Documents Show How Israeli Methods Were Presented to US Police as a Model
The Advanced Security Training Institute’s programs have largely operated outside of public scrutiny.
Panic Passes Trump Tariff Refunds Back to Playdate Customers
Panic is refunding Playdate customers the 19% tariff charges it passed along while the Trump administration's import duties were in effect, after the Supreme Court ruled the…
Democrat Calls for Criminal Probe of RFK Jr. for Lying in Confirmation Hearing
“RFK’s platform is built on lies and grifts that leave a trail of dead children in their wake,” said Sen. Ron Wyden.
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to move forward with order imposing restrictions on mail-in voting
OpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack
OpenAI finally gave us a technical report on What Happened , as did METR together with Redwood Research. The OpenAI report is very straight man, corporate, checking boxes, some…
Why has the reflecting pool been such a mess?
For nearly a century, the reflecting pool has struggled with leaks, shifting ground, algae, and an increasingly complex system designed to keep its
OpenAI Is Developing a 'Persistent' AI Agent
Wired reports that OpenAI is testing a new "Persistent mode" for Codex that would let the agent keep working until explicitly "put to sleep," proactively creating follow-up tasks…
Kids in Gaza Sought Joy in Flying Kites. Israel Threatens to Kill Them for It.
Many Palestinian parents have had to stop their children from playing with one of the few toys they have left.
More Details Emerge On How Trump Cronyism Ruined The Attempt To Break Up Ticketmaster
Last March it was revealed that the Trump DOJ stabbed its antitrust lawsuit state partners in the back and struck a terrible settlement with Ticketmaster, scuttling a generational…
Meat proxy (noun) : “A person who forwards...
Meat proxy (noun) : “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the…
AI Safety in Japan has deeper problems than capital allocation
brief background and tl;dr I work as a Research Engineer at a major Tokyo AI governance startup that is currently under contract with the Japan AISI and Cabinet Office to build an…
Mehdi Debates Pete Hegseth’s Christian Nationalist Pastor Ally
Mehdi challenges Pastor Douglas Wilson – who preached at Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon this year – on women’s rights, gay rights, Muslims, slavery, and whether the U.S. Constitution is…
Scientists Discover Vast Underground 'Anomaly' on Mars
Scientists have used a novel technique to detect a major temperature asymmetry under the surface of Mars that could shed light on the evolution and past habitability of the red…
Radiation Link In Flight Attendant's Breast Cancer, French Court Finds
A French court has for the first time recognized cosmic radiation as a contributing occupational factor in a flight attendant's breast cancer, alongside passive smoking and years…
How prescient was the early AI safety community? [Luke Muehlhauser linkpost]
I liked this post by Luke, and am generally interested in this topic. Copied below without quote formatting because the quote formatting was messing up the table. Everything below…
Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? “Any stream, from the...
Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? “Any stream, from the littlest brook to the mightiest river, has a length that’s proportional to its drainage area raised to the power of 0.6.”