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Epic Games is shifting its Disney game (featuring Marvel and Star Wars) to an “AI-first” development approach and delaying it. After March layoffs of about 1,000 employees, remaining staff were told there would be “no more hand-written code” and the game would be “generated with full AI workflows.” Epic confirmed an AI-accelerated development path. The project had been slated for a March release; Disney did not comment. Staff reportedly reacted with astonishment amid the upheaval.
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An autobiographical technical overview of building a ZX Spectrum 128K cracktro-style demo. The author revisits 80s cracktros, then explains his workflow: a Makefile-based toolchain (Pasmo, zmakebas, FUSE) and a multi-stage BASIC loader. He starts with a simple screen memory setup, then adds a scrolling text and logo, using Z80 assembly tricks (rl rotate, ldir block copy) to move pixels within the 3-screen, 8x8 attribute layout. He ports an Amiga module using Vortex Tracker to three AY channels, builds a starfield with precomputed coordinates and occupancy tables, and adds VU meters and twinkle effects. Musings on hardware immersion and learning.
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OpenFatigue is a satirical look at extreme “open” branding in tech. It sketches a spoof platform that markets itself as Open while listing contradictions: open-ish licensing, model weights behind a 41-page AUP and usage caps, visible source with fax-based PR, and Community vs Enterprise editions. It lampoons openness hype, badge-access “Open Door” policies, and marketing that confuses open source with open marketing. The piece concludes it’s satire and notes the code is on GitHub.
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Rich Hickey argues that tools are wielded with control, feedback, intention, and skill-building, while LLMs and AI are not tools but automation: they act with little ongoing human direction, lack reliable feedback, and bypass hands-on learning. Using AI to write or read outsources work, causing you to miss understanding, argument, and nuance. Tools illuminate the world; automation merely performs tasks. Treating AI as a tool risks abdication of thinking, learning, and mastery.
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403 Forbidden error from a Varnish cache server.
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Federal prosecutors obtained warrants to deploy cell-site simulators—dragnet devices that mimic cell towers—to locate Jerome Richardson, a Temple University student who helped produce Don Lemon’s coverage of an anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. The effort also targeted journalist Georgia Fort and Minnesota Senate candidate Jamael Lundy, with pen-register orders for Fort and a Lemon contact. The records raise privacy and First Amendment concerns because the devices capture everyone nearby, and prosecutors admit some affidavits overstated protester activity; it’s unclear if the devices were actually used.
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Ned Rust argues that the decline of the mass-market paperback was driven by corporate consolidation and supply-side decisions by the Big Five, not just reader trends. The 1939 Pocket Books mass-market democratized reading, offering affordable, widely distributed titles and a diverse mix. By 2024 the format was discontinued, prices surged, and availability narrowed as retailers reduced distribution to focus on safer, high-profit titles. The piece critiques media that blame readers and urges industry accountability, questioning whether publishers could or should maintain broader, non-digital distribution and title variety.
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A 403 CloudFront error means the request cannot be satisfied and the site cannot be reached. The site may be experiencing heavy traffic or a configuration issue. Retry later or contact the site owner. For content distributed via CloudFront, consult CloudFront documentation for troubleshooting. Includes a CloudFront request ID.
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Argues OpenAI/Anthropic gatekeep and track user data; favors open-weight models as private, runnable on local hardware or via secure enclaves (Tinfoil/Maple). Claims these can rival proprietary models yet avoid data exposure. Highlights GLM-5.3 (and GLM-5.3-Flash) as on par with Claude Opus 5.5/4.8; notes Mistral Le Chonk. Warns about data-sharing by Z.ai and some Chinese firms. Recommends private inference for safety and control; OpenCode Go for cheaper, non-private use. The author uses GLM-5.3 with Tinfoil/OpenCode Go and envisions open models replacing ChatGPT/Claude in many cases.
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Citroën has revived the 2CV brand with a retro-styled electric city car unveiled as a concept at the Paris Motor Show. It’s meant to showcase the brand’s direction and could reach showrooms by 2028, with an expected price around £13,000. The strategy uses heritage to differentiate amid strong Chinese EV competition, appealing to both older fans and new buyers. Experts say it must balance nostalgia with credible, simple, and practical EV tech to succeed.
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Issue #48195 proposes making Codex CLI's daemon_auto_start opt-in (default off). Since v0.157.0, starting an interactive Codex session launches a self-updating background daemon (codex app-server --managed-daemon) that runs detached, copies a full package locally, and restarts via a 5-minute then hourly updater, decoupling daemon from CLI. This can kill active turns, hijack proxies, and break terminal hooks. The thread suggests: disable by default, exit when last client disconnects, or only enable for remote/desktop; provide fallback to local mode if elevation blocks startup; keep CLI binary intact when installed by package managers.
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An update to the Right Answers stresses a rapid post-quantum transition by 2029. Symmetric crypto remains safe; most asymmetric guidance changed. Recommendations: encrypt data in the cloud via KMS or XAES-256-GCM/XChaCha20Poly1305; for large data, Cobblestone-128; 256-bit symmetric keys; HMAC-SHA-256 with constant-time tag checks; SHA-2 with multihash where needed; 32-byte random IDs; Argon2id or scrypt for passwords (passkeys as fallback). Key exchange: X25519+ML-KEM-768 in TLS/SSH/HPKE. Asymmetric encryption: HPKE with MLKEM-768-X25519 or age. Signatures: ML-DSA-44. Use modern TLS stacks (rustls, Go tls, s2n-tls) and ALB/NLB; avoid non-PQ options. Merkle Certificates rollout in 2027. Don’t roll your own crypto; use model-assisted reviews.
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REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) is a local, agent-driven MCP-based toolkit for reverse engineering software from runtime behavior to native binaries. It analyzes native binaries, JavaScript/Electron, .NET, and websites, with providers for Hopper, Ghidra, or IDA for native work and static JavaScript/.NET inspection. Setup via npm: npm install -g rea-agents and npx rea-agents setup; this registers REA's MCP server and installs agent workflows. Agents (e.g., Claude, Codex) inspect targets, return evidence with limitations, and can generate implementations.
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Kevin Kelly revisits his 2016 AI predictions, arguing that AI-driven transformation is accelerating. By 2026 Google’s main product will be AI rather than search, and a handful of large cloud-based AIs will form an oligarchy. This AI will resemble AWS—cheap, reliable, industrial-grade intelligence behind everything. Most practical AI will be narrow, specialized “software brains” rather than human-like general intelligence. In conversational terms, we’ll ask the cloud hundreds of questions daily, with answers available at nanocents, and search evolving into an essential universal commodity.
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Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full are Meta’s frontier models designed as personal and professional agents. They combine Active Memory (retaining relevant context) and Active Focus (persistent problem solving) with frontier coding to tackle complex tasks. They show state-of-the-art results in domain expertise (law, finance, health), memory, and coding, and scale from larger base models to improve generalization on unfamiliar tasks. Trained at Meta’s Prometheus data center, they’ll be available via the Meta Model API and Muse Code (Wonder Full for subscribers), with safety safeguards and alignment central to development. A full safety report is forthcoming.
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AI is advancing rapidly, outperforming humans in many cognitive tasks, driven by better performance, lower cost, and wider availability. Massive data-center investments will expand AI capacity; AI can operate continuously, exacerbating labor displacement. Regulation may slow progress, but likely won't stop it. The author believes cognitive work will shrink and thinking will become a leisure pursuit, with machines shifting thinking from economic necessity to choice. To cope, we should stay flexible and resilient, and aim to build a life where thinking is part of a meaningful existence beyond work.
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Microsoft president Brad Smith warned AI is less regulated than milk and washing machines, urging urgent safety rules, including “kill switches” and a legal duty to victims of rogue AI. He said AI could be both a tool and a weapon and should be slowed with emergency brakes. Satya Nadella echoed calls for contained, observable models with an emergency brake. UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan is expected to push tighter oversight legislation. Experts warn of security risks, including theft of powerful models, with incidents like Claude misled police highlighting gaps.
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Azure Maia 300 is a co-designed platform for cloud-scale AI inference, uniting software, silicon, rack, networking and cooling to maximize tokens per watt and per dollar. It uses a locality-aware NUMA memory layout, narrow-precision formats, and a scale-up rack of 96 accelerators (24 trays) forming a 12,288-accelerator superpod. A software-defined dataflow (SDLA) coordinates data movement across local memories, DMA and a two-tier network (in-rack switches and cross-rack optics). Compared with Maia 200, Maia 300 delivers up to 7x rack-scale token throughput, >2.5x performance per watt, and 2.5x memory bandwidth with integrated telemetry for optimization.
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