Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
yes, as in singular one. Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded that their new AI model Mythos is dangerously good at finding security flaws in source code. Apparently Mythos was so good at this that Anthropic would not release this model to the public yet but instead […]
The Greatest Shot in Television: James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene
[embedded content] The 80-second clip above captures a rocket launch, something of which we’ve all seen footage at one time or another. What makes its viewers call it “the greatest shot in television” still today, 45 years after it first aired, may take more than one viewing to notice. In it, science historian James Burke […]
I’m going back to writing code by hand
09 May, 2026 Here is k10s: https://github.com/shvbsle/k10s/tree/archive/go-v0.4.0 234 commits. ~30 weekends. Built entirely on vibe-coded sessions with Claude, whenever my tokens lasted long enough to ship something. I’m archiving my TUI tool and rewriting it from scratch. k10s started as a GPU-aware Kubernetes dashboard (and my first foray into building something serious with AI). Think […]
Make America AI Ready: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Recommendations
Analysis by: Jane Castleman, Sam Hafferty, Steven Kelts, Arvind Narayanan, Francesco Salvi, Hilke Schellmann Edited by: Sam Hafferty, Steven Kelts, Arvind Narayanan, Hilke Schellmann The Trump administration has made artificial intelligence a centerpiece of its economic agenda, promising to retrain a workforce it says must be ready to compete in an AI-driven future. One early […]
AI Productivity Fails
Most AI users today get ~10–20% more productive no matter how “game changing” they claim it is or how many lines of code they output. Yet, I still think 2x or even 10x+ is both real and reasonably expected. Real transformation requires two changes at once: personal practice and organizational refactoring. Whether the output lands […]
An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs
I’ll get straight to the point: your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance costs. Three times as productive? One third the maintenance costs. Otherwise, you’re screwed. […]
Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
I’ve been experimenting with running local models on and off for a bit and I’ve finally found a setup that seems to work reasonably. It’s nothing like the output of a SOTA model, but the excitement of being able to have a local model do basic tasks, research, and planning, more than makes up for […]
Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
Executive Summary Security researchers have identified a highly targeted social engineering campaign (REF6598) that weaponizes the Obsidian note-taking application to deliver a previously undocumented Remote Access Trojan (RAT) named PHANTOMPULSE. The campaign targets individuals in the financial and cryptocurrency sectors on both Windows and macOS. Attackers use platforms like LinkedIn and Telegram to build trust […]
Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did
But the overall difference between parents and non-parents after the post-partum period is not nearly as big as you might believe. On average, the German study, which looked at nearly 40,000 people in total, found that parents who had at least one child under six years old reported sleeping about seven hours per night. Non-parents […]
Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI
The Maryland Office of People’s Counsel (OPC), a state agency that represents its utility consumers, filed a complaint before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding PJM Interconnection, LLC’s plans to charge it $2 billion of the $22 billion it spent to upgrade its grid to accommodate increasing demand from data centers. According to the […]