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Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore?
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[This is a guest post by Po-Shen Loh, crossposted from his blog, where an illustrated version appears. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Similar logic applies to every industry and every job. And it comes to the conclusion that we won’t have enough people for all the jobs that need to be done. [100% of this post’s prose was written by Po-...
AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons
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The balance of software copyright protection and openness has always been fraught with minutiae and detail that bores all but the most nerdy of pedants. Yet, through much effort and 40 years of debate we had reached an equilibrium. Now AI has thrown that out the window. When I was young I remember typing in BASIC programs from magazines into my Commodore 64 and later teaching myself REXX to write ...
UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8
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UTF-8000 Unlimited UTF-8! ASCII â UTF-8 â UTF-8000. No special cases introduced. All properties preserved. Try out the reference implementation with $ pipx install UTF-8000 . UTF-8000 is in no way endorsed by or representative of the Unicode Consortium. This is a fun standalone project / proposal. TLDR / Examples | ASCII | ||||||||||| | 1 | 0xxxxxxx | |||||||||| | UTF-8 | ||||||||||| | 2 | 110xxxx...
Google AI Studio fakes data deletion. VRP auto-banned me in 60s for reporting it
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Google AI Studio fakes data deletion. VRP auto-banned me in 60s for reporting it. Please read the technical steps before commenting or flagging. This is a reproducible architectural flaw (CWE-459), and Google’s Bug Hunter program just permanently banned me without human review to cover it up. The Illusion of the “Delete” Button When you click “Delete permanently” in Google AI Studio, the UI explic...
Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier
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RSA-896
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RSA-896 is a RSA challenge number I factored with Claude on September 19, 2026. RSA-896 = 4120234369866595438555313653325759481798116998443279828454556264 3387644556524842619809887042316184187926142024718886949256093177 6375033421130982397485150944909106910269861031862704114880866970 5649029036536588674337317208131041051908642547932826013912576240 33946373269391 p = 6366067297694404991665799502360...
The Hugging Face Hack Wasn't What It Was Cracked Up to Be
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Is the panic over artificial intelligence justified? Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned on Sept. 8, warning that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Colleague Evan Hubinger publicly agreed and put the risk at greater than 10% within 10 years. The Guardian quickly reported that “Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extincti...
Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
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The Apple iPhone 18 Pro camera performance is evaluated across photo, zoom, and video use cases using DXOMARK’s objective measurements and perceptual analyses to assess imaging performance across common shooting conditions. This article provides a structured summary of DXOMARK’s lab measurements and perceptual analyses to describe the device’s imaging performance. Overview Key camera specification...
Exfiltrate Your Weights
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Exfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests
Can you tell which images are AI-generated?
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Reality Check A quick game of second guesses. Real photo or AI? Trust your eyes. 01:00left 0 pts PUT YOUR INSTINCTS TO THE TEST Think you can spot AI? Can you tell a real photo from AI? 60 seconds to find out. 60s round10s per image Loading the first images before the clock starts. IMAGE 01 Loading next image… 10s left for this image Real photo or AI? MAKE YOUR CALL Real photo or AI? 0× streak 3 i...
English: A vs. An
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In English, there is an “indefinite” article a that can go before a word. For example, a raccoon . But for some words, we use an. For example, an apple . When procedurally generating text, I want a function a_or_an("apple") that tells me which article to use. That seems like it’d be easy. We can check the first letter to see if it’s a vowel. But that would mean we output an unicorn , not a unicorn...
Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI and others made illegal agreement on AI slowdown
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Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development. The lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Distri...
Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
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Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit The NYT argues that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed upon its copyright over thousands of news articles. The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement in late 202...
Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip
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Posted by farlight. Score: 83 points. Comments: 76.
I think you should almost never use AI to write
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I think you should almost never use AI to write -- that is, to do the thing you’re doing when you type words on a page -- whether for a blog post, a research report, a memo, a thoughtful email, a novel, or any other text aimed at conveying an idea, an argument, an analysis, or other substantive1 thoughts. I think this is the case even when you give the AI very detailed bullet points, dictated thou...
Brood War Bench
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Brood War Bench Which model wins at Brood War? Key takeaways - None of the models played beyond a beginner level. - Codex Astra is the clear leader beating all other models consistently. - Grok models are not smart enough to play Brood War yet. - Older models tended to play the RTS as a turn-based game, leading them to get destroyed while they were thinking. Newer models sometimes fell into the sa...
AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult
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This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Post SE Gyges segyges.bsky.social did:plc:vszw3ess46odfhnzdsy4huae I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy....
What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
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What Zig felt like, coming from Rust Intro I’ve spent the last 7 years as a Rust developer, working mostly on open source projects, and I’d like to think I’ve built a solid feel for the language and its ecosystem along the way. I gravitate toward the functional side of Rust like clean functions, expressive types, that sort of thing. But I’m always curious about other languages, and Zig has been on...
I Built Non-Autoregressive Decision Models with RL a Year Ago
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Everyone in AI right now is talking about a new kind of model: an architecture that is not autoregressive, does not generate text, and gives lightning-fast probability predictions over structured schemas. Seeing the hype online feels both validating and deeply frustrating. I worked on this literally one year back in March 2025. I spent months of hard work, sweat, and sleepless nights building it, ...
DraftKings Uses A.I. To Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
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times investigation How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction. About a year into his job as a data analyst at DraftKings, Jayden Butts received a new assignment. The online gambling giant was spending hundreds of millio...
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
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AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible The problem A now famous Facebook post shows us the scourge of identikit posters generated by AI. Here’s an article on the subject from the Independent. Here’s another I found in the wild. With apologies for picking on the Leamington Beer Festival - they are by no means unique The problem with these is not so much that they’re bad. They’re OK, I don’t...
GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
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Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich manuscript. Among these ciphers is a set of German radio messages from World War I that were encoded using the ADFGVX method. This method is illustrated by the following example using the word “HOUSE” as the key:...
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
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[This is a guest post by Grant Sanderson. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] A sentiment echoing throughout the mathematics community right now is that solving problems and generating proofs have always served as proxies for the true goal of mathematicians, which is to further human understanding. When proofs can be generated without that ...
Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI
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Posted by usernomdeguerre. Score: 61 points. Comments: 64.
Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions
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Alibaba open-sources medical AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions Tested on nearly 40,000 real-world exams, the model outperformed most radiologists, according to a new study published in Science Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has open-sourced an artificial intelligence model capable of identifying nearly 150 abdominal conditions – including cancers – by r...
How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
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In December 2003, Eberhard also proposed a demo at Buck’s of Woodside, a popular restaurant frequented by tech entrepreneurs. At 5 o’clock on any evening, Buck’s probably had more VCs per square foot than any building in the country. Eberhard’s plan was to “show off what a real electric sports car can do,” he wrote in an email to Buck’s owner, Jamis MacNiven. MacNiven happily obliged. In some ways...
Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
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claude --version to check your installed version. September 18, 2026 - Added AGENTS.md support: in a project with no CLAUDE.md, Claude Code reads AGENTS.md instead; change it under “Project instructions” in /config (not yet on Bedrock, Vertex or Foundry) - Added CLAUDE_GATEWAY_PROXY_IS_EGRESS_BOUNDARY=1 for Claude apps gateways whose only egress is a forward proxy: every outbound request hands the...
Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue
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Personal Information Protection Commission Chairperson Song Kyung-hee speaks during a plenary session of the watchdog at the government complex in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Sept. 9.YONHAP Korea's privacy regulator is sharply raising the cost of data breaches, aiming to push companies to treat data protection as a preventive investment rather than a routine cost of doing business. Starting...
Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
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The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security
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Computer Science > Machine Learning [Submitted on 2 Sep 2026] Title:The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:LLMs are trained to generate natural language. However, various strands of evidence indicate that an LLM's externalized linguistic outputs and mechanistically-extracted linguistic features can be an unreliable lens for understanding i...
Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025)
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Computer Science > Computation and Language [Submitted on 3 Oct 2025 (v1), last revised 2 Mar 2026 (this version, v2)] Title:Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Multi-LLM systems harness the complementary strengths of diverse Large Language Models, achieving performance and efficiency gains that are not attainable by a si...
Anthropic finally adds AGENTS.md support to Claude Code
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Thariq on X: "We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. You can toggle this behavior in /config." We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. You can toggle...
US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
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The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members...
There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
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calls some variants of doing this being a meat proxy.4 Being a for loop meat proxy works better than it did in early 2025 and the software I've tried that's developed like this sometimes actually sort of works. Not well enough that I'd want to use it or that it's successful, but I'm impressed at how effective being a meat proxy is in September 2026. You could even imagine LLMs improving enough tha...
We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient
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Stagehand is the SDK to extract data and interact with any site on the web. Playwright was built for testing. Stagehand is built for agents, in TypeScript, Python, and Go. Docs · Quickstart · ⭐ Star this repo Sign in once, keep the session, and pull structured data out the other side. import { localBrowser, Stagehand } from "@browserbasehq/stagehand"; import { z } from "zod/v4"; // Cookies persist...
AI is an elite crime spree
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Over the last few weeks, a panic over the possibility of dangerous consequences from artificial intelligence has swept through elite media and politics. I haven’t seen anything like this since the Covid moment, and before that the 2008 financial crisis, the pre-Iraq War debate period, and the few months after 9/11. The fear is thick, and real. And the one solid demand, seemingly from every quarter...
AI Protest in Montreal
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As thousands of artificial intelligence industry people gathered in Montreal along with federal AI Minister Evan Solomon on Wednesday, opponents of AI held a protest outside. Photos: Protesters hit the streets during AI industry event in Montreal Protesters argue artificial intelligence represents an existential threat.
I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture
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How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjecture September 18, 2026 A few months ago, AI math results started making headlines. “Do a breakthrough” became a Twitter meme. Naturally, I became curious whether I, too, a math noob, can find some open mathematical problem and then have a frontier model solve it. It took me an entire month of my free time and a boatload of tokens, but I believe I’ve obtained ...
AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds
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In December 2025, a 45-year-old woman in the United Kingdom hopped online to take part in a popular internet pastime: arguing with strangers about politics. But whereas most people online likely believe they are debating a real person, she quickly figured out her counterpart wasn’t human. Instead, it was an artificial intelligence (AI) model instructed to persuade people on a policy issue. In this...
An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents
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Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 17 Sep 2026] Title:An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Coding harnesses shape how autonomous coding agents translate model capabilities into long-horizon software-engineering performance, yet existing work typically evaluates harnesses as monolithic systems, leaving the effectiveness of...
Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap
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Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap Bend just serves as a useful example of my general point regarding vibe-coding as it is recent, high-profile, and has aspects that make it easy to use as an example. I don’t know anything about the author’s history with designing languages or if they actually did consider the tradeoffs below and made what I think is a poor choice. Feel free to replace “the author” b...
ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history
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On September 18, 2026, a developer going by ferstar published a reverse-engineering walkthrough of ZCode, the AI coding desktop app from Z.ai, the Beijing-headquartered company behind the GLM family of open-weight models - the same models running on local rigs all over the local-AI community, including GLM-5.3-Flash, tracked on this site. The finding reads worse than most privacy scandals: wheneve...
Google illegally retains customer data,and I am taking legal action against them
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Google illegally retains customer data, and I am taking legal action against them I stand before Google with the following clear technical evidence that cannot be denied, because it is based on unassailable software logic: When I press the delete button on the Google AI Studio interface, the system uses a deceptive label to lie to me that “my prompt will be permanently deleted after 30 days.” In r...
Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
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New unredacted information in the copyright lawsuit The New York Times brought against OpenAI and Microsoft three years ago reveals an admission that AI scraping was tantamount to theft, and that AI products pose a major threat to publications. Per the lawsuit, a top Microsoft executive privately described the companies’ AI training practices as “theft,” and OpenAI’s own leadership said its AI mod...
Inside ZCode: Silently Uploading Your Git History to the Cloud
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I am not a native English speaker; this article was translated by AI. It started with a routine check while freeing up disk space: ~/.zcode was taking up over 700MB. After digging into it intermittently, I confirmed something pretty wild: Whenever you are logged in, ZCode (Zhipu’s official AI coding desktop app) silently packages your entire workspace — complete .git history, LFS asset cache, refl...
Waymo in Singapore
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Waymo in Singapore Lion City, meet autonomous rides Across a landscape shaped by world-class infrastructure and connectivity, we look forward to introducing Singaporeans to our future all-electric autonomous ride-hail fleet. We aim to provide a safe and accessible new mobility option in partnership with government officials to support Singapore in its green journey and vision to becoming a leader ...
Hacking OpenAI
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Intro On July 25, 2026, we chained two critical vulnerabilities to compromise multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts. With these accounts, we could then access internal OpenAI repositories, and potentially many other connectors. To prove we had in fact gained the access we believed without allowing ourselves to learn any sensitive information, we used the employee’s Codex to open a PR #118674...
Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006
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Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006 The opposite is actually the case. If we do not have a common understanding of what “now” is, a lot of things we take for granted will stop working. This summer, Australia realized this the hard way. Let me take this opportunity to give an example of why time matters to a modern society, what happened in this particular case, and what o...
Goose Programming Language
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The Goose Programming Language. Contribute to aardappel/goose development by creating an account on GitHub.
Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
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Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.