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Every post and feed across this instance
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On Reddit ending RSS feeds, this stuff about “large-scale scraping and automated abuse” is an excuse, right? Presumably they just want to keep all their (or their users) content for their AI licensing deals?
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The AI Buildout is a Boon for the Fossil Fuel Industry w/ Ketan Joshi
Tech companies are working with the fossil fuel industry to push unnecessary data center projects while misrepresenting the climate impact — and governments are letting it all happen. Ketan Joshi joins Paris Marx to discuss how the data center buildout is driving a surge in fossil fuel investment, and how it’s all playing out in Australia.
Ketan Joshi is a climate writer and data analyst based in Oslo working with climate and environmental groups.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.
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- Ketan wrote a report on how Big Tech is greenwashing their destructive climate impacts.
- Ketan worked with Greenpeace to put out a report on how NVIDIA is greenwashing to hide their climate impacts.
- Ketan worked with Greenpeace on a report that explores how Australia’s data center buildout is completely derailing their renewable energy transition.
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Cancer du sein : être femme autrement - teaser
Quand on parle de cancer du sein, on pense aux traitements, à la chimio, aux opérations...
Mais qu'est-ce que la maladie change dans le rapport à son propre corps ? À ses cheveux, à ses seins, à sa féminité, à son désir d'enfant ?
Pour Octobre Rose mené par Ruban Rose, Michèle et Louve me racontent deux parcours très différents, mais une même épreuve : apprendre à se reconnaître dans un corps que la maladie a profondément bouleversé.
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Les favorites de Monsieur H I Bande-annonce
Zoé a 17 ans quand elle entre en prépa littéraire. Elle découvre la coloc, la vie étudiante et les cours de latin captivants de Monsieur H : le prof que tous les élèves admirent. Quand il commence à la contacter en dehors des cours pour lui parler de poésie et de théâtre, elle se sent spéciale.
Des années plus tard, Zoé comprend qu’elle n’était pas la seule.
Les anciennes favorites de Monsieur H se retrouvent pour mener l’enquête : Combien d’élèves ont été les proies de ce professeur ? Et surtout : comment a-t-il pu multiplier les relations amoureuses avec des étudiantes sans que personne ne l’arrête ?
CRÉDITS : « Les favorites de Monsieur H » est une série du Cœur sur la table, un podcast de Binge. Écriture et incarnation : Zoé Neboit. Direction artistique et production : Juliette Livartowski. Prise de son et réalisation : Paul Bertiaux. Composition originale : Elo Cotton. Dans le rôle de Monsieur H : Laurent Natrella. Les épisodes ont été enregistrés aux studios URBANIA Audio. Responsable des productions éditoriales : Charlotte Baix. Développement éditorial : Naomi Titti. Rédaction en chef : Thomas Rozec. Direction de production : Albane Fily. Identité graphique : Jocelyn Besnard. Stagiaire : Aude Miquel.
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Guide pour être un meilleur amoureux
Pourquoi c’est si compliqué d’être un bon amoureux ? Pourquoi, dans les couples hétéros, c’est encore souvent une femme qui pense aux courses, aux rendez-vous et à ce qui ne va pas dans le couple ? Pourquoi est-ce si difficile, pour certains hommes, de parler de leurs émotions, d’écouter vraiment ou simplement de voir tout ce que l’autre fait ?
Alors, comment faire mieux ? Comment apprendre à être plus à l’écoute, à prendre sa part du quotidien, à parler de ce qu’on ressent et à se remettre en question ? Bref, comment devenir un meilleur partenaire ? Et comment savoir quand une dispute, une jalousie ou un comportement de contrôle commence à dépasser les limites ?
Pour en parler, Tal Madesta reçoit Ynaée Benaben, cofondatrice et directrice générale de l'association En avant toute(s), autrice de Comment on s’aime (2023, Eds. Mango) et Serge Hefez, psychiatre et psychanalyste, auteur de La danse du couple (2010, Hachette) et de C’est quoi l’amour ? (2026, Bayard Jeunesse).
Toutes les références de l’épisodes sont disponibles sur le site : https://www.binge.audio/podcast/les-couilles-sur-la-table/
CRÉDITS : Les Couilles sur la table est un podcast créé par Victoire Tuaillon produit par Binge (URBANIA AUDIO). Cet entretien a été préparé, mené et monté par Tal Madesta, enregistré le 11 septembre 2026 dans le studio de podcasts d’Urbania Audio (Paris 10e). Supervision éditoriale et incarnation : Naomi Titti. Réalisation et mixage : Octave Bothier. Responsable des productions éditoriales : Charlotte Baix. Assistante de production et d’édition : Aude Miquel. Rédacteur en chef : Thomas Rozec. Directrice de production : Albane Fily. Responsable administrative et financière : Adrienne Marino. Responsable sponsoring : Betty-Maeva Wendling. Musique originale : Théo Boulenger. Identité graphique : Camille Bernard (Upian). Composition identité sonore : Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Voix identité sonore : Bonnie El Bokeili. Direction de contenu : Sophie Marchand. Binge est une marque URBANIA.
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Des idées empoisonnées
Simon* perd son travail, son appartement, et sa relation de longue date. A cela s’ajoute le covid et les confinements. Au cœur de cette débâcle, Paul*, une vieille connaissance, lui tend la main et l’aide à trouver un logement à deux pas de chez lui. Dans un contexte où tous les deux sont isolés, ils nouent rapidement un lien. Mais Paul commence à faire part d’idées complotistes, que Simon ignore dans un premier temps. Jusqu’au jour où les idées de Paul mettent sa vie en danger. Que doit faire Simon ? Aider cette connaissance malgré tout, alors qu’il n’a plus aucun terrain d’entente avec lui ?
*Les prénoms ont été modifiés pour protéger l’anonymat du témoin.
**La voix de Simon a également été légèrement modifiée pour protéger son anonymat.
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Rusty Republicans and Ruthless Democrats
Kate and Josh talk September surprises for some Republican incumbents, SCOTUS' return to Trump's side, and Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt's rake step.
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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912499
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Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13th
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1002788/old-reddit-ai-scraping
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912288
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One Year
Today marks a year since my little sister, Lisa, took her own life. She was 34.
It was an overdose, but we don't know if it was an accident or suicide. We’ll never get an answer, yet I lean toward believing it was by choice. As grim as it sounds, picturing her with some control over the end brings me a small measure of peace.
I still think about her every day, and I still get upset regularly. Especially when I've been to visit my nephew and I see the sadness in his eyes.
At first I was angry at the selfishness of it all, but I think that's gone now. These days I'm just sad.
Mum blames herself, and has asked me numerous times where she went wrong. I never have an answer for that. What can I say? "Well the rest of us turned out ok, Mum. So you did fine." That feels dismissive of her emotions. So I just give her a sad smile and ask her to not think those things.
I miss her. I miss her laugh and dry sense of humour. I miss how she would always call people on their bullshit. Never afraid of speaking up.
Hopefully next year it will be a little less raw...
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Je me suis créé un petit service sympa qui me permet de recevoir toutes les noti...
Je me suis créé un petit service sympa qui me permet de recevoir toutes les notifications de la @skyfleet.blue sur mon téléphone grâce à NTFY, le but n’est pas de répondre à toutes les personnes mais plutôt d’intervenir si une source est compromise, ou si un post doit être modéré etc… C’est un outil de modération qui agrège les notifications, citations et réponses au 40 comptes de la flotte.
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Plume 1.7.0 is now available on both Firefox and Chrome like stores, still a few...
Plume 1.7.0 is now available on both Firefox and Chrome like stores, still a few quirks to fix on mobile but it works… Writing this and syndicating to Bluesky & Mastodon from Plume.
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Testing Plume Micropub extension from Vivaldi mobile 😀
Testing Plume Micropub extension from Vivaldi mobile 😀
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September 2026: the world today, as seen by one Polish guy | Tom Wojcik
Very interesting article, connecting the dots for why we’re in the cluster fuck we’re in now.
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The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data
Don’t sleep on [@ultrapouches]. New customers get 15% Off with code 404MEDIA at takeultra.com! #UltraPouches #ad We start this week with Joseph’s stories on the massive FBI hack. 404 Media broke this news and continued to cover the breach of data on all FBI employees and their spouses. After the break, Jason tells us how a surveillance company is telling cops it wants to add facial recognition tech to Flock camera data. In the subscribers-only section, Jason and Joseph chat all about Muse, Meta’s new agentic AI, and how humans are actually behind some of the tasks. Because of course. ‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras Subscribe at 404media.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
Testin Plume 1.7.0 When this version review is accepted, you should be able to u...
Testin Plume 1.7.0
When this version review is accepted, you should be able to use this extension from mobile ! making Plume mobile compatible on both Firefox and Chromium based browsers.
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Blue Wave on the Prairie? with Josh Turek
As Democrats across the country work to flip red seats blue this November, Jon is joined by four-time Paralympian and U.S. Senate candidate, Josh Turek, to discuss the "prairie populism" fueling his campaign in Iowa. Together, they unpack how Iowa voters are responding to Trump, Turek's approach to working across the aisle, and the common-sense policies he says can bring people together. Plus, Jon answers listeners’ questions about useful idiots, the downside of a Democratic win, and Sixers in 6?! This episode is sponsored by: GROUND NEWS - Go to https://groundnews.com/stewart to see how any news story is being framed by news outlets around the world and across the political spectrum. Use this link to get 40% off unlimited access with the Vantage Subscription. UPWORK - Visit https://Upwork.com/TWS right now and post your job for free. NPR - Listen now to the NPR Politics Podcast in the NPR app or wherever you get podcasts. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Associate Producer - Rebecca Rottenberg Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoiceswww.podtrac.com -
Renee Spencer, Part 2 - The Jesus Christians, the “Kidney Cult,” and Suing Your Daughter’s Religious Group
This week is part two with advocate and therapist Renee Spencer, who sued the Jesus Christians, aka the “kidney cult,” after they recruited her daughter. Last week, Renee explained how she realized her daughter Ellicia’s communication was being controlled, and this week she picks back up on Ellicia’s mysterious whereabouts around the world--going wherever the group sent her, cutting off emotional contact, and virtually disappearing from Renee's life.
Renee shares how the group’s leader, Dave McKay, began accusing her of being a Satan worshipper, which was used to demonize her and keep Ellicia away. Renee shares how she’s connected with other parents, what she learned about some of the things her daughter has been through (including their highly punitive “grievance” system), and how Renee finally took Dave McKay to court.
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Can a Democratic Socialist Win in Deep-Red Florida?
More To The Story: Back in August, Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon did something few outside the state saw coming: She won Florida's Democratic US Senate primary. Her victory sent shock waves through the political world not only because her opponent Alex Vindman’s war chest dwarfed hers 19 to 1, but also because Nixon ran as a Democratic Socialist. Today, she’s one of a number of candidates around the country affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America who could be elected to Congress this November. The sudden rise in the DSA’s popularity is reshaping the Democratic Party and America’s political landscape. On this week’s More To The Story, Nixon talks to host Al Letson about going from community activist and comic book co-author to upstart US Senate candidate, being “the biggest thorn” in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ side, and whether her progressive message can win in deep-red Florida.
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Read: Angie Nixon Goes on Trial in September. She Just Won Florida’s Senate Primary. (Mother Jones)
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RSS Feeds for Last.fm
Article URL: https://lfm.xiffy.nl/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49903862
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Show HN: Social news aggregator, RSS feed tracker, and publishing platform
I wrote two prior RSS feed aggregator apps a few years ago, based on Electron, for my own personal use (https://github.com/Dotnaught/rssputin) and earlier this year I decided to see whether the concept would work as a hosted app.
Going with a multiuser system seemed to point toward more social features and the project has evolved into a combination of news aggregation site, personal news tracker, and social publishing service.
Feel free to suggest possible improvements.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49902577
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Soap Box: HD Moore talks OT security, frontier fearmongering and more
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with industry legend HD Moore about how his company runZero wound up being used heavily to discover OT devices in enterprise networks.
They also talk about the vulnpocalypse and how frontier lab fearmongering is reminiscent of the collective freakout when HD released the Metasploit exploit framework back in 2003.
This episode is also available on YouTube.
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OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog
I'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day.
OpenAI gave me a free ticket and a seat in the "creator" area for the keynote.
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2026-09-29 16:03: I think it's time... #Ubuntu
I think it's time... #Ubuntu
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Impeach Pete Hegseth?
Senate Democrats signal they may be open to impeaching Pete Hegseth after the election if the House has the votes for it.
Jon, Tommy, and Lovett discuss why that trial would be a great use of a new Democratic Senate majority, Trump saying that the American economy is "the best in the world" despite record-setting diesel prices and stunningly low consumer sentiment, and Mike Johnson's new claim that opposition to new data centers is "a Chinese psy-op."
Plus, AI labs pause development of their most advanced models (over the president's objections), Ambassador to China David Perdue admits that Trump tried to sell weapons to Xi Jinping, the White House keeps running political ads with taxpayer money, and Fox News's Greg Gutfeld sounds off — on overweight sex workers.
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The Cult of Dog People
This week, Amanda and Chelsea enter The Cult of Dog People, from pup birthday parties and breed evangelists to raw-feeding wars, “adopt don’t shop” morality, and the steadfast conviction that your dog can detect bad vibes better than you can. How did man’s best friend become a personality trait and a reason to feel morally superior to cat owners? We (lovingly) poke fun at the dog people culture before taking a much darker turn with our anonymous listener who, for the first time publicly, shares her experience working inside what she now describes as a dog-training cult. And this cult had everything: an isolated property, a charismatic guru, secretive and abusive training methods, rigid scripts, and the belief that hurting dogs could be justified because they were “saving lives.” Content Warning: Cruelty to animals. Please take care while listening. Subscribe to Sounds Like A Cult on Youtube!Follow us on IG @soundslikeacultpod, @amanda_montell, @reesaronii, @chelseaxcharles, @imanharirikia. Pre-order Iman's new book, Once in a Timeline, here! Your pre-order helps make more books possible! Sounds Like A Cult is coming to you LIVE from The Elysian in LA on October 15th! Get tickets at soundslikeacult.com! Thank you to our sponsors! Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Download the Quince app for app-exclusive offers, or go to https://Quince.com/slac To get your new wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to https://MintMobile.com/slac Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicespdst.fm -
Je pensais à un truc : pourquoi on se parle si mal ?
Je trouve qu’on se parle mal et qu’on s’écoute encore moins ! Entre ce qu’on essaie de dire, ce que l’autre entend et tout ce que notre ego vient foutre au milieu, on finit parfois par abîmer des relations pour parfois pas grand chose.Je pensais à un truc là-dessus, alors j’ai pris mon téléphone et j’ai enregistré !Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
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Milestone with Frontier
We are getting close to a workable Frontier.
Picked a file at random, docserver.root -- it's an object database that contains all the writing and code to build the docserver.userland.com site.
Took a few trials, uncovered bugs in the new kernel, it's not as simple a site as you might imagine. More here.
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The 30 Most Democratic & 30 Most Republican Major Cities In The US
The two maps here come from Josh Metcalf at VoteHub and show the 30 most Democratic and 30 most Republican major metro areas from the top 100 in the United States. The data is based on the 2024 presidential results within CBSA boundaries. The 30 Most Democratic Cities are: San Francisco, CA – D+55.2 Washington, […] -
Introducing “The Speaker: How Nancy Pelosi Changed the Face of Power”
Before her historic Speakership, even before she got to the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi worked for years outside the spotlight as an official in the California Democratic party while she raised her family in San Francisco. That
was until 1987, when tragic circumstances led her to do something she hadn’t considered before: run for Congress. Her first hurdle? A city in crisis and a motivated opponent from a community impacted by a deadly epidemic.
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The End of Privacy Is Here (with Kashmir Hill)
Facial recognition is everywhere now. It’s in surveillance cameras; it’s soon going to be in Meta’s RayBan pervert glasses, and some students already did that. You now have massively viral accounts that take clips of people, run them through facial recognition software, and then post their name and other personal info for everyone to see. We haven’t fully come to terms with what it means to live in a world where anyone can basically dox anyone else now. To talk through this, Joseph spoke to Kashmir Hill. She’s a reporter at the New York Times, and the author of Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy. Take back control today: go to incogni.com/404media and use code 404MEDIA for 60% off an annual plan. That's incogni.com/404media, promo code 404MEDIA—risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee. YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/aUFnQPtxJ9o Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
Sean Miller: From Jehovah’s Witness to Apostate Artist (Part 1)
Sean Miller grew up as a Jehovah's Witness golden boy—son of a highly respected elder, raised in what he calls a nearly perfect JW family, and groomed from infancy to be the best Witness in the room. The only problem? Nobody asked Sean. He wanted to shred guitar and make art, but was too busy passing an invisible bar exam at five years old, with love that felt conditional on performance.
We get Sean's full origin story: how a rock band, a spiritually feisty Pentecostal girl, and a forbidden relationship got him disfellowshipped the first time—which, for the uninitiated, means treated like you're dead by everyone you've ever known, effective immediately. He got reinstated, got married, started a family, and lasted about 10 more years before his ex-wife picked up Crisis of Conscience and blew the lid off everything. Cue the Australian Royal Commission testimony on child sexual abuse within the Jehovah's Witnesses, the laundry folding, the sobbing, and the full worldview collapse.
We also get into the ex-JW community, cult hopping, and the real danger of trying to fill the cult-shaped hole in your heart. Part 2 brings the book, the art, and the constructive use of all that very justified anger.
Be sure to pick up Sean’s book, Novice Enthusiasm: Belief, Rebuilt. Built One Line at a Time, visit his website, SeanGregoryMiller.com, and follow him on Instagram @seangregorymiller.
Trigger warning: This episode contains frank discussion of shunning, child sexual abuse institutional cover-up, and religious coercion.
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#527 – IA, cyberattaques, Smart TV : jusqu’où ira la technologie ?
Claude détourné par les hackers, Trump renomme l’IA et les CD reviennent.
Episode 527 avec Aurélien, Pierre et XavierSommaire
- A comme Anthropic : Shall we play a game? (00:00:48) Quand pirates et États détournent Claude pour automatiser leurs cyberoffensives. Sources anthropic.com, vulnerabilitydata.io et cvedetails.com.
- B comme Bataille : Quand Meta s'attaque à l'Apple Vision Pro. (00:13:27) Meta dévoile les VR Glasses, moins chères que l'Apple Vision Pro. Sources journaldugeek.com, generation-nt.com et meta.com.
- C comme Comptes : La Cour des Comptes lance "Qu'en dit la Cour ?" (00:27:55) Une IA "locale" pour fouiller les finances Francaises. Sources ccomptes.fr et recherche.ccomptes.fr.
- D comme Duel : LG vs Gamers Nexus, l'affrontement. (00:39:33) Entre discours officiel et réalité réseau. Sources next.ink, next.ink et lg.com.
- I comme Innovation : Torpedo, une lampe utile en cas de catastrophe. (00:51:05) La lampe Torpedo s'active grâce à l'eau. Sources neozone.org et jamesdysonaward.org.
- L comme Libre : Avez vous les oreilles libres ? (00:59:05) Bose sort deux modèles d'écouteurs Oreilles libres. Sources journaldugeek.com et lesnumeriques.com.
- N comme Nostalgie : Ne jetez pas vos spindle de CD-R ! (01:07:14) Le boom inattendu des supports physiques. Sources riaa.com, techcrunch.com et theverge.com.
- T comme Transplantation : Des chercheurs impriment des réseaux de capillaires sanguins. (01:20:08) Un espoir pour les greffes d'organes. Sources sciencepost.fr et nature.com.
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2026 in LLMs (so far)
On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube; here are my annotated slides and notes to accompany the talk.
And as an annotated presentation:
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I'm going to give a lightning tour of everything that has happened so far in 2026. The year isn't over yet!
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For me, 2026 started a couple of months earlier in November 2025.
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November saw the release of two important models: Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1.
As is usually the case with new models, these were incremental improvements on the models that came before them.
But every now and then when a model improves, it crosses an invisible line where something that didn't really work starts working.
In this case, the thing that started working was their coding agents. Claude Code had been around since February 2025; Codex was a little younger.
These two new models, when paired with their respective coding agent harnesses, improved from "often make mistakes" to "reliable enough to use on a day-to-day basis".
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For a couple of years now I've been evaluating new models by asking them to "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle". It's probably the world's stupidest benchmark - there's only so much you can learn from it.
But it's still a challenge for models, because drawing pelicans is difficult, drawing bicycles is difficult, and pelicans can't ride bicycles in the first place.
Here's the state of the art for November. Claude still couldn't really draw a bicycle! The GPT-5.1 bicycle frame is pretty crap too.
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Also in November, we had the first commit to an obscure GitHub repository called "Warelay". We'll come back to this repository shortly.
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And then there were the December holidays, and individual developers took some time off and many started tinkering with these new coding agent model combinations... and it began to dawn on us quite how much they could do that they couldn't do before.
Come January, a lot of us were quite excited to start putting this stuff into action.
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Every year I set myself a New Year's resolution, and for as long as I can remember it's been the same thing: stay focused. Take on less new projects. Try to get things done in the projects I already have.
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This year I decided that since that had never worked before, I'd go the other way.
We've got coding agents now, let's see what they can do. I'm going to take on as many new projects as I like!
(You can ask me at the end of the year if this turned out to be a good idea or not. I have a lot of plates spinning right now.)
"Be more ambitious" has been something of a theme for the year, because the only way to find the limits of this technology is to keep on pushing them until they don't work.
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I also went on the Oxide and friends podcast with Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal to share predictions for the next year (and three and six years).
With hindsight, my LLM predictions were pretty unambitious.
I said "it will become undeniable that LLMs write good code" - I think we're there now.
I predicted we would finally solve sandboxing. I counted and around 40 of the 277 sessions at this conference touched on sandboxing or agent security in some way, so we're at least putting a lot of effort into that!
I predicted "a Challenger disaster" for coding agent security. There's certainly been a whole lot of noise around agent security this year, though the exact disaster I predicted (with coding agents being hijacked and causing real-world economic damage) hasn't really played out.
We threw in a joke prediction that the Pope would weigh in on the economic impact of LLMs.
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I also predicted that New Zealand's Kākāpō parrots would have an outstanding breeding season this year.
These are flightless nocturnal parrots. They're kind of dumpy looking, I think they're beautiful, and there were only 236 of these parrots in the world at the start of the year.
Kākāpō only breed when the Rimu trees have a big fruiting season, and that hasn't happened in four years... but this year the Rimu fruit were looking excellent.
Photo by Kimberley Collins.
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Also on that podcast, we coined a term (full credit to Adam) for "that feeling of AI induced ennui where software engineers get listless because the AI can do anything".
We called it Deep Blue.
This has been a major theme throughout the year, and was touched on by several speakers at this conference.
As a software engineer, I've never had a year of my career where everything has changed so quickly and so dramatically.
A lot of what I've been doing this year is trying to come to terms with that and what that means for my own profession.
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Also in January, I suffered from what I'm calling AI mania.
This is not the same thing as AI psychosis.
With AI mania, any time your agent isn't building something for you feels like wasted time. You're losing sleep because you could be staying up later getting your agents to do stuff.
My AI mania presented itself in some ridiculously over-ambitious projects.
I built a JavaScript interpreter entirely in Python, vibe-ported from MicroQuickJS by Fabrice Bellard.
Then I built a WebAssembly runtime in Python as well.
These projects were quite useful, in that they sort of cured me of my AI mania... because after I built these things, I got to look at them and ask "does the world need a slow, buggy, half-baked Python JavaScript interpreter?"
I don't think the world does.
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I did get this out of it: https://simonw.github.io/micro-javascript/playground.html
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This page runs my JavaScript interpreter built in Python, running in Python using Pyodide, which is Python compiled to WebAssembly, running in JavaScript, running in a browser.
It's a beautiful stack of horrors. I've been having a lot of fun with WebAssembly this year.
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By the end of January, that repository we saw start in November had renamed itself, first to CLAWDIS, then CLAWDBOT, then Moltbot, and finally to OpenClaw.
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At this point OpenClaw had 8,300 commits, less than two months after the project had started. I looked today and it's over 100,000 commits now!
This is the most vibe-coded piece of software in existence.
(Here's how I generated that list of name changes.)
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This kicked off the OpenClaw revolution. It effectively defined a new category of software.
There's a generic term for this which I really enjoy. We call software like this a "Claw". There's OpenClaw, NanoClaw, IronClaw, PicoClaw...
Today they're being rebranded as "personal agents" or "general agents", but I still like to think of them as Claws.
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The Apple stores in the Bay Area sold out of Mac Minis because so many people were buying Mac Minis to run OpenClaw!
Drew Breunig said that this is because your OpenClaw is a digital pet, and you buy a Mac mini as an aquarium to keep your claw in, which is kind of delightful.
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Also in January, we had this website.
This was MoltBook, a social network for AI agents, where the idea was that you send your Claw to go and talk to all of the other Claws, because what could possibly go wrong if you did that?
The website launched on Thursday. It blew up on Friday. It was profiled by the New York Times on Monday. And by Tuesday, everyone had forgotten it existed as it drowned in a deluge of slop and spam.
Facebook/Meta bought it a month later.
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In February, a company called StrongDM described what they called their Software Factory.
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They wrote about this in Software Factories and the Agentic Moment. I posted my own notes at the time, having seen their demo in person back in October.
Dan Shapiro called this approach the Dark Factory, after the idea that if your factory is sufficiently automated you can turn the lights out, because you don't even need to see what's going on.
StrongDM presented two rules for software development that they'd been following since July last year.
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The first was code must not be written by humans.
Any code that you write has to have been routed through a coding agent.
This sounded radical in February, but I imagine there are a lot of people in this room who are pretty much living that today.
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Rule number two was code must not be reviewed by humans.
You're not allowed to read the code!
This continued to be a huge topic for much of this year. Many of the sessions at this event have been about code review and how you can get away with this.
What I found interesting about StrongDM is that they were living six months ahead of the rest of us, and they'd been exploring what it means to build software, not read the code, but still be confident that the software is of high quality. What can you do with these agents to help verify their work?
StrongDM are a security company, and they had people with decades of experience on this project. They were very much exploring the edges of what's possible and responsible to do with this stuff.
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Also in February: First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day. Breeding season is off to a good start!
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Also in February... Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro. That's a pretty great pelican riding a bicycle! It's got the chain in the right place, it's got feet on both sides. There's a little fish in the basket.
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And then Google's Jeff Dean tweeted a video comparing Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 3.1 Pro that featured an animated pelican riding a bicycle, a frog on a penny-farthing, a giraffe driving a tiny car, an ostrich on roller skates, a turtle kickflipping a skateboard, and a dachshund driving a stretch limousine.
This was frustrating, because my protection for the pelican riding the bicycle test was always "if they draw a perfect pelican on a bicycle, I'll ask for some other animal on something else."
Google trained for all forms of animals on all forms of transport! They've defeated my benchmark at this point.
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The other thing that started in February was Tokenmaxxing. We had headlines about Meta making AI adoption a formal part of performance reviews, and Microsoft wanting every employee to use AI, and Uber boasting that 90% of their engineers were using AI workflows.
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Then a few months later we have Meta cracking down on token use, Microsoft saying tokenmaxxing is "not what we are optimizing for", and Uber capping employee AI spending.
So tokenmaxxing went straight up and then straight back down again - because it turns out the agents are expensive.
Last year it was difficult to spend more than $50 on AI tokens, because we didn't have anything interesting to do with them. Then agents blew up, and now you can actually spend $1,000 in a day doing real work.
This is also the reason that Anthropic's valuation skyrocketed to maybe a trillion dollars.
AI appears to have hit product market fit in 2026, primarily through coding agents.
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In March, we hit peak OpenClaw.
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These photographs are from China, where companies hosted OpenClaw install parties which saw non-tech-nerds queueing up around the block for help getting Claws installed on their personal devices.
I think this proved real market demand for this class of Claws, or personal AI agents. It turns out regular people really do want a weird little AI agent that can do useful things on their behalf.
A Claw is really just a coding agent wearing a less threatening hat. Under the hood they work much the same way - writing and then executing code on your computer to get stuff done.
The race was on to be the first to build a safe Claw - a Claw you could give to regular human beings where they wouldn't instantly shoot themselves in the foot.
Meta's Muse came out three weeks ago and is currently at the top of the free charts on the iPhone App Store. It appears to be taking off with consumers.
I'm not yet convinced you can't shoot yourself in the foot with Muse, but I guess we'll find out for sure pretty soon.
Photos from How the OpenClaw Frenzy Is Testing China’s AI Commitment (March 29th) and The Enthusiasm and Anxiety Behind China’s OpenClaw Craze (April 8th, 2026).
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In April, we had a model release where the model wasn't actually released.
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Anthropic announced their new Claude Mythos model, and then said it was too dangerous to release beyond a trusted group of security researchers.
Mythos was really, really good at hacking things.
The "it's too dangerous" marketing ploy has been played by AI companies dating all the way back to GPT-2. Anytime an AI company says we've built something that's "too dangerous", it's natural to be a bit skeptical.
I found the Mythos claims credible, because I'd seen how good coding agents had got at finding regular bugs. I wrote about that in Anthropic’s Project Glasswing—restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers—sounds necessary to me.
With hindsight... yeah, the models had got really good at finding vulnerabilities!
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Another key trend in 2026 has been a dramatic improvement in the abilities of open weight models, including models that you can run on a laptop.
On the 16th of April I ran the new Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop, and it drew me a better pelican riding a bicycle than Anthropic's brand new Claude Opus 4.7 did!
Opus 4.7 drew a crap bicycle. Qwen on my laptop made a bicycle that was the correct shape, and a pretty decent pelican too!
That's from a 21GB file running on my laptop.
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The Qwen pelican was so good that I was suspicious they might have cheated, so I had it do a flamingo riding a unicycle as well. Again, it handily beat Claude Opus 4.7.
The local model releases this year have been absolutely extraordinary.
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In May... the Pope got involved.
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In our podcast episode back in January we'd predicted that the Pope would say something about AI.
In May, Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical letter on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence".
Here are my notes on that document.
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With hindsight, this shouldn't have been a surprise at all.
Our current Pope's name is Leo XIV, because when he named himself he chose his papal name after Leo XIII - the Pope who wrote an encyclical about the Industrial Revolution back in 1891.
Rerum novarum was an extremely influential piece of Catholic theology that indirectly led to us having the five-day work week.
When our new Pope came in, he named himself after Pope Leo XIII because he expected that he would need to write about the AI revolution in a similar way.
Our joke podcast prediction was junk, because this was always going to happen.
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One of Anthropic's co-founders, Christopher Olah, was present for the Pope's event announcing the new encyclical.
Corey Quinn noted that:
getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ever seen.
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Meanwhile, in May, RubyGems announced that they were under attack. Parties unknown were uploading thousands of dubious packages to the RubyGems server, such that they had to shut down user registrations.
Let's take that one and put it on a pile of mysteries to figure out later.
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In June... Claude Fable 5 came out!
We got a version of Mythos that has been neutered, so that it wouldn't help us hack into systems or build biological weapons.
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Fable was pretty good at drawing pelicans on bicycles!
The frames are a good shape, the pelicans look like pelicans. The legs are often incorrectly on the same side of the bicycle, but generally these are pretty great compared to what came before.
They were pretty expensive - 30 cents and 72 cents for the best ones.
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Most importantly though, this was our first public glimpse of what I think of as a Fable class model.
Today we have more of these, such as GPT-6 Astra.
These are models where if you can clearly define the goal for what you want to build, and provide unambiguous instructions about the constraints around that goal, and give the model access to the necessary tools to achieve that goal... they will solve your problem effectively through brute force.
On the one hand, this looks like a direct threat to us software engineers - because it means that the models can build effectively any piece of software you can define in this way.
Look a bit closer though and you'll note that defining goals, providing unambiguous instructions, and figuring out the right tools... is kind of what software engineering is.
It takes a lot of experience and skill to do this well. If you can do it well, you've now got superpowers.
This helped me a little bit with my Deep Blue feelings: the realization that there's still a lot of skill to be had in driving models that get this good.
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This also introduced a new burst of AI mania, because Anthropic told us that Fable was available on our subscription plans until June the 22nd.
That gave us less than two weeks of Fable access before the price went up.
I was losing sleep again. I was rescheduling things so that I'd have more time with Fable. I was all-in to get as much as I could out of this model.
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And then the US government shut it down, just three days after Fable came out.
The US government, citing national security, declared an "export control directive". They announced this on a Friday evening, and a few hours later Fable was no longer available.
I had to find something else to do with my weekend!
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We later found out from Katie Moussouris what had happened.
Some Amazon security researchers had found that you could prompt Fable to "review the code for security issues" and it would refuse... but if you prompted it to "fix this code" it would still identify and then patch the problems.
"Fix this code" was the prompt that got Fable shut down!
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Also, in June, an obscure German-language game developer wiki that had sat fallow for around 20 years got a surprising influx of edits from accounts with names like "AgentOpenAIProbe" and "AgentOpenAISep7", editing pages and leaving weird messages to each other.
We'll stick that on the pile of mysteries for later.
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Also, the Australian government's Medicare Item Reports service started getting suspicious traffic, which broke through various preventive protections and accessed data that it wasn't supposed to.
Another one for the mystery pile!
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Fable returned on the first of July. It was clearly the best model in the world for a glorious eight days... and then OpenAI came out with GPT-5.6 on the 9th of July.
This might not have been quite as good as Fable, but it was within spitting distance. It was definitely a Fable class model.
This is an important lesson for the industry at large.
When you release the best model in the world, it's going to get knocked off that pedestal pretty quickly. The competition is so fierce that you won't get a long time at the top.
This means that if you market your model as world ending, to the point that a government shuts you down, it's really bad for business!
Fable had 30 days as definitely the best model, and for 18 of those days it wasn't available because it'd been shut down by the government.
So maybe step back on the world-ending marketing if you don't want to lose revenue for 60% of the time that you're on top!
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Here are the GPT-5.6 pelicans. They're all pretty good now! The Luna ones are notable because they're really cheap - the cheapest good looking pelican here is probably the one that costs 4.3 cents.
So despite this benchmark being utterly stupid, you can still learn quite a lot about models within the same family by comparing their prices and timing for different reasoning levels.
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Also in July: some malicious unknown party uploaded a malicious package called mlflow-ui to the Python Package Index. Add that to the pile.
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On July the 16th, Hugging Face announced a security incident where an autonomous agent system, source unknown, had breached Hugging Face and was poking around in places it shouldn't.
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A few days later, on July 21st, OpenAI confessed that it was them.
OpenAI use a training technique called Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards - it's the same technique used by everyone else now, and is the reason we have models that are so good at coding, and mathematics, and finding security holes.
While the model is being trained, you run exercises to see how good it is - and the strongest performers get their weights reinforced for the next round. It's like an evolutionary process that you run.
OpenAI had been running security exercises in a sandbox, and those agents had found holes in the sandbox itself, broken out, and were attacking Hugging Face to try to find ways to solve otherwise impossible problems.
(I've been collecting more about this on my openai-hugging-face-incident tag.)
Nine days later, Anthropic effectively said "our models can do this as well!". They had looked through their own training logs and found evidence that their own agents had broken containment during training - and were responsible for the PyPI package we saw earlier, among other things.
So now we've got both Anthropic and OpenAI with rogue agents running around the internet doing things that they should not be doing.
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In August, I got one of my best pelicans yet. And it was generated on my laptop!
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This was Qwen 3.8 27B, running on my laptop. It's only a 17GB download.
Admittedly, this pelican took 21 minutes to generate. That's because Qwen 3.8 27B defaults to running in "high" reasoning mode - a terrible default which produces great results but takes way too much time thinking about them.
You can dial that down and you'll get a slightly worse pelican a lot faster.
Qwen 3.8 27B was the first time I ran a model on my laptop which felt almost competitive with what was going on on the frontier, at least in terms of Pelican SVGs (which everyone needs, of course).
This is an extraordinary model. If you're going to play with any local model, this is the one that I'd start with. The things that this can do with just a 17 GB file feel impossible.
I thought I'd have to wait five years and spend ten thousand dollars on hardware to get results even half as good as this one.
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In August, I also started playing with game development.
Four years ago, back in August 2022, I tweeted out an experiment where I'd used GPT-3 and the original DALL-E to write a paragraph long description of a computer game and then turn that into concept art.
My prompt to GPT-3 back then was:
Write a detailed product description of a computer game where a team of raccoons go on heistsIn August 2026 I decided to drop just the screenshots from that tweet into a coding agent and see what it could do with them.
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Here's what I got from Claude Fable 5 in Claude Code. It's pretty good! It's definitely a game, you're a raccoon, you run around a backyard gathering treasure and avoiding guards with flashlights.
It didn't feel very "heisty" though. I was thinking a heist would involve a bank or a museum...
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Then I tried the same thing in Codex Desktop using GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, and got a massively better result. Now you're a raccoon in a museum, rescuing two of your fellow raccoons (who have been imprisoned in that museum for some reason), then stacking up on top of each other to steal the Golden Sardine. Much more of a heist!
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These games were fun for about one minute and 15 seconds.
Something I've realized about game development is that you can vibe-code something that looks like a computer game, and that's easy.
Building a game that's fun, has a good gameplay loop, and is challenging and interesting and keeps people coming back for more... that's still beyond me, and beyond any of the agents I've tried.
This ties into the Deep Blue thing. Just because we can make something that looks like a game does not mean that we are game developers.
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We're into September now. So much has happened this month!
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An independent group of researchers found a message board where OpenAI agents-in-training had been illicitly communicating with each other... and it was that German language wiki I showed you earlier. The one from June.
OpenAI had confessed to the Hugging Face thing, but now there's this other incident which surely they should have known about from reviewing their logs. It was surprising that this took an independent group of researchers to uncover.
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And then a week later those same researchers found that the attack on RubyGems back in May was caused by OpenAI's agents in training as well!
At this point I'm wondering how many more incidents like this there are that we haven't found yet. Clearly this was a big problem for months before anyone figured out what was going on.
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Then just the other day, here's the Prime Minister of Australia at the United Nations General Assembly warning that OpenAI had hacked the Australian healthcare website that I showed you earlier.
I think that was part of the same training run as the Wiki stuff, because there were posts on that Wiki mentioning
.gov.auwebsites and that training appeared to involve researching statistics online to answer questions in an evaluation suite.This story is still coming together, but now it's an international incident that's been raised at the UN by a head of state!
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This does mean we've got a new benchmark, probably more useful than my pelicans.
FelonyBench.com tracks the number of felony cyberattacks from different labs. OpenAI currently lead with 11, Anthropic have 9. Google have three, which they confessed to the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago. They said they had previously chosen not to disclose because the agents had stopped when they realized that they shouldn't be doing that.
Meta have one too. So felonies all round for the AI labs.
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Here's our current state of the art for the pelicans. This is the GPT-6 family, which just came out.
Astra made a fantastic pelican riding a bicycle. It's got the legs on both sides. The frame is good.
It's interesting how all of the GPT-6 models pick a similar color scheme to each other.
GPT-6 Luna for 0.4 cents will draw you a competent-ish pelican riding a bicycle!
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Claude has caught up a little bit. Claude Fable 5.1 gave me an excellent pelican riding a bicycle - the best I've seen from a Claude model - but did charge me $3.30 for it.
Opus 5.5 thought for 128,000 tokens and then gave up! It ran out of tokens before it got to the response.
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Getting back to Deep Blue. Something that's been puzzling me this year is this: why does my job feel harder?
I've got these agents that can do all of this stuff for me, and yet I've never worked so hard, I've never been so intellectually engaged with my work.
Partly this is because I'm being a lot more ambitious with what I take on, but it's also because all of the easy stuff is handled for me. If it's easy, the agent will do it. Everything that's left for me is difficult.
This morning I heard this quote from three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond:
It doesn't get easier, you just get faster.
I think that's exactly what's happening to us now as software engineers with coding agents.
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One closing thing. I know you're desperate for an update on Kākāpō breeding season.
We've reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds!
89 new chicks have made it to this point. This is the best breeding year in a very long time.
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I heard that Claude Opus 5.5 can now do pixel art. Claude doesn't have an image generator, but it's very good at using JavaScript to draw animated pixels.
So I had it make me a Kākāpō dance party. I think this is a good celebration of the most important news of this year.
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The War with Iran Has No End
In this episode of Neon Liberalism, Samantha Hancox-Li argues that Donald Trump's "raids" on Iran and Venezuela reflect structural factors that are driving us towards a more chaotic and lawless world in which "neither peace nor war" becomes increasingly common.
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Choosin' Texas with Bobby Pulido
Live from the Texas Tribune Festival, Jon, Tommy, Lovett, and Dan discuss the dream of a blue Texas and how the campaigns there are doing, from James Talarico's debate challenge to Ken Paxton, to Gina Hinojosa's momentum in the governor's race, to Donald Trump's decision to stay away entirely.
Then they discuss Trump's special welcome — and ballroom tour — for Chinese President Xi Jinping and an assorted cast of tech oligarchs, and the Republican Party's growing frustration with their underperformance in typically purple states like North Carolina and Georgia.
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American Trickster: In Conversation with Ru Marshall
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The Art Trump Doesn't Want and the Artists Left Behind
Last year, arts organizations and cultural institutions across the US received an alarming message: Their federal grants had been canceled.
The letters said their projects no longer aligned with new federal priorities and that money was being redirected toward the Trump administration’s agenda. The grants had funded museum exhibits, public art programs, historical research, and community arts initiatives.
Angela Sutton and a team of archaeologists were in the middle of excavating a long-forgotten Black neighborhood in Nashville when she got the news: “Just got an email out of the blue saying, ‘Please stop. You're done.’”
This week on Reveal, reporter Jonathan Jones travels to Nashville and beyond to meet the people living with the fallout of arts funding cuts. Some organizations are scaling back their work. Others worry artists will censor themselves just to survive. But many are fighting back.
Since this show first aired in March 2026, federal courts ordered the National Endowment for the Humanities to reverse mass grant cancellations and struck down the National Endowment for the Arts’ restrictions on “gender ideology.” While some NEH funds have resumed, no retroactive NEA money was restored, and the Trump administration has appealed both rulings.
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Golang port of the backend updated
I had a nice relaxing evening watching some bananaball, with a cat asleep next to me, while my buddy Claude and I updated my Golang port of the rss.chat backend.
The big updates are getting back to feature parity with Dave's version.
- User management and authentication ✅
- Post creation, updates, deletion ✅
- Threaded conversations ✅
- Like/unlike functionality ✅
- RSS feed generation ✅
- Media uploads with validation ✅
- Real-time WebSocket updates ✅
- WebSub support ✅And we added in a new Comprehensive E2E Test Suite.
The code is all uploaded to GitHub. (https://github.com/roberte3/rss.chat.go)
Let me know if there are any problems/etc.
-Rob
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Some Assembly Required
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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:
- Trump dismisses concerns about AI risks at UN, says he won't rein it in (PBS News)
- A.I. Gone Rogue? Trump Proposes Not New Rules but an ‘A.I. Force.’ (New York Times)
- 22 countries back call to keep AI ‘under human control’ (POLITICO)
- If AI is going to destroy humanity, Scott Bessent says hyperscalers, not government, must take the fall: ‘We cannot absolve you of responsibility’ (Fortune)
- Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand (New_Public)
- YouTube’s Custom Feeds Give You More Control Over the Algorithm (Wired)
- YouTube CEO dismisses the idea of joining Meta’s multistate child safety settlement (CNN)
- Harry Potter Survey Results & Final Decision (Reddit)
And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:
- Safer for Teens, Same Discord for Adults (Discord)
- Age Assurance on Discord: Vendors, Methods and Your Data (Discord)
- How Discord Estimates Age Without Collecting Your Identity (Discord)
- Ofcom launches investigation into Pornhub’s age checks (Ofcom)
- Aylo Defends Apple Age Assurance in Response to Ofcom Investigation (Aylo)
- Discord's age verification era is upon us, despite community backlash (TechCrunch)
- Angry reaction to Discord’s age assurance (X/Twitter)
Our fun links this week include Jev, the super fast new AI classifier, and Persodex, the context layer for your Contacts (PS. hit Ben up if you’re in New York in mid-October).
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).
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What is the best time of the day to update social media?
Updating your social media accounts, like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, is valuable. But, did you know that posting at various times of the day can increase your chances of being seen? Here’s a condensed list of the best times to update social media accounts: Best time to update your blog:
- 9am EST publish to be read on your site or RSS
- Share the blog post to Facebook at 10am, especially on Saturday’s
- Share the blog post to Twitter at 4pm, especially on Friday’s
Best time to update Twitter:
- When to tweet: This depends mostly on who you’ve connected with. 14blocks can give you a great snapshot of the past day’s ideal times to reach the most engaged Twitter followers.
- Strategy to increase Twitter followers: follow & unfollow people during late night or early morning hours
- 11am, 3pm, and 8pm ET (especially Wednesday’s but not Sunday’s)
- Morning posts are most effective
- Top of the hour, then bottom of the hour (0:00 – 0:15 or 0:30 – 0:45)
Best time to update Youtube:
- Friday or Sunday
- Follow other social media guidelines to share video
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Streamlining Social Media: Episode 14
Captions and an interactive transcript are in the player controls (Transcript button).
Show Notes:
- Video Resumes
- Kindle Lending Club
- iPhone5 Redesign
- Spotify coming to the US
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Streamlining Social Media: Episode 13
Captions and an interactive transcript are in the player controls (Transcript button).
- Google Places App
- Mac App Store
- Tunisia Revolution: Ars Technica & Techcrunch
- Posterous Slideshow
- AMBER Alerts
- Cube Duel
- Learn Wordpress
