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A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth. They already have 10K satellites in orbit and they want to add a million more. 🥴

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Marconi Union, which you might remember for creating the most relaxing song in the world, has released a new album: Multiforms: Ambient Transmissions, Vol. 3. You can watch the visual album on YouTube or stream it from a variety of sources. This went straight into my Underscore collection.

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The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech. Like: “4. Please, please stop asking me to verify my humanity by clicking on tiny motorcycles.” and “35. To Mark Zuckerberg, specifically: Shut up about the Roman Empire.”

Commodore (you know, the 64 folks) is releasing a flip phone. “No social media, no browser. Runs 99% of Android apps (without Android). T9-style texting adds mindful friction. Audiophile grade HD Audio.”

"A wiseguy's son steps out of his father's shadow—and into the boxing ring. But the legacy of organized crime isn't so easy to leave behind."

"We’re each attached to years of texts, searches, and photos, an archive of humiliation that could detonate at any time."

On coming home to the Philippines.

The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense I quoted The Atlantic quoting Kate Moussouris earlier, when I should have gone straight to the source. Here she is confirming that the "jailbreak" that got Claude Fable 5 banned under an export control really was "fix this co...

This experimental automotive replica of Stonehenge has become a symbol of the town of Alliance, Nebraska. But residents haven’t always been fans.

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Katie Moussouris, a cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Luta Security, told me that Anthropic shared with her a copy of the White House’s report on the Fable jailbreak to get her appraisal. (She said that she is not being paid by Anthropic.) The report, Moussouris said, involved IT experts asking Fable to help find and patch bugs. When given deliberately insecure code, she said, Fable refused the prompt “review the code for security issues” but then complied when asked to “fix this code,” followed by some further manual steps. Moussouris told me that this was just “the model working as intended” for cyberdefense.

— Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, The White House Is Ratcheting Up Its War Against Anthropic

Tags: anthropic, claude, ai, llms, ai-ethics, jailbreaking, generative-ai, ai-security-research, claude-mythos

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The Washington Post editorial board yesterday (News+ link), “Why Europe Won’t Have the New Siri”: Brussels insists the decision is “Apple’s and Apple’s only” and that nothing in its flagship Digital Markets Act forbids the launch. That’s technically true and wholly besid...

TIL: Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand I'm using Cloudflare's CAPTCHA (they call it a "Web Application Firewall > Custom rules > Managed Challenge" these days) to prevent crawlers from aggresively spidering my faceted search engine on this site, but ...

Release: datasette-agent 0.3a0 New tool, execute_write_sql, which requests user approval and then writes to a database - taking user permissions into account. #27 I added a mechanism for asking user approval in datasette agent 0.2a0. The new execute_write_sql to...

How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour, the Earth receives enough sunlight to power all of human civilization for a year. It arrives silently, from all directions, at no cost.”

Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad Max movie and a TV series before calling it quits.

"A Ferrari and a distinctive Highland Park home combined for an iconic scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off."