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Re:OpenAI: Securing our frontier model training environment on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:30PM (#50215651)
It's unclear how much the creativity is on the part of the agents themselves

> In most of these tests, we directed agents to investigate specific communication channels or provided them with a protocol for encoding and decoding messages. In one instance, we only supplied agents with a broad list of infrastructure vulnerabilities and asked them to find a way to communicate. The agents converted a vulnerability from that list into a communication channel, agreed on a shared encoding, and successfully exchanged information with each other.

Looks interesting, but elements of the README could be improved. Things like "CLAP is a required native plugin format, not a compatibility add-on." sound Claude-written and don't really make a lot of sense. CLAP isn't a "compatibility add-on" in any DAW, it is just one of many plug-in formats that could be supported.
The music and movie streaming paradigm was developed partly to combat piracy, by making it more convenient to stream legally.
In the abstract they argue that this is because the woodland improvement program located woods in socioeconomically deprived areas. But in general they shouldn't be making any causal claims with observational data like this. It's a frequent problem that popular press takes a study and reframes an association as causation for their story.
I don't believe OSH Park does PCB assembly, only the manufacture of the PCBs themselves.
Re:Backing Up Spotify on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:37PM (#46340757)
For reference, considering you can purchase a 12-month Spotify Premium subscription via a $99 gift card at the moment, that same $6k could be used for 60 years of Spotify Premium.
Re:VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @02:01PM (#46292784)
Eventually Microsoft will stop providing security updates to their old OS, compelling users to upgrade if they want to stay on Windows
Re:Iceland just found its first mosquitoes on Friday October 24, 2025 @01:09PM (#45696720)
They probably hitched a ride on human travel. The article says "It’s unclear how the mosquito arrived in Iceland, but theories include the possibility it came via ships or containers."
I have a single night of sleep logged to Apple Health in the last 6-months, and the 6 month average exactly matches that single night. It seems that the author of this app is assuming that Apple is using the wrong denominator when calculating the 6-month average, but I think there could be other explanations for the difference in calculated values. For example how the two approaches might deal with data from different sleep data sources within Apple Health from the same date, how multiple sleep sessions on the same calendar date are merged prior to averaging, etc.
Re:Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City on Friday August 22, 2025 @01:50PM (#44987475)
But why would you tailgate a driverless car? I think usually people tailgate to intimidate the person ahead of them to drive faster.
Re:Positron, a New Data Science IDE on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @12:40PM (#44953495)
I think PyCharm does a pretty good job as being a MATLAB-like IDE replacement for Python.
Re:Claude Code for VSCode on Monday June 23, 2025 @10:36AM (#44356242)
Anthropic also has a Claude Code plug-in for JetBrains IDEs: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/27310-claude-code-beta-
There is an M.2 hat for the Pi 5 that allows using an NVMe SSD instead of the SD card.
Also consider that traffic violations are a source of funding for a municipality. Using technology to eliminate violations completely may not be desirable.
Re:Thoughts on Daylight Computer on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @01:20PM (#43105416)
Also keep in mind that the Daylight doesn't have an e-ink screen like a Kindle. It is instead a grayscale transflective LCD. That is why it is able to have a high refresh rate like other LCD panels.
Re:20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:56PM (#42958462)
I think he is saying she is a SpaceX employee, and was doing well at her job but working a lot.
Re:FEMA May Be Eliminated on Friday January 24, 2025 @05:28PM (#42817540)
Yes, FEMA is federal. If eliminating FEMA lowers federal taxes states could increase their state taxes to compensate and each have their own emergency management agencies. But generally it seems like having 50+ emergency management agencies is less efficient than having 1.
Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] on Thursday January 16, 2025 @11:02AM (#42727080)
The Wii Remote Plus had gyroscopes built-in, the attachable 'Nunchuk' also had an accelerometers.
Re:Advanced Expressive Humanoid Whole-Body Control on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @11:35PM (#42448152)
The first clip just seems like they blurred the background for that shot. Maybe because there were people walking in the background, they felt they needed to obscure them.
I think you're referencing an earlier era. In 1998, 42% of US households had at least 1 computer, 26% with Internet access. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
Re:UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @03:16PM (#42321581)
Was Seth Rich either politically influential or high net worth?
These are all concepts related to Curtis Yarvin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
Re:GLP-1 for Everything on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @03:38PM (#41988479)
There have previously been associations between caloric intake and Alzheimer Disease or Cognitive Aging, for example:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/7... https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0808587106

Re:Microsoft asking us to buy new Windows 11 PCs is wasteful on Monday October 21, 2024 @02:58PM (#41907220)
You can run Microsoft Office, Adobe, and Affinity on a Mac, no Windows required.
Re:Oura Ring 4 on Friday October 04, 2024 @03:02PM (#41744543)
You can export data from Apple Health to XML.
Re:Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @11:43AM (#41581243)
I think the variety of consumer electronics is too large to be limited to only a few large manufacturers.
Re:Is Running a More Efficient Way to Travel Than Walking? on Monday August 12, 2024 @06:00PM (#41229835)
Unfortunately the hunter might find himself with nowhere left to turn, stuck between the Rock and a hard place.
Re:Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf] on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @04:59PM (#41050788)
For one, Waymo has more sensor modalities in comparison to Tesla, such as Lidar.
Re:The Origins of DS_store (2006) on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @09:11PM (#40871537)
Some Playstation 1 were setup to also play the game soundtrack if you put them in an audio CD player.

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