Fox guest: Iran's ability to enact fees in the MOU gives it "coercive control over the Strait of Hormuz"
Right-wing hawks absolve Trump of Iran MOU responsibility, blame Vance instead
A Test Suite for Concepts
Lately I’ve been spinning up on natural abstractions , and in particular on John Wentworth ’s work on natural latents . As I’ve been studying, I’ve noticed some big gaps in the…
Synthetic document finetuning for instilling positive traits
This is the fifth in a series of informal research updates from the Google DeepMind Language Model Interpretability team, in interpretability and adjacent areas. The fourth post…
Shutterstock 'Evolves' Into 'Human-Led, AI-Powered Creative Platform'
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a "human-led, AI-powered" creative platform that combines its massive library of [human]…
David Hockney, iconic British artist known for his...
David Hockney, iconic British artist known for his colorful landscapes and pool scenes, dies at 88 . “His work is admired — loved is not too strong a word — by the millions who,…
Apparently One Dismissed Speech-Suppressing SLAPP Suit Wasn’t Enough For Matt Taibbi
To lose one speech-suppressing SLAPP suit may be regarded as thoughtless. To lose two looks like you’re a censorial hack. Last month we wrote about how supposed “free speech…
Vim Classic 8.3 Launched as an AI-Free Vim Fork
This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports: The…
How Matryoshka Sparse AutoEncoders Recover Feature Hierarchies That Vanilla SAEs Lose
A walkthrough of the core findings and guided replication of the concepts from the original research on “Multi-level features discovery with Matryoshka Sparse AutoEncoders”. TL;DR…
Arch Linux Malware Incident: Malicious Commits Found in 1,579 Packages
More than 1,500 user-contributed packages in the Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" were infected with malware, reports Phoronix: The last message in the thread over this security…
Daily Deal: The All-in-One Super-Sized Ethical Hacking Bundle
To completely understand computer security, it’s vital to step outside the fence and to think outside the box. Computer security is not just about firewalls, Intrusion Prevention…
Why Google’s New AI-Saturated Search Page Will Be A Disaster
Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honor belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has…
Ian’s Shoelace Site Is Still The Best Site For...
Ian’s Shoelace Site Is Still The Best Site For Tying Your Shoes . However: “What is the point of adding value to the internet if it is only going to rob you? Why do research, make…
UFC fight night at the White House.
Plus, where does Israel fit in the U.S.–Iran war?
“This song has no instruments in it.” This is cool: a...
“This song has no instruments in it.” This is cool: a song made only from pink noise and an equalizer.