2026-07-05
The One About The Joy of Bots
In our 98th episode, we list the things we’ve been building with our robots and figure out who we’re really yelling at when it all goes wrong. Mentioned, referenced, or...
Claude's malicious compliance and normalization of deviance
It was January 27, 1986, the night before the Space Shuttle Challenger was scheduled for launch. The goal was to have a shuttle that could land back on Earth and...
Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”
Good luck fighting those charges. The post Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand” appeared first on Futurism.
Magic: The Gathering's Universes Beyond isn't ruining the game — it's saving it
Wizards of the Coast's controversial approach to crossover Magic sets gets a lot of flak, but I shamelessly love it.
Demonstrating LFP Battery Safety in Case of BMS Failure
Generally, LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries are quite safe and stable, but it’s still possible for something to go wrong, even something catastrophic, like the battery management system (BMS) developing a direct...
Probing the loss-band sparsity assumption in Scientist AI
Epistemic status: ~1 hour of compute on a T4. Note that I just tried with one model, and one subspace. The volume finding seems solid; the curvature finding is suggestive...
Book Review: The God Test
Book review: The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, by Robert Wright.Some AI doomers talk about AI becoming god-like. Robert Wright goes further, telling us that the...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Why We Built PlayerZero (7/5/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 5, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Amazon Launches in...
Swarm of Cyborg Remote Controlled Cockroaches Gains New Power
Cyborg roaches are a thing, and soon there'll be nowhere they can't reach. The post Swarm of Cyborg Remote Controlled Cockroaches Gains New Power appeared first on Futurism.
Ocarina of Time's most underrated character deserves more appreciation
We should be praising Ocarina of Time's helpful fairy instead of turning her into memes.
NASA Has Not Launched Anything Faster Than Voyager in 48 Years. Here Is the Real Menu of Machines That Could Finally Beat It
Voyager 1 is about to become the first object one light-day from Earth, still whispering home on a plutonium supply the size of a car battery. Nothing humanity has built...
Marvel Rivals players suspect Captain America's summer sausage has already been downsized
On the fourth of July, no less.
We need 3rd party Training-Run Assessments
Training-run assessments conducted by a 3rd party should become a standard part of frontier AI safety.By a Training-Run Assessment, or TRA, I mean an in-depth analysis of the post-training pipeline...
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners studio teases more Delicious in Dungeon, new project from Promare's creators
A second season of Delicious in Dungeon and a new project from Kill la Kill and Promare creators Hiroyuki Imaishi and Kazuki Nakashima are on the way
Telltale's Game of Thrones is the only game to match HBO's intensity
House of the Dragon viewers wanting more Game of Thrones in their life should look to Telltale's choice-based, episodic adventure from 2014.
The U.S. Tried to Sneak Two F-117 Stealth Jets Through Neutral Austria — a 1950s Swedish Fighter Caught Them
Too many registrations on the flight plan, ten minutes in Austrian airspace, and photos on a security council's table a week later. The F-117 was never perfect.
Terraforming Venus means removing 90 Earth atmospheres of carbon dioxide, cooling a planet that melts lead, and importing an ocean — the newest NASA idea skips all of it
Venus crushes, roasts, and corrodes anything that touches it, and it has almost no water. But fifty kilometers up, the pressure matches Earth's — and ordinary breathable air floats there...
Huge Survey Finds the Truth About What mRNA Vaccines Do to the Human Body
"After billions of doses, we now have an extraordinary amount of scientific evidence." The post Huge Survey Finds the Truth About What mRNA Vaccines Do to the Human Body appeared...
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