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The White House directed Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, to oversee a leak investigation into reporting by The New York Times
about security issues with the new Air Force One,
leading to a flurry of subpoenas to several Times reporters Friday night, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Mr. Patel scuttled a planned trip to Chicago and spent roughly eight hours at the White House on Friday,
running the investigation from there rather than F.B.I. headqua…

White House Directed Patel to Oversee Investigation Involving Times Reporting
The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times reporters who wrote about the security of Air Force One.

i live in a small apartment without a lot of storage space. for LPs, i have two three-foot shelves, one for jazz, the other for everything else. last week, i made a new resolution to play at least one non-jazz record every day. here's how it's going.
#vinyl #OldVinyl

Brad Lightcap, who most recently led OpenAI's special projects division and formerly was its COO, says he is leaving the company "to start something new" (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

OpenAI Special Projects Lead, Former COO Brad Lightcap To Depart
Brad Lightcap, who most recently led OpenAI’s special projects division and formerly was its chief operating officer, told staff on Tuesday that he is leaving the company, according to a copy of the memo viewed by The Information and a post from Lightcap on X. “Over the last few months, I’ve been focused on the next horizon and what would stand in the way of mission success,” Lightcap wrote

Morning insomnia, and reading another person's account of that day, led me to write this:
25th Anniversary of 9-11
#USpol

25th Anniversary of 9-11
I flew into New York City 25 years and about 12 hours ago. I was excited and nervous: I was scheduled to do stand up comedy for my first time that week at Carolines on Broadway . My stomach was unsettled. I sort of noted the towers from my cab into

“First they came for the New York Times and I… fuck I have to say something about this don’t I?
Who’s the next one on the poem? Could I maybe wait for that one?”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e4tqkvdjxqapupkv6rnb6agp/post/3mqeqd3ptec2u

I rediscovered an old archive of my wiki, which used OddMuse, a wiki engine written in Perl and developed by @… (the good old time)
So I decided to write a Python converter to bring it back to life. I’ll probably discover that 80% of the content is useless, but the remaining 20% might still be worth preserving.
The converter is crappy but it works…

Researchers find that feeding a frontier model's encrypted reasoning traces to a weaker model from the same provider can make it output the traces in plaintext (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-trick-reveals-ai-models-inner-thoughts/…

A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say, indicates that some Chinese AI may be trained on leading US models.

Damaging waves offer warning for El Niño winter
“The whole beach is gone,” said Carmen Vaudry, 58,
describing how the sand used to sit just below the boardwalk in front of her Long Beach home but now appears to have dropped several feet.
But Long Beach wasn’t the only victim of the ocean’s effortless wrath over the weekend.
High surf pounded the region’s increasingly fragile coastline from Malibu to San Diego,
and experts say it could be only a taste of what i…

A look at AI news website RuntimeWire, which costs $100/day to run and "beat" human reporters to OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure, favoring quantity over quality (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-newsrooms-are-breaking-news-now-ha…

Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.

Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent.
But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-pursuit-of-the-careless-people-author-is-relentless-and-self-…

Meta’s Pursuit of the 'Careless People' Author Is Relentless and Self-Defeating
Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent. But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully.