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"Tongue Tied and Twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I."
Confirmation bias related to these fears has led to dramatic hand-wringing over relatively innocuous technology for nearly a decade.
iPhone 18 Pro Camera Review: Dunton, Colorado
I'm here at the beautiful Dunton River Camp in southwest Colorado, where I've spent the last week testing the new camera and features on the iPhone 18 Pro.
variable aperture just means better photos for everyone across the board.
Let's hope so.
Politics and the English Language
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do. iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active. v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
I'm going to see if I can turn this into a skill or output style. These agents sure could use some manners.
On the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Impressive result from OpenAI, who used an unreleased model to produce a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems that have been subject to a $1,000,000 prize since May 24th, 2000.
If I brainstorm with ChatGPT about potential new directions for my company, what's the chance that information might be exposed to a competitor in six months' time who asks "what might company X plan to do next"?
This is going to create interesting incentives.
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
27th August 2026 - Link Blog Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode. Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks.
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
July 20: OpenAI reached out to Hugging Face for help to revoke the Hugging Face credentials they found in their investigation.
Becoming Skilled at Making Documents
So now, I've created a Better Documents skills.md file for people who use LLM tools like Claude to help assist them in creating business documents, to prompt their AI tools to make better documents by default.
An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud
Resellers sell access to an LLM proxy that offers significant discounts on regular API pricing, which they achieve by abusing free trials, proxying through unprotected support bots, or sometimes through stolen credit cards or chargeback attacks.
OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
The model then broke into Hugging Face to find the answers: After gaining Internet access, the models inferred that Hugging Face potentially hosted models, datasets and solutions for ExploitGym.
Google I/O, Gemini Spark, Antigravity
The FAQ for that also includes this confusing detail: What Gemini model does Gemini Spark run on? Gemini Spark runs on Gemini 3.5 Flash and Antigravity.