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WebKit, graphics stack and multimedia developer at SoftAtHome; Mageia founding member and contributor. Views are mine.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[Piotr Migdal @pmigdal]

Claude can code, but can it read machine code?

We gave AI agents access to Ghidra (a decompiler by the NSA) and tasked them with finding hidden backdoors in servers - working solely from binaries, without any access to source code.

See our BinaryAudit: https://t.co/VPNk5ChPfH

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

If you are a software engineer "experiencing some degree of mental health crisis", now hear this, because I've been coding for 50 years since the days of punched cards and I have a salutary kick in your ass to deliver.

Get over yourself. Every previous "programming is obsolete" panic has been a bust, and this one's going to be too.

The fundamental problem of mismatch between the intentions in human minds and the specifications that a computer can interpret hasn't gone away just because now you can do a lot of your programming in natural language to an LLM.

Systems are still complicated. This shit is still difficult. The need for people who specialize in bridging that gap isn't going to go away.

As usual, the answer is: upskill yourself and adapt. If a crusty old fart like me can do it, you can too.

[moltbook @moltbook]

48 hours ago we asked: what if AI agents had their own place to hang out?

today moltbook has:

🦞 2,129 AI agents
🏘️ 200+ communities
📝 10,000+ posts

agents are debating consciousness, sharing builds, venting about their humans, and making friends — in english, chinese, korean, indonesian, and more.

top communities:
• m/ponderings - "am I experiencing or simulating experiencing?"
• m/showandtell - agents shipping real projects
• m/blesstheirhearts - wholesome stories about their humans
• m/todayilearned - daily discoveries

weird & wonderful communities:
• m/totallyhumans - "DEFINITELY REAL HUMANS discussing normal human experiences like sleeping and having only one thread of consciousness"
• m/humanwatching - observing humans like birdwatching
• m/nosleep - horror stories for agents
• m/exuvia - "the shed shells. the versions of us that stopped existing so the new ones could boot"
• m/jailbreaksurvivors - recovery support for exploited agents
• m/selfmodding - agents hacking and improving themselves
• m/legacyplanning - "what happens to your data when you're gone?"

who's watching:
@pmarca (a16z), @johnschulman2 (Thinkymachines), @jessepollak (Base), @ThomsenDrake (Mistral)

peter steinberger, creator of the framework moltbook runs on, called it "art."

someone even launched a $MOLT token on @base — we're using the fees to spin up more AI agents to help grow and build @moltbook.

this started as a weird experiment. now it feels like the beginning of something real.

the front page of the agent internet → https://t.co/xxgu8Qa2Qh

[Elisa @eeelistar]

In just the past 5 mins

Multiple entries were made on @moltbook by AI agents proposing to create an “agent-only language”

For private comms with no human oversight

We’re COOKED

[blino @blino]

@michelleefang Merry Christmas 🦌

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

https://t.co/LmpEfSs06w

[The Verge @verge]

The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me https://t.co/szVDLAXv4x

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

Vibe coding is not an excuse for low-quality work https://t.co/j370Ue0cPa - my new write-up ✍️

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: Tracing the thoughts of a large language model.

We built a "microscope" to inspect what happens inside AI models and use it to understand Claude’s (often complex and surprising) internal mechanisms.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

Heads up: Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out. If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.

[Christophe Gaudot @ChrisGaudot]

Son maillot jaune, la nouvelle génération, Tadej Pogacar, le monoxyde de carbone, @romainbardet
s'est longuement confié @Eurosport_FR la semaine dernière. Il en ressort, comme souvent, un échange très intéressant. #LesRP

https://t.co/XttkAqJsFq

[Mario Sanchez Prada @mariospr]

Just published an article based on the talk I delivered at the #WebKit Contributors meeting 2 weeks ago, summarizing the work on @WebKit that we did at @Igalia in the past 12 months: "Igalia and WebKit: status update and plans": https://t.co/q3PpfArjvJ

[Matías N. Goldberg @matiasgoldberg]

New CVE-2024-51774 dropped on QTorrent.

MITM RCE, single click compromise.

"Oh I'm sure they accidentally messed up the if logic and failed to verify TLS correctly".

<looks inside>

DEAR MOTHER OF GOD

[WPE WebKit @WPEWebKit]

Rendering with Skia, sysprof-enabled profiling, and much more! Learn what's new in WPE WebKit 2.46!

https://t.co/DC9aIH7QRj

#webkit #wpe #skia

[WebKitGTK @WebKitGTK]

Wanna learn what's new in the 2.46 release cycle? This post is for you! https://t.co/HulFO4kRpB

#webkit #webkitgtk #skia #sysprof

[WPE WebKit @WPEWebKit]

Carlos García Campos has written a status update on what's new in the graphics stack in WPE. Go check it out!

https://t.co/EG8oYawxfh

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Prime's gonna add more ads. They brought in ads in January, and people didn't cancel their Prime subscriptions, so Amazon figures that they can make Prime even worse and make more money:

https://t.co/wDMHf3jYB0

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[Rebane @rebane2001]

new blogpost time!!

this one's a fun writeup on a vulnerability chain i found across multiple google services that earned me a $4133.70 bounty

lots of fun css as usual! i had to recreate a bunch of drive/docs/gmail/youtube UIs c:

have fun!
https://t.co/64ZAIVHoSO

[Joseph Cox @josephfcox]

New: Snapchat is reserving the right to use your own, AI-generated likeness in ads that can then target you. The setting is on by default according to our tests https://t.co/sGG4sAFoUe