2026-08-19
The Control Paradox
This post is based on an earlier post on my personal blog: https://www.scipolitic.com/posts/blog12.htmlAll of us who closely follow AI development have detected a shift in the capabilities of models in...
Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world
Big Red's acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker
The New ‘Wildwood’ Trailer Shows a Mix of Coraline’s Style With a Haunting Fairy Tale
Stop motion studio Laika provides a beautiful preview of its latest dark fantasy adventure
AI Prototyping in 2026: The PM Field Guide
I built the same CRM four times in just over an hour, live. The field guide: which tool for which job, the context prompt that beats a spec, the security...
Debate Training Reduces Reward Hacking in RLAIF
Paper: Debate Training Reduces Reward Hacking in RLAIFLinkpost for GDM Alignment blogpostWork done by the GDM Amplified Oversight team (we're hiring).TL;DR: When you RL against an LLM judge, the judge...
David Tennant Returns to 'Doctor Who' for a New Adventure - but There's a Catch
David Tennant is reprising his role as the Tenth Doctor in a new 12-part audio drama series.
Concerns About Personas, Multi-Agent Alignment, and Role Theory
There’s recently been significant discussion of LLM personas and how those fit into alignment. The idea is that LLMs have many possible basins of behavior, a la masks on a...
‘The Wire Parted’: A US Navy E-2C Hawkeye Has No Ejection Seats. It Fell to Within 10 Feet of the Atlantic When It Failed to Land on a Nuclear Aircraft Carrier
Unlike tactical fighters, the E-2C Hawkeye has no ejection seats. When USS Dwight D. Eisenhower's arresting wire parted on March 18, 2016, the aircraft rolled off the flight deck into...
The 10 Fastest Bans in Magic: The Gathering History
From Mind's Desire to Lurrus of the Dream-Den, here's all the fastest bans across 30 years of Magic: The Gathering.
The US Navy Lifted a $115,000,000 F-35C Stealth Fighter From 12,400 Feet Down in the South China Sea. The Fighter Failed to Land and the Pilot Ejected
The US Navy command investigation found no airframe or engine failure in the F-35C. The pilot had stayed in manual power instead of selecting the Approach Power Compensator and Delta...
GitHub blames 8-hour outage on autoscaling fail and VS Code retry storm
Load balancers buckled after a monitoring blind spot allowed traffic to spiral
There are simply too many great gaming monitor deals right now, so here are five of my favorites
There's a banger for every budget.
Subnautica 2's latest 1.2 update is friend focused—finally adding the key mechanic to any great multiplayer game
Nothing's impossible when you have the power of friendship.
11 Years in the Making: New US Navy Nuclear 100,000-Ton Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier USS John F. Kennedy Just Passed Acceptance Sea Trials
The term “supercarrier” is not mere hyperbole. Built by Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)-laid down on 22 August 2015 and christened on 7 December 2019 by the late President’s own daughter...
Acer Predator Helios NEO 16S AI review
A tale of two chippies as cursed power delivery strikes again.
Scotland's AI Growth Zone gets a wee £300M power-up
DataVita secures funding to expand datacenter capacity, while Dell brings some desks
How to Draw PIXEL ART Characters | For BEGINNERS 2026 (Part 6)
How to Draw PIXEL ART Characters | For BEGINNERS 2026 (Part 6)
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