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Terence Tao's ChatGPT transcript is a masterclass in AI-assisted work

Jul 24

▸ Fields medalist Terence Tao published a raw ChatGPT session exploring a proposed counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture — one of math's oldest open...

Career / Industry AI / ML explainer

A $25 GPT run found a WordPress RCE brokers pay $500k for

Jul 24

▸ SecLabs researcher used GPT-5.6 to find a critical RCE in a widely-installed WordPress plugin — total AI cost was around $25.

AI / ML Security / Privacy clear_take

China ships open weights while America ships EULAs

Jul 24

▸ Chinese labs (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM) are releasing frontier-class weights under permissive licenses while US frontier labs ship only APIs behind a...

AI / ML Open Source clear_take

DARPA's AI just flew an F-16 in dogfights against a human pilot

Jul 24

▸ DARPA's ACE program put a machine-learning agent in the cockpit of a modified F-16 (X-62A VISTA) and ran live within-visual-range engagements against ...

Defense / GovTech AI / ML clear_take

Every IP KVM tested: PiKVM still wins, JetKVM closes the gap

Jul 24

▸ Jeff Geerling benchmarked the entire current IP KVM market — PiKVM v4 Plus remains the reference, but JetKVM at $69 changes the entry-level math.

Hardware / Chips DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take

ISS air leaks are what 25-year legacy code looks like in orbit

Jul 24

▸ Astronauts sheltered in the US segment while Roscosmos engineers worked the Zvezda module's recurring leak — a fault first detected in 2019 that has r...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Defense / GovTech biomimicry_analogy

Ladybird Tightens Its Doors: A Funded OSS Project Picks Focus Over Throughput

Jul 24

▸ Ladybird is restructuring how contributions land — fewer drive-bys, more long-running owned areas, with paid staff driving the critical path.

Career / Industry Open Source clear_take

The Tobacco Playbook Is Now Running on Your Grocery Aisle

Jul 24

▸ AJPH study traces ultra-processed food's global expansion to the same six tactics tobacco firms refined in the 1980s — and the same companies executed...

Career / Industry Politics / Regulation biomimicry_analogy

Apple's anti-nausea dots actually work — the perception hack behind them

Jul 24

▸ The Verge confirmed Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues — the floating dots iOS shipped quietly in iOS 18 — measurably reduce car-ride nausea.

Frontend / UI Hardware / Chips explainer

SRE swaps a $120k bowling system for $1,600 of ESP32s — and it just works

Jul 23

▸ An SRE replaced a legacy 8-lane bowling center control system quoted at $120k with roughly $1,600 in ESP32 microcontrollers wired into 70-year-old pin...

Open Source Hardware / Chips clear_take

OpenAI opens ChatGPT to advertisers — the free-tier bill comes due

Jul 23

▸ OpenAI quietly launched ads.openai.com, a self-serve portal for buying ad placements inside ChatGPT.

AI / ML Startups / Launches clear_take

The surveillance stack you shipped post-9/11 is now the autocracy stack

Jul 23

▸ Every fusion center, bulk-collection pipeline, and 'lawful intercept' API built after 9/11 is now infrastructure a hostile executive inherits on day o...

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

Cloudflare's Prince names his three worst VC stories — pattern-match guide

Jul 23

▸ Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince (@eastdakota) posted a thread cataloguing the three worst VC interactions in the company's history — the kind founders n...

Startups / Launches Career / Industry clear_take

India's labor arb window just got shorter than your cloud contract

Jul 23

▸ India's total fertility rate has fallen below 2.1 replacement — decades ahead of UN projections that underpinned every IT-services capacity plan writt...

Career / Industry Politics / Regulation clear_take

Let's Encrypt's post-quantum plan: ML-DSA certs by 2026, deprecation by 2030

Jul 23

▸ Let's Encrypt published a concrete timeline for ML-DSA (FIPS 204) certificate issuance, targeting end-of-2026 for early adopters.

DevOps / Platform Engineering Security / Privacy explainer

Researchers Triangulated Europe's GNSS Jammer From Orbit. It's in Kaliningrad.

Jul 23

▸ A new arXiv paper localizes the dominant GPS/Galileo interference source over Europe to a ~5 km radius near Kaliningrad using RF snapshots from a LEO ...

Defense / GovTech Hardware / Chips explainer

Hardware isn't hard: what shipping 2,500 MIDI recorders actually taught him

Jul 23

▸ Chip Weinberger shipped 2,500 MIDI recorders and argues the 'hardware is hard' mythology has scared off a generation of software devs who could ship p...

Startups / Launches Hardware / Chips clear_take

Anthropic's RSI Memo: The Race Logic Matters More Than the 8× Claim

Jul 23

▸ Anthropic's recursive self-improvement memo leans on a moral frame — 'someone will build this anyway' — that's older than the safety org publishing it...

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Why Apple picked Gemini: the only frontier lab that can't make an iPhone

Jul 23

▸ Apple's new Foundation Models are co-developed with Google on Gemini tech, routed through Private Cloud Compute.

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

$1.5B settlement: Anthropic's book-piracy tab sets AI training's floor price

Jul 22

▸ A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with authors over books pirated from LibGen and PiLiMi to train Claude.

Politics / Regulation AI / ML clear_take
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