🚨NEW: A Daily Mail investigation claims a "shadowy" government unit, named RICU, intervenes to write statements by the families of victims of potentially racially linked incidents to stop them from inflaming tensions further with their remarks
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Nog een voorbeeld van curatele: onderstaand bericht wordt volledig genegeerd door NL media @bertbrussen, journalisten weten het verschil niet meer tussen nieuws en fact checking dus ze laten het nu maar helemaal links liggen.
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
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@nixcraft Every so often this account pops up on the TL with the most mid claims, engagement bait or low hanging fruit posts on the twitosphere. Can the algo please stop doing this.
The EU economy's and EU citizens' access to tech is doubly limited. They get what the U.S. government allows to be exported, minus whatever the EU itself blocks and bans.
I frequently hear people say that European governments should procure European AI systems.
But Mistral’s Medium 3.5 performs worse than GPT-5.4 nano, while costing fourteen times as much. Hence, going through with these proposals would see European governments opt for bad, expensive models instead of better, cheaper alternatives.
And the revenue thus generated will not be enough to allow European companies to become competitive:
- Large European governments spend around $5 billion per year on IT.
- Three such governments might pay Mistral $3 billion a year for model access.
- The resulting revenue would represent only six (!) percent of Anthropic’s annual revenues.
A far better path to nurturing European AI labs is supply side policy. E.g., the financial returns to IP law reform are incredibly high. Non-EU countries could probably move fast here. Same with labor law—you can't hire $600k engineers, if you're unsure about the ability to let them go on a moment's notice.
Stavebnice #BarePi: Dokončil jsem drivery pro rychlou I2C sběrnici. EEPROM a RTC hodiny s levným čínským DS3231 teď jedou krásně - odběr z CR2032 baterky je v podstatě neměřitelně malý. Nové konzole se Zero 2 budou mít konečně hodiny a konfigurační EEPROM. 😇
I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:
— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.
— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)
— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.
— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”
— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.
— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.
— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.
— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.
Best writeup of the ArchLinux credential stealer. This malware is very comprehensive - read below - i'd just add one thing: rotate your password manager credentials asap, they copied all browser profiles, assume compromise.