2026-06-03
Your Team Isn't the Problem, But Your WIP Is
If your tickets take two weeks to cross the board while coding takes a few hours, the problem isn’t effort — it’s how much work your team keeps in flight...
Sixteen schemes for AI safety
These days, I often run across whippersnappers excited to do something for AI safety — but aren’t quite sure what. One of the fun things about the Future Fund era...
Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor
At the hazy dawn of the twentieth century, through the byways of mental meandering and mathematical play, Albert Einstein arrived at a revelation about the nature of the universe while...
The ‘60 Minutes’ Purge
Paramount’s “Press Express” page promoting 60 Minutes still lists all eight correspondents from the 2025–2026 season, the program’s 58th. (Perhaps they fired the person responsible for keeping the cast page...
007 First Light sequels will be 'done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios,' Amazon exec says
IO Interactive self-published 007 First Light, but don't expect that to happen with future releases.
How ILM invented ambient occlusion for ‘Pearl Harbor’
Plus, a look back at the miniatures work, and rarely-discussed motion capture approaches. The post How ILM invented ambient occlusion for ‘Pearl Harbor’ appeared first on befores & afters.
Summer Game Fest is here, so get ready for a lot of, 'Ugh, that game with the cool trailer used AI'
A pile of new game announcements are coming over the next several days, and we can expect a pile of AI disclosures, too.
Can you go 82-0? “The objective of 82-0 is to...
Can you go 82-0? “The objective of 82-0 is to construct a historical NBA roster capable of achieving a perfect undefeated season.” You get to “draft” 5 players from randomly...
868-Back makes hacking as cool as '90s Hollywood thought it was
I just had to hack my own brain to get Back.
Why Your Business Could Lose More Than Its Founder If You’re Suddenly Incapacitated
If your business depends entirely on you for access to critical information, one emergency can put everything at risk. Here's how to build a continuity plan before that ever happens.
How Much Water Does AI Really Drink? A Data Dive into the Deep End of AI Water Consumption
Behind every AI kilowatt-hour is a hidden river of evaporated water. Training a model like GPT-3 consumed 636,000 gallons—enough to fill an Olympic pool—while daily inference "drinks" a bathtub per...
Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech
It's hard to stop a signal jammer if you can't locate the source, say Rice University researchers
Bitcoin Is Taking a Nasty Swim
Prices are down over 45 percent from all-time highs — and falling. The post Bitcoin Is Taking a Nasty Swim appeared first on Futurism.
Why Lego isn't making Pokémon minifigs (yet)
Lego's design director tells Polygon how its new Smart Play sets help kids embody the ultimate Pokémon trainer fantasy
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Who Gets to Use the Most Powerful AI Models? The Governance Crisis We’re Ignoring
Anthropic’s new frontier model, Mythos, signals a dangerous shift toward "AI enclosure"—gating the most powerful cognitive tools behind seven-figure enterprise and government contracts rather than technical merit. Because its "safety"...
Aligning Superintelligent Humans
Last post was an example of how intelligence-correlated tools can stabilize reflection. Here I'll discuss how native-cyborgism attenuates the hard parts of getting to a pivotal act.Probable ASI is grown...
Lost In Random: The Eternal Die is a must-play roguelike before it leaves Game Pass
Xbox Game Pass is about to lose Lost In Random: The Eternal Die, one of the best roguelikes in years. Play it before it goes.
Beyond Hardcoded Evolutionary Psychology
Steven Byrnes has written quite a lot on brain-like AGI algorithms. I'll reiterate here of a small part of his work, but you'd be better off reading his stuff directly.For...
Early Live Performance by Talking Heads (1976)
In March 1976, Talking Heads played a show at The Kitchen in NYC; you can watch the entire show recorded from two angles in this video. The band had formed...
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