Harlan Crow Maxed Out Campaign Donations to John Fetterman
The billionaire Republican megadonor had come under scrutiny for his ties to Clarence Thomas, while the senator drew ire for unconditionally supporting Israel. The post Harlan…
FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code
FreeBSD 16 has removed the last GPL-licensed code from its base system, retiring the old GNU 'dialog' implementation after the installer moved to 'bsddialog' and the final…
BREAKING: Democrats Block Military Spending Package, Elon Musk Referred for Criminal Prosecution, Trump Pays Carroll, and More
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Kash Patel Continues To Draw Heat For His Exorbitant Spending Habits
Donald Trump believes that being elected president means he should never be challenged, never be asked to justify his actions, and never be given less than absolute loyalty and…
100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online ....
100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online . “Let’s discuss topics without feeling the need to win a non-existent argument. Hot takes? No. Engage with nuance. Show the grace you…
California Steps Back From Dangerous Expansion of its Age-Gating Law
The California legislature has stepped back from a plan that would have expanded its age-gating law, removing language that could have compounded serious threats to users’ speech,…
Trump is poised to bring his administration’s “chum cycle” tactic to election denial
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
Trump Rejects Pause on ICE Traffic Stops After Fatal July Shootings
ICE agents have shot and killed two people this month while conducting traffic stops and vehicle pursuits.
Eliciting hidden knowledge from monitors with NLAs
Aleksandr Bowkis* and David Africa* TL;DR Chain of thought (CoT) monitorability may be fragile, and natural language autoencoders (NLAs) may provide a helpful, decorrelated…
Physicists Create First Room-Temperature Quantum Material
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: In a study published in Nature, LSU physicists have developed the first room-temperature quantum material capable of…
Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs :...
Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs : “using AI as a research assistant, why he keeps a tech-free zone in the mornings for deep thinking, and why he’s resisting…
Federal Judge Nukes Trump’s Self-Dealt IRS ‘Settlement,’ Sends Lawyers To The Bar
Well, well, well. Last month we noted that Judge Kathleen Williams had agreed to reopen the incredibly sketchy case where Donald Trump (as President of the United States) sued his…
Fox host on ICE suspending traffic stops: "We're not going to change what the protect and defend folks can do based on what the defrauded this country folks might have done"
LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen
The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire over the weekend in part because it was regularly "investigating" and surveilling innocent people.