2026-07-10
Are We Guarding Against Backdoors Or Failing To Notice Them? (Part 1 / 6)
This post serves to argue that backdooring evaluations are prone to failures stemming from triggers never reaching models.In backdooring literature, there is a common workflow. Outputs are evaluated on inputs...
How robust are natural language autoencoders to initialization?
Natural language autoencoders are meant to take in an LLM's activation vector and describe in plain text what the model is thinking. However, its training data collection involves asking Claude...
Shocking No One, Fidji Simo, Would-Be Usurper, Is Out at OpenAI
Berber Jin and Anissa Gardizy, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, plans to step down from her full-time role after an extended...
Toward A Public Science of Model Behavior
This is a linkpost for our essay "Toward A Public Science of Model Behavior" on transluce.org. The full text is reproduced below.Today’s AI systems frequently behave in ways their developers...
AI Safety Policy Needs to train Legal Practitioners
I completed my law degree at a working-class London university. In my first year, I was 18 years old, and I was often the youngest person in the room: almost...
What would it take for AI to discover penicillin?
At the end of May, I attended the SciFM26 conference hosted at UChicago which had many speakers discussing agentic science and the future of AI+Science. This piece will attempt to...
How do you put a price tag on a legacy like id Software's?
If Xbox can't find the value in owning the beating heart of the first-person shooter, perhaps it shouldn't be in the videogame business at all.
Russia’s T-90M Arena-M Sighting Proves Drones are Pushing the Evolution of Tank Survivability on the Battlefield
On July 4, imagery appeared to show a Russian T-90M fitted with the Arena-M active protection system outside a factory for the first time, a possible sign the hard-kill suite...
The Drone the U.S. Air Force Just Flew With Its F-15EX Over the Pacific Isn’t American — Australia Built It, and It’s the Most Combat-Ready Loyal Wingman in the Allied World
On July 1, U.S. Pacific Air Forces released its first-ever image of a combat drone flying beside a crewed fighter, an F-15EX over the Philippine Sea. The drone wasn't American....
Steam was showing a 'too many requests' error, but it's back
If Steam said "You've made too many requests recently," don't worry: it's wasn't just you.
Radio-Gaga is a Toddler Friendly Remote In a Radio
Humans of all ages like music, but you can’t exactly pass a toddler the aux cable. That’s not to say the younger set don’t have their own particular tastes– they...
Netflix can't keep viewers for season 2, even of their good shows
Lucas Shaw: Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One SeasonOne Piece, one of Netflix’s most-watched shows of 2023, lost more than 30% of its audience for the second season. Season...
The U.S. Navy Just Committed to 16 Robot Submarines Built to Lay Mines. Its Own Auditors Said the Program Had No Mission It Could Afford — and a Startup Beat It to the Water
In June 2025, the Government Accountability Office reported the Navy could not say whether it would ever field Boeing's Orca robot submarine, because no clear requirement fit the budget. Eleven...
John Carmack reacts to massive layoffs at id Software: 'My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well'
"You can't rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn't be your default belief."
An unnamed US county – perhaps in Ohio – paid $1M extortion demand to cybercriminals
Leaked negotiations spill the tea
Xbox had a terrible strategy, and now they're laying off 3,200 people and ditching 5 studios
From Asha Sharma's letter to Xbox employees earlier this week (via IGN):To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content. While those businesses have created...
Uwe Boll's 'morally bankrupt' movie Citizen Vigilante gets official game
Citizen Vigilante star Armie Hammer may regret his role in Uwe Boll's latest shock flick, now it's gamers' turn to suffer.
From classroom to credits
Finding VFX through a love of filmmaking - lots of creatives discover visual effects as they develop a passion for filmmaking. The post From classroom to credits appeared first on...
Russia’s Own Air Force Just Lost Its Place in Line for the Su-35 Fighter
Reports this month say the single factory that builds every Russian Su-35 has finished the first 20 of 48 jets promised to Iran, and that Russia's own air force will...
Rarest PS1 and PS2 games to buy before Sony closes the PlayStation Store
Here are 12 PS1 and PS2 games that cost hundreds of dollars used, but you can buy them digitally for a song on the PlayStation Store before it closes.
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