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Slashdot/TechCrunch: “TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker argues that the U.S. government’s abrupt export-control order forcing Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline was “never about an AI jailbreak” threat. Instead, it was driven more by “personality differences” between the AI company and Trump administration. Security experts say the reported guardrail bypass did not …
PCMag – Chatbots are not your friend, no matter what they say. Here’s how to get the information you need while also limiting the data ChatGPT collects from your conversations: “AI chatbots feed off your data. In most cases, your data is used to personalize future responses, but some companies use the information to train …
This post is a walkthrough of how LLMs work. Modern LLMs are mostly built by stacking transformer blocks over and over, so understanding the transformer machinery gets you most of the way there. I’ll cover the core mechanisms inside modern transformer-based LLMs, without all that sticky math stuff. Don’t get me wrong, you should learn …
Facebook AI-Generated & Deepfake Content Detection – “Introducing Hive VLM — our multimodal LLM that checks images or text against your custom policy and returns flexible, human-readable results. Hive’s AI-Generated & Deepfake Content Detection APIs determine whether content is authentic or AI-created. Our APIs scan images, video, and audio for AI and return clear confidence …
George, Tracey E. and Yoon, Albert and Gulati, Mitu, Stacking the Deck (May 29, 2026). Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2026-33, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2026-10, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6850719 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6850719 – A federal judicial clerkship is a government-funded Golden Ticket that opens …
Gizmodo: “If you work for the Department of Homeland Security, an app is about to be auto-loaded onto your work phone, sort of like that U2 album that auto-loaded on everyone’s iPhone in 2014, except instead of delivering “Songs of Innocence,” the app claims to deliver “unfiltered, real-time updates straight from the source”—the source being …
“The Hydrant Directory is a free design resource created from public infrastructure. Each hydrant has been processed into color palettes for free use by artists and designers. Color palettes are original and are placed in the public domain for use of any kind without attribution ( CC0 no rights reserved ). The hydrants themselves, however, …
~250,000 inscriptions from across the Roman Empire, enriched with AI-extracted name data. This map visualises inscriptions from the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby (EDCS) that record personal names. For each inscription an AI pipeline attempts to identify individuals and extract their praenomen, nomen, cognomen, status, and gender. How to use – Zoom in to explore individual inscriptions. …
“azmth shows more than 15,400 active satellites orbiting Earth on an interactive 3D globe, live. Orbital data comes from CelesTrak and refreshes every 2 hours; positions are propagated in your browser with the SGP4/SDP4 model. Click any satellite for its altitude, orbit, operator country, and real dimensions, and set your location to see exactly when …
Snapshot Report: Status of the IRS’s Workforce as of January 2026 June 9, 2026 Report Number: 2026-IE-R009 – According to IRS records, 31,273 employees separated, took a DRP – Deferred Resignation Program & Early Out Offers or used some other incentive to leave the agency during the one-year period between January 2025 and January 2026. These …
How to Geek: “SearXNG is an open-source meta search engine. The “meta” part means that it can query multiple search engines and display the best results from the pool. Currently, it supports some 70 search engines. It’s also completely free and shows no ads anywhere…Most importantly, though, it feels like searching the internet before generative …
“Lowtein is a simple website that geolocates you and tells you about the cheapest proteins available in your location. Here in Pittsburgh, for example, it informs me that Giant Eagle has a special on pork chops (56% blow the regional average price), Martin’s Food Market has inexpensive bacon, and that you can’t easily go wrong …
