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Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say he "does not use a computer" after OpenAI accused Musk of not complying with the discovery process in his lawsuit against OpenAI (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-computer-sam-altman/

Elon Musk’s Lawyers Claim He ‘Does Not Use a Computer’
The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.

Distilled Large Language Model in Confidential Computing Environment for System-on-Chip Design
Dong Ben, Hui Feng, Qian Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16226

Distilled Large Language Model in Confidential Computing Environment for System-on-Chip Design
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in circuit design tasks and have typically undergone multiple rounds of training. Both the trained models and their associated training data are considered confidential intellectual property (IP) and must be protected from exposure. Confidential Computing offers a promising solution to protect data and models through Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). However, existing TEE implementations are not designed to support the resource-intensive n…

OMFG
"A hacker compromised a version of Amazon’s popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users’ computers, and then Amazon included the unauthorized update in a public release of the assistant this month"
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Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.

ELIZA Reanimated: Restoring the Mother of All Chatbots to One of the World’s First Time-Sharing Systems
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/02/11030922/27sQDLuL7Uc

Design high-confidence computers using trusted instructional set architecture and emulators
Shuangbao Paul Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18780 https://…

Design high-confidence computers using trusted instructional set architecture and emulators
High-confidence computing relies on trusted instructional set architecture, sealed kernels, and secure operating systems. Cloud computing depends on trusted systems for virtualization tasks. Branch predictions and pipelines are essential in improving performance of a CPU/GPU. But Spectre and Meltdown make modern processors vulnerable to be exploited. Disabling the prediction and pipeline is definitely not a good solution. On the other hand, current software patches can only address non-essentia…

«The original paper confidently and without discussion labelled millions of tweets based on what Dave (and some others) said about the website in the tweet, but the original authors have almost certainly never heard of Dave. […] Dave's opinions must take on a form totally independent of Dave, because the original authors would never have taken this dataset seriously had it been presented as "Dave's thoughts on media." This is the spectacle of computation.»
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https://theluddite.org/post/spectacle-of-computation.html

Of Dead Computers and Really Living
#BeBetter #creativity
https://muz4now.com/2015/of-dead-compu…

Of Dead Computers and Really Living
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Browns WR Diontae Johnson believes Kenny Pickett will emerge as starting QB after camp competition https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-wr-diontae-johnson-believes-kenny-pickett-will-emerge-as-starting-qb-after-competitio…

Meta debuts a prototype wristband to read electrical signals from forearm muscles, letting users control devices without touch, trained on 10K peoples' EMG data (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/science/meta-computer-wristband-r…

Meta Unveils Wristband For Controlling Computers With Hand Gestures
When you write your name in the air, you can see the letters appear on your smartphone.

Snowcap Compute, which is working on building AI computing chips using superconducting tech, raised a $23M seed and says Pat Gelsinger will join its board (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/snowcap-comp…