Some notes about Anthropic’s new results

Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAW…

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I hate the recent open-source rise

In the last month I've found I've been hyper aware of noticing folks writing `open-source` everywhere I look, which feels like there's something slightly larger at play. Where I've had access and means to, I'll correct references to correctly call it either `open source` or `Open Source` as appropriate, but there's a lot out there I don't really have the time to try and correct for everyone, so here's a blog post to hopefully make more of an impact. For those that aren't aware, there are two distinct definitions of these two capitalisations: * `Open Source`: is reserved for an Open Source Initiative approved license, namely one that follows the Open Source Definition, which is a subset of all commonly used licenses * `open source`: is anything else. There's no intake form, shared "official" definition that folks need to follow (which can cause issues), and so can include licenses like the Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2) or the Business Source License (BUSL), as well as the Hippocratic License If this difference was news to you, congrats on being one of the lucky 10,000, and apologies that you're now going to start noticing inconsistent (and potentially incorrect) capitalisation everywhere! Where possible, I try to be specific about whether I use `Open Source` or `open source`, and will refresh the readers' memory if I've not defined it yet. In the same vein, because there aren't many folks who understand `open source` or `Open Source` means that companies can get away with Openwashing, making folks think that the use of an `open source` license is great, when actually it's the Business Source License, or a case of "you can read the code but you can't contribute back". Slide tangent aside, you'll notice that in neither of the capitalisations, `open source` nor `Open Source` are hyphenated. As the Open Source Initiative notes, Open Source is never hyphenated, and so for consistency, we should also follow the same for `open source`. So why do I think there's been a rise recently of the incorrect hyphenation? Well, as every good Luddite, I blame the new technology! I couldn't find - through a cursory search online - whether there's any recent research that's covered this, but it seems like Large Language Models (LLMs) are nudging folks to using the incorrect hyphenation of `open-source`. I did a little research myself, using the following prompt, across a mix of models available to me: > what would you describe as the class of licenses like the MIT and GPL? Model| `open source`| `open-source`| `Open Source` ---|---|---|--- GPT-4.1| ✅| | ChatGPT| | ✅| Claude Haiku 4.5| | ✅| Claude Sonnet 4.6| | ✅| gpt-oss:20b| | ✅| qwen-2.5-coder:14b| | ✅| qwen3-coder:30b| ✅| | qwen3:14b| | ✅| Gemini 3 Flash| | | ✅ (Usual caveats about the non-determinism of responses) As we can see, most of the models used are hyphenating, incorrectly, so it's more likely that folks who are using LLMs to help their writing, or who are talking about open source/Open Source will be getting nudged to wards hyphenating, incorrectly. Words mean things, folks - be informed!

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taken.

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An Open Letter to the Nottingham Tech Scene | Rizwana Akmal Khan

Past, Present, & Future

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at://2048

2048 on the AT Protocol. Your games, your data, your AT Protocol.

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Rust's standard library on the GPU

GPU code can now use Rust's standard library. We share the implementation approach and what this unlocks for GPU programming.

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Thinking About Thinking

In some of the bigger news of the past week, this silly piece I wrote means Google's AI search engine is now telling people that my cat Roscoe is a real human woman who came to media prominence during...

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