Really need folks to get that spending $22M is loose change for these guys, and it has nothing to do with the $1M prize. This is about optics. This is about perception. This is about being the 'most intelligent guy in the room' because that leads to influence, power, opportunity. See: Elon Musk.

Trevor A. Branch@trevorabranch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

A very interesting analysis, but it's important to consist your own circumstances. For example the average UK household electricity usage is responsible for ~300kg of CO2 a year, not the 3,600kg US average cited here.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · last mo.

Annualized, my agentic AI energy use is around 1.1 MWh, and is responsible for as much emissions as a clothes dryer or half a round trip flight from SF to NYC. Not enormous compared to my overall footprint, but far from trivial!

How good is MiniBWA, the successor to BWA? To test it, I ran MiniBWA on sequencing from 76 different species, comparing mapping speed, rate and accuracy with BWA MEM. In short, it's really good. If you map short reads, it's well worth your time. andrewcarroll.github.io/2026/06/30/t...

There is a European-owned place called Aisle that is doing world class security bug finding. Beating Mythos even. But no one in Europe likes talking up our own talent. Been trying to get them mentioned in Dutch news, but all we can do apparently is promote US tech. aisle.com/blog/aisle-d...

AISLE Discovers 6 CVEs in curl, Including Oldest Issue Ever

AISLE's analyzer discovered 6 new CVEs in curl, more than 2x the nearest AI security platform and including the oldest security issue in the project.

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New blog post! I use ntHash all the time to hash k-mers, yet it turns out it has some unexpected flaws (collision propagation, bias on leading zeros...). The good news: each of them can be fixed! igor.martayan.org/posts/breaki...

So, OpenAI, whose entire business model relies on some overhyped dudebros using vast amounts of stolen data and stolen labour, is releasing a specialised GPT for the life sciences. And naming it, apparently without any sense of irony or self-awareness. Rosalind.