2026-07-13
The Real AI Takeover Already Happened—and It Was Bureaucratic
The biggest AI risk isn't superintelligence. It's automated systems making decisions humans can't explain or override.
Pausing AI at human level seems harder than pausing ASAP
Cross-posted from my website. Some people think we should pause AI, but not now. They say we should wait until AI reaches human level, [1] because: It's not (catastrophically) dangerous...
Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP
Lock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days
LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen
The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire over the weekend in part because it was regularly "investigating" and surveilling innocent people.
GDQ backlash results in canceled with Saudi Arabia-backed SNK
The Games Done Quick speedrunning charity canceled a Metal Slug stream partway through after backlash to partnering with the Saudi Arabia-backed SNK
‘Rusty Dagger’: The U.S. Air Force Built a Cheap Cruise Missile in Months Instead of Years. It Did It for Ukraine
The U.S. Air Force just compressed a weapons program that normally takes the better part of a decade into a matter of months, fielding a cheap, mass-producible cruise missile called...
The Five Ways AI Agents Burn Your Token Budget
An AI engineer breaks down real agent logs to show five token burn patterns that waste money, and three deliberate spends worth every cent.
Steam had a slow start on Monday just like the rest of us
The Steam store was "very slow" with intermittent errors.
When A.I. Is a Member of the Family . How a family of...
When A.I. Is a Member of the Family. How a family of three in a Cleveland suburb uses AI chatbots. This is wild.
Meet Varonis: HackerNoon Company of the Week
Meet Varonis, HackerNoon's Company of the Week, and learn how its AI security and data protection platform helps organizations reduce cyber risk.
Oversight of automated research via summarisation: a toy model
Executive SummarySummarisation is one approach to oversight of automated research: a non-scheming agent distils insights from a large body of research into an informative short summary for a human overseer....
2026 Hackaday Supercon: Call for Proposals
We are absolutely stoked to announce that the Hackaday Superconference is taking place this year November 6th through 8th in glorious Pasadena California, and we want to see you there!...
Octopath Traveler's Switch 2 upgrade is the worst way to handle a Switch 2 upgrade
Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler 2 are getting Switch 2 upgrades, but publisher Square Enix is handling them in the worst possible way.
Reacher star Alan Ritchson’s new action movie looks completely unhinged
Motor City is a music-driven action movie set in 1970s Detroit starring Alan Ritchson on a music-powered revenge killing spree.
Growing a Business Means Accepting Other Perspectives. Here’s How to Do It Without Losing Your Core Values.
I scaled my company into a national dealer network. Here's how I learned to work with the range of personalities across my industry and the country.
Lemmings Reloaded - This enhanced version of a classic looks awesome for the C64 and it's coming next month!
Ask anyone about Lemmings, and their first memories, would probably be about a bunch of blue and green haired Lemmings that could be blown up, ripped apart and dropped from...
German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks
ZEGO-TVZ says the financial fallout from a March cyberattack left shutting its doors as the only option
Gas Prices Just Jumped for the First Time Since May — and the Strait of Hormuz Chaos Means the Climb Is Only Starting
Washington and Tehran can't agree whether the Strait of Hormuz is open — Trump declared it open under a new U.S. 'guardian' regime, while Iran calls the June deal in...
The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
"A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product." The post The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public...
What to Look For in an AI-Powered Cybersecurity Tool
As cyber threats become more complex, you also need more advanced tools to counter them. Here's what to look for in an AI-powered cybersecurity tool.
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