@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-16 22:00:14
Senator Bill Cassidy,
the Republican chairman of the US Senate health committee,
blamed the Trump administration’s vaccine-skeptical approach for
recent measles deaths in Pennsylvania
and challenged Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general to
directly state that vaccines do not cause autism on Wednesday.
Cassidy, a Louisiana physician who chairs the panel,
said three people in Pennsylvania had died of measles,
with a fourth death under review, …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-17 03:32:11
OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an "unrelated persona instruction" during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences (OpenAI)
https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/self-gener…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-09-17 15:59:03
Mistral wird KI-Anbieter für Firefox Smart Window
Mozillas KI-Assistent Smart Window nutzt nun Mistral-Modelle. Deutschland soll noch 2026 folgen. Beide Partner versprechen Null-Datenaufbewahrung.
https://www.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-09-17 10:40:13
@roelgrif@mstdn.social2026-09-17 05:53:20
Na de eerste dag van de #apb kunnen we concluderen dat een totaalpakket over rechts uitgesloten is (wil Eerdmans niet meer) evenals shoppen per begroting (laat PRO zich terecht niet voor lenen). Als vandaag of volgende week de VVD de laatste mogelijkheid (totaalpakket over links) afschiet is dit stupide experiment van deze stupide coalitie officieel mislukt.
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange2026-07-18 03:44:35
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-08-17 09:58:03
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-17 04:11:19
How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/science
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-15 22:27:11
Ukrainian forces struck Russia's Savasleyka military airbase and a key Roscosmos facility in Samara Oblast
using domestically produced Flamingo missiles, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Aug. 15.
"The Savasleyka airfield, where the carriers of Russian missiles that strike our cities and villages are based, was also reached by our long-range sanctions," Zelensky said.
"It is about 700 kilometers from Ukraine," he added.
MiG-31K fighter…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-15 13:24:03
