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There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative.
Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person.
German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist.
And then there’s the Japanese word tsundoku, which perfectly describes the state of my apartment.
It means buying books and letting them pile up unread.
The word dates back to the very beginning of modern Japan, the M…

“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language
There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person. German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist.

Sources: the White House is expected to expand its AI oversight framework in the coming months to cover open models once they reach frontier capabilities (Hugo Lowell/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-white-house-is-going-to-expand-its-ai-policy/…

The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple with how to regulate a technology it has tried not to regulate.

If I had a nickel every time I posted an image of a cursed clock and someone made it into a real thing, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice...
https://glammr.us/@fskornia/116415597297660514
@…

I came across this short, factual documentary.
The video from is lifted from Instagram but I am re-sharing it here, as it is the type of daily interaction that all unicyclists can related to.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaWF2PkSrit/

Whatever you think about the chance that 'small' nuclear reactors (SMRs) will become a viable part of our future energy system, the idea that they will is definitely being used at the local and regional level in the Netherlands to slow down the buildout of renewables.

Veel onderzoek naar kleine kerncentrales, maar gaan die echt helpen klimaatdoelen te halen?
Nederland heeft als doel in 2050 klimaatneutraal te zijn. Om dat te halen wordt steeds meer gekeken naar kernenergie. En niet alleen naar grote kerncentrales...

How a Denmark-based research team is using quantum computers to accelerate AI protein discovery, showing a near-term commercial application for the quantum tech (Isabella Ward/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-using-ai-and-quantum-c…

Scientists’ Side Hustle? Using AI and Quantum Computing to Generate New Peptides
Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases.

This glimpse of modern drone-enabled police surveillance,
including the highly sensitive video of the man’s physical takedown,
wasn’t voluntarily released by the SFPD
—which, like most US police departments, rarely releases drone videos even in response to public records requests.
Instead, it was accidentally livestreamed onto the open internet via Skydio’s website.
That’s where two security researchers, Sam Curry and Maik Robert, discovered that the SFPD was le…

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

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.

Anthropic has been trying to understand how large language models (LLMs) work for a few years now.
Anthropic isn’t the only one looking at this, but I think the company has made it part of its core mission more than most.
Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, has said we won’t be able to control LLMs fully unless we learn more about how they work. 
So this new research is very much in that context.
It goes deeper into the weird mechanisms inside LLMs than ever before.

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
The company says it has found a new window into how its models arrive at answers. We spoke with senior editor Will Douglas Heaven about it. 

Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship products left less time for safety, contributing to incidents like the rogue agent hack (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-safety-security-ai-agents-culture/

The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.