2026-09-14
MPs and peers tell UK to stop winging it on AI regulation
Rights committee demands watchdog with teeth as patchwork safeguards leave victims hunting for remedies
A new retro handheld has my attention
Daryl Baxter: Retroid Pocket Nova review: the best 4:3 retro handheldThe latest handheld by Retroid answers something that its users have been asking for - give us a handheld as...
Decades Later, US Army General George Patton’s Line That ‘You Can’t Run an Army Without Profanity’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
US Army General George S. Patton: His allies could not agree on him. Americans respected the results and found him impossible to work with. Field Marshal Alan Brooke, the professional...
The SR-71 Blackbird Was Originally Going to Be Named Something Different and the Story Seems to Confuse Everyone
"The aircraft will fly at more than three times the speed of sound. It will operate at altitudes in excess of 80,000 feet." Johnson was understating it. The SR-71 Blackbird...
Revolut falls for fake government requests, hands over customer data
Passports, selfies, transaction histories exposed as self-proclaimed culprits demand 10,000 Bitcoin
VFX supervisor Eran Dinur discusses the big AI and ML changes that have impacted visual effects
Dinur, who has been teaching courses on ComfyUI and GripTape, talks about the AI and ML landscape VFX artists are facing right now. The post VFX supervisor Eran Dinur discusses...
The US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Has a Dirty Little Secret: It Could Hit Mach 3.5 Speeds and 85,000 Feet Thanks to Titanium Alloy and Special Fuel and Engines
On July 28, 1976, Robert Helt and Larry Elliott took an SR-71 above 85,000 feet in sustained horizontal flight. The same day, a second Blackbird crew set the absolute speed...
How AI Creates a Capability Mirage
PPaint/Ikon Images Dry rot. A Potemkin village. The Wizard of Oz. What do those things have in common? In each case, they may look good on the surface, but it’s...
It’s The Speech Synthesiser You Wanted, For The Computer You Had
If you had an 8-bit computer in the 1980s and bought a speech synthesiser for it, what you got was invariably an alophone-based synthesiser using the SP0256 or similar. You...
Inside the Omri Hurwitz’s Media Machine That Is Taking Over Tech
For most startups, media is something they try to earn. They hire a PR firm, build a press list, send pitches, and hope a reporter decides the story is worth...
CPython eases Rust requirements as assimilation continues
By making Rust opt-in, the Python builders hope to enjoy Rust bennies without the backlash that roiled the Linux kernel keepers
Fortnite Confirms Kingdom Hearts Collab Release Date, and It's Bigger Than Expected
Sora and the Keyblade had already been confirmed for Fortnite's gaming season, but it seems there's much more to this collab.
Pacing the Frontier, AI’s Digital Limits, AI Commissars
Dario Amodei wants to pace the frontier; it's an unrealistic proposal that seems mostly geared to political control of AI.
The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture
Skynet is coming soon, and also there's this Nigerian prince with a $20 million fortune who wants to give it to you
Current alignment techniques might be ineffective (and actively bad) in the age of RL
Tl;dr I am currently worried about current alignment techniques + how they are applied to frontier models. This decomposes into two hypotheses: Alignment techniques are not working to address misalignment...
Current alignment training might be ineffective (and actively bad) in the age of RL
Tl;dr I am currently worried about current alignment techniques + how they are applied to frontier models. This decomposes into two hypotheses: Alignment techniques are not working to address misalignment...
There is a channel to 900M weekly users. What goes in it?
Anthropic and OpenAI could talk to almost one billion people if they wanted to. I hesitated to publish this post 3 weeks ago.[1] I think that I should have published...
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