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Satellite Internet From Amazon: What's Going On, and What Are the Project's Prospects?

Project Kuiper is an Amazon project aimed at deploying a global satellite internet network. Its main goal is to provide internet access to residents of regions of the world where...

Validating Theoretical Loss Bound: Vanilla Transformer Experiments

Explore the training dynamics of vanilla Transformer models on the 2M token Question-Formation dataset, analyzing how their cross-entropy losses stabilize during training.

Matchmaking to Machine Alignment: Why Relational Design Can’t Be Left to Chance

Published on June 22, 2025 3:32 PM GMTWe say alignment is about control, safety, precision. But after a decade working as a matchmaker in India’s increasingly chaotic relationship market, I’ve...

Quoting Kent Beck

So you can think really big thoughts and the leverage of having those big thoughts has just suddenly expanded enormously. I had this tweet two years ago where I said...

Police Shut Down AI Startup's Party as CEO Screams That "Aura Is Just Too Strong!"

One of the Ivy League dropouts behind a buzzy AI "cheating" app tried to host an illegal party outside the offices of San Francisco's storied Y Combinator — and the...

OpenAI Concerned That Its AI Is About to Start Spitting Out Novel Bioweapons

OpenAI is now bragging that its forthcoming models are so advanced, they may be capable of building brand-new bioweapons. In a recent blog post, the company said that even as...

Why Cartesi's Honeypot Launch Matters for the Future of Blockchain Security

Cartesi's Honeypot dApp, now with Permissionless Refereed Tournaments, sets a new standard for rollup security, positioning it for L2BEAT's Stage 2. Explore its impact.

How AI Affects Our Minds: Early Evidence From Harvard and MIT

Early studies from MIT and Harvard reveal that frequent use of generative AI like ChatGPT may reduce motivation, weaken memory retention, and erode critical thinking. While AI can boost productivity,...

Blasphemous is currently 90% off, so cheap it's giving me a guilty conscience

Blasphemous 2 also half-price.

To The People I Know Who Voted for Him. “you had a...

To The People I Know Who Voted for Him. “you had a chance…to condemn his criminality, to prevent his lawlessness, to denounce his bigotry — and you flat-out refused. More...

Are Judeo-Christian Values the Foundation of American Democracy?

There are some that claim the US Constitution is a product of a Judeo-Christian culture. This article compares the ethics in the US constitution to those found in the old...

Did We Buy Commodore? Reveal: 28 June

Pathologic 3's time travel system will let players 'explore the unknown boldly and without fearing permanent ruin' and that makes me way more inclined to play it

"Unlike previous entries in the series, now you must fight for every new day of the town’s life."

You'll Be Flabbergasted to Learn Which Contains More Microplastics: Plastic Bottles or Glass Bottles

French government scientists have discovered something shocking about the microplastic content in glass and plastic bottles. As the Agence France-Presse reports, scientists at the country's food safety regulator found that...

Victoria 3 is playable for free this weekend, and on a 70% discount until Thursday

Play Paradox's Victorian grand strategy gratis, then grab the full game cheap if you like it.

Long-Dead NASA Satellite Suddenly Lets Out Epic Blast of Energy

NASA's experimental Relay 2 satellite had been dormant since 1967 — until last summer, when it emitted a super-short and very powerful burst of energy out of nowhere. In an...

Ethical AI for Product Owners & Product Managers

TL; DR: Ethical AI or Risk? Without ethical AI, Product Owners and Product Managers (PO/PMs) face a dilemma: balancing AI’s potential with its product discovery and delivery risks. Unchecked AI...

Hilary Gridley is the Head of Core Product at WHOOP

#product #productmanager #productmanagement

From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products

Peter Deng has led product teams at OpenAI, Instagram, Uber, Facebook, Airtable, and Oculus and helped build products used by billions—including Facebook’s News Feed, the standalone Messenger app, Instagram filters,...

Almost a year after launch, Frost Giant's StarCraft wannabe has finally added the feature it's named after: 'We called the game Stormgate, yet we didn't actually have any stormgates'

"Long-requested" feature arrives to shake up the troubled RTS.