2026-07-06
Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble
Oracle's down more than 40% this month, the BIS thinks AI could destroy the economy, and we've got the Kettle on for a chat about the whole mess
Desiderata for functional welfare experiments on LLMs
TLDRLLMs appear to have functional welfare: coherent sets of behaviour that track how well things are going relative to their goals. Improving model functional welfare matters for safety (low welfare...
WoW server suffers outbreak after a debuff breaches containment, giving me flashbacks to a 21-year-old incident so large Covid-19 researchers referenced it
Not quite Corrupted Blood 2.0, but close enough.
Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters
Up to 150 more stores to get the 'Orwellian' tech by year's end
Albert Dadon Is Building Financial Rails No Single Government Can Switch Off
The thesis: AEREDIUM founder Albert Dadon argues the 2022 SWIFT disconnection was misread as a political story when it was an engineering one — credible neutrality can't be voted into...
The U.S. Navy Has Nearly 10,000 Missile Launch Cells. It No Longer Has Enough Missiles to Fill Them Even Once
The Pentagon is pouring billions into rebuilding America's Tomahawk stockpile, and none of it can buy the one thing the arithmetic demands. Behind the shortage sits a supply chain ten...
Five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read his...
Five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read his famous “What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?” speech.
A second OG Steam Controller prototype has been found at Goodwill
We don't know how much it cost, but it does apparently work.
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Federal Law Requires the U.S. Navy to Keep 11 Aircraft Carriers. To Obey It, the Navy Is Counting a Ship That May Never Sail Again
The United States Navy is celebrating its 250th year with the oldest carrier in the fleet anchored in New York Harbor. She finished her final deployment in December, and the...
The Talos Principle 3 creators reveal new details about its hopeful grand finale
Despite the recent AI craze mutating their message, the developers behind The Talos Principle 3 are remaining hopeful in their big finale.
OLTP vs OLAP: Why Your App Database Isn't Built for Analytics
OLTP databases like PostgreSQL are optimized for fast reads and writes on specific records - orders, users, payments. OLAP databases like ClickHouse are built for a different job: aggregating and...
Your AI Is Aimed at the Wrong Customer Problem
Customer-facing AI has three layers: doing (automating tasks), knowing (turning customer signal into insight), and anticipating (predicting the next need). Most companies pour effort into the bottom layer because it...
The Art of Andor reveals a very different Star Wars love story was planned for Cassian Andor
Discover how the original Star Wars Andor pitch from Jared Bush would have featured a very different love story for Cassian Andor
Building Better Farm Management Zones, Part 1: H3 Hexagons Over Rectangles
This first installment introduces a spatial analytics framework for precision agriculture that replaces arbitrary rectangular grids with Uber's H3 hexagonal indexing system. Using a simulated Iowa corn field, it demonstrates...
'I find it really sad': Hideo Kojima laments the current state of the videogame industry as companies turn away from physical discs
This is a warning for what is to come for the rest of the media landscape.
A 30B Model Crawled on My Mini PC, But the Weights Were Innocent
GLM-4.7-Flash should fly on a small box: 30B total, ~3B active. On a Radeon 780M mini PC it crawled and fell apart past short context. The cause was not the...
CoinsDo to Exhibit at WebX 2026, Bringing Non-custodial Wallet Infrastructure to Asia's Largest Web3
The Wallet-as-a-Service provider will demonstrate its deposit, withdrawal, and KYC infrastructure at WebX in Tokyo on 13-14 July
Gluing 8192 MCUs Together to Make a GPU
What do you get when you take 8,192 CH570 MCUs, put them on custom PCBs, and write firmware for this interconnected gaggle of cores? In the case of [bitluni]’s project,...
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