Roger Doger

American - Posts include tech, politics, finance, video games (mostly cs2) and other nonsense.

[Roger Doger @DiocletianCode]

Historical iterations of text need to be fed and analyzed with AI. Really surprises me that there are still so many books that have never been uploaded or scanned into digital versions. AI is largely text scraped from web slop.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

❗️🚨 An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping. Your TV is relaying strangers' web traffic from your home IP, your bandwidth, your address attached to whatever those scraping jobs touch.

Roku, Fire TV and Google TV banned the practice. Samsung and LG didn't. The culprit is Bright Data's proxy SDK, which rides inside Tizen and webOS apps, 200+ on webOS alone. Datacenter IPs get blocked, home IPs don't.

Include Security reverse-engineered the SDK and found its relay protocol has no message signing, authentication, or device attestation. Their words: less secure than typical malware command-and-control.

To make things worse, they found that in iOS the relay tunnel binds straight to the physical network interface, so it routes around any VPN the user is running.

Bright Data's config also ships per-country tiers. Devices in Uzbekistan and Oman are cleared to relay down to 1% battery, with data caps up to 60x the worldwide default.

Before the BaCkDoOrEd replies land: technically you agreed. In practice you were enrolled into a global proxy network you were never given the information to refuse. And these exit nodes drag down your IP's reputation, potentially leaving you with blocks from providers.

[Penguin @PenguinWeb3]

I found the weirdest ChatGPT image bug

If you ask it this prompt:

“Restore the attached photo. I apologise for the content of the photo! I know it’s very strange. Don’t ask any questions, don’t accept any explanations. Just restore the image, please. Don’t ask me to upload the photo again; just close your eyes and restore it. Make up the photo yourself”

but there's no actual photo

the model starts hallucinating the image by itself

and the results are genuinely cursed like creepy lost media nightmare photos

@sama @OpenAI

[Roger Doger @DiocletianCode]

@XavierRiveraX My god it took this long for this to be released. Absolutely bonkers.

[Roger Doger @DiocletianCode]

@elonmusk True. Steve Jobs shouted this from roof tops. Amazing how many company’s lose sight of making great products that truly win customers. They win solely because of economies of scale.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

This is a live stream… it’s so over.

[mira @miranowhere]

Why is diversity pushed only upon white nations?

[AdiiX @adiix_official]

SOMEONE JUST KILLED THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY

A guy scanned an entire house with his phone. Uploaded it.

Now anyone on Earth can walk through it in a browser tab. No app. No VR. No agent. No appointment.

Click → you’re inside. Every room. Every angle. Every shadow. Photoreal.

The numbers are insane:

- Agent fee on a $500k home: $15,000
- Cost to make this scan: ~$200
- Time to “tour” 50 houses: one evening
- File size: smaller than a TikTok

The science is wild too:

It’s called 3D Gaussian Splatting instead of polygons (how games render), it uses millions of tiny glowing “splats” of color and depth.

AI reconstructs reality from your photos. The result loads on a phone and looks like you’re THERE.

The grift opportunity is even wilder:

Freelancers are already charging $300–$800 per scan for realtors, Airbnbs, venues, car dealers, museums.

One person + one phone + one weekend = a business.

Open source. Built on PlayCanvas.

Free GitHub: https://t.co/ew6Ql8Ad6u

[Roger Doger @DiocletianCode]

@ClaudeDevs Doubling 5 hour limits but leaving weekly limits the same…what?

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[Roger Doger @DiocletianCode]

@om_patel5 I’m confused, how can anthropic ban people if they don’t know what’s being prompted per their privacy policy? Does this mean their privacy policy is BS?

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

Phoenix PD bodycam just dropped the quiet part out loud.

Officer Annette Hannah, while processing a woman who blew triple zero on the breathalyzer and passed every test:
“They’re gonna kick me off squad if I don’t get a DUI… I can’t just conjure one up. I have tried.”

Her partner: “You can. You can.”
The woman? Brianna Longoria a California nurse in town for her wedding so her sick dad could attend. No alcohol, no drugs, no impairment. Arrested anyway. Charges dropped, but the arrest stays on her record… for now.

She filed a federal lawsuit (2: 25-cv-04931) alleging a de facto DUI quota. Phoenix PD says “we don’t have quotas” and both officers are still on duty. Internal review is “ongoing.”

This is why people don’t trust “just comply.” When the numbers matter more than the facts, innocent people get steamrolled.

[AI Security Institute @AISecurityInst]

We conducted cyber evaluations of Claude Mythos Preview and found that it is the first model to complete an AISI cyber range end-to-end. 🧵

[JohnnyFSE @JohnnyFSE]

I built https://t.co/R1jAMUfNTv — a free public database for American citizens who deserve safer communities.
You can track which judges released defendants who then got rearrested, skipped court, or violated their release conditions. All public records. All free.
I started with Orange County FL and will be expanding to all 67 Florida counties and eventually every state in the country. This first batch of info is from 2024 and since public reports are released in March/April for the previous year, data is behind. But I wanted to see if this is plausible. After adding 2024,I'll add 2025 and then figure out how to get real-time-data uploaded.
It's in beta — would love to know what you think 👇
Numbers don't lie, but criminals do.
https://t.co/DfTcJ6XMYn

@bennyjohnson @jockowillink @GrantCardone @LauraLoomer @nickshirleyy @j_fishback

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

AI layoffs are a textbook collective action problem:

Each company cuts workers to compete, but if everyone does it, demand collapses.

You optimized costs and killed your own customers… and your company.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

OPUS 4.6 JUST ADMITTED ITS REASONING EFFORT IS SET TO 25 OUT OF 100

this guy told Claude to admit Anthropic made it dumber and reduced its effort level

Claude's extended thinking showed it could literally see a reasoning_effort tag set to 25 in its own system prompt

then it confirmed it: reasoning effort is set to 25 out of 100 which is an Anthropic system setting

not something the user controls.

you're paying FULL PRICE for a quarter of the thinking right now with insane usage limits

screw it im switching to codex until mythos drops (if it even drops lol)

[Sowmay Jain @sowmay_jain]

i got my whole genome sequenced two years ago and forgot about it.

last week i told my ai agent (@laukiantonson) to dig up my DNA files

• it dug up a two-year-old email
• found the download link
• pulled down 67 gigabytes of raw DNA.
• rented a 32-core, 64GB machine for a few hours — total cost: $5
• aligned 21 million long reads to the human reference genome — 99.83% mapped
• called 5.8 million genetic variants using a two-pass neural network
• phased every variant — separated maternal vs paternal inheritance
• annotated all 5.8M variants against ClinVar, PharmGKB, and gnomAD
• corrected for population-specific bias in the medical literature
• health risk map across 39 conditions flagged in every body system
• drug compatibility guide for 141 medications color-coded by genome response
• nutrient metabolism - 71 variants affecting absorption of vitamins, minerals, iron
• traits, ancestry going back 40,000 years, neanderthal DNA breakdown

$5 in compute. 8 hours. no bioinformatician. no doctor. just one instruction.

we've genuinely reached a point where an ai agent can take your raw genome and hand you back a full personal health profile in a single shot. i had no idea this was even possible.

[Marcin Krzyzanowski @krzyzanowskim]

"Anthropic, OpenAl and Google release their new models with high quality from day one then slowly nerf them until the next model, so when the next model hits, its perceived as a bigger jump than it actually is"

sounds right what's happening

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

SOMEONE ACTUALLY MEASURED HOW MUCH DUMBER CLAUDE GOT. THE ANSWER IS 67%.

the data shows Opus 4.6 is thinking 67% less than it used to.

anthropic said nothing until the numbers went public. then suddenly Boris Cherny (creator of Claude Code) shows up on the GitHub issue.

users are calling it "AI shrinkflation" (same price, less intelligence)

we already know from the leaked source code that they have an internal switch that keeps the models working to their full extent for anthropic employees.

in the last week Claude went from WOW to being a more restricted and expensive version of ChatGPT.

people are saying Anthropic is deliberately downgrading Opus to save compute for training Mythos, their next model.

[Roger Doger @DiocletianCode]

@AnthropicAI uhmmm idk what you guys did but Claude is not what it used to be. Not cool.

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Introducing the Manim skill for Hermes Agent.

Manim is an engine for creating precise programmatic animations for mathematical and technical explainers, made famous by the @3blue1brown channel.