This morning, Andrej Karpathy posted a tweet that the entire AI industry stopped to read: Karpathy started this week at Anthropic working on pre-training under team lead Nick Joseph, and will build a new team focused on...
Inverting PhotoDNA Microsoft PhotoDNA creates a âunique digital signatureâ of an image which can be matched against a database containing signatures of previously identified illegal images like CSAM. The technology is...
Weekend at Bernie’s showed that a good chunk of the most-depended-on open source packages are dead, and there are a lot of different ways for a project to end up that way. The maintainer left Ghost maintainer. The...
Posted in: Comics Tagged: kickstarter, sean leow Kickstarter Reverse Ferrets, Apologises Over Mature Content Guidelines Kickstarter performs a full reverse ferret, apologises over its new Mature Content Guidelines and...
May 19, 2026 Lizzie Dorfman, Product Manager, and Michael Brenner, Research Scientist, Google Research Published today in Nature, Empirical Research Assistance (ERA) is an AI tool for expert-level scientific coding that...
The Paris International Exhibition (1867) and its 50,000 exhibitors presented a supermarket of delights for its millions of visitors. One star of the show was the Silver Swan which charmed viewers with its lifelike...
“If I’m to have a symbol, it shall be one I respect.” Back in January, it came to light via FEC reporting that OpenAI’s president and co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife had made a monumental $25 million donation to...
Scrolling through an online image dataset, Adrian Barnett, a statistician at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, pointed out a few familiar faces. Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, and then again on the red...
A Senate Democrat is proposing a bill that would require large data centers to secure their own power in a bid to reduce energy costs. Dubbed the Energy Cost Fairness and Reliability Act, Sen. Adam Schiffâs (D-Calif.)...
After a short family break, I am excited to be back and catching up on a busy few weeks of open-weight LLM releases. The thing that stood out to me is how much newer architectures are focused on long-context efficiency...
Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities May 19, 2026 The Linux kernel has recently been facing a series of discovered privilege escalation vulnerabilities, starting with the Copy Fail vulnerability...
The dominant cultural assumption is that power is external and an attribute of material phenomenae. We have all heard the phrase, “Money is power.” A radical change in thinking is required in order to arrive at the...
Iran claims it will charge US tech companies fees for using undersea Internet cables that run beneath the contested Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes. The war has already halted multiple projects and led to the suspension...
I donât write code anymore and I am not missing it. Not a function. Not a bug fix. Not a feature. From this blog to complex and ambitious work at enum, things that should never break. And I love it. The part I thought...
For the first time, Anthropic has more verified business customers than OpenAI, according to this month’s AI Index from the fintech firm Ramp. The survey, compiled from Ramp’s clients’ expense data, shows 34.4% of...
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory Most engineers’ first objection to using TLA+ is, the syntax is hostile. It looks like LaTeX, not like code. But now, frontier LLMs can generate TLA+ easily...
Here's a quick demonstration of the basic controls to help you get started. Find this and more tutorials on SetPose guides Bend: Changes angle between parts Tilt: Side-to-side or spreading movements Rotate: Turns a part...
Back in the day I read one of Zed Shaw's "Learn X the hard way" courses (I think it was his C++ course ) and he began the course with a disclaimer that said something like "do not copy and paste the examples; type them...
How China’s Shadow AI API Market Works China's shadow market offers access to Claude, Gemini, GPT, and other frontier models. Pay a local seller, get an API endpoint, connect… Anthropic is starting to act like a company...
AT first glance, the Bia hơi served in the Ba Dinh Sports Center is the same light draft lager served in every shop on every street in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi. Like everywhere else in the city, the beer comes from a...
By early 1980, the Apple II, which had trailed the Commodore PET and Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 at first, had become a remarkable success, with a great deal of help from Personal Software’s VisiCalc. The Apple IPO at the...
IDF struggles to throttle endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media Troops keep recording their own misconduct, including smashing a statue of Jesus in Lebanon, but the army claims progress in curbing...
Nintendo jumped as much as 6.8% on Tuesday for its longest winning streak since mid-March. Bandai Namco and Konami each gained more than 9%. The trade is about what isn’t AI as much as what is. Nintendo’s stock climbed...
King's AI Summit: Workforce Futures The inaugural King's AI Summit on 19 and 20 May 2026, exploring AI and workforce futures. 19 May 2026 A majority of the UK public are worried about the economic impacts of AI Seven in...
Jennifer Kamrass confessed her worries to her therapist: her marriage, her finances, and self-esteem. Therapists are legally and ethically bound to confidentiality, but two years later, a transcript of every word...
Energy return in running shoes explained The phrase “energy return” has only gained attention in the last decade as advanced materials like TPU, TPEE, PEBA, and A-TPU entered the scene. This guide covers every nuance...
Science and ICT Minister Bae Kyung-hoon listens to an explanation of a “deepfake detection and AI agent safety evaluation” during his visit to the Korea Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute in Seongnam, Gyeonggi...
Illustration by Edith Zimmerman Early on Saturday mornings, Amy Wallace would be yanked out of bed by her big brother, David. He was determined not to miss the start of the cartoons. At their home in Urbana, Illinois,...
COLOMBO (News 1st): The Police state that a special traffic plan will be in operation today for the National War Heroes Commemoration Day ceremony, which is scheduled to take place at the Ranaviru Monument. According to...
In 1966, a Hungarian chemist named Michael Polanyi published a short book called The Tacit Dimension. Its central claim is eight words long, and it is the thing the AI coding industry needs you to forget: We can know...
The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon The engineer who says no all the time is a real archetype among senior and staff engineers. Their role is to slow things down, to block the development of features that add...
After Netscape, the speed of software sped up beyond what anyone could have imagined. Thanks to a documentary crew and a ghost writer, we have a full view of the whole thing. Five minutes to launch. Jamie Zawinski is in...
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Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir Martin Fobes woke up to the sound of officers from the New Castle police department banging on his front door. It was early on a January morning, still dark, and he was lying flat on his...
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For years, typing in a six-digit code sent to your phone has been the universal standard for verifying your identity online. But that era is officially coming to an end in the Windows ecosystem. In a statement to...