spooky Deirdre Connolly¹ ² at a distance
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Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’
Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’
Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'
variety.com
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote. www.404media.co/federal-judg...
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
404media.co
Every headline about "rogue agents" should actually be "AI company fails to adequately safeguard / supervise agents".
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 18h agoAn Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website, among a string of incidents the AI company disclosed yesterday detailing Claude models' unsanctioned manipulation of some government websites
“oh well, nothing we can do here” is not a legal approach we take to any other tools that are used to commit crimes and I don’t see why we should with these ones, even if they aren’t being specifically directed to do so
if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
Security Alert: U.S. Mission Saudi Arabia (October 10, 2026) The U.S. Mission is aware of attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on October 10 and strongly recommends all U.S. citizens avoid this airport and surrounding areas.
This feels relevant again: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's Killing Spree: The Inside Story of His Race to Execute Every Prisoner He Could
How the former president put 13 people to death in just six months: the inside story of why his administration rushed to execute every inmate it could
rollingstone.com
me: i went to sleep at 2am fitbit: lol no you didn't
my dearly departed fluffy corgi boy named BAPHOMET
Sarah Andersen@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 11h ago
Curtis 'we will bomb our way across Russia and China' LeMay
Alex Wellerstein@wellerstein.bsky.social · 11h ago(And not just my book — it is not clear who would consider that a "win," except maybe Curtis LeMay.)
if you had told me even five years ago that i would be housing cholula i would not have believed you
spooky Deirdre Connolly¹ ² at a distance@durumcrustulum.com · 11h agoit turns out if you shake the hot sauce, it's better
it turns out if you shake the hot sauce, it's better
when i am worried about scaling attack surfaces, it's basically SS7 and BGP. (though BGP has improved.)
rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 12h agoyeah when the android team told me how SS7 worked it ruined my whole month
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa /inhale aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
squarely rooted@squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 12h agoa really big question i’m sure is not getting enough attention is whether or not we can make the public telephony system defensible against AI. if not we may be reverting to a society where the only secure mode of authentication is to appear somewhere in the flesh.
OpenAI’s findings have arrived in increasingly large waves, with little pause between them and frequent indications from the company that yet more are on the way. “You get a sense that they don’t really care about these individual results,” Roney-Dougal said. “It’s a really nasty feeling.”
‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
Careers upended overnight, academics will have to separate solutions from slop while OpenAI moves on.
theverge.com
“Staggering.” “Overwhelming.” “Surreal.” “Pure insanity.” Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week.
‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
Careers upended overnight, academics will have to separate solutions from slop while OpenAI moves on.
theverge.com
kid: did you know the whole internet weighs about the same as a strawberry? me: come on man it’s friday
US warned the Ukrainians that Washington might cut off intelligence sharing with Kyiv if it will continue strikes on Russian refineries. The Americans also informed their Ukrainian counterparts that the US was set to lift sanctions on Russian diesel and that Moscow intended to lift its export ban.