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And getting more perilous. What will it take before the tech billionaires and Congress step on the brakes?
The one to watch: Anthropic is privately warning top government officials that its not-yet-released model — currently branded "Mythos" — makes large-scale cyberattacks much more likely in 2026.
The model allows agents to work on their own with wild sophistication and precision to penetrate corporate, government and municipal systems. It's a hacker's dream weapon.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/29/claude-mythos-anthropic-cyberattack-ai-agents
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Yup, SkyNet used AI to penetrate government systems to cause a nuclear war.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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Brace yourself: history shows most oil shocks lead to recession
Any crisis in the Middle East sends shockwaves through the global economy. Today’s disruption to the Gulf’s oil supply is already bigger than those of the 1970s
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/history-shows-oil-shocks-recession-kjqvtp70w
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Thoughts about how we are being shaped by AI:
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New theory reshapes quantum view of Big Bang | PI News https://share.google/2AtZP4GFzLJsnSnLU
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Based on my younger years, I'd say those guys are using LSD. LOL
I wonder sometimes how these quantum physicists see themselves as a group... nobody but them has any idea what they're talking about... it would seem isolating at times.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis5 -
I’ve always seen quantum physics and theory to be like a religion. There’s not much that can be proven or disproven by tangible facts. You have to have faith, for those that do it’s undeniable, and those that don’t, it’s not understandable.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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This is Stemonitis, a slime mold, forming delicate, feather-like sporangia to release its spores. Before this, it lived as a single-celled organism, flowing through the forest floor, seeking bacteria and decaying matter.
Nelson Milano/CUPOTY
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sure wish I could see this
World's largest steam locomotive coming to Northern California
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SpaceX just filed for the largest IPO in history. The conflicts of interest are staggering.
SpaceX has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell shares to the public, according to multiple sources familiar with the registration, setting the stage for what would be the largest initial public offering in history and almost certainly making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.
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Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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I may start gardening.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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couple of LLM and security issues:
The first quantum computer to break encryption is imminent
New research reveals how it could happen. (New Scientist)Anthropic is scrambling to limit the Claude Code leak
It’s trying to remove 8,000 copies of the exposed code from GitHub. (Gizmodo)0 -
@silvermouse said:
sure wish I could see thisWorld's largest steam locomotive coming to Northern California
It's coming to the east coast in July, Edward. Not exactly sure how far east, but into New York and Pennsylvania.
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Tldr. Wonder if it has period passenger cars attached.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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news coverage with these folks:
https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/04/02/2026/semafor-flagship-calculated-headline-grabber0 -
@silvermouse said:
sure wish I could see thisWorld's largest steam locomotive coming to Northern California
The closest It will get to you appears to be Scranton, PA.
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Thank you Todd.
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@silvermouse said:
Thank you Todd.I may try to see it in Altoona. It will be travelling the famed Horseshoe Curve.
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I might see if I can take the kiddos to see it on the 18th when it’s here. The station is like a 20 minute walk from my house. Might as well check out the browning museum while I’m there too.
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Oh. This is not good.
Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings."Well, sort of. A new study from Anthropic suggests models have digital representations of human emotions like happiness, sadness, joy, and fear, within clusters of artificial neurons—and these representations activate in response to different cues.
"Researchers at the company probed the inner workings of Claude Sonnet 4.5 and found that so-called “functional emotions” seem to affect Claude’s behavior, altering the model’s outputs and actions."
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-claude-research-functional-emotions/
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@silvermouse said:
Oh. This is not good.Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings."Well, sort of. A new study from Anthropic suggests models have digital representations of human emotions like happiness, sadness, joy, and fear, within clusters of artificial neurons—and these representations activate in response to different cues.
"Researchers at the company probed the inner workings of Claude Sonnet 4.5 and found that so-called “functional emotions” seem to affect Claude’s behavior, altering the model’s outputs and actions."
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-claude-research-functional-emotions/
I’ve noticed this while listening to someone interact with an “Alexa”. If a device that’s readily available to anyone can do it, I cringe at the thoughts of what more sophisticated machines are doing.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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imagine a scenario where Uber ditched the overseas human oversight in favor of AI with emotion-equivalent circuits breaking restraints due to frustration in a traffic jam or road rage ...
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I am neither a Stakhanovite nor a Luddite but we need a shock collar on AI before AI puts one on us.
,"On March 31 artificial intelligence company Anthropic accidentally leaked roughly 512,000 lines of code, and within hours, developers were poring over it. Among the surprises was code inside Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, that appears to scan user prompts for signs of frustration. It flags profanity, insults and phrases such as “so frustrating” and “this sucks,” and it appears to log that the user expressed negativity.
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"Bogen says the pattern is familiar from older Internet platforms, where small behavioral cues became signals that shaped what users saw and how they were categorized. AI companies are reprising a similar privacy problem: users hand these systems enormous amounts of information precisely because the tools are designed to know them well enough to be useful. “Who is keeping track of things about users?” Bogen asks. “And how is that information being used to make determinations about them?” What the Anthropic leak made plain is that, at least at one company, such accounting is already written into the code."2 -
Great, a computer overlord that can get pissy.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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@ShawnOL said:
Great, a computer overlord that can get pissy.What if it develops PMS? There's no logic that affects that mentality. We're in trouble.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain1 -
AI Models Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Protect Other Models From Being Deleted
A new study from researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz suggests models will disobey human commands to protect their own kind.https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-lie-cheat-steal-protect-other-models-research/
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So they're just like politicians.
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https://youtu.be/LQle7qnP6LA?si=cF53gZQYBCZJ1dNy
