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  “This former Google engineer has endeavoured to turn #Rust into a library that other languages can build from, demonstrating a way to pass generic #DataTypes and #functions between Rust and another language, an action the C #ABI doesn’t support.” #RustLang / #EvanOvadia / #ElReg

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  Asking Dave if his #sendmail is patched 😩🤪☺️ #PDP11 / #DavePlummer / #PDPGary

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  1975 blasting “Journey to the centre of the earth” with #RickWakeman on #vinyl through the house 🔊🎼💥 2026 Reading the news, turn it up and watch Rick playing grand 🎹 to rescued bears in Tam Dao national park, Vietnam ☺️ #Bears / #AnimalRights

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  AI “frontier model” software disruption as a service; Driving up 🔺the cost of digital services, hack by hack. #AI / #OpEd

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  “The rent-a-GPU business, which emerged from #cryptocurrency miner #ArkonEnergy, filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday….The #FinancialTimes previously reported that the company was targeting a valuation of up to $35 billion. The filing shows how costly Nscale's expansion has been. #Revenue surged from $10.4 million to $140.6 million in the six months to June 30, but its #NetLoss widened from $368.9 million to $1.02 billion o...

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  “three times thicker than your wildest Wonder White dreams” 🍚🍛🍶 #TaiyoSun / #Fitzroy / #FitzroyNorth

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  1994 I’m constantly told by RDBMS lecturers that all input cannot be trusted and various techniques applied because you cant trust user input. 2026 “A bug-hunting independent security research team used #Anthropic’s #Claude software to gain access to an #OpenAI employee’s #ChatGPT account, giving them a way to read and suggest changes to the company’s private cache of software.” — #RobertMcMillan, WSJ (Sep 17, ‘26) #AI / #CodeInjection / #DefectiveCode / #CyberSecurity / #BullshitBoi (paywa...

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  “Meta’s main office in Australia remains in Sydney, with its local operations led by British executive William Easton. The $550 million, 51 Flinders Lane building at the Paris end of the #Melbourne CBD was developed by real estate investment manager GPT and built by Lend Lease. An official opening function will be held next week.” “A source connected to the building’s development but unauthorised to speak publicly told this masthead that #Meta had secured the 15th floor of the building’s 39-le...

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  “I was passing a slow vehicle turning right when my car suddenly braked hard on a bend, skidding in gravel towards a deep culvert. A moment later it computed there had been no danger anyway and released control back to me. I’d been briefly overruled by a machine, and could have been killed. After stopping to deactivate the active cruise control, I, the human, was back in charge. The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (Ancap) has identified deficiencies with Adas, and in March announced new...

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  ‘Idleness’, Godward 1900 #NeoClassicism

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  Watching the #AIDoc… a union of unrestricted #tehc #ai #boywonder “white guys over 50” with “white guys under 30” who never took a class in history, politics, law or art et.,ct.

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  “On Monday, Defence Minister #RichardMarles headed to the USA for meetings with America’s top #AI firms as part of a bid to secure a $21 billion deal to make Australia a second home for tech giant Anthropic.”

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  “For years, Meta intentionally deceived the public about the addictive and harmful design features that have wreaked havoc on youth mental health," — Jay Jones, Attorney General, Virginia, USA* #TheSocialReckoning / #ThatGuy / #MarkZuckerberg / #FaceBook / #Meta / #SocialMedia / #addiction #algorithm / #TeenMentalHealth / #MentalHealth / *

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  How’d we go in the cricket yesterday? 🏏 “Right, over to #Australia’s batters, and Matt #Renshaw in particular. With his strong frame, Don #Mattingly sideburns, and no-longer-for-charity dirty mo, the #Queenslander looks like the composite #Australian male 30 year old.” #Australia / #Cricket / #AusSport

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  “AI webpage #crawlers are now being served their very own #ads that ordinary visitors never see, with one firm's boss openly describing a strategy to influence what #chatbots say about #brands. The next time you ask Claude about where to bank, its answer may have been influenced by this #BotTargeted content. We only have one documented example so far, and that's Time serving #AIOnly ads to selected AI crawlers, as spotted by Germany based freelance software developer #VincentSchmalbach....

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  A 2.43 kilometres per second lunar collision with the #moon 384400 km away. (0) #NASA trajectory calculations for free-return during #Apollo required a 3 body problem solution. How is the #Falcon9 trajectory by chance? Why? (1) (0) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx25yn22l97o (1) https://www.kroneckerwallis.com/apollo-navigation-how-nasa-plotted-the-translunar-trajectory-to-the-moon/

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  ♬ I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving / England is mine, it owes me a living / but ask me why and I'll spit in your eye ♬

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  ♬ I am the son and the heir / of a shyness that is criminally vulgar / I am the son and heir / of nothing in particular / you shut your mouth / how can you say / I go about things the wrong way? ♬ #TheSmiths / #JohnnyMarr / #Manchester / #RockMusic / #rock 1984 Marr / Smiths

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  “if your $500K engineer isn’t burning $250K in #tokens, something is wrong.” — Jensen Huan, Nvidia CEO #AI / #AIBubble / #engineer / #FinancialEngineering / #NVidia / #JensenHuan (paywall) /

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  ♬ when I was young / it seemed that life was so wonderful / a miracle / oh, it was beautiful, magical / and all the birds in the trees / well, they'd be singing so happily / oh, joyfully / oh, playfully watching me ♬

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  “Situational Awareness LP was named for a series of facile essays about machine intelligence published by the improbably-named #LeopoldAschenbrenner, the 24-year-old mastermind of the hedge fund. “We are building machines that can think and reason,” he writes, betraying that he has no idea what thinking could possibly mean. “By 2025/26, these #machines will outpace many college #PostGraduates By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have #superintelligence in the...

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  ♬ set me down, so I don't get away / I can't find it, I'm behind it / sell me short, and yet, you're here to stay / moving slower / did you know her? / oh, several got away ♬ #DinosaurJr 🦖 / #amhurst / #rock

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  ♬ The dream of the 90’s is alive in Portland ♬ “…In Portland you can go to a record store and sell your C.D's” ♬ turn that dirty clown frown / right upside down ♬

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  “China has crossed a milestone that many in the semiconductor industry once viewed as years away. A #Chinese state-backed company has begun mass producing homegrown immersion deep ultraviolet #DUV #lithography machines, marking the country’s first commercial manufacturing effort for one of the most advanced and tightly controlled pieces of #chipmaking equipment. The move gives Chinese chipmakers their strongest domestic alternative yet to Western lithography systems and marks another step in Be...

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  As an edge case, I missed out on those fancy “Alert 🚨” messages. My silenced, iPh8 16.x.y phone was silent. POTS over fibre silent. Like not wearing a watch, never knowing the exact time; Able to get the rough time through observing the environment.

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  The AI deleted his home directory, not Matt, “granting #AI, Admin privileges” 🤨 #LLM / #SysAdmin / #Techweenie

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  ♫ The kids are alright ♫