2026-08-22
5 Must-Play New Steam Games to Try This Weekend
Steam added a lot of fascinating new games this week, including Mortal Shell 2. These are five to dig into this weekend.
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How the Sausage is Made - Why we Hate Slop
(This essay was written entirely by a human)I was banned from Reddit recently. This after being a constructive member of the community for almost a decade. If that’s not an...
Rogue Scalpel: Activation steering breaks refusal, even with benign directions
TLDR: Activation steering can bypass refusal even when the steering vector represents a benign concept like "brand identity" or "Portugal". It is hard (maybe impossible) to predict which vector will...
'Pokémon' Free August 2026 DLC Confirmed for Pokémon Worlds
Pokémon Champions, Pokémon Unite, Pokémon Go, and all of the TCG games are celebrating Pokémon Worlds in some way
Robust Plumbing and Harness are Essential for Production-Ready AI Agents
AI agents will retry. They will always retry. Given how long-running agentic loops are, network drops, timeouts, machines rotate, and rate limits kicking in are just part of the deal.
7 New AI Tools That Run a One-Person Business in 2026 — No Staff, No Code.
These seven tools execute for you — I’ll demo each live with prompts so you can build a business that runs even when you’re offline.
You should never be angry at work
I try not to give a lot of prescriptive advice about working in tech companies1. There are many ways to be successful, and every company works differently. If you’re shipping...
It Would Have Cost $50,000,000,000 To Restart the F-22 Raptor ‘Factory’ and $259,000,000 Per Fighter: That Meant No More Can Ever Be Build
I saw the debate unfold ten years ago: Restarting production and procuring 194 additional Raptors would have cost approximately $50 billion in 2016 dollars: about $9.9 billion in non-recurring startup...
Still more GTA 6 details from the latest leaked video: traffic cameras, car trackers, and drivers that put up a fight
With each leaked video we learn a bit more about the game.
Rockstar employees frustrated by GTA 6 leaks, though they may have only whet appetites for the reveal
The increased security measures following the 2022 hack didn't stop another major leak of GTA 6 gameplay.
Standing on the Surface of Venus Would Feel Like Standing 3,000 Feet Underwater on Earth, and It Is 870°F
The surface of Venus sits at about 870°F under a sea-level atmospheric pressure roughly 92 times that of Earth. Standing there would be comparable to standing 3,000 feet underwater. The...
5 Workflows That Build Product Context - Follow Up Story
How product teams build shared understanding from opportunity to requirements
Content-based privilege: transformer residual streams stratify by proximity to the model's own prediction
The directions nearest a model's prediction decide what kind of answer you get. The next ones out decide where it goes — about five tokens later.Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12447; Supplementary materials; Code....
The Fourth Horseman of the File-Format-Hegemony Apocalypse
Microsoft’s iPhone app for OneDrive has long supported creating three new document types via a big “+” button right in its file viewer: Excel, Word, PowerPoint. It recently came to...
Iran Bought 185 Chieftain Tanks from the UK and They Could Still Fight the US Army
In theory, one of the most technologically advanced tanks of its era, the performance of Iran’s Chieftain tanks was far from that ideal.
Yes, Putin Could Attack NATO
While consensus holds that Russia is rearming and that an attack on NATO could be possible from a manpower and equipment standpoint, that likelihood is low.
Building a Hammond Organ to Understand How They Work
The Hammond organ is an early form of electronic– or perhaps electromechanical– musical instrument. It solved the very real problem of organs normally being the sort of thing you built...
Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble
Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power
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