The mysterious collapse of a European cryptocurrency exchange helps to explain why the industry hasn’t shaken off its reputation as a magnet for criminals.

Emily Paulson wrote Hey, Hun. These are their favorite books on nonfiction about cults, scams, and schemes.

Unprecedented cyber attack believed to be most successful of its kind

An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within.

Slovakia's national security service NBU has issued a security alert against the use of NERO R-ONE high-speed traffic cameras.The agency s [Read More]

Owning a tablet Amazon kept shutting down: CVE-2022-38181, four AI models, five months

Beyond the front page of the orange site.

Coconut oil jet fuel matched kerosene's efficiency in engine tests and cut hydrocarbon emissions, a new study in the journal Fuel finds.

Seventeen models on the Featherbench leaderboard: glm-5.3 leads at 100%, eight tie at 96%, and checker errors flip the safety ranking. See who tops the board.

Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat, where Khan himself acknowledged that…

Research suggests that naturism, the practice of non-sexual social nudity, can help people improve their body image. Naturists and experts tell the BBC how it works.

open-source replacements for bloated vendor software

In 2012, the creator of the xkcd cartoon Randall Munroe unveiled Up Goer Five — a detailed diagram of the Saturn V rocket, annotated using only the most common 1,000 (sorry, “ten hundred”) words in…

How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.

There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the free lunch was over.

Pol had 12 hours, a blank repo, and a fresh weekly quota. By morning, only one of those remained.

Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.

When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.