FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

Troutman @robotrowboat Boss: Let's put this matter aside for the time being Me: [looking around nervously] Can only you see the time being? Boss: Huh? Me: Is it standing near me? Boss: Who? Me: [on verge of panic attack] The time being 6:33 PM 06 Jan 18

This damn post has absolutely ruined my brain every time I hear someone mention "for the time being." Major kudos to the poster, if I ever meet you in person I will congratulate you and then punch you in the face.

From https://www.spokesman.com/further-review/state-of-newspapers-2025/ a chart showing US newspaper advertising and circulation revenue, with a collapse of ad revenue beginning in the late 2000s

The revenue model collapse for US newspapers predates AI by quite a bit. We needed a better answer for funding news before AI (e.g., endowed nonprofits), and we need it even more urgently now.

The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI

Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers —…

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes

I don't think "one can coax the model into producing infringing text" is a case cracker; it's clearly impractical for conventional piracy and relies on the copier attempting to circumvent the AI companies' own measures for preventing verbatim extraction.

Thanks and glad to hear it Michaël :). Look forward to the platform finding its footing, it's a really cool idea.

ARC-AGI-3 ARC-AGI-3 is the first interactive reasoning benchmark for AI agents—play as humans and build agents that learn in novel environments.

ARC-AGI-3 properly rewards _efficiency_ and not just wastefully stumbling towards a solution. Chollet's work holds a lot of sway in the AI world; hopefully this will lead to real improvements beyond "the model got there after burning 100 million tokens".

arcprize.org/arc-agi/3

This is great to see. Do you have a policy against hate (racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny etc.) being given a platform? The terms page seems very boilerplate for now.

Of course, we shouldn't let AI labs off the hook for doing all they can to attach themselves to the Pentagon trough. But over-emphasis on the well-known new thing can let companies like Palantir fly under the radar while they abet war crimes.

"The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir."

Circle as big as how much your account gets interacted with on X, and Elon Musk is a huge dot in the middle dwarfing everything else like the sun

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

So is the summary, and the study (not without its issues) is from last year and has been circulated and recirculated many times.

I hope and suspect model size will eventually have a more rational relationship to deployment use case, but I don't think the use of Very Big Models will go away e.g. in scientific applications.

If we stick with "Claude is good enough", we're basically setting the stage for a dependency that makes Microsoft's vendor lock-in look adorable in comparison.

I know you mention open weight models in the piece but IMO this goes beyond just "the market will trend towards open".

I'm mostly with you on this, but I'd like to see a stronger societal push for public interest AI. Policy can help: copyleft-style requirements for large-scale training runs; gov't procurement rules that require open weight models; etc.

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I’m still collecting stories and I want to hear from you.

Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Many people have been saying this since 2022, but it's never too late to join this particular party:

Remember all of those times you said you would pick up an indie game if it was on sale.

Now's that time.

Here's a list of solid titles you can pick up for less than 5 bucks.

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats

Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

just a reminder to editors, please use accurate photos when describing extreme heat. do not use photos of kids frolicking in fountains.

Medicaid: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

What has 14 months of Trump meant for Medicaid?

Less funding and staff. Way more red tape for millions of low-income recipients. 10 million more people losing health insurance by 2034.

In that case the regulation is absolutely not working as intended. And that has the effects outlined in the paper, and is up to the regulator to fix.

Even if sites only implemented cookie banners when they strictly needed to, they would _still_ be a bad regulatory mechanism.

How are cookie banners _not_ born out of EU regulations? Would they exist if the relevant EU regulations (ePrivacy directive, GDPR) didn't?

Thrilled to publish my latest article

BAN COOKIE BANNERS: A CASE STUDY IN TECH REGULATION

with the Harv. J. of Law & Tech!

A cri de cœur to end this worse-than-useless regulatory compliance regime and let something that actually protects users take its place.

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ah yes, the obligatory "this is not a quagmire", typically uttered as we enter into another quagmire

Inside China’s robotics revolution The long read: How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out

Inside China’s robotics revolution

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