2026-08-11
OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs
Gaming servers get the steepest rises but sticker shock is also coming to conventional instances running on old and new boxes
Redux: (∃ Stochastic Natural Latent) Implies (∃ Deterministic Natural Latent)
Once upon a time, John Wentworth and I thought we had a proof of a very useful looking theorem. We did not have that proof. An important intermediate step was...
A Keyboard with No Keys
For as capable as smartphone hardware is, the software running on them can be especially restrictive and cumbersome. Unlike a single-board computer with GPIO running a standard Linux operating system...
AI Is a Backhoe, Not a Magic Wand
AI tools are like a backhoe versus a shovel: more powerful, more dangerous in untrained hands.
Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation
H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year
On using crises to shift political will for AI
TL;DR: We’ll probably be getting more AI safety incidents, so amplify the ones that would justify or highlight the urgency of your preferred policy solutions even from a non-technical skeptic...
The Latency Trap: Why Pursuing Sub-Millisecond Edge AI Ruins Product ROI
Customer satisfaction at the edge is driven by predictability and reliability, not peak speed under benchmark conditions.
Xirp
The agentic development environment built by Spotify Discussion | Link
Big Walk has sold 1 million copies, making it a bigger hit than Untitled Goose Game
The co-op only open world puzzler is a hit.
Wielding Influence When You Lack Authority
You won’t always have the authority to tell people what to do. Yet you may still need peers, leaders, or other teams to support your ideas and take action. Pushing...
Probing Knowledge Recovery in Unlearned Models
TL;DRMachine unlearning is a proposed technique for removing harmful knowledge from AI models. However, recent work has shown that most current unlearning methods are not robust and are vulnerable to...
Canadian Nuclear Emancipation: Canada's role amidst global dreams of energy security and nuclear development
“Diversification internationally," Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney remarks, “is not just economic prudence — it is the material foundation for honest foreign policy.” Carney’s address to the World Economic Forum...
What Claude Saw Below
A few days ago, I came across a Reddit thread about anomalous responses produced by Anthropic’s newly released model, Claude Opus 5. The trick, apparently, was to construct a prompt...
Before We Defer Research to AI: Measuring Apparent-Success-Seeking
Recently, I was improving a small LLM-powered classifier and noticed a few continuously failing test cases. As many would, I asked my AI code assistant to add a few more...
Revived Lightweight Transit Predictions Page
In 2015 I made a little webapp that would use the NextBus API to show predictions for the MBTA: A few years later they moved from NextBus to their own...
A Topic Detector, Not a Lie Detector: what J-space monitoring actually tracks
This is a pilot experiment, done on one model, with around $14 worth of compute, and a single seed per condition. The full writeup with all figures and statistics is...
AI Agents Are Changing Open Source in a Way We Barely Talk About
AI agents are making open source contributions easier than ever but they're also changing how trust is built. Here's why that may become the next SCA
Fans spent 3 years secretly crafting a full Metroid Prime 2D demake, and it rocks
Metroid Prime Origins takes the first 3D game in the series back in time.
The PiShot Is Ready For Your Snaps
The formula for a Raspberry Pi camera is by now a straightforward one: take a Pi and camera module, add a display, buttons, and battery, and you’re done. This doesn’t...
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