2025-04-16
The WSJ Reports on How Elon Musk Manages His ‘Legion’ of Children and Harem of Mothers
Dana Mattioli, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (main link is a gift link; also, here’s a News+ link): Musk has had at least 14 children with four women, including...
Prodromes and Biomarkers in Chronic Disease
Published on April 16, 2025 9:30 PM GMTMidjourneyThanks to Renaissance Philanthropy for their support of my research on this topic.Why Prodromes?A lot of chronic diseases, particularly autoimmune and neurodegenerative disorders,...
Ben Werdmuller on how he would run Bluesky. “Anyone will be able...
Ben Werdmuller on how he would run Bluesky. “Anyone will be able to permissionlessly build on that platform, but Bluesky’s services will be there to provide the best-in-class experience and...
Government Hires Controversial AI Company to Spy on "Known Populations"
What happens when you combine Palantir — the not-at-all evil AI company named after an all-seeing orb from "The Lord of the Rings" — with an immigration agency that's disappearing...
How EnclaveX Is Bringing Wall Street-Grade Trading to Any Wallet
How EnclaveX is using encrypted enclaves to bring pro-level futures trading to everyday users—without sacrificing privacy or performance.
DOGE Dingalings Cut Off Funding for CVE Program
Jessica Lyons, reporting for The Register: US government funding for the world’s CVE program — the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws — ends Wednesday. The...
The RuneScape: Dragonwilds early access roadmap lays plans for a new biome, dragon fight, and even more skills to grind
Here's everything Jagex has planned for early access updates so far—but no promises on dates.
The Practical Imperative for AI Control Research
Published on April 16, 2025 8:27 PM GMTAs we continue to develop increasingly capable AI systems, many of us have noted the striking contrast between two areas of research. On...
Was The Great Gatsby’s titular character a Black man who passed for...
Was The Great Gatsby’s titular character a Black man who passed for white? “To read the novel without presupposing any character’s whiteness is to discover which characters are identified as...
You Might Not Want to Touch Receipts After Seeing This Horrifying Research
Think twice before saying yes to that receipt. According to new research from the Center for Environment Health, the tiny paper documents used by major US retailers contain alarmingly high...
METR’s preliminary evaluation of o3 and o4-mini
Published on April 16, 2025 8:23 PM GMTDiscuss
Figma Files for IPO
You will recall that in September 2022, Figma entered into an agreement for a $20 billion acquisition by Adobe, but abandoned the deal 15 months later.  ★Â
On the Real-Life Story of Deep-Cover Russian Spies Living As American Families....
On the Real-Life Story of Deep-Cover Russian Spies Living As American Families. “People who crave external validation would never make the cut as illegals, she said. ‘A spy is an...
Integrating JavaScript into Crypto Trading Apps: Challenges & Solutions
EVEDEX and CleverPumpkin tackled integrating a TypeScript SDK into native crypto apps, overcoming JavaScript compatibility and native integration challenges. Using native code for network tasks, WebView for wallet interactions, and...
The newest Minecraft snapshot makes A Minecraft Movie's giant Ghast airships into an in-game reality
Leashes and Happy Ghasts now let you create airships like in A Minecraft Movie, or dangle poor pigs over a cliff.
LAPD Publishes Crime Footage It Got From a Waymo Driverless Car
Police are starting to realize they can demand footage from driverless cars.
Kamelo: A Rule-Based Constructed Language for Universal, Logical Communication
Published on April 16, 2025 6:44 PM GMTIntroductionNatural languages are messy, ambiguous, and often inefficient for transmitting structured ideas. Kamelo is a proposal for a constructed language designed to address...
Tesla Stock Hits Dreaded Death Cross
Shares of embattled carmaker Tesla have reached a bearish "death cross" this week, indicating heightened volatility and future losses. A "death cross" indicates when a company's 50-day moving average crosses...
SquareX To Uncover Data Splicing Attacks At BSides San Francisco, A Major DLP Flaw
SquareX researchers will be disclosing a new class of data exfiltration techniques at BSides San Francisco 2025. The talk will demonstrate multiple data splicing techniques that will allow attackers to...
GPT-4.5 is Cognitive Empathy, Sonnet 3.5 is Affective Empathy
Published on April 16, 2025 7:12 PM GMTThis was the thing my friend told me I should make an account here to post, I hope it is appropriate.IntroductionThe thrust of...
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