The ability of a cutting-edge model to move laterally is getting extraordinary.

You know there's something special about the Universe because yesterday it let you make a release! only to find mere hours later that your release has a bug in it.

Russian admiral talking to Gerasimov. "So, you get them all to line up, in full view of the enemy, and have them march to a certain death by drone?" "Da. Exactly" "Get my ship captains on the phone. We have a new strategy!"

I think this is pretty serious: for several months the UNOOSA (UN Office of Outer Space Affairs) has not been making public new sat registrations apparently because of an IT policy issue. A month or two I could accept, but at this point it's a failure of the international space governance regime

We know the Devil exists because He created Continuous Integration and fixing CI is Hell. GitHub Actions are like the Fifth Circle of Hell, "wrath". Or maybe Seventh, because oh yeah baby, "violence". The sinner is doomed to re-run the same Workflow again, and again. And again.

Ornith 1.0: full spectrum of open weights coding models from 9B to 397B The largest appears to rival Opus 4.7-4.8 All fine tuned from Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 but no, the cool part is how they made it… 👇 deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.h...

A Russian air defense missile blows up a fuel tank at the Moscow Oil Refinery following a failed attempt to shoot down a Ukrainian drone.

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UFOS ARE REAL!!!

Analysis of the Russian Burevestnik nuclear cruise missile. The crazy bastards appear to have done it. Air exhausted straight and spicy out of the core. 🥳

Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A DIRECT CYCLE NUCLEAR TURBOJET! And didn't my colleague Connie do a great job with this diagram? (Though she wouldn't let me label the control drums on the outer circumference of the reactor core.)

@shashj.bsky.social my compliments for the choice to re-air, if that's the term, your interview with Sir Alex Younger. Watching again I was struck by his clarity of language and commitment over a lifetime of service. People such as he spend their lives in the shadows and are rarely recognised.

Good preliminary analysis from Scott Manley about the Blue Origin test failure and loss of launch site youtu.be/aaR6yEE-Myo

Blue Origin's Rocket Explosion - How Bad Is It?

YouTube video by Scott Manley

youtu.be

Asking the Attorney General's office this morning about this outrageous information - they intentionally delayed publishing FOI documents until 1 minute before our Estimates hearing in February commenced so we couldn't ask them about the documents released.

Is there a way to stop @tailscale.com from listening on anything other than a specific single nominated interface?

In today's episode of cool-things-I-have-hallucinated-that-should-exist-but don't, we have "cryptobiological" links used to secure transfer of information. I'm trying to figure out what the biology part is. DNA coding? Pheromone sampling? Or maybe it's just "human enters passphrase". #cryptography

Three months from now the average voter is lined up at a gas station waiting for their ration and still getting headline alerts on their phone about YUGE FREE MONEY CHECK HITTING BANK ACCOUNTS SOON where if you actually click the link it's an AI summary about a town in Iceland enacting a UBI program

Well they did say this was going to keep happening. #linux security embargo broken so meet Ditry Frag github.com/V4bel/dirtyf... You had an entire week since the last one, don't complain.

GitHub - V4bel/dirtyfrag

Contribute to V4bel/dirtyfrag development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Trump surprised Gulf allies by announcing “Project Freedom”, the officials said, angering leadership in Saudi Arabia. In response, the Kingdom informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Airbase or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort.

GCU Whoopsie Doodles @cultureshipnames.bsky.social

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The nominal strategic purpose of the U.S. Navy is to ensure global freedom of navigation to guarantee stable global trade. It has not only not done that, the United States instigated the conflict which undid it. This is known in foreign policy analysis as a “whoopsie doodles.”

ROU A Lightly Militarized Misunderstanding Involving Explosives. @cultureshipnames.bsky.social

I always get worried when there are widespread delays in logging.

ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 3mo ago

7/ "Navigation services, taxi and delivery apps, stores with mobile terminals, government agencies, and banks are all down. ATMs are dispensing cash with widespread interruptions, and major credit institutions have already warned customers about widespread delays in logging…

I have been converging on the idea that the only thing that matters is your ability (in the sense of opportunity and being enabled) to be clear in your requirements. Your prompt is almost irrelevant. Whatever the tests or examples specify is exactly what you're going to get.

I'm Not Your Gay Dad@braindouche.bsky.social · 3mo ago

is the relative complexity of a backend vs a frontend so different as to be incomparable, particularly in the context of the abilities of AI agents? I don't want a backend dev looking at my backend code the way I look at their frontend code, but is that just too different cases entirely?

Little farther... Little farther... *BOOM* ... TOO FAR.

*yelling from the mouth of the Strait* You got this! Little to the left! That's it!

The officials said the U.S. navy is going to provide commercial ships with information on the best maritime lanes in the strait especially when it comes to using lanes that were not mined by the Iranian military.-Axios

My new politically-correct way to describe a service that fails to work after the #linux system its running on got upgraded is "went ventral-side up"

It is absurd that Canonical has not patched the #linux kernel in Ubuntu 24.04 yet. They've had a MONTH.

Speaking of scrap code, copy.fail Good thing nobody had anything else to do today. #linux

Copy Fail — 732 Bytes to Root

CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.

copy.fail

No wonder Adam is so excited.

for some comparison, in the quarter before, alaska spent $796m on fuel. they're expecting it to go to ~$1400m