Whilst Starmer has suggested that Labour Party members can't endorse candidates from other parties, the SNP rules are explicit that members are only barred from supporting candidates running against the SNP, so we're free to go all-in for Count Binface.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results but every single tech I've been told I had to jump on or be left behind has turned out to be completely ignorable. In many cases they've been dodged bullets.
A list of "100 best books" that doesn't have any Pratchett is empirically not a list of 100 best books.
Follow for more hard literary truths.
Sorry vibecoders, the only "OpenClaw" I care about is the failed grappling claw the CIA built into the Hughes Glomar Explorer for their attempt to salvage the soviet submarine K-129 from the floor of the pacific ocean as the classified Project Azorian.
Nscale is the Australian company that can’t build an OpenAI datacenter in England because it didn’t apply for planning approval.
… And doesn’t own the land it earmarked.
… And can’t buy it because it’s currently in productive use as a scaffolding yard.
… And because they don’t have any money; because the $2 billion they raised on a $14 billion valuation is denominated in IOUs for Nvidia GPUs.
… And because they don’t know how to build datacenters because they’ve never done it before, not even once, not ever.
But apparently they’ve suffered a “blow to their ambitions,” according to the AFR.
… Which is too stupid and uninformed to even mention any of the other stuff.
Nick Clegg is on their board, and Kier Starmer’s govt has given them heaps of favorable treatment because they’re the biggest thing happening in the British AI scene. Which is quite funny when you think about what the next six months will look like.
https://www.afr.com/technology/openai-pauses-stargate-uk-data-centre-citing-energy-costs-20260410-p5zmq8 @davidgerard
No, we don't need to make the tent bigger.
We need to make the tent safer.
Photo of "all of us" from Artemis II by NASA Commander Reid Wiseman...
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/
I'm tired... Is giving an 8051 the part code 68013 somehow "normal" for Cypress Semiconductor? Was is a joke, or switching ISAs at the last minute?
Right now teens go off into the wild to find a place on social media and adults are rightly alarmed. Companies like Facebook, Instagram, X etc. have no interest in "modeling a healthy online environment" or "teaching young people to use social media constructively" -- instead everyone is acting like simply banning kids from using phones and scanning IDs will make social media go away.
No one is asking or answering the question: How and when will young people learn to use social media?
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Researchers claiming LLMs refusing to shut down when instructed is evidence that they have a "survival instinct" perhaps didn't consider the possibility that LLMs have no way of shutting themselves down, but they do have dystopian science fiction in their training data that might match that input.
Stop citing that MIT "95% of Ai pilots fail" study - the headline appeals to my prejudices too, but
1. its data is the authors' 18/19yo mates
2. all the $ appear to be "ARR"
3. I don't trust a single number
4. THE PURPOSE IS TO PROMOTE THE AUTHORS' Web3 GRIFT! JESUS!
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/21/mit-on-enterprise-ai-95-failure-5-spam/
@codinghorror hey, EU doesn't force cookie banners on websites. Just... don't track your users with third party scripts and no consent mechanism is necessary then.
For context: I work as a website GDPR compliance auditor
Are you a queer, trans, or disabled person who is interested in ham radio but would struggle to pay the upfront fees of getting a license in the US?
I'm looking to pay for 3 people with one or more of these identities to get their ham radio licenses. More info at the link below.
https://hillbillyoracle.tumblr.com/post/792690477141032960/queer-trans-andor-disabled-folks-im
As long as this post is up, the offer is good. If there's more than 3 people who reach out, I'll see about scrounging more up.
You’ll love this - apparently Daikin have actually suggested a customer get one of my Faikin boards. LOL
Reminder that what Trump is doing to the T-bill market right now is exactly what Liz Truss did to Treasury Gilts that got her deep-sixed by the Conservative Party (she nearly destroyed the UK pension sector in the process).
https://mastodon.social/@jamiemccarthy/114308114028764604
I spent a good chunk of my weekend helping people running tiny, low risk, online services complete paperwork about the UK’s Online Safety Act, for zero discernible benefit.
So it is a bit galling that the main headline on the BBC this morning is about the government wanting to “slash red tape”.
I have spent one heck of a lot of time on the OSA, trying to help others with its burden, and it just seems so utterly unnecessary.
@filmroellchen @BleepingComputer meh, reads like a nothingburger, and so does the official publication Undocumented HCI opcodes sound scary until you learn that you need local device access to even talk with HCI. so the attack surface is limited to whatever talks with the HCI stack (which in most projects is just esp-idf/FreeRTOS.
remote exploitation PoC || GTFO
Okay the ESP thing is ridiculous, apparently Espressif left some undocumented opcodes in for debug features on the wireless chipset, which means you can do cool shit like spoof the MAC address (if you have root access on the device).
There's no backdoor lmao, their argument is that "oh you could hack an esp32 based device and put an APT on it that would spoof bluetooth devices for some more sophisticated attacks"
And then they go on about "democratizing bluetooth security" while saying that an extremely cheap chipset being hackable enough to build pentesting tooling on top of it is a bad thing. Sounds like they just want to get hired to do security audits.