A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
The Israeli Effective Altruist firm Irregular caused unsecured AI models to hack real targets.
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iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
Apple’s latest software updates introduce Siri AI and deliver helpful new Apple Intelligence features.
Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
Pion is the platform Andonlabs built to run Andonlabs’ autonomous businesses. Today Andonlabs is opening it up so many more people can experiment…
Inflightsimulator made a flight simulator, except you’re just a passenger
Fly to every country as a passenger. Completed flights collect country flags automatically, even while you’re away.
Apple’s Dimensional Drawings
Download dimensional drawings and technical specifications.
Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
you have legitimate concerns, but you’re very wrong about this. zero-knowledge proofs are not only the technology behind donation badges and backup payments,…
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Explore Claude Fable 5.1's proposed solution to Sir Thomas Urquhart's Cyphral Distich, a centuries-old cipher, with the reasoning behind the result.
Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Atomic14 accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was…
Garry Tan wants Techcrunch open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S.…
Homebrew 7.0.0
Today, Brew is proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native…
JetKVM Mini
A JetKVM from $33, wired or wireless. New open-source firmware, the same web interface.
Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took…
Darioamodei must pace the frontier
Why AI capabilities must advance at a pace that safety can match, and a three-step plan: embedded evaluators, democratic and global coordination.
Fuck it, make it anyway
Carrying on in the face of creative devaluation.
google.com/goto: Google’s anti-scraping update
Google is rolling out google.com/goto redirect URLs on SERPs. Here is what changed, why it targets scrapers, and how Autom updated its SERP…
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents performing web-lookup tasks with significant overlap with the…
Dayzlegame spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Google reported 21 installs in a day. The admin panel said 1. What the other 20 were, how a bot farm gets paid,…
Astra for Coding: Why Are Lucumr Doing This Again?
Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.