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This is an old hat. That's exactly what the neural fast weight programmers did in the 1990s (including the 1991 unnormalised linear Transformer). Overview with links to the original papers: people.idsia.ch/~juergen/fas…
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
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Comrade, your PC was hoarding RAM and only using 5% of it.
The Central Committee has redistributed the surplus.
Your 512MB ration arrives in 2031.
The plan is perfect ☭ @sama
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Markets seem tired, tired of the uncertainty.
They gave major RS and resiliency for months on end, but instead of seeing it like some temporary goodwill, it was taken by POTUS as a sign that he was doing everything right.
The rubberband broke, with all that goodwill coming in due.
The market is tired of the lies.
We are now experiencing the market showing the admin enough is enough.
We had the biggest technological revolution of all times, a strong economy and everything lined up for a massive republican win.
Instead they abused markets, abused the economy and now there is absolutely nothing to show for it.
People are struggling, all promises were broken, allies are gone, the AI theme is tanking....
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personal take: as much as I'm techno optimist, I genuinely dislike it when people on X dunk on regular folk for criticizing AI
a company has told everyone they will lose their jobs, many companies did layoffs, people have families. on top of saying all the layoffs are necessary so AI proves econ value until it cures the cancer or saves planet but they did anything but those so far
you might be making a ton from AI, many don't. some people also found a ton of purpose from their work which is gone. I'm not saying we should console people but maybe also don't dunk on a frustrated mass? the field is already detested and this is not helping
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🇷🇸 THIS IS BELGRADE TONIGHT
Tens of thousands of Serbians packed Slavija Square with music, flares and fireworks after the student-led movement defeated Vučić’s ruling coalition in a historic parliamentary election.
The movement grew out of nearly two years of anti-government protests after the deadly Novi Sad station collapse.
With almost all votes counted, the student-backed list took 52.7% against 39.2% for Vučić’s alliance.
From street protests to control of parliament 🔥
Writer: Sol
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This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
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Here’s @ThePrimeagen saying sg similar using his words
So many ppl including CEOs feel the need to have AI “clean up” their thoughts feeling insecure to post them raw
When you clean it up w AI you become like everyone else, plus you become associate w low quality and “slop”
I know a lot of you want to make content and I have seen a lot of it
Here is my tip (and just the tip girl): Don't let claude write your script, don't let OpenAI review your script, don't let an AI near it at all. Feel what you are speaking.
What you can use AI for: "Was 1975's Shockwave Riders really where we get the term worm from?"
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Israelis now have their own cafes in India.
Indians cannot enter these cafes in their own country because Israelis have banned them from entering.
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Also if you're going to brag about obliterating something, maybe first check whether that thing is regarded by most of the population as an important source of meaning and joy. I don't know, I'm not a PR person
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One of the worst forms of brainrot AI has cultivated is pessimism about basic research, ie the idea that important work can only happen inside a frontier/neo lab and only with 10k+ GPUs, so the rest should not even bother. What a bleak way to think about science. And it's false.
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La miliardaria israeliana che ha finanziato la campagna elettorale di Trump con 250 milioni di dollari e lo ha portato alla Casa Bianca ha comprato la politica estera USA per conto di Israele… quella donna ha appena rivelato nel suo quotidiano israeliano di aver convinto Trump ad approvare una legge che unisce le forze armate statunitensi e israeliane con l’esplicito scopo di «far soffrire l’America» se Israele dovesse subire qualsiasi danno.
In un momento in cui l’80% degli americani si oppone alle politiche criminali israeliane, la lobby israeliana si vanta pubblicamente di dominare la politica statunitense e influenzare tutte le decisioni a favore di Israele.
E ora Miriam Adelson, portavoce della lobby, afferma che la politica statunitense deve garantire che l’America paghi un prezzo per ogni offesa arrecata a Israele.
I crimini israeliani e l’impunità totale sono alimentati dalla corruzione politica, e facilitati dalla lobby israeliana.
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I hope the proposals by frontier labs to pace AI research stem from a genuine concern for safety and a recognition of the potential risks posed by future models, rather than a strategic effort to consolidate power and permanently solidify the market dominance of a few top players.
If these efforts are genuine, then oversight must take a more democratic and accountable form, with both national and international components, similar to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the US and the International Atomic Energy Agency internationally.
If there is only one organization responsible for safety monitoring, and it happens to be staffed by the same people as the frontier labs, and it is perfectly aligned with them both by incentives and by ideology, then it would be indistinguishable from letting frontier labs self-regulate and self-certify their own safety standards.
Two potential warning signs of regulatory capture to watch out for:
1. Calls to ban open-source AI. Open-source development currently serves as the only real counterweight to the dominance of frontier labs.
2. Attempts to hinder non-frontier research. Models that are one or two generations behind the frontier -- whose level of capability has already been deployed at scale -- are empirically known not to pose safety risks.
As long as we don't see 1 & 2, and we see real international coordination efforts, then I will optimistically believe that the proposals are benevolent.
