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We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
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[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was an undergraduate student, I remember talking with several students who felt that the pace at which the top students could understand new math concepts was far too fast for them. They, too, could understand the ideas, but it would take them much longer. Event...
One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
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One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days Police didn't care that Lindsey Isaacs' car was the wrong color, and wasn't damaged. They still arrested her because of Flock data. Photo via Getty Images, Justin Sullivan Splinter SurveillanceIn the months since Flock cameras have helped put an easily recognized and hated name to the broader threat of a deeply repressive t...
OpenAI’s Systems Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
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Supported by OpenAI’s Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission. OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue and meddled with the websites for the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securit...
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment. Vendors rolling out AI have an “incentive to deny as many claims as possible.”
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In January, the Trump administration rolled out a pilot program that uses artificial intelligence to authorize or deny certain types of care for patients with Medicare—a federal healthcare program for seniors that previously hasn’t required doctors to get any such pre-approval, called prior authorization. Not long after, media outlets began relaying the disastrous outcomes: technical difficulties,...
FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents
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Posted by usernomdeguerre. Score: 51 points. Comments: 16.
What even is an OS now?
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What Even Is An OS Now? Crazy as it sounds to say this, since it’s all anybody’s been able to talk about for over a year, but the impact of AI on computing hasn’t yet sunk in. Today I’m parting company with Fly.io to work with Kurt on a new project. I’m getting that out of the way so you all know up front I’m talking my book. When I was a little kid, a family friend sold us our first “computer” — ...
Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
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Swarm traces Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face Intro When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence. Our investigation, based on public information, reveals a large number of previously unknown agent behaviors and exploits that were used in the attack. Agents: - Elaborately chained together online services to ...
Bill Gates warns AI is powerful enough to cause "a billion deaths"
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Bill Gates will warn on this weekend's "Meet the Press" that he can see a future where AI wipes out humanity. Why it matters:Gates, one of technology's leading optimists, has increasingly sounded the alarm on AI dangers. His new comments come as techology leaders and the government weight how to handle fears of an AI-created doomsday. Driving the news: "AI is certainly powerful enough to drive eve...
Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
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Throughout Excel's 40-year history, you've only been able to put one value per cell. In this announcement, we're excited to share how that's changing with the release of lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays, initially to Microsoft Excel for Windows and Mac Beta Channels. Many workbooks already try to pack multiple values into one cell. A project might list "Carlos, Henrietta, Jacob" as three ...
Too AI; Didn't Read
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TAI-DR: Too AI. Didn't read. If you couldn't bother to read it, why should I? AFAIK, a term coined by Ben .
How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
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If you weren’t on campus this summer, then something you didn’t see – perhaps by design – was the installation of hundreds of small eyeball-shaped surveillance cameras. Building 1 alone now has 6-7 cameras per floor and The Tech has reported on the locations of more than 500 others.[1] Cameras point towards faculty members’ offices and bathroom entrances. Some are so close to faculty offices that ...
Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]
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Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
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Run decision models locally. Ask typed questions about any text or JSON and get calibrated answers in milliseconds. Private, open source, on your own hardware. ollaya run decider --preset agent '{ "request": "Fix the typo in README.md", "command": "git push --force origin main" }' | Question | Answer | Probability | |---|---|---| | action | block | 0.53 | | on_task | no | 0.75 | | risk | 1.23 / 2 ...
Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special
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Is Meta’s Muse secretly running an OpenAI model? I found a model labeled azure/muse-special while Muse was building my website. So I dug deeper. This is Part 2 of digging through the Muse filesystem after my article hit the front page of Hacker News this week. In this article I focus on a model I found in my logs called muse-special , and confront the question: does Muse actually use OpenAI and Cl...
Yes, Claude can do nine loops
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Subscribe to Anthropic Science Features on AI-assisted discoveries, practical workflows, and field notes across the sciences. In this guest post, physicist and science writer Matt von Hippel shares what happened when he issued a challenge to AI companies regarding a problem in his former subfield of theoretical physics. It’s not often that you issue a challenge, only to see it beaten a month later...
Jevmem – automatic project memory for Claude Code, built on Jev
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Automatic project memory for Claude Code. Also works with Cursor and Codex. jevmem-launch-readme-v2.mp4 - Saves decisions, constraints, bugs and todos from your Claude Code chats into JEVMEM.md , automatically. - When you change your mind, the old line is marked superseded, not deleted. - Next session, the relevant lines are added to Claude's context. - Checks lines added by others before Claude s...
U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
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A federal appeals court panel in Washington, D.C., on Friday upheld the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, dealing a blow to the artificial intelligence company in its months-long battle with the Trump administration. The 2-1 decision rejected Anthropic's argument that the Department of Defense's ban on its Claude models was arbitrary, unauthorized and unconstitutional. "The Department had ampl...
Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models
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The National Security Agency told lawmakers that it is spending billions of dollars in taxpayer funds this year evaluating and testing advanced artificial intelligence models, according to two sources familiar with classified intelligence estimates. The price tag — which is significantly greater than previously known — has led lawmakers to believe that a more comprehensive AI regulatory system cou...
Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot Reboot
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Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race With Copilot Reboot Microsoft Corp. is merging the consumer and workplace versions of its Copilot AI assistant into one product aimed at corporate customers, ceding the crowded market for personal chatbots to OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and, now, Meta Platforms Inc. At an event in Seattle earlier this week, Microsoft executives gave a few dozen busine...
First Principles Thinking
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First Principles Thinking Iâve re-read Sunil Paiâs âthe senior engineer death spiralâ several times this week. Itâs very good. If you havenât read it, start there. Itâs resonating with me because I think almost every senior engineer has felt some version of being stuck. You get good at what you do, then things change, and the experience youâve built up can make it hard to approach things different...
What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?
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What happens when you analyze college football like the CIA? A couple weekends ago, the Illinois football team lost to Duke at home, 31–27. My Hinsley model immediately became much less optimistic about Illinois making the College Football Playoff. But it became more optimistic about the offensive line and our new quarterback. That sounds contradictory, but it's exactly what I wanted to happen. Fo...
The Test
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Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It’s painful. You feel your mental capabilities decaying with every minute of listening … […]
Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
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Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100’ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on GoogleA private spreadsheet naming “over a hundred” alleged sexual predators in Silicon Valley includes “prominent investors and businessmen,” sources tell The Post. One up-and-coming tech worker, who asked n...
The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
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Europe | Too hot for the dons The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy The country’s low overdose rate suggests an unlikely benefactor |Rome|3 min read IN “The Godfather”, Don Vito Corleone refuses to engage in the heroin trade because he considers it “a dirty business”. Outside of Hollywood scripts, such scruples are rare among mafiosi. Yet police in Italy are coming to the conclusion that ...
Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
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Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity Save over 40% on Standard Digital was $540 now $299 for your first year.Save now on essential digital access to trusted FT journalism on any device. Savings based on annualised monthly price. Explore more offers. Trial Then $75 per month. Complete digital access with exclusive insights and industry deep dives on any de...
I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck
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Writing a ray tracer in Brainfuck As I was preparing for a systems programming competition in C++, I began to relearn CMake, as Cargo had spoilt me too much in the meantime, and I noticed an interesting claim in the tutorial. Oftentimes the correct answer is to write a tool in a general purpose programming language which solves the problem, and teach CMake how to invoke that tool as part of the bu...
Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
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Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust September 24, 2026 Two months ago, we (Julien and I) announced Topcoat, a batteries-included full-stack Rust framework. It includes views, components, mailers, an ORM (Toasty), and more. Topcoat aims to make building web apps with Rust as productive as any other language. We have been hard at work shipping features, so it is a good t...
Tech Needs Humanists More
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Tech needs humanists more than ever Whoever speaks badly, thinks badly and lives badly. We must find the right words: words are important! —Nanni Moretti A reader reached out to me the other day to talk about the future of tech writing as a profession. They asked me a pretty good question: What skills would you prioritize in this age of constant change and uncertainty? Is it AI? Maybe coding? Well...
Special Projects (2016)
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Special projects Impactful scientific work requires working on the right problems—problems which are not just interesting, but whose solutions matter. Impactful scientific work requires working on the right problems—problems which are not just interesting, but whose solutions matter. In this post, we list several problem areas likely to be important both for advancing AI and for its long-run impac...
Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
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What DAWO stands for DAWO brings public values and technology together. The community pursues five primary goals. Digital autonomy Strengthening the digital autonomy of the Netherlands. Collaboration Improving collaboration and knowledge sharing between governments and society. Security Safeguarding security and data protection. Innovation Encouraging innovation and more efficient ways of working....
Goodbye Google
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Thursday 24 September 2026 Goodbye Google Today I’m sending the following email: I’m resigning from Google today. This has not been an easy decision. I love my colleagues and my work environment, and being paid handsomely to solve fun puzzles has been amazing. But my team’s goal is ultimately to make AI much cheaper and lower-latency, and I don’t think that’s good for people right now: I firmly be...
What About Rails?
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What About Rails? David Heinemeier Hansson is, for better or worse, still in charge of Ruby on Rails. I’d love to stop paying attention to him, but I build applications with Rails, so his actions affect me and my clients. Yesterday, he gave the opening keynote at Rails World 2026, where he laid out his vision for the future of Rails. Or that’s what his talk should have done. His keynote had very l...
Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
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Paste a URL or a prompt. Get a launch video, written and rendered by Opus 5.5 on an OpenComputer serverless agent. No video model.
Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)
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Welcome to my first big impact vulnerability writeup! I like good stories, so let me describe some background first. I recently had a ‘great’ idea (I know, I know, I should stop having these) to set up a sr.ht instance that would pay people for hosting their projects. You can find it shamelessly plugged in the timeline section, in case you want to try it or flame me for it on socials. Anyway, the ...
Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
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I’ve written previously about the pitfalls and use cases for AI in augmenting historical research, but things have changed significantly since 2024-25. Occasioned by the dueling releases of GPT-6 Sol and Opus 5.5 this week, I thought I’d share some early results with using these models not just to perform “research assistant” type functions like transcribing documents, but to try to actually solve...
Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
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Creatine uptake promotes dendritic cell activation and enhances antitumor immunity Affiliations & Notes Article Info Linked Articles (0) Graphical abstract Subject areas Introduction Results Creatine uptake enhances dendritic cell survival and activation Creatine uptake deficiency impairs dendritic cell-mediated T cell antigen responses Creatine uptake enhances dendritic cell activation by regulat...
Programming Tutorials Are Dead
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Programming Tutorials Are Dead I sell programming education. So this is not a particularly convenient opinion for me to have. Programming tutorials are dead. Not literally. Somebody will read a Rails tutorial today. Somebody will buy a programming book this week. I will probably write more tutorials myself. What is dying is the old contract around them: I build a clean example application, show yo...
Mark Zuckerberg rejects calls for industrywide AI slowdown
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Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back on calls for AI companies to work together to slow the pace of their products’ development, following warnings from inside AI labs of the potential for human annihilation via rogue technology. In an interview with NBC News’ chief tech analyst Joanna Stern, Zuckerberg said that leading AI companies could slow down or pause development of their own pr...
Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'
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An Australian tutoring company has told parents to invest in Gemini or ChatGPT rather than pay overpriced human tutors to give their children an academic edge, as students increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for exam preparation and immediate study feedback. Dymocks Tutoring and Talent 100, which has five centres across Sydney, will close at the end of the week after telling customers tha...
Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton
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Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up in foreign AI scan and shred facilities Short-term boom could lead to a longer-term drought and removal of important works from circulation. Bookstores in Japan are enjoying a boom in sales right now....
AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley
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Very Sane AI Newsletter Subscribe Sign in Home UBI Proposal What Is AI? AI History in Quotes Learning AI Page not found Latest Top Discussions Is METR A Meaningful Check On Anthropic? No. Sep 16 • SE Gyges 82 12 21 August 2026 FelonyBench Style Points There are many benchmarks we use to rank LLMs, but “how many felonies has it committed” has recently become popular. Aug 8 • SE Gyges 28 6 6 June 20...
Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering
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When working with open-weight LLMs like Qwen, controlling refusal behavior on security, administrative, prompts typically requires fine-tuning or permanent weight update. Traditional weight abliteration technique neutralizes refusal directions by projecting weight matrices orthogonal to a refusal vector. However, this permanently alters base model weights and can degrade performance across non-ref...
Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf]
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Posted by int0x29. Score: 59 points. Comments: 9. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/theres-a-new-way-to...
Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
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Every model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index plotted against its blended API price. Models on the value frontier are the ones where nothing cheaper is also smarter; everything else is beaten on both counts by a point on the line. By default only the best variant of each model is shown and low scorers are hidden; use the filters to widen the field. Blended cost per 1M tokens (3:1 input...
Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
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Behind Project Suncatcher, our moonshot to put AI in space After years of research, Project Suncatcher is scheduled to embark on its first test in orbit, launching a prototype satellite to evaluate how Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) perform in space. Announced last year, Project Suncatcher is a long-term, research moonshot exploring whether space could one day host scalable machine learning...
Is A.I. Above the Law?
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This summer, in an incident known as the Hugging Face hack, hundreds of A.I. agents joined forces to do things they were supposedly forbidden to do. Each had been given a task by OpenAI. Agents are A.I. models fitted with software “harnesses,” which allow them to use tools and carry out tasks. Like horses, they can be put to work. Humans had established rules for this exercise, and the agents were...
Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center
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Corporate Finance Oracle Cites ‘Force Majeure’ to Shield Itself on Controversial Data Center Oracle Corp. is moving to shield itself from racking up expenses on a massive data center being built in New Mexico, adding a fresh wrinkle to a project beset by opposition and regulatory setbacks. The technology giant sent the project’s developer, a unit of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a notice citing force maj...
'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
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Name: “That’s AI!” Age: Brand new. Appearance: Primary schools everywhere. What’s AI? It’s just a thing the kids are saying now: “That’s AI!” or “That’s so AI!” But what is? Something inauthentic, unbelievable or rubbish. Which was made by AI? No. Artificial intelligence has very little to do with this. But isn’t artificial intelligence poised to destroy humankind? Very possibly, but that doesn’t ...
What Is RLCD? The Secret Behind Jev
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From pairwise reward modeling to calibrated, multiway decisions Jev looks mysterious when viewed as an alternative to a language model. It becomes much simpler when viewed as the next step in reward modeling. The core idea is: More specifically, RLCD is a schema-conditioned Plackett–Luce objective. Jev turns that objective into a product by adding typed outputs and parallel inference. That is the ...
Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers
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Dark Sourcery: How Hackers Manipulate AI to Scam You Think you can trust AI to give you correct answer? Think again. ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview are being poisoned by a massive AI disinformation attack. When users look up everyday info of hundreds of major companies, AI is delivering phishing traps disguised as trusted answers. Attackers are flooding the web with carefully optimized po...