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Daring Fireball
08 Apr 16:36 • John Gruber

Anthropic’s New Claude Mythos Is So Good at Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities That They’re Not Releasing It to the Public

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Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team: Earlier today we announced Claude Mythos Preview, a new general-purpose language model. This model performs strongly across the board, but it is strikingly capable at computer security tasks. In response, we have launched Project Glasswing,...

kottke.org
08 Apr 16:27 • Jason Kottke

Stunning Artemis II Phone Wallpapers

NASA has made available more than a dozen mobile wallpapers of photos taken during the Artemis II mission for free download. Basic Apple Guy has made some wallpapers of his own (that are slightly larger than NASA’s and better for iPhones). I have also made a few of my own: E...

The Brian Lehrer Show
08 Apr 16:26 • WNYC

Avoiding IRS Tax Scams

Ahead of the tax deadline next week, Kelly Phillips Erb, tax attorney, senior writer at Forbes, and author of the blog Taxgirl, discusses some of the most common IRS tax scams and offers advice on how to avoid them.

Photo: Income tax calculations. (Photo by stevepb/Pixabay).

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404 Media
08 Apr 16:12 • Joseph Cox

Podcast: Wildlife Cops Are Searching AI Cameras for ICE

How Florida conservation police are tapping into Flock for ICE; Wikipedia's AI ban; and how the app TeleGuard uploads users' private keys.

404 Media
08 Apr 16:12 • Janus Rose

A 'Self-Doxing' Rave Helps Trans People Stay Safe Online

At a New York party, attendees spent Trans Day of Visibility dancing, DJing, and learning how to become less visible online.

Anil Dash
08 Apr 15:24

When the crisis comes

These days, we’re all living in a constant state of crisis, foisted upon us by a world where those who are meant to keep things stable are the least stable factors in our lives. The chaos and stress of that reality makes it difficult to make any plans, let alone to make deci...

Manton Reece
08 Apr 15:15

While walking around Disneyland Paris yesterday, I was thinking about the parks I’ve visited and the others around the world. So today on the train I decided to make a list on my blog.

It was a good excuse to use Micro.blog photo collections too. See this GitHub Gist for the source.

The Brian Lehrer Show
08 Apr 15:08 • WNYC

International Law, War Crimes and the War In Iran

Lt. Col. Rachel E. VanLandingham, national security law expert and former chief legal advisor for international law at U.S. Central Command, where she advised on operational and international legal issues related to the armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Eliav Lieb...

Scripting News
08 Apr 15:07

We are all Good Germans now

I don't know about you but I thought there was a pretty good chance Trump would detonate a nuke somewhere yesterday, and the fact that we did not get him out of there in time to prevent it, says we went along with it. You can decide what that means. I've had several friends...

WIRED
08 Apr 15:03 • David Gilbert

The Next Attorney General Will Probably Be an Election Denier

Pam Bondi's DOJ left election deniers frothing for more. Potential candidates for the attorney general job could give them what they want.

Defector
08 Apr 15:03 • Barry Petchesky

Advances In Basebrawl Weaponry Are Being Made Every Day

It is a rare occasion when baseball players actually land any solid punches in a bench-clearing brawl, and this clip will be no different. No heavyweight blows connected cleanly in Tuesday's bout between Braves starter Reynaldo Lopez and Angels outfielder Jorge Soler. It was...

Defector
08 Apr 15:03 • Israel Daramola

Revisiting Dashboard Confessional, 25 Years Later

Sometimes the best music is the most embarrassing music. That's part of the magic of art: the mystical properties that can make a work simultaneously vulnerable and uncomfortable and alluring and groovy. A desire to jam and to hide my face in my hands—that is Dashboard Confe...

Defector
08 Apr 15:03 • Kathryn Xu

What Is A Strike

Well, what is it? According to the official 2026 MLB rules, a strike—in isolation, absent swings and foul tips—is called when "any part of the ball passes through any part of the strike zone." The strike zone is duly defined, in a long-winded and broadly unpunctuated phrase,...

AI and I
08 Apr 15:00 • Dan Shipper

We Gave Every Employee an AI Agent. Here's What Happened.

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While walking to the office, our COO Brandon Gell had his AI agent call him and go over his emails in his inbox one by one. When he arrived, he opened Gmail and confirmed she'd done everything he'd asked. "My jaw is on the floor," he messaged me. That was the moment Every go...

kottke.org
08 Apr 14:45 • Jason Kottke

“I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI...

“I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.”

McSweeney’s
08 Apr 14:12 • Ethan Loewi

Reviews of New Food: Hormbles Chormbles

As a longtime gym-goer, I am the target audience for all manner of protein-packed bullshit. Protein coffee? Can’t start the day without it. Protein salsa? Pass the chips. At the height of my weightlifting fixation, there were years when the friendly snake-oil salesmen at GNC...

McSweeney’s
08 Apr 14:12 • Jack Loftus

The Shocking Truth About This President That We’ve Been Sitting on for Months Is Now Available for Preorder

“In a series of Situation Room meetings, President Trump weighed his instincts [about going to war with Iran] against the deep concerns of his vice president and a pessimistic intelligence assessment. Here’s the inside story of how he made the fateful decision.” — An excerp...

404 Media
08 Apr 14:12 • Emanuel Maiberg

I Wish I Didn’t Care About 'Marathon' Player Numbers, But I Do

Marathon is a great game for uncs. As signs of a crash change the video game industry, there might not be a lot of those left.

404 Media
08 Apr 14:12 • Joseph Cox

Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates

Updates to VeraCrypt, a popular and long-running piece of encryption, are now thrown into doubt because of a seemingly unexplained Microsoft decision.

The Texas Observer
08 Apr 14:00 • Francesca D’Annunzio

The Plight of the Monarch

The elusive lady caught my eye from across the cul-de-sac on the street of my childhood home, her brilliant orange-and-black wings fluttering. The monarch butterfly sailed through the breeze, searching for a spot to land amid the manicured green lawns of North Texas suburbia. This fuzzy memory and others like it were a cornerstone of […]

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