Is your LLM agent spying on you? How hard is it to create a secretly malicious LLM agent? It turns out, not that hard (demo included).

Doctors were baffled when a healthy man developed hallucinations and paranoia. The cause? Bromide toxicity—triggered by an AI-guided experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet. The case raises new concerns about how people use chatbots like ChatGPT for…

I wanted to share a side project I’ve been tinkering with for a while and finally got around to shipping: Coalton Playground – basically a web-based REPL for Coalton, which is this inte…

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In this day and age of cybersecurity professionals crying out for roles, we're still seeing companies complain that there is a skills shortage and a lack of talent. A quick scan through your LinkedIn feed will show this is absolute nonsense: there is a mass…

“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.”…

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A detailed explanation of why I chose OCaml as the ‘default’ programming language for every project.

Update: APRIL FOOLS! by Kaue Silveira Here at Google, we invest heavily in development productivity research. In fact, our TDD resea...

A Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.

When The Settlers II came out in 1996, only MS-DOS and Mac OS enjoyed it. Aside from Nintendo Wii in 2007, it didn't land on any other platforms. Until now.

PCIe 8.0 has been announced by the PCI-SIG, and it is set to double bandwidth yet again, with a targeted 2028 specification release

When companies want to sponsor workers for Green Cards, they first have to prove there are not qualified U.S. citizens for the role.

Cross-Site Request Forgery countermeasures can be greatly simplified using request metadata provided by modern browsers.

New Google Play Store policy now requires FinCEN registration, state banking license, or MiCA license for non-custodial wallets.

In some states, autonomous farming equipment is put to work on farms, doing things like spreading fertilizer or getting rid of insects. But in California, these robots aren’t allowed to operate on their own. State safety regulators say operators have to be…