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🇧🇬 The civil association BOEC has announced the alleged discovery of a site linked to the Russian private military company Wagner near the Bulgarian village of Kladnitsa in Pernik region, - Novinite

if you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Dr. Who", or "Transformers.”

How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code Last week I hinted at a demo I had seen from a team implementing what Dan Shapiro called the Dark Factory level of AI adoption, where no human even looks …

I wrote about the most ambitious form of AI-assisted software development I've seen yet - Strong DM's "Software Factory" approach, where two of the guiding principles are "Code must not be written by humans" and "Code must not be reviewed by humans" simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/s...

Move Over, ChatGPT You are about to hear a lot more about Claude Code.

Spending more time with Claude Code tonight and I do think one basic reality is that AI skeptics need to update their priors: Plenty of cause for concern, plenty of room to hit these companies for unethical behavior, resource demands, etc, but we are so, so far past the era of "stochastic parrots"

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Oldest has a question. 🧪

What type of scientists are responsible for making sure nature is happy and fixing it when it hurts?

Conservation officer
Environmental scientist
Wildlife veterinarian
Who else?

As great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.

Get Good at Agents The tools are getting so powerful that we need to change how we scope, manage, and approach our work.

Get Good at Agents
The tools are getting so powerful that we need to change how we scope, manage, and approach our work.
A.k.a. not getting them to work is a skill issue.
www.interconnects.ai/p/get-good-a...

So anyway, xAI's response to rampant use of Grok to generate CSAM and sexual abuse is to... monetize it

I think the Greenland threat is a troll. I think.

But it would sure be nice for some senators and GOP house members to speak up now and make it clear that an attack on a nato ally would lead to removal from office

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

Winning the Oil Endgame - RMI This independent, peer-reviewed synthesis for American business and military leaders charts a roadmap for getting the United States completely, attractively, and profitably off oil. Our strategy integ...

My sense is that China is using this oldie but goodie @rockymountviews.bsky.social playbook to destroy global oil demand. With subsidized EV technology, China can help 50+ emerging markets destroy 3-4 million barrels per day of oil demand by 2030.

Finnish learn media literacy since pre-school to resist Russian disinfo

My highly educated family needs to do it too:
"students have been learning about fake news and disinformation for years, beginning with reading headlines and short texts... the fourth graders were tasked with coming up with […]

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. I have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. I was just starting to make progress with Claude Code when security asked me to leave because I “don’t work there” and “nobody knows who I am”

I suggest we call this “The Epstein Files War”.

Pebble Round 2 - The Most Stylish Pebble Ever Pebble Round 2 - The Most Stylish Pebble Ever

Oh, new Pebble round watch! Pebble Round 2 announced today!

Most notable to me:
* waterproof
* 2w battery life

#Pebble

repebble.com/blog/pebble-round-2-the-...

This is your energy for 2026

*via Zjaan on masto/original source unknown

Guy with a wolf draped across his head, from behind on a raised platform, another wolf is draped across the first both on hind legs. Guy looks bemused

Behind you there are two wolves

A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.

Open up this picture fully.

Then look at the surface of Mars.

Then look up to the top right.

Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.

Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.

That's Earth.

The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Progress, and Predictions A 2025 review of large language models, from DeepSeek R1 and RLVR to inference-time scaling, benchmarks, architectures, and predictions for 2026.

Uploaded my State of LLMs 2025 report for this year:
magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-l...

I planned to just write a brief overview, but yeah, it was an eventful year so it was impossible to keep it below 7000 words :D.

Happy birthday to Anthony S. Fauci! He won a #LaskerAward in 2007 for his role as the principal architect of two major U.S. governmental programs — one aimed at #AIDS and the other at biodefense. 🧪 ow.ly/gYBZ30mlgJf #NIAIDNews

In the snow, these salamanders get supercool Blue spotted salamanders have been seen walking across snow and new research suggests how they get by in the cold.

I've felt starved for cool science news in 2025. Here's a small morsel! 🧪 www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...

Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

human user speaks fluent Claude, instance shocked

BREAKING on MS NOW:

Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:

"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

Пост на Bozhidar Bozhanov!
7 мин
Абсолютно безобразие. Току-що бюджетът, който взриви обществото, отново беше вкаран за гласуване. Пеевски и Борисов искат да си купят изборите и продължават с безкрайната арогантност. 20 млрд. дълг, корупционни касичко, всичко.
Утре, четвъртък, 18:00ч, отново протест

👀 BlackRock just lost another ~$6B mandate after backsliding on addressing climate risk to its clients’ portfolios.

NYC pension trustees meet this week and could approve the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social recommendation to shift $42B for the same reason. 🍿

New: Anthropic API Compatibility. Use Claude Code with your Poe account to save up to 15% and have a single bill for all AI spend across providers.

You can learn more at: creator.poe.com/docs/externa....

I am late to the game but I finally read the NeurIPS 2025 best paper on gating in LLMs, it is great.

Qiu et al.
Alibaba, U Edinburg, Stanford, MIT, Tsinghua U
arxiv.org/abs/2505.06708

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