2026-11-03
There’s a Dark Reason So Many Celebrities Are Subjugating Themselves to AI
Money is just one part of the equation. The post There’s a Dark Reason So Many Celebrities Are Subjugating Themselves to AI appeared first on Futurism.
OpenAI Updates Its Model Spec
The Model Spec is potentially OpenAI’s most important document. It outlines what they aspire for the model to do, and how it should think. I’ve already covered a previous version...
10 Years of Kottke.org Membership
An important KDO milestone whooshed by the other day and I was so heads-down on tuning up the new search engine (more on that below) that I missed it. So:...
Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper found...
PC Games Storefront Does What Valve Won’t, Takes Action Against AI Slop
One of Steam's biggest competitors just announced filtering options for AI-generated content.
CRUCIBLE: IARPA-Funded AI Alignment Research — Applications Open
TL;DR: AE Studio is running a new government-funded research program that pairs alignment researchers with our internal engineering team for two-week sprints. We will select six alignment researchers whose proposed...
Ask Rands
I continue to avidly build with the robots on a daily basis. One of the more continually helpful use cases is summarization. Plop in the long, useless marketing email from...
Password manager mSecure tells users to change passwords, won't say why
Customers left wondering what's been compromised after vendor advises resetting passwords, 2FA and passkeys
Google Announces It’s Shutting Off Search Engine Access for Schools That Ban AI
The slop will continue until morale improves. The post Google Announces It’s Shutting Off Search Engine Access for Schools That Ban AI appeared first on Futurism.
GhostBSD 26.2 takes the fright out of FreeBSD with a friendlier installer
Full-disk encryption joins the toolkit, MATE and Xfce stay while Gershwin sits this one out
Bibuła - polska przygodówka | PPA.pl
"Bibuła" to polska gra przygodowa "point and click" autorstwa Grzegorza Gałęziowskiego (przy wsparciu sztucznej inteligencji). Historia osadzona jest polskich realiach okresu Stanu Wojennego. Gracz wciela się w postać wyrzuconego z...
Why I'm no longer using Docker (on a VPS)
To get your own VPS instance running NixOS, then head on over to https://hostinger.com/dreamsofcode and use DREAMSOFCODE to save 10% off. I've been using Docker to deploy my own applications...
Zach Cregger's Sci-Fi Masterpiece Made One Brilliant Change to Its Monster: 'It Just Looks Creepier'
Resident Evil's VFX team reveals the secrets behind the Pedestrian, Mutant Bryan, and more
Bluesky’s Election Day feed features 700+ local reporters and newsrooms covering all 50 states and
Bluesky’s Election Day feed features 700+ local reporters and newsrooms covering all 50 states and DC, many of them independent or nonprofit. Want to keep up with their reporting today...
Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie Officially Reunite for New Action-Thriller
Netflix brings Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie back together for another action-packed revenge flick, Dogfight.
Current challenges facing university AI safety groups
University AIS fieldbuilding is important, but it's very hard. I identify two main bottlenecks in the current pipeline and suggest some useful, low-cost mitigations.Please send this to any fieldbuilders you...
The New York Times (et al.) Sues Brave for Copyright Infringement, Selling Scraped Content to AI Companies for Model Training
Jay Peters, The Verge: The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping...
'GTA 6' Early Preload Times And File Size Confirmed By Rockstar
Rockstar Games reveals when GTA 6 fans can begin preloading the highly-anticipated open-world adventure and how much hard drive space they'll need
Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data...
Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires by Paris Marx. “He exposes the deceptive, exploitative ways tech companies are siphoning energy and resources from vulnerable communities in...
Steve Jobs on His Final Quarterly Analyst Call: ‘We Think the Open Versus Closed Argument Is Just a Smokescreen’
After linking to it earlier today, I re-read Steve Jobs’s remarks from his last appearance on a quarterly analyst call. It’s a banger of a good read: You know, even...
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