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Carmack's Quake Regrets: Too Ambitious, Pushed the Team Too Hard
John Carmack, reflecting on Quake's 30th anniversary, lays out what he considers his early mistakes at id Software. Chief among them: Quake was technically over
Elden Ring's Boss AI Is Just a Stack of States and Weighted Dice Rolls
FromSoftware's reputation for brutal, varied enemy encounters rests on a surprisingly simple architecture, as revealed by community efforts to decompile and rev
Export Controls Cut NSA Off From Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI
Parts of the NSA lost access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 model after the Trump administration imposed export controls on the company this month, citing national sec
Filippo Valsorda: LLMs Have Ended the Era of the Special Vulnerability Report
Open source maintainers have long held vulnerability reports to a higher standard than ordinary issues or pull requests. Former Go Security team lead Filippo Va
FUTO Builds Swipe-Typing Model on 1M Crowdsourced Gestures, Dataset Free on HuggingFace
FUTO crowdsourced its way to a new swipe-typing model by collecting real gesture data instead of relying on synthetic input. Starting in August 2024, volunteers
Google fired the engineer behind a viral Workspace CLI — then shipped its own
Justin Poehnelt says Google terminated him roughly two months ago over an unofficial Google Workspace command-line tool he built, which briefly went viral: it t
GSM-R radio failure freezes Germany's entire rail network for hours
A nationwide failure of GSM-R, the digital radio system Deutsche Bahn uses for internal railway communication, forced Germany to halt every train late Tuesday.
Jerry's Map: a 60-year imaginary city built by an algorithm of cards
What began in 1963 as a bored office worker's doodle has become a sprawling generative-art system. Jerry's Map is an imaginary city rendered across more than 4,
Krea 2: An open-weights 12B image model tuned for creative range, not safe defaults
Krea has released Krea 2, a 12-billion-parameter open-weights image generation model built around a contrarian premise: most production diffusion models have co
LeCun makes the political case for open-source AI as the only path to sovereignty
At the UN's Open Source Week, Yann LeCun—Meta's former chief AI scientist—argued that open-source models are the only viable route to AI sovereignty for most of
LSE extreme heat conference scrapped after UK issues red extreme-heat warning
An LSE Grantham Research Institute event on improving global governance around extreme heat has been cancelled because the UK Met Office issued a red extreme-he
Meta Halts Worker-Surveillance AI Program After Internal Data Exposure
Meta has suspended its Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI), a controversial program that captured employees' keystrokes, mouse movements, clicks, and screen co