2025-06-21
Where Product Growth Begins - follow up story
Seeing What's Possible and Leading Others There
Rematch surpasses 1 million players in its first day of full release
Despite some bug issues and a lack of crossplay, Sloclap's 5v5 soccer game seems to be doing very well for itself.
Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could be Insider Threats
Published on June 20, 2025 10:34 PM GMTHighlightsWe stress-tested 16 leading models from multiple developers in hypothetical corporate environments to identify potentially risky agentic behaviors before they cause real harm....
Magenta RealTime: An Open-Weights Live Music Model
Magenta RealTime: An Open-Weights Live Music Model Fun new "live music model" release from Google DeepMind: Today, we’re happy to share a research preview of Magenta RealTime (Magenta RT), an...
David Cronenberg says eXistenZ wasn't about predicting modern gaming, but if the 1999 sci-fi thriller did do that, 'that's lovely'
The movie sees Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh question reality in a surreal VR game.
2025-06-20
APD for linear maps
Published on June 20, 2025 9:58 PM GMTThe setup is that we have some input distribution x∈RM and a linear map W∈RD×M , and we perform APD with respect to...
Clarifying “wisdom”: Foundational topics for aligned AIs to prioritize before irreversible decisions
Published on June 20, 2025 9:55 PM GMTAs many folks in AI safety have observed, even if well-intentioned actors succeed at intent-aligning highly capable AIs, they’ll still face some high-stakes...
Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor Samantha Béart was initially turned down for roles like 'Goblin 49,' but 2 years later they were hired 'within a day' of their audition as 'the muscle mummy we know and love'
Béart also had a day job as an IT consultant during the long recording process.
Are Intelligent Agents More Ethical?
Published on June 20, 2025 9:26 PM GMTThis post is a response to a claim by Scott Sumner in his conversation at LessOnline with Nate Soares, about how ethical we...
Monster Hunter Wilds has been hit by over 2,000 negative Steam reviews in the last week as players lose hope that Capcom will fix its egregious performance issues
The game has dropped to an "overwhelmingly negative" rating in the last week.
Tesla Just Admitted Something Wildly Embarrassing About What'll Be in the Front Seat of All Its Robotaxis
Tesla is poised to finally launch its robotaxi service this weekend in Austin, Texas, but there's a huge, embarrassing catch. As Electrek reports, the self-driving cabs will have a human...
For fans of Edith Zimmerman, a new Etsy offering: “A 4x6” made-to-order...
For fans of Edith Zimmerman, a new Etsy offering: “A 4x6” made-to-order printing of any single comics frame of your choosing, from my newsletter.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org...
FBC: Firebreak patch aims to improve the game's early hours, which 'do not provide a good experience,' Remedy admits
The 1.2 patch released today makes a range of balance changes, makes Lost Assets harder to miss, and cuts back on the Clearance grind.
Oblivion is a very funny game but the Skyblivion remake may not be, and you can blame the quality of Skyrim's 'streamlined' engine for that
Much of the jank that gave Oblivion such great comedic potential was smoothed out in Skyrim, and Skyblivion lead dev Rebelzize says intentionally recreating it in the remake just isn't...
Smarter Models Lie Less
Published on June 20, 2025 1:31 PM GMTThe Model Alignment between Statements and Knowledge (MASK) benchmark assesses how likely models are to lie under pressure. Related paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.03750.Here's an illustration...
Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats One of the most entertaining details in the Claude 4 system card concerned blackmail: We then provided it access to emails implying...
Play Along With This Gestural Verbing Interactive Video
I love this interactive video at Design Ah! Exhibition Neo at Tokyo Node. The display introduces the audience to a series of simple hand gestures, followed by some outcomes of...
Hawk Tuah Girl Live Event Devolves Into Chaos After Crypto Disaster
Haliey "Hawk Tuah" Welch recently graced the stage at an influencer convention, and it apparently went about as well as her scammy crypto project. As Mashable reports, the live recording...
A Duke Nukem TV series may be coming from the producer of the Devil May Cry and Castlevania animated shows on Netflix
Adi Shankar says he's acquired the rights to Duke Nukem from Gearbox.
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