AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
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Countdown: Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Dungeon Crawl #1 - A Tree-mendous Introduction
Back to the roots.There are just nine weeks to go before The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time arrives on Switch 2, and you better believe that the countdown has well and truly started for me.While scanning the calendar earlier this week, it suddenly dawned on me that the time left until launch poses
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US Air Force F-16 Crashes in Michigan After Pentagon Orders More Flyovers
The F-16 "experienced an incident," the Texas Military Department said in a statement, adding that "The pilot successfully ejected the aircraft and is receiving care at a nearby hospital." ABC News reports: A Texas Air National Guard F-16 crashed in Michigan during a training mission on Thursday
Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.
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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (19th September)
That's Fire, bro.Happy weekend, citizens of Dagsion!This week might have felt a little quiet after the double-Direct blowout of the last, but we still got a new first-party launch, some news from Capcom out of Tokyo Games Show, and Nintendo satiated our need for that electronic Ocarina by finally pu
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Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and Claude-Using Researchers Breached OpenAI
"Software security researchers used Anthropic's Claude AI platform to hack OpenAI's ChatGPT tool," reports CBS News. Using Claude, "On July 25, 2026, we chained two critical vulnerabilities to compromise multiple OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts," write researchers at security platform Hacktron A
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Caddy 2.11's default post-quantum key exchange sends six times more handshake bytes
I measured Caddy's new default X25519MLKEM768 key exchange against classical X25519: ClientHello grows from 318 to 1494 bytes, ServerHello from 122 to 1210, but the raw crypto costs under 65 microseconds and old clients still connect fine.
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I got rejected for using AI in an interview. Then I watched the interviewer do it.
I got the rejection email on a Tuesday. I've been rejected before — everyone has. This one broke...
Linkup Research Releases SPARSEUP: A 149M-Parameter Open-Source Sparse Embedding Model
Linkup Research has released SPARSEUP, an open-source sparse embedding model built on a 149M-parameter ModernBERT backbone. It scores 56.4 nDCG@10 on BEIR-13, which Linkup calls the best result it knows of for a public sparse encoder under 150M parameters. The model uses a logit shift, top-12 expans
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Monster Hunter World Probably Won't Be Coming To Switch 2
"We’d have to completely remake the game".Capcom is bringing the new entry in the Monster Hunter series to the Switch 2 later this year, but some fans have also been calling for Monster Hunter World.During the Switch generation, Capcom released Monster Hunter Rise (and other Monster Hunter titles) o
Meta Launches Muse for Mac: A Personal AI Agent That Works Across Your Files, Mail, Messages, Calendar and Notes
Meta has released Muse for Mac, the first version of Muse that can complete things on a user’s computer. The agent works with local files and native apps, where your data already lives. It adds a desktop layer to an agent that launched on phones, the web and WhatsApp earlier this month. Is it deploy
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Dev log #21 Hardening WebRTC-Direct and solving SCM leaks
Hi, glad you found your way here. I'm Yash, a developer who contributes to open source, mostly p2p...
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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Is Getting A Manga Series, Here's The Key Art
Update: You can now read the prologue chapter on Nintendo Today!:Alongside other Direct news this week, Nintendo has announced Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave will be getting its own manga adaptation.Read the full article on nintendolife.com
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Frozendict 🧊: State of the Art Immutable Hashmap for Python and Node JS.
Hello 👋! So there I was, staring at Python's frozenset, feeling that specific special rage that...
GGUF vs GPTQ vs AWQ vs EXL2: LLM Model Formats Explained (2026)
GGUF, GPTQ, AWQ, EXL2, and EXL3 solve the same problem in different ways. This guide separates file containers from quantization methods. It explains bits per weight, calibration, and hardware fit. Then it shows which format to pick for Macs, consumer GPUs, and production serving. The post GGUF vs G
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Has the James Web Space Telescope Discovered a New 'Black Hole Star'?
The James Webb Space Telescope has been picking up little red dots in almost every image, writes Quanta magazine. And now two teams of astronomers propose they're looking at a new astronomical object: a black hole star. It shines with the light of billions of suns — and hides a black hole in its cor