2026-09-01
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
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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...
Joan Didion on Letting Go
“We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s necessary losses, “and we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people,...
The 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship
"The intention of deep listening and loving speech is to restore communication, because once communication is restored, everything is possible."
How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love
"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come... We...
2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely...
2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely retranslating The Odyssey. “It’s a complete retranslation. It’s not a revision of the old version.” This is the exact opposite of resting...
Firefox helps iPhone users bypass ads on web sites while making money showing its own ads
Baked-in Firefox ad blocking on iOS begins rolling out slowly today, and is off by default
Researchers Alarmed as GPS Readings Suddenly Veer Off by 33 Feet, Enough to Crash Self-Driving Cars
Here's what happened. The post Researchers Alarmed as GPS Readings Suddenly Veer Off by 33 Feet, Enough to Crash Self-Driving Cars appeared first on Futurism.
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