2026-09-01
A nightwatchman on every probe: Superintelligent surveillance to prevent galactic anarchy
One utopian vision for space expansion involves a libertarian explosion of diversity, with everyone and their robot setting up different sorts of societies and governance structures.[1] We might call such...
Bright Security Expands its AI SDLC security Platform & Launches an AI PT Module
Bright Security Expands AI SDLC Security Platform, Launches AI PT: AI-Powered Penetration Testing That Cuts Weeks Down to Hours
Your Drupal robots.txt Changes Aren't Showing Up: Here's Why
Edited robots.txt in Drupal but the live file still shows old content? Composer Scaffold, static files, and CDN caches are usually why — here's the fix.
New Avengers: Secret Wars Casting Announcement Sparks Wild Fan Theories
Avengers: Secret Wars is adding a Quiet Place actor Noah Jupe to the Doomsday sequel, leading to speculation about new X-Men and time jumps.
No Bush, No Potato
TL;DR: Unfinished reflections on proverbs as common knowledge and their loss. Nothing to do with Dan Quayle.Epistemic status: Written at Inscribe; after finishing it, I'm skeptical of my claim and...
The Alignment Journal: Organization, Personnel, and Scope
[Cross-posted from the Alignment Journal's blog]The Alignment Journal is beginning to invite the authors of select papers to submit their work for review. If you are interested in participating as...
Frogbet Launches Crypto Casino With 70 In- House Original Games, Instant Withdrawals & a Weekly Race
Every Frogbet original is provably fair, allowing players to cryptographically verify the outcome of any bet at any time. The proprietary catalog spans in-house
Fake voices: warping the social world
In 2020 I wrote a list of flavors of badness generally represented by advertising. The one I thought about most later on was probably #4:Cultural poison: Culture and the common...
Sick: Ace Combat 8 has online airbase lobbies where you can bum around as your own bespoke pilotsona
Unfortunately, it also has battle passes. War is hell.
Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks
The model provider gave METR the credits for free. An actual customer would not have been so lucky
AROS may still be rooted in 40-year-old AmigaOS APIs and lack full memory protection, but now Rust r
AROS may still be rooted in 40-year-old AmigaOS APIs and lack full memory protection, but now Rust runs on AROS x86_64. Still no `std`, but SDL2 and `no_std` crates work....
Can You Give a Hackathon Judge a Free Unlock Before You Submit? No, and Here Is the Exact 409
Fingertips’ 14-day trial could expire during Shipaton judging. Apple’s approval process made every alternative access route harder than expected.
Pokémon is Getting Its Own Official Fitbit for Evolved Sleep Tracking
Google is giving Fitbit Air a Pokémon makeover with a new Pokémon Sleep-themed wearable.
UX Conference September Announced (Sep 14 - Sep 25)
Take up to 5 in-depth training courses, teaching user experience best practices for successful design. Training focused on long-lasting skills for UX professionals. September 14 - September 25, 2026.
Days After GTA 6's Big Reveal, Rockstar Announces A Major GTA 5 Update
Grand Theft Auto 5 will introduce a revamped world with better NPCs in addition to other improvements, Rockstar says
A Weighted Sum Is Not an AND
While building Vantage Point for Shipaton, a weighted average nearly let the wrong object unlock a memory. Multiplication fixed the scoring model.
How Small Businesses Are Quietly Leading a Retirement Revolution
Retirement benefits can send a signal to employees that you’re building something more than a business — you're building something that lasts.
Evolution could encode the brain in DNA
Many people have observed that the human brain is extremely complex and that a complete description can't possibly fit inside the DNA. For example, from Dwarkesh Patel:The difference is that...
You can rarely pet the dog in an LLM-generated game
I asked 17 LLMs to generate browser games that feature a dog. Across 804 playable games generated, the models almost never made the background dog interactive unless they were hinted...
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