bobtheborg

My paid company Google Workspace account is stuck on 3.6.

My free gmail account is not.

Ageeed. I wanted to come back to read more comments and had to use search to find it

I think the actual concern, not well expressed in the blog post, is the fact that node and vscode server are installed on, for instance, a prod machine that (probably) should be very tightly controlled in terms of what software is installed and running. You don't want to unwittingly add to the attack surface

Great question! Yes, this works much like the doom player. Sensor data (LIDAR, velocity, etc.) becomes the state. You use the score primitive to operate the controls ("What level of braking should be applied" 0: None, 1: just slightly slowing down, 2: there's a suspicious cat on the side of the road you don't trust, ...

Full disclosure, I am not they :=)

maybe this?

https://wixx.com/2026/09/11/chevron-ceo-says-depleted-crude-...

SWE 1.6 was great for small tasks. Very fast and good enough. 1.7 was unusable for me. Took more time thinking than GLM 5.2 and seemed to be generally running in circles. I tried it but abandoned it.

Looking forward to 2 -- maybe it'll be usable

Oof. Why does this seem worse than just showing everyone the ad? Maybe because people like me will go "not my experience" and brush off the complainers. Diabolical

Not true for me. Not sure where author is and why (s)he is seeing this (wallpapers seem to be country based.)

https://bingwalls.com/

or

https://bing.com/ and use the < > to move through history.

> There's absolutely no evidence of or IMHO plausible path to an agent copying itself out and running on other hardware the way you describe.

Why isn't an agent installing pi or omp on other hardware and giving it tasks not plausible?

Great read. So glad they took the time to tell this story. (And glad they, as a for profit corporation, took out a support contract with SQLite. I hope they continue to do so even though this problem is resolved.)

"Milestone alert To celebrate more than 1 billion monthly active users in the @GeminiApp — making it the fastest-growing product in our history — we’re sharing some key insights into how people around the globe are using the app:

63% of users talk to Gemini out loud

One in five Gemini Live interactions go beyond voice, and use camera or screen share.

Students love that Gemini understands their uploads: 38% of their school requests include an attachment.

People use Gemini to generate more than 150 million photos every day.

Gemini can automate actions in 40+ apps, helping you book a rideshare, make a dinner reservation, and more.

More than 100 million people use Gemini on iOS, and MacOS users prompt around twice as much as people using other surfaces.

And we’re just getting started! Let us know your favorite way to use the Gemini app in the comments."

"Nobody serves this today" except for every real estate listing service (https://www.reso.org/reso-web-api/)

"Analyst research estimated OpenAI was responsible for roughly half of Azure’s $30 billion in year-over-year growth, and investment bank Stifel’s Brad Reback flagged in his investment thesis that the relationship is becoming less competitively additive as Google follows hard on Azure’s heels. Not to mention, Azure has long chased Amazon Web Services for customers and market share. Yet BNP Paribas senior equity research analyst Stefan Slowinski estimated the $24.1 billion as less than a quarter (23%) of Azure’s revenue, and noted that Microsoft has a path to keeping Azure’s growth above 40% as it phases in consumption-based pricing across its Copilot product offerings. "

I like to use SWE-1.6 for quick help with git. For instance:

review the top stash and tell me what's in it (grouped appropriately)

1.6 does this fine nearly instantly.

1.7 tried for 17s before I killed it

"Total fiscal Q3 revenue was $41.5 billion, up 74% sequentially and up 346% year over year, representing our fifth consecutive quarterly revenue record. The $17.6 billion sequential increase is the largest in our history, eclipsing last quarter’s $10.2 billion record."

https://investors.micron.com/static-files/631b1a32-5537-46ae...

Having never really looked at valuations, my ignorant mind can get from Starlink's 10M subscribers to a $380B valuation. If you make $100/mo/user that's 12B/yr and that with a higher 50x P/E ratio is 60B. If you go to 100x, that's $120B.

The author of that page seems to mostly be AI, not a human.

Make that two people. I much prefer to slap the rare check on the scanner than fiddle with the phone. My banks "scan the check" part of the app was buggy for a long time, so maybe that jaded me. (~"move closer", ~"move away", ~"increase lighting"...)

I found many points interesting. Here's one:

Policymakers supposedly work for us/the people and they could have made surveillance ad tech expensive and thereby severely limited it, but

> "Policymakers failed us because cops and spies hate privacy laws and lobby like hell against them. Cops and spies love commercial surveillance, because the private sector's massive surveillance dossiers are an off-the-books trove of warrantless surveillance data that the government can't legally collect."

> What this means for you: Helicone's services will remain live for the foreseeable future in maintenance mode. This means security updates, new models, bug & performance fixes all keep shipping.

Hmm

Try searching for "glasses" and you get a page full of blocks?

Hello fello Technology Connections watcher?

> who voted Trump because they believed Harris was not tough enough

No, they voted for Trump because he was their guy then later made up a rational justification. We know that people generally do NOT make decisions by rationally evaluating things, their subconscious makes a decision and their conscious makes plausible rational arguments. (Yes, citation needed.)

It's one handed? The hand with the ring is the same hand that uses the thumb to hit the button?

? "Wise, formerly known as TransferWise, is an English financial technology company focused on global money transfers." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_%28company%29

"It’s been nearly two weeks since Microsoft, a multi-trillion dollar company, shipped a $600 handheld “Xbox” that can’t be relied on to sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep in my tests." Sean Hollister, The Verge

$30K NOT counting some expenses (cardiologist, ER docs)???

> Bills were a few thousand here for the cardiologist, another few there for the ER docs, a bit for the radiologist. I helped my sister-in-law negotiate these down but they weren’t back breakers. Then the hospital bill came: $195k. This is a story about that.

"Community banks mostly don’t have programmers on staff, and are reliant on the so-called “core processors” ...

This is the largest reason why in-place upgrades to the U.S. financial system are slow. Coordinating the Faster ACH rollout took years, and the community bank lobby was loudly in favor of delaying it, to avoid disadvantaging themselves competitively versus banks with more capability to write software (and otherwise adapt operationally to the challenges same-day ACH posed)."

From the great blog Bits About Money: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/community-banking-and...

Can someone ELI5?

Reuters reported on March 12th that "Abu Dhabi-backed investment group MGX has made a $2 billion cryptocurrency investment in Binance, the companies said on Wednesday" and "It will see MGX become a minority shareholder after making the investment in stablecoin"

Why does it matter that the investment was made in crypto/stablecoin? (Pretend the stablecoin wasn't Trump affiliated. What purpose would this serve?)

Again, no. Not all TS material is SCI. You only need a SCIF for SCI.

"SCIFs are often employed for processing things that are only marked Secret or systems only handling Secret"

No. SCIFs are expensive. They are not built when they are not needed. They are only needed for SCI materials.