Alito’s Assets in Fossil Fuels Have Grown by Up to $2.9 Million, Analysis Finds
Recent polling indicates that Alito has a -7 point approval rating among Americans.
Elon Musk Wants To Get Into Wireless Phones And He’s Probably Not Going To Have A Good Time
There have been rumblings for a while that America’s richest and most annoying white supremacist, Elon Musk, really wants to get into the wireless phone business. His lobbyists…
Film Follows US Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients
Poh Si Teng says the film rose out of “deep despair” over Gaza and Israeli attacks on her former Al Jazeera colleagues.
Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones
President Trump has imposed tariffs of up to 100% on heavier and "sensitive" drones, including models over 55 pounds or equipped with docking stations or thermal imaging. "Those…
One year in, Trump's troop deployment in D.C. is ongoing, unending, pointless — and very bad
The "America 250" flags are a particularly empty emblem on the uniforms of troops deployed on the streets of the nation's capital. And for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
The disastrous diplomacy of Jared Kushner
From Gaza to Iran to Ukraine, things are not going well.
Frontier agents don't comply with standards, even when instructed to
TLDR: Our open testbed LARA examines the behavior of frontier LLMs in realistic agentic deployment contexts. Previous results showed all models routinely take actions that would…
A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened.
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Trump Spending Billions to Revert Aircraft Carriers to Steam Catapults
Trump has long hated the modern electromagnetic catapults, seemingly because he simply doesn’t understand how they work.
Trump Wants The DOJ To Go After Olympian David Hearn Again In Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case
This is why having a case dismissed with prejudice is important. Trump’s cronies/donors — who were paid millions to do a job they’d never done before — failed to bring the Lincoln…
US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers
The FAA says its push to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers has helped it hire more than 2,000 trainees, reaching 94% of its hiring goal. Another 2,000-plus…
What If We Enforced AI Model Safety At the Level Of GPUs?
Tldr: AI Agents (e.g. based on models like Claude Opus and Fable) are now powerful enough to be used as autonomous tools for large-scale cyberattacks. This most powerful class of…
Will Tucker Carlson Run For President? Sam Seder Thinks ‘It’s Bullsh*t’
‘Jubilee’ survivors Mehdi and Sam Seder of ‘The Majority Report’ talk progressive victories, the evolution of MAGA, and the 2028 presidential race.
Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Kyiv Post: Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) has identified an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module inside Russia's new…
V&V takes on “Pacing the frontier”
[Cross-posted from The Foretellix CTO Blog . These short takes try to put a verification-and-validation slant on AI-safety / alignment topics – they are not full treatments. I…
The Mayor Who Said 'No' When Flock Came to Town
“I guess all crime could be eliminated if you put cameras everywhere, surveillance everywhere, and had drones patrolling the skies [...] but what life are we living then?”