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Development
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PHP Foundation today announcement
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“The leak wasn’t OpenAI’s fault. Chainguard unilaterally broke the embargo by releasing built images with fixes before the vulnerabilities were disclosed, forcing maintainers to scramble to release the patches early. This industry is small and you just can’t…”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“PHP Foundation kind of found the first vuln in 2024 but "the PHP security team, operating on consensus, struggled to choose between these and feared the repercussions of shipping the wrong choice" don't dunk on a bunch of volunteers for that; dunk on everyo…”
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11h ago
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“Great piece on why AI is not conscious, from people who really know what they’re talking about www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
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11h ago
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“Great piece on why AI is not conscious, from people who really know what they’re talking about www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
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11h ago
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5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Great piece on why AI is not conscious, from people who really know what they’re talking about www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
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11h ago
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5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Great piece on why AI is not conscious, from people who really know what they’re talking about www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
Chestnut Grove data center community fight
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“An endangered American Chestnut grove is under threat from a proposed data center. West Virginia governor wants to simply move the trees, says they will die anyway. Good stuff: www.404media.co/west-virgini...”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“After this backlash, Nscale is saying they've never planned to "bulldoze" the trees, as viral social media posts claimed. But they and the governor's office do plan to move them, which experts say will almost definitely kill them within a few years. www.404…”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“In addition to being overwhelmingly unpopular with the communities where they’re built, and despite the trillions of dollars dumped into their development, data center projects and the industry at large around the world are starting to flounder.”
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6h ago
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Kind of fascinating that both Google and OpenAI are claiming credit for their AI tools discovering (apparently independently) the massive, scary PHP vulnerability that is taking down sites across the internet today. cloud.google.com/blog/product... openai.c…”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Companies I talk to are struggling with the rate of patches they need to do thanks to AI defenses finding issues before the coming wave of incoming cyberattacks by other AIs. Now consumers are going to have the same experience of getting everything updated …”
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2h ago
AI bot midterm fact-checking lessons
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“I built an AI Community Notewriter. And here's why I think X's Community Notes is going to fail when election rumors about "rigged machines" and "illegal voters" start flying. agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/i-built-an...”
“Really interesting hands-on digging from @noupside.bsky.social on some ways Notes has gone sideways on X: agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/i-built-an...”
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“We're hiring. openai.com/index/openai...”
Google staff resign Pentagon AI contracts
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“Google’s defense is ‘We are still following our AI Principles.’ For a good laugh, follow the link in the story to their current ‘AI Principles’, and read them. Then scroll down to the links to older ‘AI Progress’ reports, and compare today’s Principles with…”
“DeepMind engineer Sofia Liguori just resigned from Google in protest of the company's Pentagon contract. I interviewed her about her decision and the future of AI dissent: theintercept.com/2026/10/21/g...”
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11h ago
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Markets & investment
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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“A striking Foreign Affairs piece by Niall Ferguson, Lisa Klaassen & Eric Schmidt: AI is becoming not just a technology stack, but a power stack: chips, energy, compute, capital, models, standards. For Europe, sovereignty cannot stop at “European models.” #A…”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“ICYMI: In their @foreignaffairs.com essay, Niall Ferguson, Eric Schmidt and @oii.ox.ac.uk's Lisa Klaassen argue that AI is an imperial technology, not just a commercial one, and that Washington and Beijing are building rival empires of intelligence. More: w…”
Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“So how is everyone feeling about learning that we're all imperial subjects after all, and that the only way to prevent the decline of the American empire is to prop up closed AI controlled by a few billionaires? www.foreignaffairs.com/china/empire...”
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3h ago
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global workspace theory language models paper
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Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“here is the Anthropic blog: transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa... I don't really like the framing of whether LLMs are conscious or not. It's completely unnecessary. As is the hand-waiving about whether LLMs have something equivalent to the (functional) g…”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“Anthropic uses the word “conscious” 206 times in their latest research Specifically, they’re showing that LLMs implement one of the leading explanations of consciousness in humans (see pic) transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa...”
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Anil Dash: this is not an accurate description of what's happening. not least because I can write code and get them to output something different there. I can understand why it *seems* that way, but this is j…
Anil Dash: Who are you explaining this to?
Anil Dash: Do you see why explaining "All output from AI has to be validated" in a reply to me here is... not a useful contribution?
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critical computer website resource
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Reminder: critical.computer#about > This is therefore a no AI zone in at least two ways: no talking about it (as much as possible) as a central topic — and absolutely no using it.”
companies pull back from AI rush
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Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Microsoft found that “adding agents to a broken process still leaves a broken process” and “speeding up one step just creates a longer queue at the next” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“You could 've asked any experienced information system/tech researchers, & we could have told you what would happen. ”Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back. Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work." w…”
rea reverse engineering agent tool
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“All of this is good news. Some of the most sophisticated jailbreaking tools (such as those on the super viral "Reverse Engineer Anything" Github page) run locally, on your own computer, without invoking the "frontier models" that the big, awful AI companies…”
“All those vibecode-anything-ports gonna lead to everything running in the cloud. And then, there's this: github.com/morluto/rea/ "GitHub project called REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) lets AI agents figure out how a feature in another app works without ever…”
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“We are hiring!! "Artificial intelligence, broadly construed. This includes embodied AI and robotics, machine learning and the systems that support it, and AI developed for problems in science, engineering, medicine, education, and society." jobs.wisc.edu/jo…”
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“Aren't the bots "supposed" to decline answering these questions? JFC convovo.ai/ballot/ by/via my colleague Tap Parikh”
