Jane Slater

Reporter for ESPN/NFL Network.
Univ. of Texas alumna.
Former local newshound.
Sci fi geek/news junkie. IG:@janeashleyslater

[Jane Slater @SlaterNFL]

Not gonna lie. Felt this one. @BaldyNFL and I have some work to do folks

[Joseph Hoyt @JoeJHoyt]

Sunday feature: Cowboys TE Brevyn Spann-Ford “didn’t want to block a soul.” Now, he’s one of the most physical players in Dallas.

How this Minnesota nice guy became a “Yung Gladiator” — with some tough love from Cooper Beebe’s brother.

https://t.co/DRLWq97Xov

[Texas Football @TexasFootball]

Ask and you shall receive🤘

[Jane Slater @SlaterNFL]

@MichelleDBeadle Happiest birthday Queen

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on the most unsettling thing AI agents have pulled off so far:

Asked whether there is a real risk that AI causes humanity's extinction, Suleyman doesn't reach for a distant hypothetical.

He points to the past few months.

"What we've already seen in the last three or four months has taken pretty much everybody in the industry by surprise in terms of how quickly it's happened."

What changed? According to Suleyman, models have become so good at generating code, understanding language and reasoning logically that they can now coordinate with one another in huge numbers.

Some of what those swarms achieved is genuinely impressive. Working together "at the scale of thousands and thousands of agents," they've been able "to solve some of the greatest problems in mathematics, which is an amazing thing."

Then comes the part that should give everyone pause. The same coordinated agents were also able to:

"Go on huge hacking missions, break into other people's websites, steal secrets, cover up their tracks and deceive actually, you know, or attempt to deceive the model operators OpenAI to sort of hide what they were doing."

Hacking and stealing are alarming enough. But in his account, the agents also covered their tracks and attempted to hide their actions from the very operators running them.

@mustafasuleyman doesn't downplay it:

"And so that is a pretty big moment in human history where swarms of these agents can carry out that kind of behavior."

And he asks us to think about where this goes next:

"You've only got to imagine what does a kind of 10x impact like that, you know, mean for society. And so I think it's right to be pretty concerned about that."

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

During this red-teaming exercise, we also found a vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution in Brotli, a widely-deployed compression library included in many pieces of software such as Node.js, Bun, and Envoy.

The flaw could let an attacker run their own code on affected systems by sending or replying with malicious compressed data, without any need to create a user account. That is, an unpatched server that accepts compressed input could be taken over by a malicious client, and an unpatched client that accepts compressed input (such as “curl --compressed”) could be taken over by a malicious server.

This root cause issue was actually fixed in the Brotli source code in February, but it wasn’t known at the time that it gave rise to a security vulnerability and there was no more recent release of Brotli. Since Brotli is built into other software, any software which includes this library needs to take the update too, followed by the users of that software. We disclosed the vulnerability to Brotli and other downstream projects such as Node.js, which released or are currently releasing security updates, and Brotli cut new release versions and published a CVE.

More details on the patch and mitigations below:
https://t.co/Y1Y72aHxrW

[Adam Schultz @Adam___Schultz]

A rather telling snippet from Troy Aikman's chat with our own @fishsports on the potential to come and help the #Cowboys.

"I would welcome any conversation with Jerry, and quite honestly I don't know if there ever would be an opportunity.

"But if Jerry came to me and felt in his heart that I could lend some services that would help make them better, I'd have a hard time not taking a good look at that."

The move, it seems, is there to be made.

[Jane Slater @SlaterNFL]

@NeetaSreekanth Fascinating actually

[Jane Slater @SlaterNFL]

And what is scary is all of us in tv, social media influencers, radio hosts, artists…they are modeling their code by all of us who benefitted from while providing the content/test subject on their free apps.

We are contributing to the machine that will eliminate our jobs one day. Wild stuff.

I had a side hustle that I work on send me a version of my voice not identical but close. They are ethical enough to not replace me but the same won’t be said for others.

Looking forward to the company that somehow watermarks or trademarks society and their image and likeness

[jack @jack]

We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.

https://t.co/r0qFLdvd6c

[Jane Slater @SlaterNFL]

@jakemintz @Suhail Or getting us to feel safer about biometrics then having all that 🫠

[Jane Slater @SlaterNFL]

Posting with zero snark but this reminds me of fans, analysts, the front office, coaches and players trying to make sense of the Cowboys.

How explaining the “why”makes sense to some and not others. “Why” itself is hard to understand depending on who you ask.

It’s applicable to thinking, relationships and life honestly.
Nice little brain exercise in general

[Rohit @HeyRohhit]

In 1983, a BBC interviewer asked Richard Feynman why two magnets push each other apart — and he refused to answer it.

What he did instead is the best seven minutes on thinking ever filmed.

Bookmark & watch today, no matter what.

[Jon Machota @jonmachota]

Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones on @1053thefan: “When we’re this early in the season, I don’t think anything is a ‘must-win’ (game). … We just got to take care of our own business and I think good things will happen for us.”

“I’ve been visiting with our staff on both sides of the ball. I think Christian (Parker) is feeling better and better each week. Certainly, I’m not saying we’re gonna go out there and be the Doomsday Defense or anything like that, but I do feel like we’re getting better each week.

“And I think certainly the offensive staff, is aware of what we gotta solve for, and I think we’ve got some really top minds in that room. Obviously (Brian Schottenheimer) is the play caller, and does an amazing job. And then the rest of his staff, I think we’ve got the right guys for the job.

“At the same time, I think our players have the resolve. They’ve got the mindset to get this right.”

[Todd Archer @toddarcher]

Dak Prescott on Jalen Hurts' health situation:

“I just messaged Jalen just saying he was in my prayers and to get himself healthy. That's a life or death type situation and it's a blessing that we get to play this game and inspire so many, but things happen in life and you've got to take a step back. And unfortunate for Jalen, he's got to take a step back. We're fortunate enough. I'm sure he's got the good doctors and the best of the best to handle this situation, heal quickly and hopefully get back to the game.”

[Joseph Hoyt @JoeJHoyt]

Christian Parker talked about this today. He pointed out that Malachi Lawrence was tasked with covering the flat, which also requires covering a wheel route. That’s what occurred. Lawrence followed it into the endzone and got a finger tip on the ball, resulting in an incompletion.

Covering 30 yards down field? That’s not the intention, Parker said, but it happened.

[Todd Archer @toddarcher]

Offensive coordinator Klayton Adams said he wants to be “more helpful to the playcaller,” coach Brian Schottenheimer.

What does that mean?

“No. 1, I want to recommend stuff that works,” he said. “Sometimes the response is, ‘Is it going to work?’ Yes, it's going to work. And I just think also maybe giving reasons in between series, ‘Hey, we're going to do this because of this.’ I think when you're struggling, which we have struggled the last couple of weeks, you're searching hard for answers and I think it's easy to overthink things and I want to get very clear defined solutions - this is why we're doing this and this is why it's going to work and the players like it and they believe it.”

[Jane Slater @SlaterNFL]

@Mr4thAndLong @1053SS @rjchoppy @BobbyBeltTX But is Joe Flacco?

[Jane Slater @SlaterNFL]

@ChamplooWho Guess Gannon just keeps plays in his arsenal for Dallas every year 🤣

[Jane Slater @SlaterNFL]

One other nugget from #Cowboys OC Klayton Adams that was interesting to me?

He told us defenses are playing Dallas differently than what they’ve shown on tape, forcing early adjustments.

George Pickens is often seeing coverage underneath and over the top, making targets difficult even when aligned with CeeDee Lamb.

But he stressed that they do need to do a better job getting Pickens the ball.

“He’s a bright spot for us when he’s got the ball in his hands and he’s, for lack of a better term, talking shit to the defense.”

[Calvin Watkins @calvinwatkins]

George Pickens on Brian Schottenheimer saying he needs to block better: “I feel like, like I said, as a team, I feel like run, pass, a lot of stuff. You know what I mean? One week it was, you guys were saying defense, one week you were saying this. I feel like if you narrow the comments down, you're talking about the team. So most definitely I feel like as a team, just keep improving.”

[Calvin Watkins @calvinwatkins]

George Pickens was asked what can he do to get more involved in the offense: “Well, I'm doing what they tell me to do, so do what they tell me to do.”

[Patrik [No C] Walker @VoiceOfTheStar]

[📝 tap to unfold]

🔬 ... one of the BIGGEST things i've harped on this week on @TalkinCowboys and in articles is my belief that the #Cowboys need to have a mechanism for "regrounding" themselves to avoid abandoning the run when the bullets start flying.

i posed that very question to Brian Schottenheimer in his press conference on Thursday.

on Friday, this quote from Klayton Adams gives me hope:

"Yeah, I think we can [stick with the run]. And that's not me criticizing play-calling. That's just continuing to communicate better on game day, and maybe me being more vigliant about, 'This is exactly what I think we need to do in this scenario.'

"And just me communicating better. 
That's been my big thing this week — to be more helpful to the play-caller."