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@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-09-16 18:40:02

This is incredibly important.
Computers (writ large) have historically been tools that help humans solve problems which do not intrinsically demand computers but need complex computation (possibly including text transformation!) which humans cannot do as well or as fast.
The fact that we have grown a subculture of people who only really know computers has led to the situation where “computer-people” disregard other issues & the concerns of everyone else.

Jason Lefkowitz (@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io)
"In the ’90s, you had a lot of people entering the [tech] scene who came from other places—by which I mean they’d actually read a novel that wasn’t Tolkien, they’d actually been to a museum and not just seen really bad CGI art, they had truly diverse backgrounds. I see much less of that now. You see people who started coding when they were in fifth grade, that’s all they’ve ever done, and they have no context or background to frame the other things they hear." https://slate.com/t…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-09-15 15:35:56

Sources: the US Commerce Department last month ordered Kalshi to take down an AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns; Kalshi complied (Semafor)
semafor.com/article/09/15/2026

Exclusive: Commerce Dept. ordered Kalshi to take down AI-compute futures product
The futures market for computer power lets buyers and sellers lock in prices, and gives traders a way to bet on where those prices go.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-07-15 22:26:37

Minnesota Republican Party Chair Alex Plechash balked Wednesday
after Donald Trump endorsed prominent election denier Mike Lindell for Minnesota governor.
In a blistering response to the news, Plechash urged Republicans in the state not to blindly follow Trump’s advice,
citing Lindell’s “significant electability concerns” should he compete in the general election against Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).

Minnesota GOP Slams 'My Pillow' Guy Right After Trump Endorses Him For Governor
Well, this is awkward.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-09-12 15:51:04

40C3: 40. Chaos Communication Congress zieht in die Hamburger Messehallen um
Der Chaos Computer Club verlässt das CCH: Mehr Platz, stabile Ticketpreise und eine Rückkehr zu dezentraler Gestaltung sollen den 40C3 im Dezember prägen.

Chaos Communication Congress zieht um
Der Chaos Computer Club verlässt das CCH: Mehr Platz, stabile Ticketpreise und eine Rückkehr zu dezentraler Gestaltung sollen den 40C3 im Dezember prägen.

@ELLIOTTCABLE@functional.cafe
2026-09-16 20:16:12

Okay, the breakdown *by-language* of Artificial Analysis's "Omniscience" hallucination/capability benchmark is absolutely fascinating.
I feel like this is some of the first concrete evidence I've seen of my longtime lean: that the *correctness* tooling we obsess over in PLT spaces is one of the greatest possible value-adds to the LLM era. (Just look at the Rust row, holy shit.)
Choosing a good language basically shifts the quality of output by an entire cost-cat…

a graph of software-engineering-benchmark competence and hallucinations, by LLM model, against programming-language. There are visible 'green bands' for the rows of some languages; they are strongly correlated with the languages that provide strong, high-quality typing guarantees, strictness, and compiler guardrails. e.g. Rust and Swift carry a significant visible lead against e.g. Java and Julia.
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-17 09:36:06

Valheim on the Linux rig. At this point, the Greydwarfs aren't even mad about the combat—they're just deeply concerned about my local logging practices. Come watch me clear-cut the Meadows and try to survive the Swamp: twitch.tv/tuxramus 🌲🪵🪓

Tuxramus - Twitch
Survival Days Valheim "Two Vikings, Zero Braincells ft. Daisy"

@sncf_ligne_u@lepoulsdumonde.com
2026-09-16 12:00:24

Période : en soirée
Date : le mercredi 16 septembre Risque de forte affluence en gare de La Défense en soirée (concert Š la Plenitude Arena). Dernier train de La Défense pour La Verrière: le VERI de 22h15. Dernier train de Paris Montparnasse pour Rambouillet: le ROPO de 23h35. Afin de voyager dans les meilleurs conditions, nous vous invitons Š anticiper vos déplacements. Les horaires du calculateur d'itinéraire tiennent compte des travaux.
Motif : concert de Céline Dion.

@esoriano@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-16 09:08:59

Too Much Crypto
"a 2^128 operations attack must remain
fantasy"
eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492

Too Much Crypto
We argue that ChaCha, BLAKE2, SHA-3, and even AES have overly generous security margins: they do more rounds than are needed for their intended security levels, and therefore spend unnecessary computation on symmetric cryptography. This is partly the result of a process failure. Designers initially, and rightly, choose conservative security margins (the gap between the highest round count then reached by cryptanalysis and the round count specified) but these margins are seldom revisited: round …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-09-15 14:41:48

OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg Law)
news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-

OpenAI Says It’s Working With Anthropic, Google on AI Safety
OpenAI is working on steps to address artificial intelligence safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind, escalating industry efforts to respond to a groundswell of concern that the technology poses an economic and security threat.