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Anthropic details three infrastructure bugs that intermittently degraded Claude's responses between August and early September, and explains how they were fixed (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues

A postmortem of three recent issues
This is a technical report on three bugs that intermittently degraded responses from Claude. Below we explain what happened, why it took time to fix, and what we're changing.

Federal Border Patrol agents
arrested 81 people in immigrant neighborhoods across the Charlotte, N.C., area on Saturday,
the first day of an operation that has already drawn significant criticism over its aggressive tactics.
An immigrant rights group said it was the largest single-day tally for immigrant arrests in the state’s recent history.
The operation has startled people in one of the fastest growing cities in the country, whose growth in recent years has been sp…

U.S. Border Patrol Arrested 81 People in Charlotte, N.C.
Border Patrol agents descended on Charlotte this weekend searching for immigrants in the country illegally. It remains unclear how long the agents will stay.

Tja, Geld kannste halt nicht essen.
#Kakaopreise haben sich verdoppelt. Laut Ritter-Sport-Chef Andreas Ronken liegt der Tonnenpreis bei fast 5500 $.
Der #Klimawandel, ausfallende #Regenzeiten

"Haben die Welt kaputt gemacht": "Schokoladenkrise": Ritter-Sport-Chef rechnet mit steigenden Preisen
Innerhalb kurzer Zeit verdoppelt sich der Kakaopreis - viele Schokoladen werden dadurch deutlich teurer. Die sogenannte "Schokoflation" erreicht auch den Hersteller Ritter Sport. Der Chef des Schokoladenriesen nennt die Gründe für den Preisanstieg.

tante.cc is again protected by the most recent iocaine version.
It's gotten really easy to set up and it's already capturing (and poisoning with Luddite writings) boatloads of "AI" bots
https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/documentation/3/

Nieuw grenssysteem registreert niet-EU-burgers: 'Megalomaan en riskant' | Buitenland | NU.nl
https://www.nu.nl/buitenland/6372331/nieuw-grenssysteem-registreert-niet-eu-burgers-megalomaan-en-riskant.html

Cowboys land aggressive cornerback, speedy edge in recent 2026 NFL mock draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-land-aggressive-cornerback-speedy-edge-recent-2026-nfl-mock-draft

Trump has been an outspoken critic of Biden’s use of the autopen to conduct executive business,
going as far as to display a picture of one such device in place of a portrait of his predecessor in a new “Presidential Walk of Fame” he created along the West Wing colonnade.
His Republican allies in Congress last month released a blistering critique of Biden’s alleged “diminished faculties” and mental state during his term that ranked the Democrat’s use of the autopen among “the gr…

Justice Department quietly replaced 'identical' Trump signatures on recent pardons
President Donald Trump is facing new scrutiny over the use of a replicated signature on several recent pardons. Online commenters noticed identical signatures on clemency documents for Darryl Strawberry, Glen Casada, and Michael McMahon. Two forensic experts told The Associated Press on Friday that the signatures were identical. The administration replaced the images on Thursday with new documents showing varied signatures. The Justice Department attributed the replacements to a “technical er…

An in-depth look at a recent research paper that offered a roadmap to the viability of 3D HBM-on-GPU integration for improved AI performance and utilization (More Than Moore)
https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/solving-the-problems-of-hbm-on-logic
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Solving The Problems of HBM-on-Logic
Future AI Accelerators Might Need To Be Slower To Be Faster

California DMV says a California administrative law judge recently ruled Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/california-judge-say…

California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot
An administrative law judge in California ruled Tesla's license to sell or manufacture cars in the state should be suspended for 30 days.