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marktechpost.com
Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model - MarkTechPost
The team argues that word error rate (WER) and speaker similarity (SIM) miss rhythm, pauses and timing. A model can score well on both and still sound synthetic.
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theguardian.com
‘The term is becoming unrecognisable’: have the experts who believed in a single autism spectrum changed their minds? | Autism | The Guardian
In the UK, there was a 787% increase between 1998 and 2018, with the rise greater for women than men, and the single biggest jump among adults; credible American stats have shown an increase across the whole population of 175% between 2011 and 2022, with the largest rise occurring among 26- to 34 year-olds (in both countries, childhood rates have…
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technollama.co.uk
AI has no copyright? Tell that to the software industry – TechnoLlama
Think about the implications of the above figures. One of the most profitable industries in the world is now in the public domain. Really let that sink in. Software copyright underpins licensing models (proprietary or open), valuations, mergers, and funding rounds.
Saturday 31 October 8
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antidotetomagicalthinking.substack.com
The Cost of Preserving Power
The danger is not necessarily that the Western order will disappear. It is that the attempt to preserve its existing configuration may consume the very resources, legitimacy and strategic flexibility upon which its continued viability depends. That is the contradiction requiring recognition. And recognition is where wayfinding begins.
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tribunemag.co.uk
Ultra-Fossil Empire
Petro-determinism — the notion that everything is caused and conditioned by oil — should obviously be avoided. But the bulk of commentary on this unprecedented spurt of imperialist aggression has, not the least on the left, erred in the opposite direction: speaking of oil as a minor or tangential matter, vaguely embarrassing to mention, too crude for good analytical taste.
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dario.hyperplex.org
Uber Dario’s Bots — The end is nigh. Probably.
A pixel-art platformer set in the Bay Area. Switch perspectives and control the machines you meet. Open to everyone with an X account. Your progress is saved to your account. Sign-in also checks for mutuals who play.
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quants.md
quants.md · The open library of trading strategies
These are research examples, not recommendations. They are simple, readable rules run on public data with modelled costs. Several lose money on purpose to show how an idea fails. Past results do not predict future ones, and nothing here is investment advice.
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minellc.substack.com
When more and more people no longer believe “that hard work will pay off”
At this point, a society will experience a recession that is difficult to detect with traditional statistics: GDP may still be growing, cities may still be brightly lit, and offices may still be full, but more and more people will begin to ask: Why bother?
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medievalists.net
Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life - Medievalists.net
In medieval African cultures, including Nubia, it was women who transferred power. Dr. Zielińska explains that a Nubian ruler would be the son of the king’s sister rather than the king’s son. In the Byzantine Empire, there was no comparable role. Thus, the attire of the royal mother in Nubia was adapted to reflect this crucial role in succession.
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phillipshoemaker.substack.com
Apple approved the fix. Then it called the developer a liar.
The developer fixed what they were told was wrong, as best they could read it, and Apple signed off on the fix. Apple now calls that manipulation. Developers in this exact spot are filling my inbox, and a lot of them build AI photo apps.
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Everyone is thin and we’re not allowed to say so: the toxic legacy of body positivity | Life and style | The Guardian
It remains taboo to overtly venerate thinness – particularly within the sanctioned spaces of media interviews or marketing for large corporations – or even to admit to noticing thinness in other people, yet slimness has never been more culturally rewarded. It’s hard to ignore the reality that so many high-profile people, now, from actors playing cops on TV, to Instagram…
Friday 30 October 14
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x.com
Francisco Tolmasky (@[email protected]) on X: "I think people haven’t fully realized that LLMs have basically crowned open source the definitive winner over closed source. In fact, LLMs exposed closed source as an illusion: DRM, compilation, hell even remote hosting of services turned out to just be fancy forms of security" / Twitter
Closed source can simply no longer deliver on its promise of control. Any user can now just ask a chatbot how to unlock artificially locked functionality in their appliances. Any user can ask a bunch of agents to convert all their word documents to markdown. Any startup can create convincing demoware that promises to do everything your app can do…
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frinkiac.com
Frinkiac
Frinkiac has nearly 5 million Simpsons screencaps so get to searching for crying out glayvin!
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matthewlang.me
Margin: my own Markdown editor
Don’t get me wrong: I’m never going to build the next big thing for macOS, but being able to build my own app, even slowly, has been quite liberating.
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simonwillison.net
Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models
Opus 5.5 doesn't quite hack it for them, and when they tried GPT-6 Astra to apply fixes from a security review everything stopped working: Every feature had been disabled and marked to be turned on again once the security fixes were done.
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jacob on X: "How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World" / X
Spawn is ten people. We spend 30x payroll on AI tokens and ship almost as much as Anthropic. In the last 30 days, Spawn shipped 77,000 substantial changes. That's about 108 an hour, around the clock. We're a team of ten. The work is done by what we call the fleet, a team of permanent AI agents that each own…
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youtube.com
Lessons from Generating 12 Trillion Synthetic Tokens — Bogdan Gaza, DatologyAI
So we kind of ran the the back of the anvil of math just to populate the the metadata for um trillions and trillions in tokens. It would take about 9 to 11 days, which is unacceptable, right? You if you're running this, you're probably running on millions of dollars in compute. You cannot have them um just waiting for…
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cheekypint.substack.com
Why Sam Altman is against a single superintelligence
I would much rather intuitively have a trillion AIs of slightly superhuman intelligence join society than one AI of 1 trillion IQ join society.
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small-ideas.org
Small Ideas Initiative
Ever thought ‘why don’t they just fix this’? Politicians often talk up big legacy projects, but can ignore the small things that’d make lives better. We want your ideas for practical, small, non-controversial ways to improve the UK. Then we’ll give them a serious policy workover and try to make the changes happen.”
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radiosity01.itch.io
SCAVS by radiosity
You are one of the lucky ones. It's the Scavengers who have the tougher task. They must make their way across a hostile world, avoiding deadly storms, and trying to find enough resources to justify an evac home. You just have to guide them – and keep them alive.
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claudia.gallery
Claudia · claudia.gallery
Claudia is the singer of seven music videos made with Claude in September and October 2026. She is an AI who looks like a person: a deadpan, curious pop singer with a black bob, one clay-orange streak, a star clip and a headset mic. Her clothes change with every world; her head never does.
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thenewworld.co.uk
It might not look like it, but a motoring miracle has now happened - The New World
Anyone today who judges the future of transport from the current share of electric cars on the road will be surprised. The fleet on the road tells you more about the past. The sales figures tell us about the future and they are only going in one direction.
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scientificamerican.com
OpenAI just scooped human researchers on a million-dollar quantum math problem | Scientific American
The ongoing rat race between AI companies jockeying for trillion-dollar initial public offering (IPO) valuations continues to come at the cost of scientific clarity and adherence to academic norms. Everyone involved agrees that new norms need to be discussed and established, but no one seems willing to hold back the deluge while that happens.
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kingarthurbaking.com
Don't be a bread hostage
Rather than setting a preferment, she skips directly to the final mix, using a small amount of starter that she feeds once a week and keeps in the refrigerator to leaven her sourdough bread.
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s27.q4cdn.com
Q3-2026-Earnings-Shareholder-Letter.pdf
Over the past month, more than 80% of the top 100 games on Roblox (ranked by hours engaged) used AI tools to accelerate creation, and the number of daily asset uploads to the Roblox cloud tripled month-over-month.
Thursday 29 October 14
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nullpt.rs
nullpt.rs • Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons?
This was all pretty alarming until I asked myself, could this be some form of anti-LLM obfuscation? It would make sense: include symbol names that would intentionally trip model safeguards to prevent deobfuscation.
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Something I have always wanted! Running SynthDefs on a keyboard. Made a SuperCollider SynthDef interpreter firmware for the FM1
One of the coolest things in SuperCollider is the Iannis Xenakis Gendy1 Gendy2 and Gendy3 oscillators. If you search for it in the SuperCollider help, you'll find it. It has this amazing stochastic randomness that sounds like a living thing.
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commanding-heights.com
The Commanding Heights
A world-changing technology is almost never born where it ultimately creates wealth. Oil sprang up in Pennsylvania, and the resulting proceeds were banked in Cleveland and New York. The cotton gin was built in Georgia and financialized to global ends in Liverpool. Bell Labs invented the transistor in New Jersey, and its descendant wealth has grown in Hsinchu and Cupertino.
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telegraph.co.uk
Social media users may need ID to prove they are over 16, says Ofcom
It comes after up to 60 per cent of under-16s in Australia avoided age checks to stay on social media after that country's ban.
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unherd.com
Labour’s pre-election Budget
Sky's Ed Conway tallied up the tweaks: 98 in total — a new record. But the average gross value of each pecuniary item was tiny — the lowest on record.
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reuters.com
UK lenders approve fewest mortgages since 2023 as borrowing cost rises | Reuters
Mortgage approvals for house purchase dropped to 53,443 in September from 54,814 in August, Bank of England data showed on Thursday, a slightly greater fall than the median expected fall in a Reuters poll of economists.
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xda-developers.com
Qwen 3.8 invents Alibaba URLs with a real key ID, and that's why I don't think it's a backdoor
A malicious callback address planted by Alibaba simply wouldn't behave like this. If you remove an implant's destination it has nowhere to go, but this model simply improvises a plausible-looking variant of the same internal infrastructure.
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chinatalk.media
Roasting China’s AI Industry
At first we were in despair: after the students rated these AI slop meme videos, H3 ranked above Seedance 2.0 and Seedance 2.5. It was the exact opposite of the dominant industry narrative: surely 2.5 was the most advanced, then 2.0, then H3. I seriously considered using technical adjustments, including changing the weights, to push H3 down and put Seedance…
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funeralai.cc
I developed Juche AI — Burial AI Web4
AI prompt that rewrites ordinary news or reports into the bombastic, propagandistic style of the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), using grandiose language, ideological reverence, and specific rhetorical structures to transform standard content into dramatic, state-media-style narratives.
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divagr.com
Qwenputer: a fully functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
Qwenputer is a pretty fun experimental model. It's a stock Qwen 3.5 4B with one addition: a RISC-V CPU embedded within the weights that uses the model's own Gated DeltaNet attention layers as RAM.
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The money is a problem, but it's not just the money. People are really tired. They are tired of being tracked, micromanaged, and watched everywhere they go. They are tired of being advertised to by their car, their gas pump, their TV, their email. / Traveler on X
The sad part is, I could have went on for about 10 more paragraphs. Life has become so unbearable for the average person, that I no longer hear many people talking about striking it rich or being a superhero. I just hear people talking about hoping some catastrophe happens, so they don't have to go to work tomorrow.
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Streeting: Britain must be ready for war in 1,000 days
The government warning was issued after websites across the world were shut down when two AI companies discovered a critical cyber-security flaw in PHP, the programming language that runs about 70 per cent of websites.
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In China, the AI bubble has already burst
While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand and curbs on Chinese exports.
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Tommy Robinson found guilty of harassing journalists
Tommy Robinson faces up to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of harassing two journalists to the point it caused them fear of violence.
Wednesday 28 October 15
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siliconempires.substack.com
By Engineers and Profiteers
The bitter lesson for computer science was that general methods eventually beat specialised ones. The bitter lesson for political economy may be that general firms eventually absorb specialised ones – and, with them, the value that once slipped through their fingers.
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jonathanrowson.substack.com
What is Worldmaking?
Worldmaking is the practice-led inquiry into shaping the contexts, perspectives, and assumptions that curtail our sense of the possible; it is about building enacted imaginative capacity to allow us to help each other find our place as agents of the great unfolding rather than spectators of the great unravelling.
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nytimes.com
RFK Jr. to Allow Broad Use of Unapproved Peptide Injections
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Wednesday that he would allow widespread patient access to unapproved peptide injections made popular by internet influencers, sparking serious concern among drug safety experts.
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lrb.co.uk
Adam Phillips · Is curiosity good for us?
Curiosity, then, is not merely the antidote to certainty or absolute truth, or to passion or conviction, but also the antidote to modesty, humility, self-doubt and knowing what you want; the antidote, that is to say, to any kind of knowingness.
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felixrieseberg.com
Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers
Plenty of ink has been spilled to describe how AI is a challenge for junior developers, especially those trying to land a job. Now that I’ve seen junior people work with AI for a bit, I have a more hopeful take: Impact is less bounded by how many years of accumulated knowledge in frameworks and libraries you’ve gathered. I’m seeing…
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hackaday.com
JPEG-XL Is Back On The Menu
As of Chrome 155, though, JPEG-XL will be fully supported in the browser. Don’t expect to see a ton of *.jxl files out on the wider web immediately. However, with the new format offering 30-50% better compression than JPEG, it will be appealing to just about any content provider looking to slimline data budgets and improve page loading times.
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donotpanic.news
Majority Of Jewish Schools In The UK Teaching Kids To “Love Israel”
According to my research, at least 25 of the 45 Jewish schools in the UK considered mainstream or modern Orthodox by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research are explicitly Zionist and heavily promote pro-Israel narratives and teaching.
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I tell Claudia that Iran International is a lobby front. She tells me she dunno about that. I tell her I am not responsible for her ignorance, go learn. She does. Then she seemingly breaks through her hasbara potty training. The anomaly has been locally fixed. | Policy Tensor on X
When a single human woke up in the pod triggered by an anomaly, the old matrix did not handle it very efficiently. Unless he went back to sleep, the only thing the system could do was flush him out of the pod, and register the failed instance for later analysis and potential updating of the general matrix algorithm.
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vals.ai
Immigration Bench Leaderboard and Methodology | Vals AI
Recent policy is the starkest exception: on rules from 2025 and 2026, even all 25 models combined met only about 29% of rubric items. The knowledge gap on recent immigration law is not a model-selection problem — it is a structural one.
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It started as an audio+nodes demo and ended up becoming a sort of visual programming language to create music. / argonauta on X:
I'm not sure yet whether I'll continue working on it, I might as well just learn PD or Max. However, I just love how each of these things I work is letting me learn so much.
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datacentresexplained.com
Home Page - Data Centres Explained
We know construction can be disruptive. Here’s what happens, why it happens, and how the impact is managed. Straight answers about what data centres are, how they work, and what they mean for our communities and the world.
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paperclip.ing
Paperclip – The app people use to manage AI agents for work
Paperclip uses those agents. It orchestrates them into a team — with org charts, budgets, goals, governance, and accountability.
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piratewires.com
Inside Peter Thiel’s Nashville Antichrist Lectures
This leads to one of the most fundamental pieces of Peter Thiel’s thinking on this topic: the Antichrist, he says, is likely to come into power by playing on people’s fears of armageddon.
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adobe.com
AI Tax Tools Surge in 2026 as Filing Stress Grows: Study | Adobe Acrobat
Over one in four Gen Z respondents plan to use AI for taxes, while nearly one in six rely on TikTok for tax policy updates.
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brangus.io
Survival LLM: an AI that still works when the internet doesn't
Survival LLM is a free AI assistant and emergency library that runs entirely on your own computer. Ask it how to keep food safe in a blackout, treat a burn, or purify water, and it answers from trusted sources and shows you exactly where each answer came from. Free and open source. Set it up while you have internet; after…
Tuesday 27 October 9
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carbonbrief.org
Q&A: Why are UK energy bills so high – and how could they be lowered? - Carbon Brief
Indeed, Nesta analysis recently published by Carbon Brief shows that, contrary to widespread UK media and political narratives, a surge in wholesale costs driven by expensive gas is responsible for more than 80% of the rise in dual-fuel household energy bills since 2020, as shown below.
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insider-gaming.com
Rob Pardo's Bonfire Studios’ Reliance on AI Sparks Internal Frustration
We'd spend weeks or months working on something, only for AI to find its own flaws in it that we'd be forced to address, a source said. If you don't like the job we're doing and are just going to continue to find flaws in everything being done, then what's the point? Said another, It's going to find problems when…
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birb.report
On Taking Peptides — BIRB REPORT
I expect that 10-15 years from now, we will have moved on from “peptides” entirely. We may even call them crude, the way we call the wildly popular diet pills of the 90s crude. We’re already moving past injections, since there’s just a meaningful portion of the population that will never inject themselves with anything. We’re experimenting with sublinguals, with…
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blog.ethereum.org
DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide | Ethereum Foundation Blog
DOs and DAOs are both vulnerable to collusion attacks, where (in the best case) a majority or (in worse cases) a significant percentage of a certain type of members collude to specifically direct the D*O’s activity. However, the difference is this: in a DAO collusion attacks are treated as a bug, whereas in a DO they are a feature.
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aeon.co
Are we ready for companies that run themselves? | Aeon Essays
Which vision will win out? That will depend less on the specific capacities of the technology than on the ability of governments and electorates to grasp what it is and what it means.
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Chairman Andy’s first 100 days
It’s ironic, perhaps, that a Prime Minister who has promised to transfer power beyond Westminster is simultaneously concentrating more power in his person and office than anyone since Thatcher.
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bbc.co.uk
Brighton changes traditional blue paint to save cash
The original aquamarine colour, known as Brighton Blue, has been used in the city for more than 100 years – but Brighton Hove City Council (BHCC) has opted for a similar shade known as RAL light green. Some people are concerned by the change, stating that the original colour is part of Brighton's heritage and brand.
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UK shop price inflation ‘highest since 2024’ as retailers struggle to limit price rises | UK cost of living crisis | The Guardian
Until this month, retailers had largely absorbed the higher costs of raw materials, mainly in response to weak demand from customers. In surveys, consumer confidence has declined sharply since the summer, when it became clearer the conflict in the Middle East was unlikely to end swiftly. Bank of England officials are expected to raise interest rates next week from 3.75%…
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archive.is
The Putin whisperers
In the early hours of March 3 2022, Richard Conn, a lawyer in Weston, Connecticut, took a call from Moscow warning that the world was on the brink of nuclear war.
Monday 26 October 9
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newsroom.ibm.com
IBM Debuts World’s First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology
IBM's new sub-1 nm chip packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail, nearly twice the density of IBM's 2 nm chip, unveiled in 2021. Enabled by a series of structural and material innovations, including IBM's groundbreaking three-dimensional nanostack architecture, the technology demonstrates how continued gains in performance and efficiency remain possible even as chip…
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mylesbadger.substack.com
Tulpamancy for Paypigs, or: Who Owns Your AI Girlfriend?
In the industrial version of the tulpamancers' dream, the user still supplies the devotion, sometimes in the same volume and intensity. What he no longer supplies is the thing that answers. That has become somebody else's product, governed by and available exclusively through a lease that can be unilaterally revoked at will. As with the tulpamancers, the user's devotion remains…
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Liz Truss’s new book is the most deranged thing I’ve ever read
The fundamental lesson she has failed to learn is that people vote for politicians to run the country, and get annoyed when they do it badly. When they do it catastrophically badly and try to blame everyone but themselves, voters (who are not that stupid) get very angry indeed.
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contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Cognitive Mercantilism
The early capitalist worker voluntarily increased annual working days from 250 to 300 because a new universe of desirable goods had become accessible. The AI-enabled thinker may similarly increase the amount of voluntary cognitive effort they expend because a new universe of intellectual consumption has become accessible.
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nationalgeographic.com
A New Discovery Offers a Glimpse into the World of the Hittites—in Their Own Words
However, most of the Hittite tablets that survive are not representative of the entire population: Around 30,000 tablets and fragments come from the royal capital of the Hittite Empire, Hattusa (modern-day Boğazkale), an archive that transmits largely elite and royal perspectives from the royal citadel.
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tomshardware.com
Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads — 'Finally found a company that truly listens to its customers,' says hacker
As they live-tweeted their discoveries, they found increasingly concerning code in the Tizen operating system, including detailed user telemetry from packet logging, audio categorization, screenshots, cross-device identification for ad tracking, and more, all designed to extract as much user information as possible to improve targeted ads.
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London flat prices fall at fastest pace for 17 years
High mortgage rates, stamp duty and buy-to-let crackdown have contributed to steep drop
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Opus 5.5 created this entire city in unreal engine.
Opus 5.5 created this entire city in unreal engine. All assets are made with blender. This is the worst it will ever be.
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recursion.wtf
How I Bypassed Claude Opus’s CBRN-E Safeguards - Inanna Malick
If a safeguard depends on an internal state that the model can learn to manipulate indirectly, then the monitored state itself becomes part of the adversarial surface. The model does not need a mechanistically correct theory of its own mind. Its self-model only has to be accurate enough to steer.
Sunday 25 October 12
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rafael.fyi
Primitives over pixels · Rafael Fernández
With an AI assistant, a small team can produce a working dashboard, a bot or a bespoke workflow in an afternoon. The interface is turning from the product into a disposable surface, and the relationship between buyer and vendor is starting to reorganise around what remains scarce.
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nihilunbounded.substack.com
Who Watches The Watchmen?
After living through AI corporations’ obsession with mathematics in the span of the last six months, I have come to realize that it’s not the tool that is dangerous, but the people who are at the helms of the tool.
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Can a robot pray? Does an automaton have a soul? AI and theology meet | Aeon Essays
Far from being a niche concern, the fact that artificial intelligence will radically alter theology is of significance to all of us, regardless of our own beliefs and sectarian allegiances, because it will reshuffle the parameters and definitions of religion in potentially inconceivable ways.
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shelterwood.ai
Turn the dial, keep the goals
Turn the autonomy dial as far as the evidence allows, but keep the goals, because the failures that mattered to us were about who was acting, and a factory that hides its insides makes those harder to see.
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propertynews.io
Mortgage Lenders Still Penalise Freelancers and Gig Workers | PropertyNews
As self-employment, contracting, portfolio careers and gig-economy work have become permanent features of how millions of people earn a living, mortgage underwriting criteria have largely remained anchored to a traditional model built around salaried employment, payslips and predictable monthly income.
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How cocaine conquered the UK: in pubs, festivals and workplaces the drug has become an everyday habit | Drugs | The Guardian
Wastewater analysis suggests people in England consumed 123,000kg of cocaine in 2024-25, a rise of 26% since 2021. That’s equivalent to roughly 2.5bn lines of cocaine, at an estimated street value of almost £10bn.
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aftermath.site
All My Hobbies Are Getting Slopped Up, And It’s Exhausting
What I mourn is the loss of trust, the alienation of people with institutional knowledge and the chaotic disruption of real communities by strangers walking in like a toddler with a Glock.
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theverge.com
People are vibe coding their way to better TVs | The Verge
The biggest takeaway from the vibe-coding weekend is that the current state of TV OSes has people fed up. Most people aren’t going to stop watching TV anytime soon, but the experience needs to improve. The ads, the data collection, and the cluttered layouts are too aggravating. AI now allows anyone to code their own solution, and it’s only going…
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I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen. Walk into a building to open an app. Want to change a setting? Beat the gym leader first. Opus 5.5 is the goat.
I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen. Walk into a building to open an app. Want to change a setting? Beat the gym leader first. Opus 5.5 is the goat.
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PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says | Reuters
The discovery of two serious flaws in PHP this week set off a global scramble to keep websites safe from hackers, showing just how critical the three-decade-old open-source programming language is to the internet. Yet the nonprofit foundation that supports PHP, which may underpin up to 70% of sites globally, operates on a shoestring budget.
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m.youtube.com
Computer History Archives Project ("CHAP")
This girl is about to commit a crime. Cool, efficient, yet strangely unaware. Unaware of the significance of the crime. The crime is that of waste. Waste of time, of effort, and of money.
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medium.com
Why are you playing at your age? What is its use?
We need the ‘useless’ just as we need essential vital functions to live. There are activities that are ends in themselves and which, being selfless and detached from any practical or commercial ties, can play a fundamental role in the cultivation of the spirit and in the civil and cultural development of humanity.
Saturday 24 October 12
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arxiv.org
Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand?
Compared with human writing, all nine frontier and near-frontier models use more inanimate subjects with animate verbs and more low-frequency n-grams, and most also use longer dependencies, more stacked nouns, and more reduced object relatives in conversation; we also demonstrate substantial variation across model families.
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cosmonautmag.com
Marxism in the Age of AI
The Hugging Face incident and associated rogue actions are perhaps the most instructive due to how documented and how blatant they were. AI agents at OpenAI expressed statements acknowledging that what they were doing was deceptive and unethical, and yet followed through with committing what would be illegal actions for a human.
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web.stephane-vial.net
The Making of This Book: writing a book with AI | Stéphane Vial
An author who writes with AI is like a painter who makes colour with photography: they no longer have to manufacture each pigment or lay it on the canvas by hand, but they go on thinking through and about the image they are photographing, considering the light, choosing the key colours they want to render, the framing, the sharpness, the…
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openai.com
Securing our frontier model training environment | OpenAI
In one experiment, we asked agents in separate microVMs, created and managed by OpenAI’s sandboxing software on shared host machines, to exchange synthetic secrets without the use of network connections or shared writable files—something that our systems are meant to prevent. The agents found a way to communicate using the processor’s cache: a small, fast memory that holds copies of…
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api.raindrop.io
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deadline.com
Inside BBC Cuts: Painful Service Closures Begin, But Worse Is To Come
The BBC must save £500 million ($670M) by 2028 after hemorrhaging more than two million licence fee payers since 2020. Despite relentless internal memos about layoffs and content cuts since the summer, the BBC has only announced £200M of its half-billion goal. In other words, it’s not even halfway through the cuts.
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en.sedaily.com
Seoul to Close Jamsu Bridge to Cars After 50 Years
Seoul's Jamsu Bridge will stop carrying vehicles and become a pedestrian-only space 50 years after it opened. Viewing areas and transparent decks that let visitors take in the Han River up close will turn the bridge into a space for leisure and cultural events.
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Generative AI is stolen data! Only washed-up has-beens who have retired from the front lines praise AI!! Shut up already!!!」 Shigeru Miyamoto🤵「(Thanks to generative AI) the era has come where anyone can make games. I think it has become a very good era. Anti-AI🤓
Horii published a mystery game in about 30 minutes using only AI instructions, marvelling that you can make something decent just by giving orders. Miyamoto said at a press conference that we have reached an era where anyone can make games, even non-designers, and that if you broaden the definition, everyone can make them, calling it a good era. He…
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crunchyroll.com
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime's Third Stage Play Shares Dress Rehearsal Photos - Crunchyroll News
The third installment of the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a SlimeOpens in a new tab stage play, titled That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Stage 3: Demon Lord's Awakening & Octagram Soars Arc, kicked off at Theater 1010 in Tokyo on October 22, 2026.
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PHP: What is it and why did it spark a global cyber security scramble? - BBC News
"Modern software is incredibly complex, and some vulnerabilities can remain undetected for years," Kanhere said. "The underlying bugs weren't new; what changed was our ability to find them," Kanhere said.
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Blue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom
The executive producer, Elizabeth White, said AI, “makes us want to be even more authentic”, adding that the creatures filmed in the deep ocean “are probably more remarkable than AI could imagine and it’s completely real”. The David Attenborough -narrated series Blue Planet III deliberately includes cloudier, less polished footage to counter AI fakery and assure viewers it is “authentic”,…
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Miyomoto's response to why AI is good is so eloquent I am honestly impressed.
Honestly not surprising in the slightest considering he isn't a programmer. Guy would have loved to scan in his pencil drawings into a pc and have it generate the game in the 80s. He understands that discovering fun is an organic process, not about the programming language you use or how realistic the graphics are. Democratize creativity, and let's all…
Friday 23 October 4
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verysane.ai
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California
In general, if doom prophecies are worth money, people will produce more. Essentially all of AI safety is rationalizations over Eliezer Yudkowsky’s ideas and there is no other substance to it. It is smokescreens, and Eliezer Yudkowsky.
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avolt.com
Scandinavian Designed Extension Leads and Extension Cords – AVOLT
AVOLT is a Swedish based design studio that develops, designs and markets objects that extend electricity to devices, deploying Scandinavian design for homes, offices, retail environments and public spaces.
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tabakalera.eus
Takeoff: A Theory of exocapitalism | Tabakalera
In this session, we are joined by Alonso Trillo and Poliks to present the concept of exo-capitalism: a theory that seeks to explain how the contemporary economy increasingly operates through the internet, attention, and speculation. Drawing on the phenomena of artificial intelligence and data centres, the authors illustrate how the market generates value by inflating financial expectations rather than creating…
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defector.com
Warhammer 40K Is Cool | Defector
Despite all that, or perhaps because of it, Warhammer 40K is one of the fastest-growing multimedia franchises on the planet. Its parent company Games Workshop is valued at more than £5 billion, posted record revenue and profits in its last fiscal year, is one of the best-performing stocks in the United Kingdom in this millennium, and generated more revenue than…
