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Been skeptical for quite some time that "using AI" is a real skill/genuine field of expertise. I think I need to start sharing that skepticism more loudly and publicly! (I'll cavea…

> Eventually, I faked my way through the thesis, and life moved on. This is a very startling admission! I checked the Chinese (original?) version of the post, and saw the author us…

I personally became suspicious of this paper four months ago, when I noticed that not a single one of the 210 participants in this study dropped out over the entire period, spannin…

A startup that uses agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex is packaging up their entire codebase and sending it directly to their LM provider. Depending on their product…

I had thought it said something about token usage, but I just clicked on "Switched to Opus 4.8 - Why?" and it says: > Fable 5 has safety measures that flag messages on most cyberse…

I gave it a question I've been trying to answer for a long time: "What star designation system does Joseph Needham use in Science & Civilization in China ? What star is referred to…

> The credential-stealing function in the Miasma worm infecting the Microsoft packages was triggered as soon as a developer opened it in AI agents, including Claude Code, Gemini CL…

Another Argentina/cloning-connected story is that President Javier Milei cloned his dog Conan at least four times: https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-26/the-myst... T…

Has there been "no progress" on classical prime factorization? What about the AKS primality test, a polynomial-time algorithm to test the primality of a number, published in 2002? …

Ah, thank you for the correction on sev-0. To be clear, your observation that "they changed their definition of what constitutes a sev-0" is based just on your external observation…

Wow, it seems that 100% of sev-3 ("critical") incidents in the last year (=365 days) have occurred between April 22, 2026 and now. Is it possible that there has been a change in th…

They are overstating how much the user experience is degraded in this particular case. But there is a much broader implication to the fact that Google is apparently not properly sa…

There's apparently still a lot of user input going unsanitized in 2026.

Your cynicism appears justified here. Pangram rates the first few paragraphs as "100% AI-generated": https://www.pangram.com/history/d06c8513-9ee3-4a1d-b02f-c1ec...

The first several paragraphs of this article got a score of "100% AI-generated" on Pangram: https://www.pangram.com/history/d06c8513-9ee3-4a1d-b02f-c1ec...

I don't understand your logic. If you are an intelligence agency who controls a VPN, you can just directly monitor the traffic yourself. You have no incentive to make it easier for…

> As an example, imagine that you are a moderator on a forum and you suspect that a new face is actually a sockpuppet of a user you banned the day prior. You check the IP logs, and…

> Images printed with structural colour ink can be made both highly transparent to transmitted light (top) and at the same time reflect light from above in vivid colours (bottom) P…