2026-07-24
New orca behavior unlocked. They’ve been known to sink...
New orca behavior unlocked. They’ve been known to sink boats and wear salmon for hats; now they’re ramming fish so hard they explode. “Orcas were observed to hold sunfish in...
+ Previewing my big app updates of the summer
An early preview of the big app updates I have coming the rest of the summer.
BASICally, Its Retro Machine Language
We enjoyed [Beej’s] trip down memory lane looking at a BASIC game, The Wizard’s Castle, written for the Exidy Sorcerer. It appeared in a 1980 magazine that included the title...
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I...
Blizzard fires World of Warcraft game master who insta-killed bosses for friends
It will also be "taking action" against the players who were involved.
Contra George Hotz on "AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence"
I'm trying to get better at thinking, communicating and arguing. So I've started a substack. I'm looking for feedback/engagement/advice/criticism, if anyone is willing to provide.==========George Hotz is an American security...
It’s our ethical duty to understand large numbers ....
It’s our ethical duty to understand large numbers. “Our world is increasingly moving towards extreme values: Damages from climate change, deaths due to genocide, wealth that knows no bounds. We...
vibes-based thinking as a cultural response to unknowns
tl;dr: some meditations on the shift away from probabalistic/frequentist reasoning to vibes-based means for quantifying and understanding big risks. The vibes in an email can be off, like a conference...
The Model Organism Lottery: Model Organism Interpretability Strongly Depends on Training Methodology
TL;DRCurrent model organisms (MOs) for interpretability benchmarking are typically constructed via a dedicated, “post-hoc” SFT step. However, recent work suggests that this may make interpretability unrealistically easy, giving the field...
Game of Thrones' best new show is getting new GRRM material
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is using unreleased George R.R. Martin "canon" pages while the Game of Thrones author struggles with Winds of Winter
A Retired General Says This Is About Giving the President More Options, Not About Expanding the Iran War Itself
The United States is moving special-operations forces, fighter aircraft and medical staff toward the Middle East, with bomber crews in America and Britain on high alert, the Wall Street Journal...
New Dragon Quest Monsters game reveals its weird new creatures
Square Enix's catch-'em-all spinoff returns in December, promising plenty of monster collecting hijinks for Dragon Quest fans
2026-07-23
Iran Went After the Energy Routes and Russia Is Now Going After the Food, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Says
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened in 2023, and Maersk has moved...
Red-teaming LLM unlearning: LUNAR's "forgotten" knowledge is still recoverable
Summary LUNAR is a state-of-the-art unlearning method. To forget specific (harmful) knowledge, it retrains a single MLP down-projection matrix such that activations from this “forget” set are redirected into regions...
MemoryCustodian
Repo-native memory for coding agents Discussion | Link
Kim’s Arithmetic: Why North Korea Is Building Toward 300-500 Nuclear Warheads
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives to his targets to the arithmetic...
A Court Reporter Submitted AI-Generated Errors in Official Court Transcript, Judge Says
A judge in Indiana warns a court reporter that it's their job to proofread their work, after catching errors likely made by AI transcription services.
Inception in DiffusionGemma - Jailbreaking a Diffusion Language Model by Pinning Tokens Anywhere on the Canvas
Authors: Theresa G., Simon S., Siva Kumar Lakkoju.Epistemic status/effort: exploratory red-teaming as part of a two-day hackathon during ARENA 8.0. Our attacks can be reproduced based on our GitHub Repo...
The full trailer for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil is here, and holy cow I think this one might actually be good
The director of Weapons and Barbarian is doing his own thing with Resident Evil, and it looks horrific but darkly funny too.
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