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neuronexmachina··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
As of bun 1.4, it's all rewritten in rust instead of zig: https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4
neuronexmachina··on Orkut.com
I used to use GWT. It was such a mess to work with, but an interesting mess.
neuronexmachina··on Orkut.com
I also think it would've been great if Google+ had leveraged Google Reader and its sharing functionality.
neuronexmachina··on A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking
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neuronexmachina··on FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/09/22/americans...
neuronexmachina··on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
The current admin views right-wing terrorists as brave heroes in service of Dear Leader.
neuronexmachina··on Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
The zero-shot learning is what makes these different from a traditional classifier.
neuronexmachina··on Sonnet 5.5
Most business/enterprise accounts also have to pay API rates.
neuronexmachina··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
> The previous power plant manager had, of course, already signed a contract agreeing to those terms

It's even more perplexing in this case though, because the original DoD contract was signed in July 2025. It was the same "plant manager" just arbitrarily changing their mind in the middle of the contract they signed.

neuronexmachina··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
JAVA TECHNOLOGY IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT AND IS NOT DESIGNED, MANUFACTURED, OR INTENDED FOR USE OR RESALE AS ONLINE CONTROL EQUIPMENT IN HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE, SUCH AS IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, DIRECT LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES, OR WEAPONS SYSTEMS, IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF JAVA TECHNOLOGY COULD LEAD DIRECTLY TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.
neuronexmachina··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
> This is like a pen manufacturer not wanting their pens used to sign drone strike orders, now the military needs to have a special box of pens that don't have stipulations attached.

It's pretty common for software licenses to state that it's prohibited from being used in medical devices, life support systems, nuclear facilities, etc. Will software with those licenses also be designated supply-chain risks?

neuronexmachina··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
> anthropic and contractors monitor the livestream remotely to make sure the pen is not signing drone strike orders and may choose to activate the retractor.

I might be mistaken, but in the case of national security deployments the models are airgapped and Anthropic doesn't actually have access to telemetry/logging from them.

neuronexmachina··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
Whenever I hear about this I can't help but be reminded of the Howard Hughes Glomar Explorer, where a hugely-expensive commercial project was actually part of a secret CIA initiative to recover a Soviet submarine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer

I'm not sure that's truly the case here, but it does seem like the tech Project Suncatcher is working on has at least some overlap with requirements for military SIGINT and in-orbit imagery processing.

neuronexmachina··on Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
It's kind of crazy that claude-opus-5.5 (max) uses 119k tokens per "intelligence index task" while gpt-6-astra (max) uses 27k.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models?cost=intelligence-vs-co...

neuronexmachina··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
> The incident of US almost boarding a Chinese ship due to an AI-assisted intelligent report claiming it was transporting nuclear weapons components[0] was more compelling for me in terms of direct AI usage impact.

To be fair, there was a rather similar incident in the 1990s, so that sort of thing can happen without any AI at all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinhe_incident

neuronexmachina··on Comma's hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes
I was curious about what various forks actually do, found a list of some here: https://commaguide.com/compare/
neuronexmachina··on Unreal Agent
They've trademarked it for quite a few closely-related domains: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87709072&caseSearchType=U...

>Computer software, namely, game engine software for video game development and operation; Computer software, namely, software development tools for the creation of computer-generated imagery and graphics for the production of video games; Computer software, namely, software development tools for the creation of computer-generated imagery and graphics for the production of content for virtual worlds and 3D platforms; Computer software, namely, software development tools for the creation of computer-generated imagery and graphics for the production of motion pictures, television shows, videos, 3D animations, 3D simulations, 3D visualizations, virtual reality motion pictures, virtual reality television shows; Computer software, namely, software development tools for the creation of computer-generated imagery and graphics for the production of virtual reality video games; Virtual reality game software; Virtual reality software for creating multimedia content; Augmented reality game software; Augmented reality software for use in mobile devices for integrating electronic data with real world environments for the purposes of entertainment

neuronexmachina··on Unreal Agent
Yeah, I was hoping it would be something to make it easier for agents to interface with Unreal Engine games.
neuronexmachina··on Claude Opus 5.5
Enterprise and most Team accounts use API pricing, they don't have an included-usage quota.
neuronexmachina··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
A recent example was the Google workspace CLI, which was maintained for just a month: https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli
neuronexmachina··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
What would you consider as sufficient evidence of LLMs being useful in a particular domain?
neuronexmachina··on HEIF Heist: image parser RCE exploit
I mean, they kind of do? I assume they're hesitant to write a how-to on how to tailor the exploit image:

>These are not out-of-the-box exploits. Exploitation requires fingerprinting the target version and tailoring the payload image(s). Some of our RCE attempts landed only after thousands of image uploads. That said, an AI agentic approach with a frontier model like GPT-5.6 Sol cut exploit development time down to roughly 1 to 3 days from initial probe to remote RCE. A motivated attacker can convert a vulnerable upload endpoint into RCE or an info leak.

neuronexmachina··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
I'm not sure, but Sir Urquhart may have invented the word, and he's essentially the only person to have ever used it. It's presumably based on the latin quirites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirites
neuronexmachina··on Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)
> 1. they apparently gave advice to both the clinton and trump campaign

Just because this is worded ambiguously, to clarify the "they" is Facebook. CA on the other hand was effectively the Trump's digital ad campaign.

> 2. the trump campaign did targeted marketing better (ie. targeting the base rather than the marginal voter)

This ignores that a lot of what made CA different is that they used microtargeting to discourage turnout via fake news stories.

3. "I'm skeptical that Cambridge Analytica has any data or expertise that couldn't be replicated readily by someone else"

After CA's methods and actions became public, FB massively limited what you could do via their API.

neuronexmachina··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
> We should be outraged and OpenAI/Anthropic should be (and in my mind, are) legally liable for the crimes they've committed thus far.

How would that work out if these were self-hosted open weight models?

neuronexmachina··on The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
It's worth noting that Equal Earth isn't an equidistant projection. The upper bound on distance distortion is an order of magnitude less than Mercator's though.
neuronexmachina··on The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
Counterpoint: the Cold War was pretty much all about geopolitical symbols, e.g. the Berlin Wall, nuclear deterrence, the Space Race, counting Olympic medals.
neuronexmachina··on The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
I like the aesthetics of Robinson, but it gives you the worst of both worlds: it's neither conformal like Mercator nor equal-area for honest data visualization. It's essentially a spline fit over 38 arbitrary numbers chosen to look nice, whereas Equal Earth accomplishes true equal area with a clean, 4-coefficient polynomial.

Equal Earth is basically Robinson with a more straightforward formula and accurate areas.

neuronexmachina··on The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
> I know the UN claims that "Correcting cartographic distortions of continental sizes constitutes an act of cognitive justice and memorial reparation." but it's purely symbolic and changes nothing geopolitically.

This is kind of personally embarrassing, but due to seeing Mercator maps all the time growing up it wasn't until later in life that I realized that Greenland isn't actually a gigantic landmass the size of Africa.

> The value of a geographic projection is in its utility for the task at hand

Other than maritime navigation, I can't think of many tasks where Mercator would be more useful than an equal-area projection.

neuronexmachina··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
There's a separate post about the technical differences: https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
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