2026-08-25
What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life
"It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total configuration of traits which defines the person."
IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently
Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere
The Forkmakers
Imagine our civilization fell tomorrow. What would our descendants think of us? What would they know about the 21st century?They would know surprisingly little about our greatest material triumphs. Our...
FFprobe Can Tell You Where a Video Generation Pipeline First Went Wrong
A repeatable FFprobe and FFmpeg workflow for locating the first damaged generation before re-exporting, restoring, or upscaling a video.
Enterprise AI Is Moving From the Cloud to the Endpoint
Discover how Small Language Models (SLMs) are transforming enterprise AI with fast, privacy-first on-device inference.
Magazine Fundraising
TLDR; The New Critic, a gen z longform magazine on substack, is raising money to fund ambitious writing projects.Hi LessWrong! I am one of the Founding Editors of The New...
An AI4Chemist’s perspective on biosecurity
Over the past couple of months I’ve been exploring more and more opportunities in the AI sector, with a focus on the safety and security side. As you can imagine,...
Better Embeddings Won’t Fix Missing Provenance in RAG
A working RAG system retrieves an obsolete policy and exposes a deeper problem: ingestion discarded the provenance and freshness needed to choose correctly.
Your Evaluation's Fake names Should Be Unclaimable ,Not Merely Used
A lot of the talk about the cyber evaluations of July and August revolves around model beliefs and rationalizations. I would like to focus on the harness portion here, especially...
Rogue AI Agents: Is Surface-Level Monitoring Enough?
Disclaimer: I work on AI interpretability research. These are my own opinions.In an AISI evaluation, a frontier model, acting as an agent, attempted to insert malicious code into an open-source...
Dual-Layer Approach to Mitigating AI-Generated Biological Threats
Being invested in AIxBio for some time now, I have accepted it as my niche mainly because I love dealing with fields that has high risk and where getting things...
How to Fish: Strategies for beating the Pufferfish
It's not just you, the Pufferfish boss is a major spike in difficulty.
When an Expired Domain Becomes a Security Problem
Old domains can retain backlinks, references, integrations and digital history long after their original owners stop using them.
41 Years, the Most Inventive Sci-Fi Thriller of the '80s Is Officially Free to Watch on Streaming
This cult classic remains one of the most inventive zombie movies ever made.
The Mandalorian and Grogu digital release date and Blu-ray announced
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is coming to digital and on 4K/Blu-ray starting July 21, Lucasfilm and Disney have announced.
Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds
Privacy? Not if you use hosted AI services
81 Years Later, US Army General George Patton’s 250,000 Weather Prayer Cards Are Still the Strangest Order Any American General Ever Gave
The prayer was written eight days before the Bulge began — commissioned against the Saar rains, already in a quarter-million pockets when the Germans gave it the battle it would...
A disturbing '90s point-and-click horror game about waking up in a rundown asylum with no recollection of who you are is getting a glow up in 2026
Sanitarium probably doesn't need a new version, but it's getting one anyway.
Apple Rethinks Plan to Merge ‘Hide My Email’ Domain Name With ‘Sign In With Apple’
Apple Developer News: Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com, will be issued on private.icloud.com. Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work...
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