Jason Scott's Weblog

Outsourcing reference and data checks to unattended AI leads to hallucinated claims and harms credibility. Check your sources.

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The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking personal data on potentially hundreds of thousands of drivers who downloaded EZ Lynk’s Auto Agent…

Waymo issued a voluntary recall of about 3,800 of its robotaxis to fix software issues that could allow them to drive into flooded roadways.

Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra
Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership
to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the
company to a newly…

States are awarding more than $5.6 billion annually to data center developers, and that’s a conservative estimate.

US tech surveillance firm Palantir has hired 32 senior UK government and public sector officials since 2012, it has been reported ...

Britain's civil liberties are eroding one deployment at a time.

The company said the vehicles, which use AI to drive, had encountered "a routing problem" that kept taking them to the same cul-de-sac.

Documentation for the Spectre Programming Language

Since around 2009, methamphetamines have been made with phenylacetone (P2P). Is there a chemical different causing schizophrenia?

Distributed, repo-native, local-first, keyboard-driven, event-sourced issue tracking backed by Git.

Why frontier AI has broken the open CTF format, hollowed out the scoreboard, and made competitive CTF performance a weaker signal than it used to be.

Someone shared a real Monet painting as an AI image and asked for critiques as to why AI art is inferior to the real thing. Hilarity ensued.

: Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives