2026-08-27
Amid a dire bargain drought, the best PC gaming headset is currently cheaper than I've ever seen it in Australia
If you're in the market for a new headset, you can't go wrong with this one.
Tom Cruise's Unforgettable 10/10 Action Movie is Officially Free to Watch on YouTube
Tropic Thunder gave Tom Cruise the wildest role of his career as Les Grossman. Now the outrageous Hollywood satire is streaming free on YouTube.
The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak
In early 1934, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Columbia Teachers College took an internship teaching drama and producing student plays at PS 24 in Harlem. Among her young charges at...
Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life
A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great."
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Releases New Map of Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot of things to find and catalogue. This includes mildly terrifying things like...
Semantic search over every LessWrong post
Site: https://rumble-34-69-187-69.nip.io/Embedding models have gotten pretty good at capturing the meaning behind text, so I ran qwen3-embedding-8b over every lesswrong post.You can paste in a draft and find the most...
Michael B. Jordan’s Near-Perfect Action Trilogy Is About to Leave Netflix
Creed, Creed II, and Creed III are all about to leave Netflix. Catch the Michael B. Jordan movies, featuring Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa
Do tabular foundation models repair themselves?
TL;DR Ablation is a widely adopted technique in mechanistic interpretability research. Self-repair invalidates conclusions drawn from ablation experiments. While self-repair is prevalent in language models, we ask whether it exists...
AI Psychosis Is Real, Rare and Rising — and Your Life as a Founder Fits Every Risk Factor
Doctors are warning of a new risk in people who spend hours a day with chatbots engineered to agree with them — worth a read if that's your workday.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big:...
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'
28 Years Later, a Single 1998 Amendment Is Still the Reason No US Ally Can Buy a US Air Force F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter
In 1998 Congress enacted the Obey amendment, prohibiting the Defense Department from approving or licensing F-22 exports. Twenty-eight years on it still holds. Washington has exported F-15s, F-16s and even...
The US Air Force B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Bombed Iran But It Can Also Start a Nuclear War at a Moments Notice
B-2s can serve as a tangible threat, a warning not to escalate further. The adversary can see this as a cue to reconsider or de-escalate. Functionally, the B-2 serves as...
Making An LCD UI Look More Like Classic Indicator Lamps
The TermDriver 2 is a USB-to-serial interface with a twist—it has a built-in screen for displaying relevant information. It can run at anywhere from 100 bit/s to 2Mbit/s, while showing...
The US Navy Has Paid $111,000,000 Just to Park Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise While It Waits to Be Taken Apart
The Enterprise has been waiting since 2012. Of the total dismantlement bill, $111 million covers nothing but long-term pier-side storage during that wait - money spent on a ship going...
That time Bill Nighy wore ‘computer pajamas’
How Davy Jones was brought to life in 'Dead Man's Chest' thanks to actor Bill Nighy and new VFX innovations from ILM. The post That time Bill Nighy wore ‘computer...
bert is only very slightly better than regex as a cot monitor with an emergently misaligned model and both of them are barely better than chance
I assume that you're roughly familiar with emergent misalignment in general. If not, I recommend reading these papershttps://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09742 [Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs]https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424 [Emergent Misalignment:...
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