2026-04-22
U.S. Navy Quote of the Day by Admiral William “Bull” Halsey: ‘There are no extraordinary men…just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with’
“There are no extraordinary men…just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.” – U.S. Navy Admiral William Bull Halsey These were the words spoken by Admiral Bull...
Fallout co-creator says non-linear design is all about never assuming how players will act, illustrates his point by fantasising about an NPC guard he seems to really hate
"Your job is to provide a nice map for them to play on."
Your Next Hire Doesn't Sleep: An Engineer's Honest Take on Agentic AI in 2026
The 12% of agents that make it to production and deliver meaningful ROI don't share a common model or a common framework. They started where failure was tolerable, instrumented everything...
Optimism Is Your Greatest Asset — Until It Starts Working Against You. Here’s What I Wish I’d Known Sooner.
Believe in their potential. But trust their actions.
A group of “unauthorized users” have...
A group of “unauthorized users” have accessed Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, which the company recently said they couldn’t widely release because it was too dangerous. Whoopsie doodle! Maybe don’t use...
Studio Ghibli's next film arrives in July, as a Ghibli Park exclusive
Night in the Valley of Witches, an animated short set in Ghibli Park, was co-directed by Goro Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazaki's son. It will debut July 8.
The U.S Navy Could Soon Have 3 Nuclear Aircraft Carriers Bombing Iran
With the USS Gerald R. Ford returning to operational service in the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy will be operating “three” aircraft carriers in the Middle East, a scenario that...
The First Scientist’s Guide to Truth: Alhazen on Critical Thinking
Born into a world with no clocks, telescopes, microscopes, or democracy, Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (c. 965–c. 1040), known in the West as Alhazen, began his life studying religion, but grew...
OpenAI Open-Sources Privacy Filter, a Tiny Model That Scrubs PII Without an API Call
OpenAI released Privacy Filter under Apache 2.0 — a 1.5B-parameter (50M active) bidirectional token-classification model that detects and masks PII in text locally, in a single forward pass. It runs...
GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not
Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement Users of GitHub's command-line interface (CLI) who value privacy, beware. The Microsoft-owned code-hosting...
FLOSS Weekly Episode 868: Remove the Noodles
This week Jonathan chats with Johannes Millan about Super Productivity and Parallel Code! Those are two very different projects, but both aiming for helping us get our work done. Super...
How to rebuild Strixhaven’s Prismari Artistry Commander deck for Vivi Ornitier
Though the strategies differ slightly, Secrets of Strixhaven's Prismari Artistry precon serves as a great base for a Vivi Ornitier Commander deck.
“Even the Weather Felt Expensive”
Filmmaker Noah Hawley was invited to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat in 2018. Reflecting on the experience recently for The Atlantic, Hawley writes that today’s super-rich have stopped “pretending...
French Rafale Fighters, Swedish Gripen Jets, Finnish Hornets, and Aircraft From Four Other NATO Nations Intercepted Russian Tu-22M3 Bombers Over the Baltic Sea on Monday
The world’s eyes may be on what’s happening in Iran, and whether the ceasefire there will continue. But Russia’s war with Ukraine remains an active conflict, and it had a...
FFXIV 2026 Fan Fest keynote: Start time and where to watch
Square Enix's first FFXIV Fan Fest of 2026 will reveal what's next for the Final Fantasy franchise. Here's how to watch the Fan Fest keynote.
There Are Corrections, and There Are Corrections
The New York Times (gift link): A correction was made on April 21, 2026: Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated which day the New...
SpaceX Admits AI Data Centers in Space May Be a Really Terrible Idea
No kidding. The post SpaceX Admits AI Data Centers in Space May Be a Really Terrible Idea appeared first on Futurism.
The United States and Israel May Try to “Mow the Grass” Against Iran. The Strategy Works Against Hamas and Hezbollah. Iran Has 90 Million People and 400 Kilograms of Enriched Uranium
Now approaching its second month, the war in Iran is precariously paused by a cease-fire. Though the future is impossible to predict, there will come a time when major hostilities...
Research Log: Monet/PEER sparse experts
I've been looking into the Monet/PEER sparse expert papers. I think there's a lot of potential in these ideas for interpretability-by-design. Some of what I've done so far: Quantization experiments:...
8 Quiet Breakdowns That Emerge in the First 90 Days After an Acquisition (and How to Protect Against Them)
The deal closes. The model works. The plan looks clean. But the first 90 days may tell a different story.
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