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ChatGPT just removed their "make this chat discoverable" sharing feature, after it turned out a material volume of users had inadvertantly made their private chats available via Google search. Dane Stuckey, CISO for OpenAI, on Twitter: We just removed a feature from @ChatGP...

XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone AI, a ...

From Async/Await to Virtual Threads Armin Ronacher has long been critical of async/await in Python, both for necessitating colored functions and because of the more subtle challenges they introduce like managing back pressure. Armin argued convincingly for the threaded progr...

I've listened to a few industry podcasts discussing the Tea app breach since recording, and the thing that really struck me was the lack of discussion around the privacy implications of the service before the breach. Here was a tool where people were non-consensually uploading photos of others

These are my notes and expanded thoughts from this month’s Space News segment on ABC Radio Hobart and ABC Northern Tasmania. Every month I join Lucie Cutting on Sunday mornings to chat about what’s happening above and beyond.

Here’s what we discussed, plus some of my notes, from this edition of the programme:

The most valuable 14 seconds in Australian aerospace history happened last month, while the most expensive corporate rivalry ever fought in orbit just turned 40.

Re-label the "Save" button to be "Publish", to better indicate to users the outcomes of their action Fascinating Wikipedia usability improvement issue from 2016: From feedback we get repeatedly as a development team from interviews, user testing and other solicited and unso...

Today's links AI's pogo-stick grift: The hard part is operating in an unpredictable, adversarial, unstructured world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Galaksija, TSA shock-wand, Reverse-centaur apocalypse. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Rec...

Have you ever wanted to reverse engineer an analog chip from a die photo? Wanted to understand what's inside the "black box" of an integrated circuit? In this article, I explain my reverse engineering process, using the Philips TDA7000 FM radio receiver chip as an example. T...

Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. First, Cerebras announced two new monthly plans for their extremely high speed hosted model service: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month, 1,000 messages a day) and Cerebras Code Max ($200/month...

Today's links Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity': A tale of walled cities, omnisexual communes, and Cthulhoid horrors. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MP3s on punchcards; German Potter fan-trans; Healthy Boundary Tree. Upcoming appearances: Where to ...

Hacker Summer camp is upon us. If you're going to DEFCON, make sure to check out my talk! It's Saturday at 4pm. Here are the details:

"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga

Saturday at 16:00 in LVCC - L1 - EHW3 - Track

Deep Think in the Gemini app Google released Gemini 2.5 Deep Think this morning, exclusively to their Ultra ($250/month) subscribers: It is a variation of the model that recently achieved the gold-medal standard at this year's International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Whil...

This morning I sent out the third edition of my LLM digest newsletter for my $10/month and higher sponsors on GitHub. It included the following section headers:

• Claude Code
• Model releases in July
• Gold medal performances in the IMO
• Reverse engineering system prompts
• Tools I'm using at the moment

The newsletter is a condensed summary of highlights from the past month of my blog. I published 98 posts in July - the concept for the newsletter is that you can pay me for the version that only takes 10 minutes to read!

Here are the newsletters I sent out for June 2025 and May 2025, if you want a taste of what you'll be getting as a sponsor. New sponsors instantly get access to the archive of previous newsletters, including the one I sent this morning.

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Gemini Deep Think, our SOTA model with parallel thinking that won the IMO Gold Medal 🥇, is now available in the Gemini App for Ultra subscribers!! [...]

Quick correction: this is a variation of our IMO gold model that is faster and more optimized for daily use! We are also giving the IMO gold full model to a set of mathematicians to test the value of the full capabilities.

— Logan Kilpatrick, announcing Gemini Deep Think

Tags: gemini, logan-kilpatrick, llm-reasoning, ai, llms, llm-release, google, generative-ai

Anthropic released two major new features for their consumer-facing Claude apps in the past couple of days. Sadly, they don't do a very good job of updating the release notes for those apps - neither of these releases came with any documentation at all beyond short announcem...

Here are a few more model releases from today, to round out a very busy July: Cohere released Command A Vision, their first multi-modal (image input) LLM. Like their others it's open weights under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, so you need to license it (or us...

The old timers who built the early web are coding with AI like it's 1995. Think about it: They gave blockchain the sniff test and walked away. Ignored crypto (and yeah, we're not rich now). NFTs got a collective eye roll. But AI? Different story. The same folks who hand-co...

Qwen just released their sixth model(!) of this July called Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct - listed as Qwen3-Coder-Flash in their chat.qwen.ai interface. It's 30.5B total parameters with 3.3B active at any one time. This means it will fit on a 64GB Mac - and even a 32GB Mac if...

Today's links You can't fight enshittification: (But we can.) Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Apple and trusted computing; TSA mocks travelers; Self-bricking med-tech. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Lat...

LWN wrote an article which opens with the assertion "Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a key from Microsoft that is set to expire in September". This is, depending on interpretation, either misleading or just plain wron...