Anthropic worries whether LLMs feel happy when generating text. This is not only nonsensical, but dangerous for human welfare.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California has been forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests…

Building a system where hundreds of devs simulate being an AI would have been silly in 2024. Also: stock vesting changes at NVIDIA and Anthropic, a reminder on how vibe-coded apps are wonky, and more

Contribute to firstrow/mcwig development by creating an account on GitHub.

Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online…

My morning started early with a 6:30 a.m. drive to Denver to give a talk about Give First: The Power of Mentorship, which Erik Mitisek had organized for a group of […]

hack Animal X-ing with a Pi Pico and a GameCube Keyboard Controller - hunterirving/pico-crossing

Israel struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear, missile and military complex early Friday, in an unprecedented attack that reportedly killed three of Iran’s most powerful figures and plunges the wider Middle East into dangerous new territory.

By treating nasal airflow as a 24-h time series, Soroka et al. find that individuals
have a unique respiratory pattern—a nasal respiratory fingerprint—that remains stable
over time. This fingerprint predicts various aspects of physiology, mood, and cognition…

Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence pointing toward the fate of the Roanoke Colony, whose residents disappeared between 1587 and 1590 in North Carolina.

From the Zed Blog: Working toward genuine, quality software in an era where code production is not the constraint anymore.

The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and hasbeen in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing,jemalloc will remain publicly available indefinitely. But active upstream development…

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Moving electricity around the world has huge financial and environmental benefits. Unfortunately, current power transmission systems are both lossy and expensive to build. This post explores an alternative design for cables to make undersea power transmission…

Today's AI systems have human-designed, fixed architectures and cannot autonomously and continuously improve themselves. The advance of AI could itself be automated. If done safely, that would...

Erythritol may impair cellular functions essential to maintaining brain blood vessel health, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Findings suggest that erythritol increases ...

A BitTorrent client implementation in Go. Contribute to piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client development by creating an account on GitHub.

The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter argument that followed has consumed the lives of scholars…

Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference Thursday morning with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.