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Schneier on Security

Measuring LLMs’ Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis - There’s new benchmark measuring AI’s ability to perform mathematical cryptanalysis. Anthropic’s frontier model actually found new attacks. The benchmark:...
6 hours ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Quantifying Uncertainty. Rutherglen Minimum Temperatures & Background Information - AI climate models do not understand atmospheric physics. They learn statistical patterns, relationships and trends directly from the historical records ...
7 hours ago
Why Evolution Is True

The frightening DSA agenda - Members and acolytes of the Democratic Socialists of America are making inroads into the Democratic Party, so it’s useful to see what they stand for. They...
18 hours ago
Don't Worry About the Vase

Claude Opus 5: Model Welfare - If you are familiar with my previous posts on model welfare for new Claude models, you can skip the Introduction and The Story So Far.
1 day ago
oftwominds

Driving Big Brother - *Big Brother is now slouching in the passenger seat, making a mockery of ownership, right to repair and our agency. * *Buyers of new vehicles have an odio...
1 day ago
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Book Review: David Harvey’s Masterclass in Marx - The Story of Capital connects the world of the academy and the world of the street protest. By Max HolleranThe New RepublicJuly 27, 2026 For over a half ce...
1 day ago
John Quiggin

Monday Message Board - Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits,...
2 days ago
Real-World Economics Review Blog

Finding The Money - from Lars Syll Here you can watch Finding The Money for free MMT is fundamentally a reaction to the way money is described in mainstream economic theory, w...
2 days ago
Rodney Brooks

House Cleaning My January 1, 2018 Predictions - Quick Summary: I am going to continue to do my yearly update on three sets of technologies every January 1st. I am going to decouple them from my predictio...
3 days ago
Planetocracy

Why Starship is Hard - The thirteenth test flight is complete - but why has Starship taken so much time to develop?
3 days ago
Michael Hudson

America’s War on an Independent World - How the United States is using oil, technology, transportation and the dollar system to rebuild its declining global power. The post %%post_title%% first ...
3 days ago
Overcoming Bias

Our Likely Future Filter: World Govt - The great filter (a term I coined) is all the things that block simple dead matter from evolving into an advanced civilization easily seen from far away.
4 days ago
Interdependent Thoughts

The three cornered container - In reply to The three cornered container by Chris Corrigan What stands out to me reading this, is that I feel I have an intrinsic preference for the emerge...
4 days ago
Noahpinion

We asked too much of the American university - Our one remaining functional institution is going downhill.
5 days ago
Farnam Street

[Outliers] John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History - John D. Rockefeller became the richest man the world had ever known by thinking differently about business, competition, and family. Public Release: Ju...
5 days ago
Azimuth

Jordan Triples and the Standard Model - I don’t usually talk about particle physics here. I have a whole series of articles about octonions and the Standard Model on my other blog. But I’m kind o...
6 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

NISQ and quantum supremacy did not fail - A week ago, a philosopher named Amit Hagar put out a preprint entitled The NISQ Trap: Eight Years of Demonstrations the Hardware was Built to Lose. Here’s ...
1 week ago
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why both Republicans and Democrats should support aggressive permitting reform - Bipartisan deals are often impossible, but on permitting it’s totally possible—because permitting delays kill projects that members of both parties deeply ...
1 week ago
Windows On Theory

All Watched Over - I’ve recently been rereading Steven Levy’s “Hackers” with my daughter. Levy describes how Brautigan’s 1967 poem “All watched over by machines of loving gra...
1 week ago
Information Processing - Steve Hsu

State of AI, Summer 2026 – Manifold episode #116 - Steve discusses the state of AI in summer 2026.
1 week ago
Bits and Behavior - Medium

CSTA 2026: CS teaching 2.0 - [image: Rows of teachers interlined by arms, standing, facing stage, .]We all hold hands at the Tuesday plenary. Over my many years of traveling to confere...
1 week ago
C21st Left

CHINA AND THE LEFT – forum transcript - On September 25, 2025, the Platypus Affiliated Society chapter at the Australian National University hosted a public forum on China and The Left. The speak...
2 weeks ago
The Ethical Skeptic

When the Measure Becomes the Goal - Goodhart's Law and the Death of Honest Inquiry — One of the most expensive lies I have ever had to endure.
2 weeks ago
dale lane

Generative AI with tool calling in Scratch - In this post, I want to share a new feature in the generative AI support in Machine Learning for Kids: tool calling. I wrote last year about how I introduc...
2 weeks 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 weeks ago
The Philosopher's Beard

Everyone hates Neoliberalism – But We’ll Still Miss It When It’s Gone - *Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.* H. L. Mencken Neoliberalism is doomed because...
3 weeks ago
The Snow Report

Beyond Straw Men and False Choices: Guest Post by G. Reid Lyon, PhD - Image source *Dr Reid Lyon is a neuroscientist who completed his pre-and postdoctoral training in learning disorders, developmental neurophysiology an...
4 weeks ago
Our Finite World

Why Oil Shortages May Bring Lower Prices–and Recession - Rather than high prices, my major concerns are recession and the disappearing availability of goods and services that we rely on. This might be similar to ...
4 weeks ago
Casey Handmer's blog

In Defense of the Marginal Baby - This Father’s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to increment thei...
5 weeks ago
Tekkie

Retracing steps - This is sort of a follow-up to the My journey series. In that, I talked about learning programming on 8-bit computers, and progressing onto much more power...
3 months ago
Computing Education Blog

Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer - My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some upd...
4 months ago
STRANGE TIMES

China - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxUt-BVirLA very interesting site!
5 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...
7 months ago
Invent To Learn

ACAMIS 2025 Resources by Sylvia Martinez & Gary Stager - New 2025 Materials & Programming Environment Links The Eight Big Ideas Behind Constructionism by Seymour Papert (in multiple languages) Logo books, artic...
9 months ago