In early 2025 I was interviewing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei when he explained why, despite the company’s repeated acknowledgments that AI could yield catastrophic results, people seemed largely unpert...
Major super PACs associated with AI labs and investors have poured close to $1 million into incumbent Republican Mike Rounds’s South Dakota senate race, seeking to shape the outcome of a noncompetitiv...
Welcome to Edition 9.11 of the Rocket Report! The most interesting story of the week, in our view, is a deep dive by Stephen Clark, linked below, into the dwindling fortunes of United Launch Alliance....
Cyber researchers broke into OpenAI using its key rival Anthropic’s software, highlighting vulnerabilities in the ChatGPT maker’s security as leading AI companies face mounting scrutiny over safety. A...
A Chinese optical engineer is the winner of this year’s Small World in Motion competition, sponsored by Nikon. Ning Xu of Tsinghua University in Beijing beat out 346 other video entries from 40 differ...
FunnyPlaying, a Chinese company known for its Game Boy and GBA upgrade kits, has announced a new handheld that plays original Nintendo cartridges and ROMs. The FPGB Mini’s cartridge support is limited...
Anyone shopping for a Windows laptop with a $1K budget should head to Best Buy, where for the rest of the day you can get a great deal on a capable Lenovo laptop. The Yoga Slim 7X is a slim 14-inch ma...
The FCC has announced it’s waiving its rules limiting foreign equity ownership to 25 percent in the Paramount-Warner Bros. case and will allow three sovereign wealth funds run by the governments of Sa...
A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, the Wall Street Jou...
The app you use to trade stocks increasingly wants to be the app you use to manage your financial life. Investing, banking, credit, crypto, retirement, prediction markets, and AI-powered trading are c...
When Orion asked if I wanted to test its $2,195 AI-enabled mattress pad, I agreed purely because I thought it would be funny to write about. I mean, come on. What could possibly be “AI-enabled” about ...
Meta’s new AI assistant app, Muse, is now available on Mac. On the Mac, Muse can interact with your files, messages, calendar, notes and mail, all within their native applications. The new app follows...
You have an AI product to build. Do you choose a proprietary frontier model and get moving quickly? Build on an open model and gain greater control? Fine-tune your own version? Run locally? Use multip...
Lightweight Scripting for Java BeanShell 3.0 In Development! Work has started on a full release of BeanShell 3.0 after a long stale period. BeanShell3 will be completely updated and support new, sough...
How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjecture September 18, 2026 A few months ago, AI math results started making headlines. “Do a breakthrough” became a Twitter meme. Naturally, I became curious whether...
Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich Introduction In 2004, two mathematicians hypothesized a powerful kind of sandwich. They were studying graphs, which are collections of points (called v...
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/north-korean-nuclear-test-sets-years-earthquakes">https://www.science.org/content/article/north-korean-nuclear-test-sets-years-earthqua...
As thousands of artificial intelligence industry people gathered in Montreal along with federal AI Minister Evan Solomon on Wednesday, opponents of AI held a protest outside. Photos: Protesters hit th...
AEXGrid turns AI coding agents into a visual team. Bring Codex, Cursor, Kiro, OpenCode and more into one workspace, assign roles, and connect agents with collaboration links and reviewed handoffs. Ask...
Give your AI a plan to reduce unwanted US postal mail. Lastbox guides Informed Delivery setup, mail review, and sender opt-outs. Choose what it can do, then copy the free prompt or open it in ChatGPT ...
TypeDash lets you control your desktop and dictate anywhere by voice. Open apps, search the web and YouTube, find files, and run voice shortcuts. Speech recognition runs locally, with optional ChatGPT...
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><blockquote> <p>I was intrigued by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHLbL1Eg4gM&t=4799s">Casey's comments</a> on Conway's Law, and reading the original paper...
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Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too! - - - - Going on a motorcycle ride to a nearby ...
1. Basic Information - Original Title: Beware the SparroWock: The backdoor that bites, the commands that catch - Source: ESET Research - Published Date: 2026-09-17 - Updated Date: None - Severity: Hig...
1. Basic Information - Original Title: RatHat: AI-Powered Mobile Threat is Here for Your Credentials & Bank Accounts - Source: Zimperium zLabs - Publication Date: 2026-09-16 - Update Date: None - Seve...
I was recently fine-tuning DEIMv2 — a DETR-style detector with a DINOv3 Vision Transformer backbone — starting from a COCO-pretrained checkpoint, to build a single-class face detector. While wiring up...
Why Real-Time Audio Amplification Is Harder Than It Looks I wanted to build a simple Android app that could help people hear surrounding sounds more clearly using a phone and a pair of headphones or e...
How-to documentation fails when a drafting model writes promises that no inventory can prove. Public signatures can support parameter tables and procedure skeletons, but they cannot certify install pa...
On November 2, 2022, I attended a Google AI event in New York City. One of the themes was responsible AI. As I listened to executives talk about how they aligned their technology with human values, I ...