2026-05-20
Ken Paxton Wanted to Crack Down on Forum Shopping. Now Lawyers Say He’s Improperly Seeking Out Favorable Courts.
The post Ken Paxton Wanted to Crack Down on Forum Shopping. Now Lawyers Say He’s Improperly Seeking Out Favorable Courts. appeared first on ProPublica.
Google I/O, World Models, I/O Spaghetti
Google I/O put AI everywhere, for better and for worse. Meanwhile, is DeepMind aligned with Google's business objectives?
Smaller suppliers invited to pitch for £2.9B UK defense tech framework
Government Commercial Agency wants DIPS 2 to reach beyond MoD buyers and the usual big-name suppliers
Power-seeking agents will likely be developed
I am going to argue that we will likely eventually get AIs that are strongly power-seeking, much more so than current SOTA LLMs.[1]TLDRRight now SOTA LLMs are still largely in...
PostgreSQL backup tool gets some backup of its own after sole maintainer sounds alarm
AWS, Percona, Supabase, pgEdge, and Tiger Data rally round pgBackRest with funding pledge
The act of Umfunktionierung
Another unique German word. Umfunktionierung. Functional transformation. Most of us take the tools we’re given and use them as instructed. We follow the manual. We color inside the lines. We...
This Gun Shop Stayed Open Despite Repeated Violations. Then a Cop Was Killed With One of Its Guns.
The post This Gun Shop Stayed Open Despite Repeated Violations. Then a Cop Was Killed With One of Its Guns. appeared first on ProPublica.
Apply now to Human-Aligned AI Summer School 2026
TL;DR: Apply now for the 6th Human-Aligned AI Summer School happening in Prague, July 13–16.WhatThe sixth Human-Aligned AI Summer School, a four-day intensive summer school focused on technical AI alignment...
Postgres Extensions Cheat Sheet: Replace 7 Databases With SQL
This guide shows how modern Postgres extensions can replace large parts of today’s fragmented infrastructure stack. Using pgvector, TimescaleDB, pgmq, PostGIS, pg_cron, and BM25 search, developers can run vector AI...
London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year
A Freedom of Information Act request shows the extent of the surveillance
From 8B to Frontier: How System Prompts Control Whether AI Agents Blackmail, Leak, and Kill
Sequel to Blackmail at 8 Billion Parameters. Funded by a BlueDot Impact rapid grant. TL;DR We extended our sub-frontier agentic misalignment study to 22 models from 9 developers, 3 harm...
ZTE releases Sustainability Report 2025: driving a new chapter in sustainable development through AI
Through its "All in AI, AI for All" vision, ZTE surpasses climate targets, bridges the global digital divide, and strengthens governance resilience
Magic: The Gathering is fixing Spider-Man's Arena issue with new Marvel set
After months of bizarre digital-only cards, Magic and Marvel have seemingly cracked the Arena problem. Spider-Man will also get a full rehaul.
Streetbeat
Streetbeat was a breakdance themed title inspired by old arcade titles such as "Breakdance", as well as TV and computer games of the early 80s. In particular, the influence of...
The Boys season 6? Everything we know about Vought Rising and the future of the franchise
The Boys is officially over, but Amazon's superhero show will continue in 2027 with Vought Rising. And more spinoffs could follow.
The Boys season 6? Everything we know about Vought Rising and the future of the franchise
The Boys is officially over, but Amazon's superhero show will continue in 2027 with Vought Rising. And more spinoffs could follow.
DecayDock Keeps Track of Spoilage
Many of us have suffered the common experience of buying a great deal of (now very expensive) food, only to have it go off before it can be consumed. [ptallthings93]...
If AI is normal technology, history is not reassuring.
There’s a truism that technology is good - even if it creates winners and losers, it improves the world. Toby Ord argues that the conclusions about the benefits of technology...
Pythagorean addition
TL;DR: Instead of labouriously computing , we can mentally calculate using the alpha-max plus beta-min algorithm, by estimatingand this will be very close to the actual . This is useful...
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