2025-08-25
Disgruntled coder who admitted to deploying a malware 'kill switch' to get back at his bosses sentenced to 4 years in prison
What's even worse than getting demoted? Jail time for hacking your employer.
2025-08-24
Deadlock's latest character basically gets a portal gun, and his ult teleports enemies to a void hotel where they have to do a platforming challenge
The Doorman is just one of six new characters joining Valve's upcoming hero shooter.
OpenAI Head of Product (Integrity) on the Future of AI Agents, PM, and AI threats
What it's really like building products at the hottest AI company in the world.
The new "command line" is insanely popular
MacKenzie Sigalos: OpenAI: ChatGPT Set to Hit 700 Million Weekly Active Users This WeekOpenAI is set to hit 700 million weekly active users for ChatGPT this week, up from 500...
The Best Materials To Build Any Intuition
Published on August 24, 2025 7:12 PM GMTMany textbooks, tutorials or ... tapes leave out the ways people actually think about a subject, abandoning you to fumble your way to...
Was LessWrong always meant as a gradient descent pun?
Published on August 24, 2025 6:53 PM GMTDid Eliezer (or whoever coined the name) intentionally choose it as an implicit machine learning reference? Or is this just a case of...
It's shaping up to be a crazy month for new games, with Indiana Jones' beefy-looking story DLC finally arriving on September 4
I still don't know where Order of the Giants fits in with the base game's story.
RFK Jr. Cancels Promising Work on Cancer Vaccine
About 10 weeks before his assassination in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy — better known as Bobby, and the father of our current health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — delivered...
This Incredibly Simple Question Causes GPT-5 to Melt Into a Puddle of Pure Confusion
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman keeps repeatedly heralding GPT-5, the company's latest large language model (LLM), as approaching to human-level intelligence — but when you actually put it to the test,...
'I'm working on other stuff': Double Fine chief Tim Schafer squashes hopes for Psychonauts 3 any time soon
Schafer doubled down on Double Fine's pause on sequels for now.
You’ll Squint and Wipe Your Glasses When You See This Leaked Data on How Much Microsoft Engineers Are Getting Paid
One of the more salient side effects of the incredible shrinking tech sector is the loss of so many high-paying jobs, many of which young jobseekers were encouraged to apply...
Creepy AI Will Look Up a Teacher's Info to Predict What Grade They'll Give a Paper
Gone are the days when Grammarly was just a helpful little spellchecker. Presently, it's capitalizing on the AI hype cycle as much as anyone else, and on TK, it announced...
People really do change
Annie from annie's blog: People Can ChangeCalcification occurs when you don’t pay attention. The tissues harden in place. Things get dry and brittle. Another word for calcification is death. Change...
Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation
Since the early 2000s, scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the middle of the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. The patch is located just...
AI Browsers Are Rewriting This New Age of the Internet: Here's How
AI browsers are rewriting the web. Discover how to adapt your content strategy as clicks fade, and AI-driven interactions take center stage.
Evolution favors the ability to change subjective probabilities in MWI + Experimental test
Published on August 24, 2025 2:58 PM GMTEpistemic status: interesting theory, not sure if trueTL;DR: Natural selection would favor the capability to change subjective probabilities in MWI as it significantly...
Refactoring 032 - Apply Consistent Style Rules
When machines generate large amounts of code, you need to apply one consistent style to all files.
Scientists Detect Precise Origin of Mysterious Signal From Deep Space
For almost two decades, astronomers have been breaking their heads, trying to explain extremely bright flashes of radio bursts emanating from deep space. Despite only flashing for a tiny fraction...
The Future of News Broadcasting: How I Built an AI-Controlled Podcast
Building an AI-controlled AI podcast that also streams over RTMP to YouTube and Twitch.
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