2026-07-21

The first spacecraft ever sent to another planet reached Venus in 1961. It had been dead and silent for three months by the time it arrived

The first spacecraft ever sent to another planet reached Venus in 1961. It had been dead and silent for three months by the time it arrived

Summary and Key Points: In February 1961, the Soviet Union launched Venera 1, the first spacecraft ever sent from Earth toward another planet. Built with solar panels, sun sensors, and...

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Fallout 5: Here are 10 adjustments Bethesda should make for an improved experience

Fallout 5: Here are 10 adjustments Bethesda should make for an improved experience

Fallout 5 is coming, so here are a few ways to ensure our next trip around the wastelands is even more memorable and enjoyable.

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2026-07-20

Ubisoft promises Ghost Recon news in August, and if you're hoping that means an update on the Splinter Cell remake then I admire your optimism but sorry, no

Ubisoft promises Ghost Recon news in August, and if you're hoping that means an update on the Splinter Cell remake then I admire your optimism but sorry, no

A week after cautioning fans about a "quieter year" in new game releases, Ubisoft is teasing an update to mark the series' 25th anniversary.

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Adderall Tolerance: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Adderall Tolerance: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

The effectiveness of amphetamine (e.g. Adderall) and methylphenidate (e.g. Ritalin) for the symptoms of ADHD, that is, lack of executive function, has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt in many short-term...

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Goofy Oversized Wicker Costumes

Goofy Oversized Wicker Costumes

Artist Lewis Prosser describes himself on Instagram as an “absurdist basket-maker”. His costumes for a project called Making Merrie reflect that self-description. Making Merrie explores the material culture of folk...

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HireQuotient Extends AI Recruiting Capabilities to Paylocity Customers in Frontline Industries

The partnership addresses this gap by integrating HireQuotient's EasySource platform directly into the Paylocity ecosystem. Instead

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Banana in, Bostrom out: paperclip maximization is one token-direction swap away (in Qwen 3.6-27B)

Banana in, Bostrom out: paperclip maximization is one token-direction swap away (in Qwen 3.6-27B)

IntroductionI started learning about interpretability late February of this year. I’ve been a full stack dev for a non profit for a few years now, developing AI platforms for underserved...

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Attempt at Finding Alignment Faking on Llama 70B to test sleeper-agent detection generalizes

Attempt at Finding Alignment Faking on Llama 70B to test sleeper-agent detection generalizes

Epistemic status: empirical report from a 30-hour project sprint. Null result, reported honestly, with full code and data.TL;DR MacDiarmid et al. (2024) showed that a linear probe on model's internal...

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PauseCon London '26: Applications now open

We shared a post here recently arguing that existential AI safety needs an effective social movement. If you read that and found yourself agreeing, or wanting to act on it...

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What Is an Agent, Actually?

Untangling LLMs, agents, orchestration, and frameworks to establish a shared vocabulary for agentic systems

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Whole Foods Offering Steep Discount on Taylor Farms Shredded Iceberg Lettuce

Whole Foods Offering Steep Discount on Taylor Farms Shredded Iceberg Lettuce

"The cost is on the back end." The post Whole Foods Offering Steep Discount on Taylor Farms Shredded Iceberg Lettuce appeared first on Futurism.

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NodeMeta Expands Its Multi-Utility Web3 Vision With OneKey, TrustScan AI and NTE

NodeMeta is a community-driven Web3 infrastructure and utility ecosystem powered by NTE. It is developing a connected platform involving nodes, staking, AI-enab

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What do I mean by “Artificial General Intelligence”?

What do I mean by “Artificial General Intelligence”?

In this post,[1] intended for a broad audience, I will paint a brief picture of what I’m talking about when I talk about “AGI”. It will seem obvious to many...

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Laxis

Make meeting notes awesome, type 4x faster, translate live Discussion | Link

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Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John...

Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John Waters about how he used to work at Mary Oliver’s bookstore in Provincetown. “They had this bookshop where you were allowed to...

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AI 2040: Is it Actually a Deal?

The "AI Futures Project" has released their AI 2040: Plan A scenario. While their previous scenario AI 2027 was a forecast of what they thought a future with many powerful...

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Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige responds to Blade movie's failure

Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige responds to Blade movie's failure

The Mahershala Ali Blade movie announced in 2019 has been a bust for Marvel, but Kevin Feige says he "very excited that we got Wesley back"

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Restoring Model Alignment via Honesty Activation Steering

Restoring Model Alignment via Honesty Activation Steering

TL;DRWe introduce two projection-aware steering methods (StTP, StMP) that intervene only on tokens whose activations fall on the misaligned side of a learned decision boundary. They restore honesty about as...

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