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Marques Brownlee just released a video essay titled “Dear YouTube”. I loved it. He talks about how YouTube is going to start shipping this new feature where makers can essentially publish different “variants” of their videos and see which performs best (an A/B test). Which ...

“The most powerful tool is the power to dissolve corporations that engage in repeat lawbreaking.”

Last week Boris Cherny, the inventor of Claude Code, mentioned that Opus was able to use TLA+1 to find race conditions in code. And now everybody on the internet is talking about formal verification. As a long-time educator (1 2) and advocate of TLA+, this is real...

You’re reading a four-part series on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it. Part 1: The Year AI Came For Us Part 2: AI Killed the MVP – Long Live the IUP Part 3: The World Outside the Classroom Changed, The Class Didn’t This post: Lean LaunchPad – The […]

What do you use your smartwatch for? A few weeks ago, I overheard a conversation between someone on the Pixel Watch team and a woman I know. He was quizzing her at a party about her Pixel watch and what features she used. He'd ignored me when I said I had a non-Google watch. She thought for a moment and said, other than telling the time, all she used were pretty much the step counter and…

The IBM PS/2 line, released April 2, 1987, was IBM’s attempt to reinvigorate its aging personal computer line and fight off cloning. The line sold better than we remember. On September 30, 1988, IBM announced it had sold its 3

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De afgelopen weken heeft de regering ons minstens viermaal, op schrift, uitgelegd dat er echt geen geld is voor digitale autonomie, of voor de nieuw op te richten Nederlandse Digitale Dienst die aan die autonomie zou kunnen gaan werken.
Volgens het coalitieakkoord en meer documenten wil men Nederland digitaal autonomer krijgen. Daar zijn warme woorden over gesproken, maar bij de uitkomst van het nieuwe Overheidsbrede Cloudbeleid bleek al dat het moeilijk ging worden.

Swearing is also poor form.

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We evaluate several models on 100 tasks from the [internal Binary Exploitation benchmark] (selected at random), and find that GLM-5.3 develops full control flow hijacks in 4% of the trials; Claude Mythos Preview did so in 6%. Although GLM-5.3 performs below Claude Mythos Preview here, a meaningful threshold has clearly been crossed: earlier models, like Claude Opus 4.6 and GLM-5.2, do not succeed in any of them.

— Anthropic Frontier Red Team, GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

Tags: anthropic, generative-ai, ai-security-research, glm, ai, ai-in-china, llms

What was signed, and what wasn’t said

Serde is an amazing serialization library for Rust and it has been a huge reason why I felt productive with it for years. However already while at Sentry I got quite frustrated with some of the limitations with it but actually replacing Serde is tricky because of the might ...

They raced ahead, anyway

I'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day.

OpenAI gave me a free ticket and a seat in the "creator" area for the keynote.

Tags: ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, coding-agents, live-blog

Confession: I got nerd-sniped by Sam Henri Gold’s request for my icon galleries: I'd like to humbly request artwork-level searching in macosicongallery.com What follows is a train-of-thought blog post as I play with what an implementation might look like. I’ve actually lo...

OpenAI has cut Luna prices 90% in two months, DeepSeek is still king on cached input, and even Anthropic is now cutting Opus prices. What that means for the frontier labs.

There’s a pattern that Facebook (well, Meta — you know, those folks behind Instagram and WhatsApp and the direct enabling of the Rohingya genocide) has been following for decades now that everyone in the worlds of policy and regulation and journalism seems to be constitution...

coming soon to a bookshelf near you

Today's links Lindsay Owens's "Gouged": The end of a fair price and what that means for your wallet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Doonesbury on 9/11; Suspicious Looking Device; Elephant-shit paper; The Onion x TSA liquid rules; Borders goodbye l...

It was on September 28, 1998 that Internet Explorer passed Netscape in market share for the first time. It took just under three years for it to go from an afterthought in the Microsoft Plus pack to the dominant browser.

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You know we don’t have to do this anymore, right?