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amazed by the noise - software engineering for a living, photography is my passion; life is too short to step back

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon, they were mapping the real world for AI Original post
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 28/09/2026
At last! github.com/NVIDIA/OpenS... Agents sandboxing done right, sponsored by nvidia 🎉🙌🏼 I can finally focus on other things than Varda! github.com/nillebco/varda
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GitHub - NVIDIA/OpenShell: OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents.
OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents. - NVIDIA/OpenShell
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 27/09/2026
If AI agents can go rogue, the entity tasking them should be legally liable.
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 27/09/2026
Incendie ouest lyonnais en cours... 👨🏼‍🚒 À Craponne, pas loin de Chaponost www.leprogres.fr/faits-divers...
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Rhône. Un incendie impressionnant dans le centre de Craponne, une salle communale en proie aux flammes
50 sapeurs-pompiers et une vingtaine d'engins ont été dépêchés ce dimanche soir à l'espace Gaston Rébuffat à Craponne.
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 24/09/2026
I loved so much the pg18 metaphor about what humans are becoming in software engineering. We would be "cond*s between the LLM and the production server that is being f*". Way better than just "meat proxies".
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 24/09/2026
Oh Anthropic, you are so mean when you artificially reduce the intelligence of your models to push for most recent ones.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey Hegseth, this is 100% on you. Resign.
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Royans Tharakan @royans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autonomous AI Agents Weaponizing Retail eCommerce APIs for Credit Card Data Theft cybersecuritynews.com/ai-agents-ret… flagthis.com/tldr/7818 ##AIAgents ##APISecurity ##CredentialStuffing ##DataExfiltration ##BotMitigation
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 22/09/2026
We knew this without knowing it. Now it's confirmed: two weights, two measures. We're hostage of a bunch of billionaires who decide who to kill, starve or make their lives impossible on an hallucinated dice throw. When did we begun deriving on a cyberpunk time line? I bet November 2015.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pentagon: Palantir AI Overreliance Led to Strike Killing 123 Iranian Children | Discussion
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Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children
An unreleased Pentagon probe investigated the kill chain that hit a school in Minab.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 21/09/2026
The US military was preparing to intercept and board the ship, with air support, before officials discovered that a chatbot had inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.
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AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔆💛 gratitude for this lovely #caturday rescue 🍀💛💛🕊🌱
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 19/09/2026
The Raspberry foundation with ESA organizes wonderful contests to learn younglings to program. Maybe with AI this will be less relevant, but it's a marvelous way to ignite our kids imagination! #space #raspberry #astropi
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Sebastián Ramírez @tiangolo.com · 19/09/2026
Very interesting idea by @seldo.com to solve open source funding. Have PyPI and npm be the ones to charge corporates for downloads and distribute it to maintainers. I like several aspects, I would pay if I was charged. seldo.com/posts/nobody...
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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix:...
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 17/09/2026
global.fujitsu/en-global/pr... Wow! Japan's Fujitsu to produce their own 2nm chips. Europe is mentioned among the consumers. I am happy this is happening, diversity in suppliers is good!
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 16/09/2026
arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858 Now we have a problem. Well, certainly we already had it, without knowing it. But now a public paper shows how to do this. This implies that LLMs will be able to improve over time without our intervention!
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Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
Recursive self-improvement is becoming increasingly vital for autonomous AI agents, where progress hinges on discovering high-value solutions across complex domains. The driver of this process is effe...
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 16/09/2026
respect to you, brother, for spending four years on this. Video games researchers from the future owe you a pint.
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 14/09/2026
Estintori acustici? Certo. Una ragazza di 16 anni li ha inventati! youtu.be/TGO7Jdfll7c?... (Sai quella povere che distrugge i circuiti elettronici? O l'acqua? La possiamo dimenticare.)
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Joven mexicana crea un extintor acústico para apagar incendios
YouTube video by NMás
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 14/09/2026
È molto toccante e affascinante scoprire dettagli della vita di un antenato e collocarlo in un contesto storico. Gli atti di stato civile sono un pezzo del puzzle, che si vanno ad incastrare in una macro-immagine. Non è la Storia, ma quel continuum di eventi che costituiscono la vita di ogni giorno.
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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 12/09/2026
There's no slowing down frontier models by regulation that wouldn't lead to regulatory capture. But we could simply force all AI model companies to release their model weights openly. It's the world's data after all and nothing would slow their funding/progress more effectively and universally.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW: Meta is facing a proposed class action alleging it used Facebook and Insta photos to build its NameTag face-recognition system and train AI models without consent. WIRED found code for NameTag hidden inside Meta’s AI app downloaded by tens of millions. Meta said the feature “doesn’t exist.”
wired.com
Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems
The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature...
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 11/09/2026
www.upsocl.com/en/16-year-o... Wow, Amazing. When do we use this to extinguish wildfire? France needed this badly in July.
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16-year-old Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher that uses sound waves to put out fires in seconds
Optimismo que nos une
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Tuta @tuta.com · 11/09/2026
"I have nothing to hide." False. You have medical history You have financial behavior You have location patterns You have political views You have relationship data Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
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Sucker Punch Productions @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition is coming on October 1! 🍂 Learn about our new story expansion Echoes of Sekigahara, new combat survival mode Most Wanted, new quality of life updates, and more! 🐺 Full details: play.st/3SasyLp
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 09/09/2026
another researcher accuses OpenAI of training on conversations and then claiming a breakthrough
Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro
X.com
BREAKING: OpenAl might have stolen another major proot.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAl may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAl later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
Al is not discovering new mathematics.
Al is stealing human discovery.
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aly @aly.codes · 09/09/2026
Yeah so maaaaaybe dont use DigitalOcean omarchy.org/news/2026/09...
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DigitalOcean joins as a Founding Corporate Patron with $3 million - Omarchy News
DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1 million a year for three years! That’s a $3 million commitment to the development, maintenance, and spread...
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Peter Ullrich @peterullrich.com · 10/09/2026
Apparently there is money for open source if you are racist enough
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aly @aly.codes · 09/09/2026
I just don’t know what to think of this shit any more. Where was this vast private and corporate money for elementaryOS? The universal blue folks? The niri and noctalia devs? Is it literally just that they were too woke and didn’t have the right phone numbers? What the fuck
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Non-voters are called apathetic, but they’re not. they’re politically homeless and feel abandoned by the existing order. Fascism mobilizes them and gives their anger and ignorance a scapegoat. Turns humiliation into hatred. Explanation is not exoneration, but that’s how it happens.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The wide-eyed Ezo flying squirrel, 🐿️ of Hokkaido, Japan 🇯🇵
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Many birds, one beautifully unified movement. Original post
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Punctuation is life saving… #BookSky 🐊
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
China's net greenhouse gas emissions *fell* this past quarter. Why? Because rapidly expanding electric vehicle use is putting a serious dent in oil demand. We could do that too. But we're not. We have the slowest EV update in the developed world, thanks to Trump.
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 04/09/2026
It happened again... this time OpenAI's rogue agents cyber-attacked (well, spammed) a dormant German wiki and used it to share the answers to a benchmark they were training against simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/4/r...
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OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by …
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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Framasoft @framasoft.org · 31/08/2026
Framasoft soutient Autistici/Inventati, désigné « organisation terroriste internationale » par les États-Unis. ➡️ framablog.org/2026/08/31/a...
Logo Autistici/Inventati
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just a few months ago, European carmakers were arguing that market demand for EVs in Europe was "too low". But now everyone's worried about how Europeans are buying too many Chinese EVs, which suggests that European carmarkers' *supply* of EVs is too low. So which is it?
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 26/08/2026
github.com/tailscale/ta... This.is.amazing. Thank you @tailscale.com
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GitHub - tailscale/tailcat: like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane
like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane - tailscale/tailcat
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 26/08/2026
What a surprise when you receive a phone (spam) call with precisely the same elevenlabs voice you use for your personal assistant....
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 24/08/2026
I shared a few months ago Varda, a project about controlling AI agents. This summer it got sandboxing! Container based or microVM based (relying on msb). Now working on an easy yet secure way of sharing configuration with colleagues. Very excited! github.com/nillebco/varda
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GitHub - nillebco/varda: Rust CLI that manages markdown tasks across projects, routes them to configured agents, records recaps and status updates, and commits the resulting operational history to g...
Rust CLI that manages markdown tasks across projects, routes them to configured agents, records recaps and status updates, and commits the resulting operational history to git. - nillebco/varda
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 24/08/2026
HackerNews should not link paywalled articles.
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 24/08/2026
ericpardee.github.io/fire-hd-owne... Own your devices, with the help from GLM-5.3 sneaking through the Great Wall of US AI.
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Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
Owning a tablet Amazon kept shutting down: CVE-2022-38181, four AI models, five months
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 21/08/2026
"I have never seen anybody going this way before" "That will never work" Okay, you never stop learning, so let's try to learn something new. 😉
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nilleb @nilleb.io · 21/08/2026
On en est au point pour lequel je reçois des textos (qui me disent que mes données ont été volées) par des services dont je ne me souviens pas avoir souscrit.... #france #fuites
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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aeris @aeris.eu.org · 18/08/2026
C’est qui qui a fuité aujourd’hui ? C’est la Direction générale des Finances publiques bonjourlafuite.eu.org#Direction%20... (Non, ce n’est pas un doublon…)
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C’est qui qui a fuité aujourd’hui ?
Une sponso avec Pampers peut-être ?
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Léαlinux 🐧 @lea-linux.org · 18/08/2026
www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-nume... France Fuite.
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L’Éducation nationale se fait pirater par le hackeur des impôts : 43 Go de données dans la nature (personnels, élèves…)
Et c’est reparti pour un tour. Le hackeur à l’origine du piratage des impôts annonce maintenant avoir siphonné les données de l’Éducation nationale (qui en est d’ailleurs à sa troisième fuite de l’ann...
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P·U·R·R @asso-purr.eu.org · 18/08/2026
Suite au communiqué de presse de la @cnil@social.numerique.gouv.fr de ce jour (www.cnil.fr/fr/piratage-...) nous vous invitons à ne pas tenir compte de sa demande de ne pas porter plainte. La CNIL ne fait jamais rien sauf à être contrainte par une plainte.
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Piratage du système d’information des impôts : les vérifications sont en cours
Le 14 août 2026, le ministère de l'Économie et des Finances a indiqué que le système d'information de la Direction générale des Finances publiques (DGFiP) avait été affecté par une violation de donnée...
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