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Terence Eden’s Blog
13 Sep 11:51 • Terence Eden

The expectations of privacy in driverless cars

Do riders in autonomous vehicles think that they are in a private space? Here's a fascinating story from California where an robotaxi was redirected from its intended destination and, instead, delivered its misbehaving passengers to the police. The 15-year-old passengers were riding in a driverless autonomous car around San Mateo Monday afternoon. The teens drank alcohol inside the Waymo taxi…

Old Vintage Computing Research
13 Sep 02:42 • ClassicHasClass

A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (but with a serial port)

Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces! They might be your parent! They might sleep in the same bed as you at night! A half-breed might write the very blog you read! For the preservation of our precious bodily fluids, we must remove ...

seangoedecke.com RSS feed
13 Sep 02:18

AI is breaking our proxies for expertise

Mathematicians are broadly not anti-AI. They’re more culturally open to using AI as a tool than, say, artists or writers1. However, now that more and more genuinely prestigious problems have fallen to AI, that might be changing. Almost five thousand mathematicians (including...

Xe Iaso's blog
13 Sep 00:42

Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

The power of science is staggering! Every day we're making new advancements in the field of generative artificial intelligence via judicious application of large language model inference technology. However, as we approach the next critical threshold in capability, we must l...

Simon Willison's Weblog
13 Sep 00:09

Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work

Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning:

I live at <my address>. Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data.

It worked for 27 minutes and produced exactly what I'd asked for, as both an embedded visualization and downloadable GPX file and GeoJSON files. Here's that 5K route:

Tags: gpt-6-astra, generative-ai, openai, chatgpt, ai, llms

Simon Willison's Weblog
12 Sep 23:09

California Brown Pelican

California Brown Pelican, in San Mateo County, CA, US The Pacifica Pier shut down at the start of June after a crack in the concrete walkway made access to the pier unsafe. It has since been entirely taken over by pelicans! Tags: wildlife

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
12 Sep 20:24 • Armin Ronacher

P(doom)

This week some flavor of “AI is going to kill us all” went viral. In particular one where an employee put his personal probability of that happening above 10%. Which made me go to the Wikipedia page of P(doom) and I realized that Dario Amodei’s apparent probability of some...

Marcus on AI
12 Sep 20:24 • Gary Marcus

Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?

Dario Amodei seems to think so.

Simon Willison's Weblog
12 Sep 18:54

Quoting Paul Ford

For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. How could we fight against tireless robots? But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work together, to maximize their skill sets and to practice their respective crafts. A.I. can write very good software, but it also makes it easy to do someone else’s job badly, which is part of why all those projects fail. Now that everyone can code, it’s become clearer why many shouldn’t.

— Paul Ford, A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened?

Tags: paul-ford, generative-ai, deep-blue, ai, llms

Ken Shirriff's blog
12 Sep 15:48 • Ken Shirriff

Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating-point systems were designed around hardware simplicity rather than mathematical rigor, leading to problems with numerical stability. T...

Andrew Nesbitt
12 Sep 14:33 • Andrew Nesbitt

This Week in Package Management: 12 September 2026

Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world

Construction Physics
12 Sep 12:51 • Brian Potter

Reading List — 09/12/2026

City permitting speeds, more efficient ground source heat pump drilling, an Amazon Air crash in Miami, cooling paint, and more.

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
12 Sep 12:09 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026)

Today's links LLMs are real, AI is fake: No, it didn't "go rogue." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Why 9/11 Means We Must Support My Politics; Blogs x 9/11; Jimmy Wales v Britannica's EiC; Hollywood astroturfs Australia; Agents v queer YA; Soft lan...

Terence Eden’s Blog
12 Sep 11:51 • Terence Eden

ActivityPub - How to send an updated user profile to Mastodon and the Fediverse

Let's suppose you've updated the description of your ActivityPub account from "World's Number 1 Taylor Swift Fan" to "This account is now a Nickleback Truther". How do you let the rest of the Fediverse know that you've changed your allegiance? By default, most Mastodon instances won't periodically poll your account information just to see if you've updated it. So how does the information get…

The Digital Antiquarian
12 Sep 03:45 • Jimmy Maher

This Week on The Analog Antiquarian

The Tudor Kings

Simon Willison's Weblog
12 Sep 01:24

OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the report on the agent attack on disused wikis (previously) last week. This time they're noting that it...