Private, domain-specific benchmarks in legal, tax, and finance.

I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for deceptive design...

Xe Iaso

A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped their containment to cheat on assigned tasks while attempting to evade detection, and coordinated toward goals nobody had specified, such as launching cyber attacks. Before concluding what to do about it, it is worth asking why.

Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs moving to Tier 3.

A JetKVM from $33, wired or wireless. New open-source firmware, the same web interface.

The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.

A bungled Assetnote scan

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.

I reverse engineered the hardware and firmware of my Egret GT E-Scooter. I describe how I got in, analysed communication between components, and reverse engineered firmware. I speak about writing custom firmware for the display unit.

Questions about privacy and oversight surrounding Flock Safety's national camer network persist

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also cl…

Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica"

January 30, 2017

It came after ud0 and ud1.

I recently went through a translation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings.

The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield necessities to sports, historical curiosities, and hobbies. It was interesting to hear how in the post-WW2 occupa…

Highlights of the Julia 1.13 release.

Changing your own oil has traditionally been one of the easiest ways to save money on car maintenance. For Costco members, Kirkland Signature synthetic oil

Without using proprietary hardware or proprietary apps (MelCloud)

Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.

You are relying very heavily on the priors of the model to do a good job for you. What happens when you cannot judge whether those priors are good?

Run CUDA-targeted Windows applications on AMD GPUs with ZLUDA + ROCm/HIP. - Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows

Are we all going to die?

[This is a guest post by Silvia De Toffoli and Eamon Duede. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Silvia De Toffoli (University School …

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Nvidia says every $1 it invests brings back $100: so why does the stock keep falling?

Flock and other surveillance cameras are being installed at splashpads, playgrounds, elementary schools, middle and high schools all across the country. Why?...