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A reading list for generalists

I, along with many others in AI safety, believe there is a shortage of generalists in the community and that there exist many projects and efforts that by default will...

Can FIFA's World Cup 2026 Website Handle the World's Biggest Tournament?

The article evaluates the FIFA World Cup 2026 web experience from an engineering perspective, examining its interactive 3D globe, live scores, tournament bracket, feedback system, and underlying architecture. It identifies...

The Gulf No Longer Trusts America to Protect It, So It’s Cutting Its Own Deal With Iran

The diplomatic center of gravity in the Middle East has decisively shifted to Riyadh. On June 23, 2026, talks between Iranian Majlis Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi,...

Extending Vercel's Eve With a Policy-Driven Governance Layer

The article introduces eve-policy, a policy-as-code governance layer for Vercel's Eve framework. It explains how two-phase policy evaluation enables approval workflows, security controls, auditing, and compliance without modifying Eve's internals,...

Third-parties should focus on scrutinising systems cards

By default, I expect system cards will get worse, which would be bad. Some mechanisms could improve system cards, but I expect they will be outweighed. In any case, I...

Third-parties should focus on scrutinising system cards

By default, I expect system cards will get worse, which would be bad. Some mechanisms could improve system cards, but I expect they will be outweighed. In any case, I...

The New York Times: ‘Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59’

Clay Risen, writing for The New York Times: Mr. Malik started his blog just as the dot-com bubble burst, leading to a recession that also took down many of the...

The New York Times: ‘Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59’

Clay Risen, writing for The New York Times (gift link): Mr. Malik started his blog just as the dot-com bubble burst, leading to a recession that also took down many...

The Soviets Sent a Spacecraft to a Moon of Mars. One Wrong Command From Earth Killed It Forever

In 1988 the Soviet Union launched two ambitious spacecraft toward Phobos, a tiny moon of Mars, carrying what would have been the first robot designed to hop across another world....

Money-Saving Tips Every OpenClaw User Should Know

OpenClaw costs spike when your context bloats across app and session layers — and context compression only partially helps. The real fix is to distill repeated tasks into Skills so...

While Apollo 11 Was on the Moon, a Secret Soviet Probe Was Racing to Grab Moon Rocks and Beat the Astronauts Home

As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon in July 1969, a second spacecraft was circling overhead, and almost no one knew. The Soviet Union, having lost the...

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Powerful qualities in type B physicalism

Type B physicalism is a view in philosophy of mind, and "powerful qualities" (PQ) theory is a view in the metaphysics of properties. They share an important similarity: they both...

Reachy Mini Desktop Robot Gets All-local, Conversational AI

Reachy Mini is a limbless desktop robot from Hugging Face made for human interaction experiments, and to give you an idea of what it’s like is a guide on how...

Care externalities

A big source of externalities I’m not sure I’ve heard mentioned as such: people caring about one another.For a random person, I’d guess the unaccounted for effects on other people...

Quoting Jon Udell

Human Agent in the loop I dislike the phrase “human in the loop” because it cedes authority to the machines. Let’s flip the narrative. It’s our loop, we work the...

After a 4-year wait, Netflix announces Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is coming this fall

I really want to stay at your house. Again.

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says Obsidian has 'Karma Police' who go through games making sure every skill gets enough cool stuff to do: 'We're not gonna leave you out to dry'

"Some people think I'm preoccupied with balance."

Mina the Hollower will make her fighting game debut in a crossover next year

It's not the first time Rivals of Aether has included a character from Yacht Club's games.