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Agreed, I was also annoyed that the only params on the site were mac products. I run qwen 3.8 on a 12 year old asus and a 3090, 50tok/s. It's not even the only guest running on the box. For my usage profile (not running it 24/7) it's actually less expensive per-month than claude subscriptions.

The unfortunate part is that each individual who attempts to leave is fighting the Network Effect[0]. It's fighting against the human organism's basic social nature.

If every person wants to leave the platform but X person stays because Y person is there, and Y person stays because Z person is there, and Z person stays because X person is there then it's a feedback loop. Each person wants a better solution or platform, but none end up leaving because of the network effect.

Breaking that dependency involves the individual user but can't be overcome by the individual alone. Over time, the network re-asserts itself and monopolizes the connections.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

>The company said in a blog post the incident involved an early version of Claude Opus 4.6. It said it had notified all the affected parties but did not disclose more details.

Wild that they can break the law, disclose it happened, but not involve any law enforcement at all. If cybersecurity events entail disclosures then the perpetrator should carry more burden if they intend to continue doing business.

Also here's the actual post from Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-assessment-cybe...

seems like only the companies in question could run this sort analysis long-term; since they have full access to their CoTs not in public datasets.

Seems another demonstration of why AI should be squarely in the realm of personal computing. Local Models, run personally, are the only consistent safety against something like this (though not a fix); where companies train on your learning process/failures/experiments and press-gang it into their own achievements.

And if we think this only applies to academic fields then we're doubly fooling ourselves. They do not have the ethics or incentives to be good stewards of the technology.

>"We need to check more carefully who is credited and who is accountable for statistical agency releases. We need to watch carefully, when the 2025 American Community Survey eventually comes out, whether the ban on noise infusion leads to less data being published and which tables are suppressed. We also need to question seemingly technical methodological changes and scrutinize them for political motivation more closely."

I didn't realize they were delaying the 2025 ACS again and it seems things are just going to get worse if things don't fit the narrative of the administration.

>Explain the system in which you could capture all of these chats with no knowledge of anyone in these data centers.

They all transit the same wires as all other traffic. Copy them at any regional bottleneck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A. Additionally, i'd admit that maybe someone(s) at these companies knows. But if we think there isn't any person who would agree to do this then I think we're being naive.

> Their data centers aren't old and they lease a lot of compute...

Again, they transit the same wires as everyone else. Here i'll also add that these companies have been actively courting government relationships (and Anthropic attempting to repair damaged ones), why would they stand on principles here and not any of the other many frontlines they've visibly acquiesced?

I just think it's easier to re-route their traffic than, as you say, touch every single datacenter and its employees in some way.

What makes you think they'd need to touch every datacenter? All of these endpoints use existing providers with decades-long history at this point, and network monitoring is already a proven 'feature' of the agencies they'd need to co-exist with over their lifetimes.

If anything, Occam's Razor would point to a common denominator with all of them, given it wasn't network-wide, as far as i know.

"AI Traffic" is just traffic. If the infrastructure exists to monitor/buffer traffic (it does) then this can be monitored as well. Whether this hiccup was due to them hitting their limits briefly (or turning it on, or etc) who knows.

> If you took off your partisan hat, put on your red team hat

A humorous double meaning, almost like taking the hat off and putting it back on again.

But seriously I would expect a stronger argument in favor of these changes from proponents like you, something sourced, especially given the trial runs of these encroachments that've been run in a number of red states that haven't found any significant security issues and just turned out to be a waste of taxpayer dollars, time, and trust.

Do your readers a favor and bring something at least as substantive as the article you're commenting on.

Once a browser is "Government Approved" all the other are 'Unapproved' ipso facto. There's nothing clear about that future, imo.

Chrome and Google have not done worse than a nearly-10-year-old incident that was walked back 3 days later and hasn't resurfaced since? That's truly your position?

I'm sorry but I don't take you seriously.

is it just me or are the bar charts in the blog post strange? Higher numbers don't seem to correspond correctly to their actual height?

We all know it won't be, so it's not fine. Because they've been told to 'stand back and stand by' and now they work in ICE: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/ice-proud-boys-...

Sounds like a way to launder political contributions for a platform owner who has loudly declared their interest in uk politics. Juice metrics for a sympathetic user (or MP), launder it through bot traffic or use the platform you wholly control to tweak a parameter or two, then turn off the spigot when the rhetoric veers off your course.

>The game runs on Windows, the audio processing and brain runs on my M4 MacBook. It could all run on Windows (provided there is dedicated ~12gb or more gpu ram for it)

I do wonder if this is an avenue for console gaming that might be practical in a few years; AI-centric hardware that might be too beefy or expensive for regular users, but can extend new or existing games. Kinda like the expansion paks of old.

unfortunate that the "ALE" design wasn't opensourced (couldn't find a link in their post) but I would be interested in learning more about the design, in particular what sort of data pipeline was necessary from skyrim to give this sort of action flexibility?

Agreed, too many people are willing to thought-terminate when the messenger doesn't fit their ideal. It's why propaganda groups signal boost bad faith or poor arguments (and argumentors), to inflict this sort of self-righteous ennui.

Not all things built are positive, so it can't be good stewardship just to build. And is the reason they don't strain infra because they don't meaningfully improve the community or its economy?

I think it's not unreasonable to see this as a first, positive, step.

It's certainly giving them some benefit of the doubt, but it doesn't seem unreasonable that, say, the EU server and the US backup will in some time be an EU server and an EU backup.

or maybe you're watching Fox News too much?

>Because the education is so poor, the only remediation is to hire unqualified people. So you end up with a deficient civil service in the name of fairness.

I think there's more solutions to that, no? The poor school might make more poor students, but statistically it probably also has some good ones too. So maybe given a basket of roughly equal candidates to a position, one can treat those with a diverse background as having a benefit, rather than looking at their school background and assuming they're unqualified or setting them aside.

If your candidates don't meet the bar then fine, but i'm not convinced that's the default case in life.

True, I think the calculus is more about who you think is more trustworthy than what tools they have to damage you.

You might not want to be liable, but you absolutely should be.

Though flock says this deployment was 'special' the description of it sounds normal to me? "...cameras configured so that they capture only the backs of vehicles..." "...older hardware and placement of cameras higher and further from vehicles than the company typically recommends." 'Typically' is doing some heavy lifting there, either the deployment was recommended or it wasn't.

Given flock sold and installed it i'd lean on they were comfortable with 7/10 false positives until the story broke out. For a company implementing a surveillance panopticon I imagine some data is better than none for them. Less so for the false positives and their families though.

I can find agreement with a lot of this post (and probably misunderstand just as much), but it's striking to me that it seems to overlook or avoid the obvious moral/ethical option: Pushing AI towards Personal Computing.

It seems clear to me that if these models are to have any benefit for humanity then they must be made directly available to as many humans as possible. Right now that cost and effort is astronomical, but general computing also went through a mainframe/shared model before becoming personalized.

I believe The Personal Computer was and still is a gift to humanity; for those with an interest in gathering its yield. And now we have an interface with it that can attempt to introspect its' program and speaks human tongue! Imagine what could have been done with this at the time...

But if that approach clutches too many pearls to stomach (and I agree it's not all roses) then I'd submit that anyone who champions less is seeking to become our master.

ah apologies, I thought bookmark ingestion wasn't a part of the browser extension. I'll check there.

These are both very nice projects! Ive unfortunately learned too late with hister that the browser bookmark ingestion expects the binary to be local, instead of on a server/vm. But other than that i'm glad these two projects seem like they complement each other.

Family or not, when these are the executives you hire for over a decade it shouldn't surprise anyone that events like this occur: https://www.ksbw.com/article/taylor-farms-tennessee-ex-presi...

>Brian Thure served as president of Taylor Farms Tennessee from about 2012 until March 2026 and allegedly used his authority over finances, payroll, vendors and accounting to divert company money for personal benefit. >Taylor Farms claims the alleged fraud came to light during an IRS audit

The Universal Postal Union (UPU), a UN specialized agency, in collaboration with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), will host the inaugural DNS Security Forum at the UPU headquarters in Bern and virtually.

I believe that local models are a necessary extension of the personal computer and I imagine that one could have had similar criticisms of early personal computers.