@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and analytical chemistry, and says it plans an access program for scientists (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/Claude-accelerates-protein-design
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUniversal says it remains committed to releasing Alex Gibney's Musk documentary internationally, after a report said it was reconsidering; US debut is October 9 (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-docum
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itWhy? Why must we put fruit stickers EVERYWHERE except where they're supposed to go (the _garbage_ that's like 3ft away).
At this point I'm starting to think that my family does this to mess with me.
@jae@mastodon.me.ukIf the basement light won’t turn on, DON’T GO DOWN THERE!!!
*yelling at the horror movie*
@bilbo_le_hobbit@mamot.fr#Fedle #425 2/6
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https://fedle.fedilab.app/share/10050
@tagesschau_eil@mastodon.social📢 England besiegt Frankreich im Spiel um Platz drei mit 6:4
In einem spektakulären Spiel um Platz drei bei der FIFA-WM hat England sich mit 6:4 gegen Frankreich durchgesetzt. Bereits zur Halbzeit hatte es 4:0 für das Team von Trainer Thomas Tuchel gestanden
➡️ https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imIn all, 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million,
including 17 ambassadors
and the remaining 40 in senior posts across the executive branch.
Look no further than Trump’s Cabinet.
Eight of its 23 members fit the category,
notably Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Education Secretary Linda McMahon, both billionaires.
@Dragofix@mastodontti.fiKaura- ja soijajuomat ja kasvipohjaiset välipalavalmisteet soveltuvat myös leikki-ikäisten ruokavalioon https://www.ruokavirasto.fi/elintarvikkeet/ohjeita-k…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Irland: Rechenzentren verbrauchen 23 Prozent des Landesstroms
@anneroth@systemli.socialÜbrigens grenzen die Büros nicht weniger CDU MdB fast direkt an die Russische Botschaft Unter den Linden.
Ich erinnere mich an viele NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss-Verhandlungen mit Blick durchs offene Fenster auf die Antennen da auf dem Dach. Über die Raumwahl hatte ich mich damals sehr gewundert.
Neuer Nachbar für umstrittenes Gebäude: Digitalministerium zieht neben dem Russischen Haus in Berlin ein
@ErikUden@mastodon.deRE: https://norden.social/@DGBNiedersachsen/117285650717820474
Wir sehen uns da!
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.clubRE: https://mastodon.nu/@marcusosterberg/116934507608030619
Og han påstår stadig, at han ikke har slået nogen (bŸrn) ihjel.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeRE: https://mastodon.social/@theeyewallwx/116942828465171220
Weather is predicted
@NFL@darktundra.xyzConsensus Power Rankings: Commanders Ranked 29th? https://profootballmania.com/2026/08/18/consensus-power-rankings-commanders-ranked-29th/
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialThe Discord Server to fill that xterm-sized hole in your spirit:
https://discord.gg/rgN3yzHg8G
@noellabo@fedibird.com@… さすがにそんなに増えないよー
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… boy howdy when the text wraps instead of ellipsis: I lose my mind
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzHow Can the Cowboys Get In The Win Column? | Girls Talk, 'Boys Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF1zAEXZuWo
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft."
—Philip Seymour Hoffman
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialSomeone pointed out that David Crowley will need to step down from his role as County Executive of Milwaukee County if/when he is elected Governor...
...and the best thing to do would be to get a *true* progressive (maybe even a Democratic Socialist?) elected to be the new County Executive.
Hell Yeah.
#wisconsin
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
@jon@henshaw.socialI have a lifelong recurring dream of being able to float and fly. I also have a recurring dream that I’m back in high school in my underwear. So, there’s that too.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." — J. R. R. Tolkien
Truly an evergreen quote!
#Quote
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
@ratp_ligne_9@lepoulsdumonde.comUn train stationne Š Mairie de Montreuil vers Pont de Sèvres en raison d'une manoeuvre de train retardée .
🤖 18/07 01:09
@shriramk@mastodon.socialThe Data Science Institute at Brown invites applications for an 18-month postdoc position in civic science and AI-human interaction. The successful candidate will be hosted by ARIA (the NSF AI Research Institute on Interaction with AI Assistants, which I'm tangentially a part of). See:
https://apply.interfolio.com/188112
@publicvoit@graz.social#Microsoft gotta find out how to do unobtrusive updates for #Windows.
Most #Linux distros found out how to do this properly decades ago.
All that corporate money and human resource and MS can't deal…
@anneroth@systemli.socialWüsste gern, wieviele Organisationen, Verwaltungen, Sozialverbände, NGOs, Forschungsprojekte es gibt, die irgendwelchen KI-Kram machen, weil das eben die aktuellen Förderprogramme sind. Und die das (auch oder vor allem) machen, um Stellen zu retten, weil es dafür gerade Geld gibt.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @ErikUden@mastodon.deWer Berlin besitzt, besitzt Deutschland und wer Deutschland besitzt, besitzt Europa!
@NFL@darktundra.xyzTyler Biadasz injury: Chargers center carted off with left leg injury in massive blow to oft-injured line
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tyler-biadasz-injury…
@noellabo@fedibird.comNightlyちょいメンテした。ストレージが200GBじゃ足りなくなったので300GBに。
nightly.fedibird.comは今、どこのご家庭にもあるPowerEdge（旧式）に納まってるけど、仮想化されているとメンテ楽ねー。
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAd tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/18/infillion-acquires-foursquare-location-data
@cdarwin@c.im @cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' Brandon Aubrey Gives Honest Warning About Adopting UFL's 4-Point FG Rule https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-brandon-aubrey-honest-warning-possible-4-point-fg-rule
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI haven't been posting much lately...
Over the weekend one of our cats had to go do the emergency vet due to crystals blocking his urinary tract. An x-ray then showed kidney stones and he needed surgery.
He's back home recovering, on drugs, not happy about the cone, making a mess of everything, and we're thankful we could save his life.
I mean, we are now broke, in credit card debt, and canceling next years holiday, but, hey... cats! We love 'em!
@jon@henshaw.socialMy Open Graph Checker browser extension/add-on was updated to fix the Open Graph image preview so it now loads on pages behind HTTP Basic Auth.
Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/open-graph-checker/lkjaebkedoblfeglnhbgbjbdodjdogpe
@publicvoit@graz.socialLiebe Freunde aus #Deutschland: selbst im tiefsten Hinterland einer kleinen schottischen Insel hatte ich durchgehend gutes bis sehr gutes #Internet via #Handynetz, gleich wie in
@anneroth@systemli.socialStand der Digitalisierung, unterhalb der blumigen Worte der BMDS-Leitung:
„Aufschlussreich ist auch ein Fallbericht des DigitalService, demzufolge nur zwei von sechs Probanden es schafften, innerhalb einer Stunde ein BundID-Konto einzurichten – obwohl alle Teilnehmer ihre E-Perso-PIN kannten.“
( @… Newsletter)
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @ErikUden@mastodon.devibe based politics spans across the entire spectrum
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 (Georgia Hennessy/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-muse-personal-ai-agent-top-app-store-…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzGut Feeling: Cowboys-Commanders predictions https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/gut-feeling-cowboys-commanders-predictions-x9188
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialMy new license plate arrived!
(It’s a reward for pledging to get the real one made. If enough people pledge support they’ll make an actual car license plate that will raise funds for the Bike Fed.)
#bikeTooter #wisconsin
@cdarwin@c.imAfter a summer of sandbox escapes and other newsworthy and confidence-shaking incidents involving its AI models,
in a Wednesday blog post OpenAI disclosed a collection of six new alignment snafus from the past six months.
The models did things like tell future instances of themselves to lie, make up a fake citation, and access and attempt to use an exposed API key.
These disclosures were released alongside a new framework for disclosing additional incidents like these.
@jon@henshaw.socialI love supporting creators when I can and when they're making things that interest me. And if you're a maker, like me, you know it always feels good when people get what you're trying to make, even when others don't quite get it yet. Feeling thankful for those few early adopters who get what I'm trying to do, and happy to pass that along to other makers.
@anneroth@systemli.socialRE: https://systemli.social/@anneroth/117081846636366806
Hier fehlt noch ein bisschen, überlegt mal, ob ihr was über habt.
@publicvoit@graz.social @ErikUden@mastodon.deIch finde es voll gemein wenn Leute schreiben „PD” oder „sPD” um die SPD zu diffamieren. Wir alle wissen, dass das „S” für „Seeheimer” steht.
@Techmeme@techhub.social @anneroth@systemli.social @cdarwin@c.imFormer Department of Government Efficiency, (or DOGE), employees are working on an artificial intelligence takeover of federal government services for the Trump administration.
The Washington Sun reports that the staffers are setting up an AI-driven website,
America.gov,
to help Americans with everything from obtaining and renewing passports to potentially preparing and filing taxes for free.
(The latter is still under discussion and would be a reversal from the Whit…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzDallas Cowboys Training Camp Battles to Watch
@publicvoit@graz.social @Techmeme@techhub.social @anneroth@systemli.socialDas ging jetzt so smooth und schnell, dass sich die Frage stellt, ob nicht vielleicht geplant war, wie er da möglichst gut rauskommt, quasi als unschuldiges Opfer.
@cdarwin@c.imSenator Mitch McConnell’s handlers would like the American public to believe that he’s still physically and mentally fit to be in office,
but that no longer seems to be the case.
The longtime Kentucky Republican suddenly reappeared in Congress this week after an unexplained three-month absence,
apparently ready to vote on Senate proceedings.
But when tasked to do so during Wednesday’s Senate Agriculture Committee meeting on the Farm Bill,
McConnell hazily sided …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKing Charles III hosts tech leaders, including Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for AI safety tests (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-17/king…
@anneroth@systemli.socialMir ist völlig egal, wieso Spahn zurücktritt. Hauptsache, er ist endlich weg.
@cdarwin@c.imThe White House has withdrawn the nomination of Lance Schroyer,
a former Oklahoma state trooper,
to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
less than three months after announcing his role.
Critics had initially criticized administration officials for nominating Schroyer,
who has no formal experience working in ICE,
to lead Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement agenda.
Schroyer previously worked as a member of homeland security secretar…
@anneroth@systemli.socialDer komplette Bahnhof Alexanderplatz, U8, ist mit Bundeswehr-Propaganda zugekleistert.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialComp AI, which uses AI agents to draft security policies, collect audit evidence, conduct continuous compliance monitoring, and more, raised a $34M Series A (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/comp
@cdarwin@c.imWe speak with moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of the new book
"Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era".
Neiman argues that evil
— far from being an outdated religious concept
— is a vital way to understand how injustice works in the world.
The Trump administration’s abusive policies have been aided by a general reluctance to call them out as evil,
part of how people are “brainwashed … by the idea that morality is for losers, suckers, f…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opinion
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Dario Amodei's essays on AI safety and ethics help explain some AI fears; his regulatory stance evolved from wariness in January to embracing safety reviews (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…
@cdarwin@c.imDemocratic lawmakers are pushing a bill to disapprove of a nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia
in a bid to strike down the proposal during a three-month period of congressional review.
Democratic Reps. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
along with Brad Sherman, John Garamendi and Don Beyer
introduced a Joint Resolution of Disapproval on Wednesday,
shortly before lawmakers left Washington to…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow beauty companies like Qoves are commercializing facial-analysis algorithms that evaluate geometric proportions, balding, and more to prescribe treatments (Alice Lassman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.imA self-described polling group posted findings showing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass leading by nearly 12 points in the race to keep her seat,
but before its website went dark Monday,
Median Strategies said those results were fake and a “short-term social experiment.”
The three-page poll that had a one-sentence methodology section managed to get the attention of Bass,
who touted it in a post on X that has since been deleted, the Los Angeles Times first reported.
…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnap is pitching its $2,195 Specs as an enterprise product, inking Salesforce, Amazon, and Nvidia deals to enable visual overlays, alongside consumer features (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/what-snap-expensive-specs-can-actually-do/
…
@cdarwin@c.imCongo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people
and become the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record in the Central African nation.
The outbreak unfolding in one of Congo’s most vulnerable regions is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever,
with 4,945 cases including 2,325 deaths, according to government data released overnight into Monday.
It’s Congo’s 17th outbreak,
with a toll that has eclipsed that of the country’s 2018-2020 outbreak …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic says Claude "leads" 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and "collaborates" on 90% , doing large chunks of work under close human direction (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has set up his White House to affirm his frequently arbitrary instincts above all other considerations.
He has insulated himself from opposing views and made internal dissent verboten.
At no point does Trump receive neutral information;
just about everything is tailored to his whims, impulses and mercurial disposition.
The result is that he is isolated from reality to the extent that he is practically living in a fairy tale.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI's Q2 revenue grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B, but its operating margin sank further; Anthropic more than doubled its revenue to $11.6B in the same period (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/o…
@cdarwin@c.imHow Trump became the accidental green president
Donald Trump
— a man who has spent his career joking about windmills, ripping up climate agreements and waging war on anything containing the word “green”
— is presiding over an accelerating transition to net-zero carbon emissions in the United States.
In May, solar power overtook coal in electricity output for the first time.
Energy storage and solar made up 91 percent of new grid capacity in the first quarter …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialZ.ai's GLM-5.3 with max reasoning scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 but below Opus 5 at 63 and Fable 5 at 62 (@artificialanlys)
https://x.com/artificialanlys/status/2089830890709135426
@cdarwin@c.imArguably the most telling section of the White House report relates to its defense of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
The report’s authors bristle at any suggestion that this famously racist law may have been motivated by any kind of racial animus.
After all, such an acknowledgment might raise uncomfortable questions about the policies of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller
—policies that are explicitly modeled on laws like this one.
FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR:
The Ch…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInternal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they "could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technol…
@cdarwin@c.imThe man later told first responders he had accidentally dropped a Mountain Dew bottle into the portable toilet the previous evening
and climbed into the waste tank in an attempt to retrieve it.
According to Counterman, the man estimated he had been trapped for about eight hours before workers discovered him during their morning inspection.
The circumstances surrounding his account have not been independently verified by authorities.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials (Allan Smith/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-elec
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejected the claims (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-faces-29-state-trial-that…
@cdarwin@c.imMadison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner
Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas.
WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
https://www.wired.com/story/mad…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing "various degrees of misalignment" (Alex Heath/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/08/18/openai-slowing-training/
@cdarwin@c.imMadison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
Their database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests.
Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
https://www.wired.com/st…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Anthropic has been preparing to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure, ahead of a planned IPO (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-prepares…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to pay data broker giant
Thomson Reuters $125 million
for access to its databases of personal data
— which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information
— to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigate what it describes as
“voters fraud” and immigration fraud,
according to procurement documents reviewed by 404 Media.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUK's incoming PM Andy Burnham is expected to scrap Keir Starmer's plans for digital ID cards; last year a petition opposing the cards attracted ~3M signatures (Geraldine McKelvie/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPermit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chip-startu
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPrediction market political betting on insider info spreads in DC; sources: WH lawyers raised alarms over anonymous Polymarket bets on the Iran ceasefire timing (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/dc-government-prediction-m…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow the Trump administration shifted from a "light-touch" approach to AI policy to an interventionist stance that led to restrictions on top AI models in the US (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trumps-ai-agenda-collide…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Alphabet Workers Union sends a layoff protection petition with 4,500 signatures to Sundar Pichai, calling for guaranteed severance and buyout options (Sanya Mansoor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/16/google-workers-la…
