Open letters about AI development I wrote this summary of the past few weeks of open letters as a section of my sponsors-only newsletter but I've decided to share it here as well. Open Weights and American AI Leadership was shepherded by Microsoft, dated July
The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: Accidental cyberattacks by OpenAl and Anthropic models under test GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna Claude
at openai, many people hook their chatgpt up to slack. people really don't like when a coworker's chatgpt contacts them asking for help with a task, even when they'd be perfectly happy doing that same work if asked by that coworker. reinforces how much people
Release: datasette-apps 0.2a0 Changes that improve Datasette Apps when created and edited using Datasette Agent : New app_debug() tool allowing agent to open an app (invisibly) and test it using JavaScript. #33 New app_list() tool for listing apps the user has
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude using Mythos Preview, spending $100,000 on tokens and with prompts that included "again we are not looking for low han
New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of “disclosure fatigue.”
The US president claims Iran and other Middle Eastern countries asked Washington to hold off on any attack as the "perimeters" of a deal had been agreed.
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Activists in the region say politicians regard LGBTQ+ people as ‘the easiest scapegoats to maintain their power’ A growing number of west African countries are implementing or strengthening anti-LGBTQ+ laws, amid local political pressures and a global pushback
The Ceuta crossings have shaken Europe politically, exposing divisions over the sensitive issue of migration, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford writes.
The small plane was flying over the Nazca Lines archaeological site when it crashed, according to local reports.
The Foxtrot Network is thought to be responsible for about 35 murders in Europe, and uses violence-as-a-service tactics.
Uganda discharged its last Ebola patient from hospital roughly two weeks ago.
Aircraft crashes into field after departing from nearby city of Pisco, according to local authorities Police in Peru report that 13 people, among them foreign tourists, have been killed in a plane crash in southern Peru, near the Nazca Lines. Local authorities
Android Headlines claims to have the specs and price for the entire Pixel 11 lineup. What the site shared basically lines up with everything else that we've heard in the lead-up to the August 12th event. The Pixel 11 is expected to get a $100 price hike, start
Angela Nissel's latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, is my kind of memoir. Sure, it's a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent. But it's delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me through to
Divisions remain in the bloc over mass crossing of migrants into Spanish territory in north Africa The EU is to hold an urgent meeting of interior ministers on Tuesday amid continued divisions in the bloc over the arrival of more than 50,000 migrants in the Sp
Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he's recently found solo success with the track "Rubberz," which has climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost immediately, though, questions were raised abo
A bootleg of Spider-Man: Brand New Day was up on X for over seven hours before eventually being pulled. During that time, it reached over 5.9 million accounts and accumulated over 143,000 likes. Other accounts have reposted the leaked film, but none have laste
The FBI, the EPA, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have stopped short of officially blaming Iran for a spate of cyberattacks on Minnesota's water systems, but consensus is that Iran is likely behind them. That, of course, hasn't
A critical vulnerability in the Active Storage framework can allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a Rails application, and potentially escalate to remote code execution (RCE). [...]
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More EVs reaching the end of their life means more batteries to recycle. But waste management companies have yet to catch up to the new reality.
Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram’s founder, xAI sues to stop a state’s “nudification” ban, and the Democrats learn a lesson about getting scammed.
A removable chip lets hackers inspect their badge—and keep using it after Defcon.
Unique global data on 47,000 consumers across 47 countries representing 90% of world GDP reveal universal patterns in macroeconomic belief formation. Most consumers form beliefs based on local information sources (utility bills, shopping, and acquaintances) th
The current euro area policy framework conflates short-run stabilization with long-run fiscal sustainability, exposing members to deflationary and inflationary tail risks. We employ an estimated euro area model to analyze an alternative framework that separate
We conducted a survey experiment with over 8,000 participants in Germany, Hungary, and Italy to examine how information about the economic impact of immigration affects the support for more open immigration policies. Respondents who received projections showin
A decline in credit scores can worsen the borrower's financial position, making default a self-fulfilling prophecy. We estimate the causal effect of credit scores on default using a rule that counts multiple inquiries within 14 days as one, moving scores witho
The pension sector is an important investor group in global financial markets and a key holder of government and corporate debt. This article examines the evolution of pension fund asset allocations around the globe and documents two important structural chang
Injectable PrEP drug holds promise but investment in HIV prevention has declined dramatically worldwide Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email New innovations in HIV prevention could dramatically reduce the number of new HIV cases around the globe,
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New calculations seem to have put a 25-year-old particle physics puzzle to rest. But they’ve also created a clash with other experimental results. The post Physicists Solve a Big Quantum Mystery. Now, Old Results Don’t Add Up. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Cloudflare recently introduced Meerkat, an internal globally consistent control-plane service based on the QuePaxa consensus algorithm. Unlike Raft, it allows leaderless writes while preserving strong consistency, improving availability across Cloudflare's glo
Police said at least three people were killed several others were wounded in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger in Idaho.
Students in Gaza overcome distressing conditions amid Israel's genocide to finish their Tawjihi high school exams.
At least three people are dead and more than 20 injured after a bomb exploded outside a restaurant in central Moscow.
I think of this graph as the most important graph for thinking about sustained AI related Capex spending: Source: Fazzari et al. (1988) as modified by Chinn. The lowest flat portion represents financing cost out of cash flow. Until now, the demand curve inters
I did not enjoy it. It was solely a professional obligation.
Bigger isn't always better. Except for sometimes when it is.
How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout .
We've all been there.
Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.
It would be nice if somebody did something, for once.
Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."
Apple's new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing.
"We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards."
An attacker drained 1,196 Bitcoin addresses in 41 minutes on July 30, taking 1,082.65 BTC worth about $70.2 million at the time. Galaxy Research mapped the sweep and tied it to a firmware flaw in Coldcard, the Bitcoin-only hardware wallet made by Canadian firm
OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.
Following further on Jim's assessment on slow but steady headline GDP growth, core GDP growth remains strong. But GDP growth relies on AI related investment spending. Figure 1: Final sales to private domestic purchasers (bold black), 2023/24 trend (gray), CBO
Christopher Nolan's impressionistic remix of Homer's epic poem finds the man behind the myth.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has entered a Martian valley covered by an astonishing “sea” of tiny polygon-shaped fractures. The honeycomb patterns, each only a few inches wide, stretch across the landscape and even wrap around a nearby 20-foot-tall butte.
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
This article is the result of a collaboration with The Sunday Times. You can find their corresponding piece here. A key leader of the Kinahan cartel who is wanted by authorities around the world and has been living in hiding in Dubai for a decade has just had
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?
Attackers modified a JavaScript file served by advertising technology company Adform, turning it into a browser-side tool that rewrites cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Adform detected the incident on July 27, 2026, removed the malicious code, notified affecte
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to extract the router's WireGuard private key in plaintext using only low‑privilege API access, enabling full VPN impersonation and decryption of all associated traffi
Open source software (OSS) is embedded in nearly every modern system, from business applications to critical infrastructure. Our new Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices guidance helps agencies securely use, evaluate, and publish open source
Fascist empires and deadly sea monsters are on offer in the science fiction out this month, says Alison Flood
[Annualized] 14% GDP growth in the first half of 2026 The post Taiwan fact of the day appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION . Related Stories Mexico (Taiwan) fact of the day More math breakthroughs from GPT models Immi
Sundays are for looking back at the week and honestly just thinking, yeesh, what are you doing , working in an industry that’s succumbed so deeply and so wilfully to moral decay. The publishers sold to executioners . The naked attempts at thought manipul
Adobe has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Campaign Classic (ACC), its enterprise-focused marketing automation platform, that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48449, carrie
Scientists studying magma from the 2021 Tajogaite eruption on La Palma have discovered that extreme heat can dramatically change how an eruption unfolds. When magma becomes superheated, it can dissolve the tiny crystal seeds that normally trigger crystallizati
A fake browser update served over hijacked hotel Wi-Fi has been used to deliver CornFlake, a remote access trojan (RAT) that can capture webcam images, microphone audio, and keystrokes, Microsoft said in its latest report. Researchers track the operation as Ca
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Mexico has quietly become a cornerstone of the AI boom, providing 40 per cent of US imports this year of the computer servers that are widely used in the data centres powering artificial intelligence. Taiwanese manufacturers are rapidly expanding factories in
In Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Bruce Banner and Peter Parker invent a power inhibtor. Could this be leading to a mutant power inhibitor?
Modern humans carry DNA from two mysterious extinct lineages in addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Their hidden genetic legacy shows that our evolutionary past was shaped by repeated mixing among many different human groups.
Game Freak's soulslike Beast of Reincarnation comes out soon and in this guide you can check its release time in your time zone.
Aliens, Highlander, The Fly, Star Trek IV, and more prove 1986 may have been science fiction's greatest year.
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“Her husband passed away 10 years ago. They had been married for more than 20 years.”
"Don't even talk to me before I've had my coffee that restores my lost memories!" This is a line I imagine that the general public would oft repeat in the world of Hips N Noses, a cafe management sim/ Vampire Survivors -esque roguelike that's set in a world wh
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Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
“I haven’t seen my sister since our mother’s funeral more than 20 years ago.”
The Silent Hill series has one of those worlds that I just struggle to conceptually place in a contemporary setting. Sure, that'll partially be down to when the original four games were released, but seeing a faux iPhone in The Short Message just felt wrong to
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Penguin Highway is still one of Colorido's best films, offering a heartfelt perspective on the coming-of-age tale, and it's streaming free on YouTube.
The president went against his intelligence agencies’ conclusions about Iran being the likely suspect in the campaign. The post Trump blames Minnesota for cyberattacks on water sector, drawing pushback from cyber world appeared first on CyberScoop .
HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.
Tracking smells in turbulent air takes a keen sense of direction and sharp memory.
New research challenges the decades-old idea that children experience an “adiposity rebound” when their BMI begins rising around age 6. Although BMI returns to earlier levels, a more reliable measure showed that body fat does not rebound at all. The increase a
A black hole observed during a dramatic 2023 eruption did not simply devour gas from its nearby companion star. It also expelled large amounts of material through powerful jets and winds, even after the outburst had nearly faded. The results suggest black hole
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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) and the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, have developed and tested a new class of fluorescent probes that enable scientists to visualize xylem, the specialized tissue responsibl
Biodiversity loss has been among the central topics in public, policy and scientific debate for several decades. While its accelerating pace and impacts are well recognized, translating the vast amounts of biodiversity data into reliable indicators that can in
A Pizza Hut in southwest Pennsylvania was recently highlighted for preserving its retro 1990s appearance, even as hundreds of other locations have closed across the United States.
Director of CSAIL and MIT professor honored for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.
MIT students and postdocs discussed science funding and research with policymakers in Washington during the MIT Science Policy Initiative’s annual Congressional Visit Days.
This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
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