURE UNLEADED SUPER INTELLIGENCE (SI) BY EXECUTIVE ORDER.
PewDiePie unveils "uncensored" Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product
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PewDiePie unveils ‘uncensored’ Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product The YouTuber’s account was deactivated over “distillation” during his model research. PewDiePie, the popular YouTuber, has unveiled Ajax, his “uncensored AI model” built to run at home, and says in a new video that OpenAI banned him twice wh...
Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
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Posted by azhenley. Score: 136 points. Comments: 34.
Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model
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Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model, whether or not they’ve realized it yet. What even is a harness? Narrowly, folks will often associate a “harness” with frameworks like LangGraph or coding agents like Codex, Claude Code, or OpenCode, which wrap a stateless model API in enough tooling and state that you can actually get work done. I’m using the term “harness” broadly to mean ...
Everyone's Packing Up
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Everyone's Packing Up I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Discord, GitHub, Codeberg, Photoshop, and more. There are also those talking about leaving the web entirely for the smallweb (Gopher, Gemini, etc). The reasons vary. Pricing changes, AI training on everything you post, a new...
Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
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We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in order to allow backup apps to function properly on the Mac. Some developers are using Full Disk Access in ways that could put users at risk, exposing everything on their systems—including files, mail, messages, and even browsing history—without users’ full knowledge and understanding. For communication apps, this can also compromise the privacy of the people users are communicating with.Going forward, we will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action. Addressing this is critical. As AI agents become increasingly capable and autonomous, the risks associated with this level of access will grow substantially. We are committed to ensuring users clearly understand these risks before granting such access, so they can make informed decisions about their own data and privacy.
Make Tmux the OS
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I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AfAcQwLW0&t=445s. He's a great presenter, really articulate and concise. The kind of speaker that you'd gladly listen to for 3+ hours if given the chance. Which for a talk about window management is quite the compliment. The overall point of the talk was "A...
McDonald's has been using AI to decide how much you should pay for a Big Mac
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Recap: McDonald's has made several attempts to deploy AI across its businesses over the past few years, not all of them successfully. A recent extensive report sheds light on one area where the fast-food giant has had a long and potentially lucrative history with machine learning and algorithms: dynamic pricing. Several sources, including store owners, recently explained to Reuters how McDonald's ...
From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
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CORE 01 Asymmetric 2-bit quantization Compress the routed experts, keep critical shared paths precise. That is how the supported routed-MoE builds fit their target machines. DS4 · LOCAL FRONTIER INFERENCE DwarfStar 4 is a narrow C inference engine for high-memory Mac, CUDA and ROCm machines. It supports DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.x and Qwen3.8 Flash Next, with text and vision models, local ...
Supabase is acquiring Turso
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AI is enabling builders to create an immense amount of software. Today, agents are spinning up millions of databases to power the prototypes, explorations, dashboards, and apps they're building. This new pattern, at this massive scale, requires an evolution in database infrastructure. Turso is joining Supabase to build this evolution. For existing users, nothing changes. Supabase will continue bui...
One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash
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One month on GLM 5.3 Flash 2B tokens later, 🤖 task failed successfully Setting a challenge to spend the whole of September on only one efficient open model felt like a great idea at the time. Turns out not so much in practice. 2B tokens later, here’s how it went. Where tokens went this month Here’s the tokens distribution according to AgentsView, one of our Agentic engineering recommendations to k...