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Schneier on Security

Training AIs to Solve CAPTCHAs - Interesting research: *Abstract*: Vision-language models (VLMs) can solve visual CAPTCHAs without task-specific training, but the agents built on them ap...
3 hours ago
Computing Education Blog

Dr. Aadarsh Padiyath finishes his PhD: GenAI contracts, adversarial thinking, and ethics without whistleblowing - Aadarsh Padiyath defended his dissertation in March, 2026. Aadarsh is well-known to readers of this blog. Aadarsh had a guest post in 2024 exploring the te...
3 hours ago
Noahpinion

Can a Million AI Agents Create Superintelligence? - Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on agent swarms.
9 hours ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Australia’s Historical Temperatures, Update Following Tom Berger Forensic Audit - When journalist Graham Lloyd rang me a few months ago about the Sydney Observatory temperatures, I already had a guess. The Australian Bureau of Meteorol...
18 hours ago
Why Evolution Is True

Sunday: Hili dialogue - Welcome to Sunday, October 18, 2026, sabbath for goyische cats, and National Exascale Day, which celebrates this: Founded by CRAY, a Hewlett Packard Enterp...
1 day ago
The Snow Report

What are “levels of evidence” and why do we need to talk about them in education? - Image created using ChatGPT Around ten years ago, when my colleague, Dr Caroline Bowen AM and I were writing a book on evidenced-based support for ch...
1 day ago
Michael Hudson

What Will Exporters Accept Instead of Dollars? - Selling oil is one thing. Getting paid in something you can use is another. A country can run a trade surplus and still find itself holding another gover...
1 day ago
Overcoming Bias

Why Might Aliens Visit Earth? - I did a web search on the above phrase, in prep for a podcast, and in ten pages of results didn’t find anything I thought reasonable.
1 day ago
Planetocracy

A Call to Action - Come and Join Me
1 day ago
Don't Worry About the Vase

Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling - There is a newly leaked bill that Anthropic is purportedly shopping around is (if you assume its bugs get fixed).
1 day ago
Interdependent Thoughts

Norwegian Book Shopping - To me the variety of languages in Europe is highly valuable, something to cherish. Even if in practice it also provides many hurdles, in order to bridge la...
3 days ago
Real-World Economics Review Blog

Big insight for the AI will take all the jobs gang: Work Hours are NOT fixed - from Dean Baker Having followed economic policy debate closely for four decades, I’ve learned that common sense often has no place. It is a standard practi...
3 days ago
oftwominds

Truth Be Told - *The ultimate truth is revealing the truth of the situation and our feelings about it are a relief, and the starting point to moving forward in a positive ...
3 days ago
C21st Left

AI – for whom? - Artificial intelligence is commonly presented as either a technological miracle or an existential threat. Yet the most immediate question is political: who...
5 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Podcasts about the Topic - “The Topic” being, of course, the Mathocalypse, except sometimes with AI alignment and even quantum computing and complexity theory and other stuff thrown ...
5 days ago
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

After 46 years of failed attempts, America finally has the opportunity to fix permitting - Our government is on the verge of passing freedom-to-build legislation that will make everything more affordable. Help make it happen by demanding that you...
6 days ago
Farnam Street

Ryan Serhant: How to Get People to Say Yes - Ryan Serhant is a real estate broker, founder of SERHANT., and star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York and Netflix’s Owning Manhattan. Public Rel...
1 week ago
Information Processing - Steve Hsu

AI Boom or Bust? – Manifold #122 - Are we in an AI bubble?
1 week ago
The Ethical Skeptic

A Proposed Reclassification of the Ancestral Column-Capital Orders - Aeolic column capitals should be recognized as an ancestral architectural order in its own right, while the traditional Ionic order is more coherently clas...
2 weeks ago
Windows On Theory

CS 2881 Fall 26: Lecture 1: Introduction - Lecture Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4WSktB5Ni0 Authors’ Intro Hanjing: I’m a Junior studying Applied Mathematics & CS. I’ve worked on research...
3 weeks ago
Casey Handmer's blog

How deep is Tulainyo Lake? - Regular readers may recall that I put a visit to Tulainyo Lake on my bucket list a few years ago. Last week I did it. Impossibly remote, otherworldly beaut...
4 weeks ago
Bits and Behavior - Medium

Flawed premises in AI doomerism - [image: A stack of wavy lines, some more angular waves, a vertical barrier, lots of pastel ellipses, and a brown ground, with a mechanical flower in the mi...
4 weeks ago
WHERE MACHINES THINK

Minsky’s Society of Mind & The OpenAI — Hugging Face Hack - Anthropomorphizing aside, should we be legitimately concerned over the “emergence” of unforeseen capabilities in groups of interacting agents?
1 month ago
The Philosopher's Beard

Trump Is Definitely Considering Nuking Iran - Source: Hotpot.aiTrump is in a tight spot with the Iran war and needs to find a way out before the midterms. A tactical nuclear strike on Iran's nuclear ...
1 month ago
dale lane

Adding support for remote jar fetching in Flink session clusters - I’ve submitted a Flink Improvement Proposal (FLIP) about adding support for Flink to be able to fetch remote jars for applications submitted to a session c...
1 month ago
Rodney Brooks

Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment - I have come to understand four very different time scales for development of technologies and their deployments. And I think people often jump between the...
2 months ago
Climate Etc.

Climate Etc. is now an archive - Climate Etc. closed in June 2026 and this site is preserved as a read-only archive. This feed will not update again -- visit the homepage for where to find...
3 months ago
STRANGE TIMES

China - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxUt-BVirLA very interesting site!
8 months ago
Club Troppo

Some thoughts about Bondi - Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a terrorist att...
9 months ago