2026-09-06
Can AI Now Design PCBs That Just Work?
With the recent release of its GPT-6 Astra model, OpenAI explicitly pushed the claim that it is capable of designing complete circuit boards in KiCad, starting from a provided schematic...
US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why
DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale
Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave Owes Everything to an Overlooked 3DS Masterpiece
Fortunes Weave mechanics like turn rewinding and dungeon crawling all came from one of Fire Emblem's few remakes, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Notes on a Consequential Few Days
In the past few days, a lot has happened in the AI/tech space:METR/Redwood released their findings on the OpenAI/Hugging Face hacking incident; OpenAI released their own in tandem.OpenAI announced and...
17 Years Ago, Quentin Tarantino's Wildly Audacious WWII Action Classic Broke the Genre's Biggest Rule
Quentin Tarantino’s WWII revenge movie Inglourious Basterds is now streaming on Hulu, and its rewritten history still delivers.
China’s J-20 And J-35A Stealth Fighters Don’t Have To Beat US Military F-22 Raptors And F-35s. Beijing Is Building Enough That They Don’t Need To
Doubling numbers quadruples combat power; doubling quality only doubles it. To offset three-to-one odds, each American jet must be nine times better than each Chinese one, and nobody argues that....
Review of the CB risk determination in the Claude Mythos 5.1 System Card
This post is best viewed on the MCNAIR website. Before the release of their latest publicly-known model, Claude Mythos 5.1, Anthropic conducted several human-run and automated evaluations to assess the...
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers Blink and you'll miss it, but there's a familiar creature at 1m59s: Across the board, Astra has more attention to detail, better understanding of the...
Germany Built the Panzer IV to Destroy Bunkers and Anti-Tank Guns, Not Enemy Tanks. It Spent the Entire War Fighting Tanks and 6,153 Were Lost on the Eastern Front Alone
The Panzer IV was never supposed to be Germany's main battle tank. Under Heinz Guderian's original scheme the Panzer III would fight enemy armor and the Panzer IV would support...
The Blood of Dawnwalker Fixes the Worst Thing About Open-World Games
The Blood of Dawnwalker fixes an age old open-world problem by forcing procrastinating players to face its final boss.
Running Apple ][ Software on a Commodore 64 — Silently
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The computer business in 1984 was a bizarre mix of hobby-level companies, a few small companies that had made it big, and a lot of big companies starting to take...
AI breakout time: a mechanism for an enforceable AI pause
The old Iran deal aimed to keep Iran at least one year away from having a nuclear bomb. Similar controls can be used to design an enforceable AI pause.[Note: this...
Modelling variation in the METR Uplift Study
Disclaimer: Not associated with METR.SummaryI reanalysed the METR uplift study under a meta-analytic model to estimate the range of plausible effects that we may see in repeated trials. If the...
'The Mandalorian and Grogu' Has a Secret Jon Favreau Movie Easter Egg
A behind-the-scenes look at Rotta the Hutt and making Martin Scorsese an alien chef.
Civilization 7 Officially Gets a Major Sci-Fi Update for 2027
The upcoming 1.5 and Arc of Tomorrow updates will also continue to transform Sid Meier's Civilization 7 ahead of Earthrise's launch in 2027
2026-09-05
How to Reconcile Your Most Painful Mistakes: The Life-Shaping Difference Between Regret and Remorse
You know it, that awful moment your coherent self-image shatters and a part of you, shadowy and untended, splits off to cause harm and havoc as the rest of you...
Counterfactual Resampling to Analyse Model Behaviour
Done as my final project for a BlueDot Impact Technical AI Safety sprint, facilitated by BAISH (Buenos Aires AI Safety Hub)TL;DR: I measured Value Leakage (Betley et al.) per conversation,...
Pixel Art Platformer Soulchain Combines With Players For Playtest
Soulchain is a new pixel art platformer from developer Moraguma that is set to release on Steam soon, but is currently undergoing a public playtest of the first hour of...
5 Huge Reveals To Expect From Nintendo’s Zelda Anniversary Direct
We have a good idea of what could appear at Nintendo's Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct thanks to leaks and a few educated guesses.
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