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[Avantika rishishwer @ki_radhe65022]

A doctor’s viral video is teaching parents the importance of the M-position”👍👍

for healthy baby hip development and DDH prevention👇👍🥰

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

SAMSUNG'S OWN WARRANTY JUST BACKFIRED

Louis Rossmann's 4TB SSD died under warranty. Samsung offered a $330 refund and claimed they had no replacement stock.

The same drive is on Samsung's own Amazon store for $949 - and their own warranty says he's owed market value.

- He paid $330 for the 990 Pro under two years ago, today it costs nearly 3x that
- Samsung's warranty literally promises a refund of the "then current market value" if they can't replace it
- They claimed a memory shortage while selling the exact drive on Amazon by the dozen
- He's giving them 60 days before filing in Travis County small claims court

They wrote the clause. They just never thought prices would triple.

[Tenzing Lamsang @TenzingLamsang]

This gets worse.

So not only did the US Navy fire two missiles and kill three Indian sailors they refused to rescue the 24 Indian crew despite saying they are on fire, the vessel is sinking and that they are an all Indian crew.

The Omanis rescued them.

[DROID @droidbuilds]

"mom, how did we get so poor?"

"your father had Claude Max, ChatGPT Pro, Cursor Pro and shipped absolutely nothing"

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

We tried to warn everyone that this was the hidden intent for years

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Seeing how SOTA models are evolving: becoming more restrictive in usage (decided by the company), less transparent (you cannot tell if the AI lab nerfed your model) + less private (your prompts are stored, no opt out) makes me much more interested in open models + local inference

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Imagine AWS announcing in 2017 that EC2 instances would run invisibly slower if it detected you were building a competing cloud.

Anthropic just shipped exactly that for Fable 5 and called it a safeguard.

[Matt Van Horn @mvanhorn]

This is wild. "Fable 5 feels like a preview of AI inequality". I felt this at a micro-scale years ago when we were in an email argument with our childcare and I had paid ChatGPT and she had free ChatGPT. It was like I had an expensive lawyer making my arguments and hers was a free lawyer appointed by the state.

[Péter Szilágyi @peter_szilagyi]

The scary part about Anthorpic's Fable nerf is not that it refuses to answer biology or cryptography. It's that it foreshadows what's coming. A world where a couple companies decide what you can and cannot do. They're building a new ruling class and you're not in it...

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.

Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.

Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky.

When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit.

We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted.

In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation.

H/T to colleagues that shared this with me https://t.co/f3Aj9TYxU4

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is biblical.

A woman in her eighties. Ten years into Alzheimer's. Hadn't spoken a full sentence in five years.

Takes one, 5 gram dose of psilocybin.

She slept 19 hours and woke up and spoke for hours about her life, recognized family and held real conversations. She regained bladder control after five years, walked on her own. and dressed herself. Gains held for weeks.

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[0xDipper @Dipper_pol]

Nassim Taleb: the bigger something gets, the more fragile it becomes.

Jump off a 1-meter ledge ten times - you're fine. Jump 10 meters once - you're dead.

Size works the same way. One giant bank dumping €50B moved the market 12% and lost billions. Ten small banks dumping €5B each would've lost almost nothing.

"An elephant breaks a leg when it falls. A mouse doesn't."

"The best predictor of a company's bankruptcy is steady earnings."

"Don't cross a river that's on average four feet deep."

~40 min, free. why small, jagged and distributed outlives big, smooth and centralized ↓

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.

[Global Dissident @GlobalDiss]

🚨🇪🇺 EUROPEAN DICTATORSHIP

EU VP Henna VIRKKUNEN pushes crackdown on VPNs

Says new EU age/ID system must NOT be “bypassed” via VPNs

Brussels wants full CONTROL over online access

FULL CENSORSHIP MODE

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

Aaron Swartz downloaded 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta) in 2010. Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

[OffGuardian @OffGuardian0]

Here's where this goes...

Firstly, kiss successful insurance claims goodbye.

Any accident will be blamed on "sub-optimal driver performance", and that time your hands moved briefly from the 10-and-2 or your eyeline wasn't correctly picked up by the mirror sensor will be used to blame your fender-bender on you.

Secondly, there will be a big "people drive dangerously" propaganda push. "ADDW data harvesting has shown up 80% of us might be driving more recklessly than we think", or "most veteran drivers slip in to bad habits, reports show".

Then comes the new legislation to act on this totally fabricated problem. What is it? Oh, it's re-certification. Every driver has to be re-certified after X years on the road.

Or maybe your driver monitoring data will be uploaded to a database and scanned for errors. Those errors put points on your license and if you go over a certain number of points, your ability to drive is taken away pending recertification.

You can appeal, and drive while the appeal takes place. But the appeal fee is greater than the recertification fee, and if you lose, you have to pay legal costs, and you're not allowed to drive for double the usual amount of time.

You'll have to pay a "processing" fee for re-certifying, of course, and if you fail, you'll have to wait X amount of months before you can try again.

Headlines will celebrate both the (fictional) decrease in traffic fatalities and that the smaller number of private vehicles on the road has improved the pollution levels in the inner cities.

An opinion piece from an anonymous "former driver" will appear in the Guardian "I lost my drivers license, and it's the best thing that ever happened to me".

It will talk up how much money they're saving on petrol and road tax, and how much fitter they get walking everywhere and how they know their neighbours so well now.

And all sorts of cosy anecdotes about the charming characters and life-affirming tableaux that public transport exposes you to.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Remember when I said Claude will come for your software?

I would be hesitant to build anything with Claude as the foundation

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

A cute aphorism, suitable for the feel-good, zero calorie, and forgettable Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

But, respectfully, Andrej, I disagree: in the sapient mind thinking and understanding are so ineffably wrapped up with one another that I find it strange that you accept the separation of the two.

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Having been part of the industry for 50 years, I can confidently report that none of this is true.

Sure, writing code has a non-zero cost; this is true of any artifact.

But you know what costs even more, Jonathan?

Writing bad code; writing unnecessary code; writing more code than you really need simply because you think you might need it someday or you are too lazy or sloppy to clean up after yourself.

Anything that costs nothing is often worth nothing as well, and results in significant unintended consequences.