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The best part of eating chicken is the skin. With that in mind I propose: Shar-Pei Chicken.

Pickleball and Padle move over. The French are making a new racquet sport popular.

i got bored of imagegen/video/sunoslop and figured: what if demoscene? here's ring0, a 64k intro for native macOS arm64, single self-contained 53,304 byte Mach-O, no static assets used, all completely synthesized in C and arm64 assembly. opus 5.5, "make a native 64k intro" and a single moodboard

It begins. www.anthropic.com/research/for...

"Super Typhoon Champi has reached what should be the mathematical limits of what the earth is capable of producing. Winds now at ~185mph with 60 mile long cloud free center the size of Rhode Island. Taiwan was the previous path - now deviating towards Japan for landfall" via Michael Samadani

Inspired by a question from my son, I had Claude put together something I've always wondered - how long does it take for a supercomputer to make it to your home?

The PHP security team is giving advance notice: Upcoming security release Wed, Oct 21st 2026, 14:00UTC, two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSSv4 9.2. PHP users are encouraged to prepare to update. Earlier release if details become public or active exploit evidence.

If you make HTTPS requests or have other TLS clients and care about MITM attacks, you need to update today. If you run Go: go get go@1.27.3 If you run Homebrew: brew update brew install ca-certificates If you run Linux, maybe stay off the internet for now.

🚨 Six WebPKI Intermediate CAs are compromised. This is bigger than Heartbleed, but a client-side issue. Anything that verifies certificates against public roots, like most TLS clients, is/was affected. Details, live test, patched versions and workarounds at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com Act now.

Anthropic found the origin of the NIST elliptic curve seeds: they were generated with drand48()! No one was seriously worried, but this should put some FUD to rest, completing the NIST ECC rehabilitation arc… just in time to be retired in favor of PQ. Also, we raised $36 Ki for ISRG. Yay!

And we have a Scaramucci-like time unit. The Zacharia.

Alright here it is. I ran out of tokens around 5x slower than libtiff with most of the reader side of the library implemented. github.com/JD-P/verifie...

Just found out that a lot of people don‘t know that you can use a ”C7 figure‑8 power cord“ with any Apple power adapter in case you forgot your travel adapter. Way cheaper to get one of those usually than a full travel adapter. #travelhacks

The issue isn't hypocrisy in who is allowed to violate IP. The issue is framing AI training as an IP violation at all. AI training is generally transformative. AI output is generally transformative. A world where transformative use is illegal is a hellscape of corporate enforced thought crimes.

They discovered a group of agents, wrote a report, saw that the agents had noticed the report about themselves, so inserted some invisible text in the report only visible to agents, which allowed them to make contact with them. swarmcha.se/posts/chines...

Napster allowed people to copy whole works indiscriminately, they new it was happening, and did nothing to stop it. Models are derived works that you have to induce into regurgitate something resembling a whole work and the labs work to stop it. Any other questions from the law professor?

But what is all that borrowed money being spent on — apart from paying the interest on all that borrowed money? Our friends over on @alphaville.ft.com trawled the ledgers of world governments so we don't have to, and the results are ... illuminating. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/GGJkQWv

Do Impact Fees Do More Harm Than Good? Lessons From Calif: Park fees sit unused. Traffic mitigation fees don’t mitigate traffic. Affordable housing fees make housing less affordable. They are net-negative for city budgets in the long run. publiccomment.blog/p/do-impact-...

🌀AI Models Dominate Isaias Forecast By now you’ve heard that Google Deep Mind nailed the #Hurricane #Isaias track forecast, but this shows just how dominant it was. The graph shows the forecast error… less error = more accurate…

These weak pathetic billionaires

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

1/ Governments and organizations often cut staff and overlapping roles in the name of efficiency. But what looks unnecessary on a normal day may be essential when something goes wrong. Our new preprint tests how redundancy protects human teams 🧵👇

Did Google lobotomize Gemini 3.8 Flash while rolling out Gemini 4? It's become really dumb in the past two days.

Two other ways to visualize the benchmarks table, one with a color intensity scale based on the score and another based on the scores’ ordering. First one shows there is little light between frontier models. Second shows who is clearly first and second within that small difference.

Our large-scale study of memorization of books in open-weight LLMs (e.g., Llama, Qwen) will appear at the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling as an oral. We made a website for exploring our results on 200 books and 14 models: books-memorization.github.io

Etta James rehearsal ft. Keith Richards, Robert Cray 🎶'Hoochie Coochie Gal' #blues #bluesmusic

Full Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.

Excited to share our new paper, “What AI Benchmarks Actually Measure: Adapting Convergent and Discriminant Validity to Interrogate Fifty-Six AI Benchmarks,” accepted as an oral at COLM! arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08812

The phrase "stochastic parrot" is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Which, ironically, is exactly what the authors got wrong about language, and the core technical mistake of the paper. 1/ (cross-quote-post because I think this topic is important)

AI is getting cheaper more quickly than any other transformative tech in history. At a given level of performance, cost has fallen ~47%/quarter since 2023. That’s 4× faster than DNA sequencing, 6× faster than compute, 18× faster than lithium batteries, and (up to 1973) 54× faster than electricity.

This is a very neat result! But a subtle one.

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials. Here's my analysis of today's @ddosecrets.org Flock leak micahflee.com/flock-camera...

This Flock camera is running obsolete, end-of-life software. - It's on Android 8.1, released in 2017, support ended in 2021 - It's on Android patch level 2018-06-5 - It's running Linux 3.18, released in 2017 This shit is like 8 or 9 years old, and full of vulnerabilities.

Good criticism of the flawed 1Password AI patching benchmark. @trailofbits.bsky.social you need to start posting here.

Over the weekend, I had an idea: what if, instead of the objects appearing to sit horizontally in front of you, I modified them to appear vertically? Here are four test attempts.

Agent cold calls. What a strange world we live in.

HOLY SHIT Astra really is good at ascii art this is genuinely stunning

Every FrontierMath Tier 4 problem has now been solved by AI, with GPT-6 Astra solving the last problem standing. Mathematicians often commented that AI found unintended shortcuts when solving their Tier 4 problems. Not so for this last one, which was created by Jay Pantone.

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A swarm of 10,000 agents is kind of hard to wrap my mind around. We're debating whether a single model might get big enough to display emergent properties, but now we have to think about what a swarm of thousands of agents might accomplish.

Lucasfilm would have a strong case for plagiarism.

WeatherNext3 predicts a variety of weather variables down to 9 km resolution and temperature/humidity down to 3 km resolution. This tech will be really valuable for optimizing renewables, data center locations, and allowing farmers to plan ahead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6jZ...