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Simply put, my central worry is that many people will start to believe in the illusion of AIs as conscious entities so strongly that they’ll soon advocate for AI rights, model welfare and even AI citizenship. This development will be a dangerous turn in AI progress and dese...

A 21-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as "Scattered Spider" was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims. Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla. pleaded guilty in April 2025 to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. Florida prosecutors alleged Urban conspired with others to steal at least $800,000 from five victims via SIM-swapping attacks that diverted their mobile phone calls and text messages to devices controlled by Urban and his co-conspirators.

within Rust is a smaller language struggling to get out

Testing Claude Code beyond software engineering - using it as a tax agent to analyze documents and navigate complex tax scenarios in real-time.

Накратко, много държави-членки на Европейския Съюз, водени от Дания, подкрепят въвеждането на принудително преглеждане на снимки и линкове споделяни в чат приложения като WhatsApp, Signal и други. Това действие се очаква да бъде автоматизирано чрез използването на изкуствен интелект (ИИ). Ако ИИ има “съмнение”, че споделеният материал има порнографско съдържание с деца, вашата снимка, местонахождение, телефонен номер и друга информация ще бъдат докладвани автоматично до Европол и местната полицейска администрация.

what’s the point of vibe coding if at the end of the day i still gotta pay a dev to look at the code anyway. sure it feels kinda cool while i’m typing, like i’m in some flow state or whatever, but when stuff breaks it’s just dead weight. i cant vibe my way through debugging, i cant ship anything that actually matters, and then i’m back to square one pulling out my wallet for someone who actually knows what they’re doing.

— u/AssafMalkiIL, on r/vibecoding

Tags: reddit, vibe-coding, ai, generative-ai

One key point about entrepreneurship (which I covered in my lengthy piece yesterday) is worth amplifying because society is often being lied to about what actually constitutes building a business. Put simply: a person who moves money around is not the same as someone who act...

AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong Absurdly useful roundup from Corey Quinn of AWS changes you may have missed that can materially affect your architectural decisions about how you use their services. A few that stood out to me: EC2 instances can now...

David Ho on BlueSky: A pelican tried to eat my bike

David Ho caught video footage of one of the pelicans in St James's Park expressing deep curiosity in his bicycle.

I think it wants to ride it.

Tags: pelican-riding-a-bicycle

Today's links Become unoptimizable: Twiddle or be twiddled. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Penguins v Microsoft in the EU; Chastity belts are a joke; Austerity breeds Nazis, Yale says, "Prepare for death." Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. R...

When you think of someone hustling to build a better life in New York City, do you think of a small business owner getting up in the wee hours of the morning to open up their food cart so they can support their family, and their community? Or do you think entrepreneurship is...

Jellyfin on macOS for a quick self-hosted media library I forgot to bring my portable Pi media server running Jellyfin on a family trip, but had a small selection of my ripped movie and TV show library on my portable SSD. One dreaded part of choosing a movie o...

One key point about entrepreneurship (which I covered in my lengthy piece yesterday) is worth amplifying because society is often being lied to about what actually constitutes building a business. Put simply: a person who moves money around is not the same as someone who act...

When you think of someone hustling to build a better life in New York City, do you think of a small business owner getting up in the wee hours of the morning to open up their food cart so they can support their family, and their community? Or do you think entrepreneurship is...

Qwen-Image-Edit: Image Editing with Higher Quality and Efficiency As promised in their August 4th release of the Qwen image generation model, Qwen have now followed it up with a separate model, Qwen-Image-Edit, which can take an image and a prompt and return an edited versio...

I refreshed the little thing that let’s you navigate consistently between my inconsistent subdomains (video recording). Here’s the tl;dr on the update: I had to remove some features on each site to make this feel right. Takeaway: adding stuff is easy, removing stuff is h...

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating "Rapper Bot," a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets -- including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked Twitter/X offline. The Justice Department asserts the suspect and an unidentified co-conspirator rented out the botnet to online extortionists, and tried to stay off the radar of law enforcement by ensuring that their botnet was never pointed at KrebsOnSecurity.

Today I learned - via a proposal to remove mentions of XSLT from the HTML spec - that congress.gov uses XSLT to serve XML bills as XHTML - here's H. R. 3617 117th CONGRESS 1st Session for example. View source on that page and it starts like this: <?xml version="1.0"?> ...

Today's links Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster.": Families, they fuck you up (magically). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: HST in space; It Plays Doom; Deserted Chinese themeparks; Banksy's Dismaland; Dollars are better than warra...