@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 16:02:46
Today, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25.
Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems, so this book could not possibly be more in our zone.
You build systems by measuring things — gathering information, quantifying it as data, and taking action on it. And Jill’s big…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-19 22:15:59
Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-20 02:40:59
Both sides in the antitrust lawsuit over Nexstar's Tegna acquisition have asked a federal judge to schedule the case for a jury trial in July 2027 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/nexstar-tegna-july-2027-trial-date-request/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-18 15:44:05
Neue PC-Spiele im Juli 2026: „Halo: Campaign Evolved“
Im Juli werden unter anderem Remakes von „Halo: Campaign Evolved“ und „Assassin's Creed Black Flag“ veröffentlicht.
https://www.heise…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-05-19 19:06:26
Chiefs' Rashee Rice gets 30 days in jail for violating probation, will miss OTAs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7292264/2026/05/19/rashee-rice-jail-probation-violation-chiefs/
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-07-20 10:38:42
AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe
@filmfacts@social.tchncs.de2026-07-19 10:22:41
@johl@mastodon.xyz2026-05-19 21:58:26
Mocking the memory of a citizens’ uprising for democracy during a military dictatorship isn’t the best marketing strategy, Starbucks Korea finds out
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/world/a
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-06-19 18:09:28
Mooi artikel. Waar een klein land groot in kan zijn.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/06/19/neder
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-07-20 09:51:57
Most interesting part in this Huggingface security disclosure:
"“ We ran the forensic analysis instead on GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, on our own infrastructure. This had a second benefit: no attacker data, and none of the credentials it referenced, left our environment.”"
Which is worrying for OpenAI and Anthropic i would think.
