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CleanTechnica

China’s Electric Aviation Advantage Is A Transport System, Not A Prototype - CleanTechnica

China's battery dominance, high-speed rail, aviation policy and a growing aerospace industry leads to advantages for electric aviation.

Engadget

Google DeepMind disbands its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold team - Engadget

DeepMind

Everybody

The AI brain worms have been spreading and I don

RNZ

Mayor says ‘large chunks’ of Wellington council Deloitte report written by AI

Wellington mayor Andrew Little has said in a radio interview that a significant amount of a $435,000 Deloitte report on the council's staffing levels was written by artificial intelligence, as the report's credibility comes under increasing scrutiny.

Schneier on Security

25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough - Schneier on Security

This essay was written with Cindy Cohn, and originally appeared in Lawfare. One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted surveillance—such as individual wiretaps or pen register/trap and trace orders—to mass surveillance techniques—such as tapping into the internet backbone or mass collection of telephone or internet metadata. The legal and technical architecture of modern mass surveillance, initially framed as a neces

The House of Ellison is on the Brink

Everything the world’s briefly richest man built is failing at once.

Literary Hub

Enough! An Open Letter from Jewish Creatives and Thinkers in Defense of Mark Ruffalo

A group of Jewish artists, writers, creative professionals, faith leaders and thinkers—including Emma Seligman, Gabor Maté, Hannah Einbinder, Ilana Glazer, James Schamus, Larry Charles, Joel Coen, …

Gizmodo

OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month. She Wasn’t Replaced

She lasted less than a year.

The Hollywood Reporter

‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way

This year's breakouts like 'Project Hail Mary' and 'Obsession' were made by filmmakers who sweated. While CG-stuffed franchise disappointments such as 'Supergirl,' 'Moana,' and 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' looked lazy.

Codeberg.org

Proposal Assembly 2026: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions

Here is the proposed addition for the ToU that @Gusted and I agreed on post-assembly for the upcoming membership vote. 🙏 The discussion for this proposal is available for Codeberg e. V. members in the forum: https://forum.codeberg.org/d/139-resolutions-for-assembly-on-codeberg-taking-a-stand-a...

GitHub - ArcaEge/creakwork12: make your framework hinge rusty (wow it's also written in rust too)

make your framework hinge rusty (wow it's also written in rust too) - ArcaEge/creakwork12

seti.org

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite

General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian

A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human

One of my issues with current AI models is how they try to mimic human social patterns (

SoraNews24 —Japan News—

Japan now has human refrigerators inspired by Japanese vending machines

Could this be the way of the future as people around the world adapt to rising temperatures?

Harvard Magazine

Humans Haven’t Stopped Evolving | Harvard Magazine

Harvard scientists identify hundreds of genes under selective pressure.

House of Saud

IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center

IRGC claims cruise missile strike destroyed AWS Bahrain data center in Wave 24, citing Darkhovin nuclear plant as casus belli. Third strike on same facility since March.

Larry Salibra

Ben Thompson is wrong: US frontier labs are right to be panicking

American tech blogger Ben Thompson writes today that US frontier labs should not be panicking about Chinese open source models like Kimi K3, despite them being competitive with the best models from American labs. We can "distill" (ha!) his post down to two main arguments: Anthropic and OpenAI likely have

IEEE Spectrum

How Darth Vader Taught Me Card Counting and AI Security Got Weird

It only took a little prompting to hijack the biggest AI models

ampcode.com

Orbs, Explained

Everything has changed for us with orbs. How do I make you believe me?

A Year On: The DOGE Disaster

A Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of your government

DarkReasoning: "A Chinese LLM attacked our lab, so we made it work for us"

For five days an autonomous AI agent worked to break into our lab. We became the first to identify the exact model behind a live attack

Techdirt

Sony Deletes A Bunch More Movies From The Accounts Of People Who ‘Bought’ Them

In all of our discussions about how the digital revolution has created a system in which people don’t actually own the things they think they’re buying, I get particularly frustrated by…

GitHub - MatheuZSecurity/Furtex: Post-exploitation and evasion research toolkit for Linux.

Post-exploitation and evasion research toolkit for Linux. - MatheuZSecurity/Furtex

ABC News

American Airlines flights resume after brief IT outage led to nationwide ground stop

American Airlines said in a statement that a "technology issue briefly impacted connectivity" for some systems.

Judge orders release of records on Nazis who settled in Canada | Ottawa Citizen

Novara Media

AI Firms Are Buying up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them

The world’s biggest AI companies are buying antiquarian books en masse so they can be scanned to train their large language models (LLMs) before being destroyed.

Captchainbox

Captchainbox - Make unknown senders pay to reach you

Set a price for unknown senders to reach your inbox. Trusted contacts get through normally; you choose where your share goes.

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