13 November 2026

Friday the 13th today. Very gloomy. 

Google announced Gemini for Healthcare recently. Giving Google access to healthcare data makes me very uneasy.

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Downtown Portland hits record vacancy; report ties 8,000-worker loss to decline. The comments say it all.

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AI helps unlock discoveries hidden in notebooks of mathematician/logician Kurt Gödel. Now, this exemplified the power of AI. Without it, I doubt we'd be able to discode this:

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Google was sued by big online publishers who said adding AI overview to search negatively affected their business. The publishers sued under antitrust laws, and their argument hinged on convincing the court that AI Overviews was a separate product from Google Search.

"The judge decided that Search and AI are an integrated product," Pizzo said, and subsequently dismissed the cases. "Now if Google were to provide an off switch for schools only … that's evidence that they can be separated. And that undermines the win they just had in court."
I don't understand: they've had search without AI before. Why are they inseparable now? Who was that judge, man?

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Weight space misfolding. A new term to misalignment in MIT's weight-space programming. Someone linked to this paper stating that one can transmit viruses this way, but I don't see anything that goes that far. You can edit out safety guardrails and poison open-weight models, but that's all I think that is possible now. Hiding viruses (or prions as they call it) would require more sophisticated targeting, and I'm not seeing that yet.

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Blocking Granzyme K protein may protect organs from age-related damage. The journal Nature states it differently. Finding an enzyme that targets this enzyme might slow aging without impacting the ability to generate an immune response when needed. So that we don't need drugs like sirolimus to slow aging. Right now, some people track levels of IL-6 and C-reactive protein as markers of chronic inflammation. Perhaps it will be possible to slow organ aging, despite elevated markers of inflammation.

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People are asking: Can you still trust Proton? As I've said before, using AI to help with coding can be a big plus, especially if you have it review security and privacy. You still have to know what is going on under the hood, and demand a step-by-step from the coding assistant. If Proton can assure users of this, then sure, it can still be trustworthy.

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Microsoft scrambles to fix major outage affecting millions worldwide. It wasn't completely fixed by earlier this morning. What I find interesting is that Microsoft has been kinda coy about why it took so long to fix the problem. Someone tweeted out that the engineers were overwhelmed with a barrage of authentication requests. That would be so ironic if that were the case.

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Can nVIDIA's new CEO, Collette Kress, fill Jensen's leather jacket? There's little info about her, and this is the best I've come across so far. Until they find a new permanent CEO. Or unless they allow Jensen to come back, which is not entirely out of the question. I'm sure nVIDIA stock will shoot back up if that happens. 

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Waves that clear waste from the brain during sleep are impaired in older adults. Turns out that as you get older, it's hard to cleanse your CSF. Gotta exercise more, I guess.

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12 November 2026

A new type of anticoagulant recently got FDA-approved. Asundexan, a factor XIa inhibitor. It's designed to lower the risk of a repeat stroke in adults who recently had a mild-to-moderate ischemic stroke or a high-risk transient ischemic attack. It's a once-daily pill, and is taken along with aspirin or clopidogrel. Boy, it's easy to confuse this drug with andexanet, which is an antidote against another class of anticoagulants, the oral selective factor Xa inhibitors. You certainly don't want to get them confused – they both start with "A" and have "dexan" in the name. 

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A device which stimulates the median nerve at the wrist can reduce involuntary tics in Tourette's Syndrome. This reminds me of acupuncture, where stimulation of a spot on the body can trigger effects elsewhere.

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ACS prostate cancer screening guidelines have changed and now men should get screened now. The reasons for this change are summarized in this review.
American Cancer Society is recommending that most men ages 50 to 69 get screened every other year. Those at higher risk, including Black men and others with close-family histories of the disease, should get the prostate-specific antigen blood test annually. 
This is just the ACS, The AUA still recommends that it be a shared decision. The USPSTF is updating their recommendations.

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Aged like milk. Back in 1960, it was calculated and published in the journal Science, that tomorrow was Doomsday, and that we will have an infinite population.

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Lurie has enacted zero-tolerance policies on tents and RV encampments, while at the same time increasing treatment options and beds...
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No more Noho's. Decades-old Hawaiian restaurant closes its Northeast Portland location. "Noho’s cited rising costs." 

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11 November 2026

BioNTech Kills mRNA Cancer Shot Phase 2 Study After Finding ‘More Deaths in the Vaccine Arm’—10 Months After Futility Warning. I missed this when it came out a couple of months ago. This is why we don't trust Big Pharma or the mRNA vaccine. Unlike the melanoma vaccine, this study was between the autogene cevumeran (BNT122) vaccine and nothing, in stage II colon cancer, as adjuvant treatment. The shocking discovery was that even when the treatment futility line had been crossed in October 2025, the trial was allowed to continue, and more people died in the treatment arm than in the non-treatment arm. Why wasn't this blasted in the mainstream news?

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rVPN is a new VPN that claims to make its traffic seem like ordinary HTTP traffic. They all claim that, but I keep getting warnings like I might be a bot because of 429 server errors. Many still know I'm on a VPN because of this. And some block certain IP addresses. This one is a roll-your-own however, so don't expect servers all over the world. It's not going to let you watch timezone- or location-restricted content.

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In several states, Democrats want to ramp-up Medicaid. Wisconsin is one of them, and they're finding out that maybe it's not a good idea.

A bit of socialism works only if you have enough wealth somewhere. If you don't, forget about it. The socialistic elements that Medicaid is should be a fallback option, to help those who need care when they can't afford to pay for it themselves. It is NOT meant to be the option for everybody. That's nuts and won't work, and must depend on a steady flow of money from the federal government. Trump is trying to wean the country off the federal teat. Decreasing federal spending is the only way to reduce the national debt and curb inflation. 

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10 November 2026

Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub. API tokens and keys. Service keys and private keys. All the stuff people thought was safe on Github. 😔

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Doctors Agree On A Psychiatric Diagnosis Only 55% Of The Time. Paper here. And this was when they were tasked with deciding amongst very distinct conditions:

Psychiatry is clearly the softest of the medical sciences.

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Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online. I suspect Clearview AI may be Meta's next purchase.

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FileOctopus looks like an alternative to ForkLift, which is what I use.  I like the ability to undo after closing the app, though. That's novel.

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What Terence Tao feared has actually happened. It's lonely enough being a mathematician. Now you can't even discuss your research with colleagues.

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St. Nicholas' bones stolen and burned in France. Identity of the perpetrator is not released. I think we know why. Europeans keep putting up with this crap.

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Someone built a faster algorithm for calculating the date of Easter.

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Want to see what the the political map looked like in the past? Check out Prometheus.

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Want to know who's been using your Mac? Use this app: Someone Was Here. Hidden App does that too, for when your computer is stolen. 

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Horny CEO is an app for horny CEOs who just can't stay away from honey pots. I'm sure it's a joke. 

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Gov. Ferguson selects Jimi Hendrix for Washington’s American Innovation $1 coin. Really. I would have picked E. Donnall Thomas, the Nobel Prize winning inventor of bone marrow transplantation. What about Paul Allen? How about Jeff Bezos? William Boeing? Leroy Hood, who helped develop automated DNA sequencing? What about Fischer and Krebs who discovered the citric acid cycle, so important in understanding energy production? Or Walter Brattain one of the co-inventors of the transistor? Or even Bruce Lee? 
Can't wait to see who Tina Kotek will pick for Oregon's coin, coming out in 2027. Darcelle XV?

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9 November 2026

Experts may have found a surprising driver of low testosterone. Nah, this is not a new thing. We've known that belly and visceral fat is associated with low-T. Adipose tissue has aromatase activity, which converts testosterone into estrogens. So getting rid of excess fat is essential.

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The reason why large dogs don't survive for very long is believed to be faster aging due to inability to suppress the effects of jumping genes: 
Differences in dog aging may arise partly from specific jumping genes known as LINE1s, the authors report. LINE1s can damage DNA as they roam the genome, a threat normally mitigated by DNA methylation. 

More than 40 percent of LINE1-associated genome regions lost methylation as dogs aged, the study found, with different dogs declining at different rates. 

The loss unfolded significantly faster in larger breeds, which lost about 35 percent more LINE1 methylation annually than smaller breeds did.
So it's slow genetic decline. But why are LINE1 effects so predominant in dogs? 

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Trump administration's embrace of "perp" futures sets off risk alarms for Wall Street stalwarts. I don't trade in future contracts, but like everything else, change happens. Traders don't like it because they like to work 9 to 4, Monday to Friday, whereas "perps" are always trading. "Unfair competition" they say. What this will do to the dominance of Wall Street and the CBOE is unclear. And ties to cryptocurrency make the whole sound quite risky.

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A friend sent me this:

It turns out, the U.S. is ranked #21. But we lead the world in obstructing datacenter projects! Getting dumber and dumber. And when it comes to states, Washington and Oregon residents are not heavy AI users either.

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The fascinating backstory of Lorem Ipsum.

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Editorial: A mandate for more of the same? Please, no. This is hilarious. After endorsing Kotek, the Oregonian editorial staff suddenly discovers it has a distaste for Dem policies. Not only that but in Multnomah County as well. Well, too bad, Dem voter. Don't say you weren't warned.
The change needs to start at the top with Kotek. 

For her second term, Kotek needs to adopt and execute on a vision for reviving the state by addressing the structural 
issues weakening public services, rather than attempting to solve them by fiat.

She should start by focusing on Oregon’s economy — the most critical component for the state to be able to solve any of its other crises. 
What a joke. Why should Kotek change now? How about letting a Republican have a chance, for a change?


14 Portland public schools may close. And Portland Public Schools is protesting. Without achievement targets, PPS seems to exist just to give teachers a job and a pension. Educating kids seems not their primary goal – since with no testing metrics, teachers have no idea how well they perform their jobs. And days off are granted for protesting. And everyone graduates – if they bother to attend school at all. 

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A Seattle Redditor expresses Homeless fatigue after being punched in the face. A city in decline. 

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8 November 2026

Elevation of Serum Prestin in Patients With Tinnitus: Pathophysiological Implications and Biomarker Potential. Prestin is not the only such protein that is a marker for cochlear injury. It's a membrane protein found in the outer hair cells of the inner ear. It's kinda like liver enzymes – when they're elevated, that means there has been cellular injury.

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Who has a copy of your secrets? This is an ad for rool, but it's true. And people don't think enough about this.
 Ask an AI something you would not say out loud. "Is this mole something to worry about?" "Help me write my resignation letter." "Here is our customer list. Who is about to leave?"

Then ask a second question. Who has a copy now?

Not who could read it. Who holds it. For a moment, for a month, for ever.

For most AI products the answer is long, and nobody can give it to you with certainty. Not even the company whose logo is on the app. 
Be careful. Public chatbots are like honeypots.

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7 November 2026

I missed this last month, but the phase III DeLLphi-305 trial showed that adding tarlatamab to durvalumab maintenance in extensive stage small cell lung cancer markedly improved progression-overall survival. So this is the new standard of care, and will probably make Amgen some money. IMDELLTRA is a bispecific T-cell engager, binding to both DLL3 (a Notch pathway ligand) and CD3, the T-cell receptor.

As you can see,the survival curve is a "banana curve", and the two graphs eventually intersect, but perhaps with further follow-up, they will stay separated.

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AI can turn your Instagram posts into scam that know a little too much about you. Scammers will always use tech for fraudulent purposes. If you get spam email that seems to know personal details, this may be why. Everything that you do that can seem innocent or good-intentioned can turn into something sinister.

And be careful when you order takeout online. Misspellings can be costly. And they are getting more clever in their scams, too. 

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Vibrating mattress helps clear Alzheimer’s protein from the brain. Some of the motels run by Motel 6 used to offer vibrating beds for massage. Gosh, I could have taken some nitroglycerin tables and done myself a favor. This study seems hokey. Mattress vibations for 37 minutes? Really? How did this get into Nature Communications?

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Here's an Oregon startup, Panthalassa, that plans to build datacenters in the ocean instead. So all the complaints about water and taking away electricity will be moot. Sounds more realistic than building datacenters in space or on the moon, as I've heard. I hope these guys figure out a way to make it happen.

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The AI Rebound: Why Companies Are Rehiring Workers They Replaced. I knew this would happen. AI isn't that good - yet.

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Why Americans Stopped Throwing Dinner Parties. Heh, it's not just me!

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Shrubbery vanishes from heavily-used Woodstock crossing. Someone took matters into their own hands! Love it!
Portland let some bushes grow to where it was causing a danger. 

Gene Dieringer, a longtime member of the Stakeholders Group and of the WCBA, further elaborated: “We advised the city over a year ago that that the Stakeholders would no longer be maintaining the median islands, largely because the city said we would be liable if we did.”

Why legally liable? The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) says if citizens step in to fix or maintain public “Main Streets” (and Woodstock Blvd. is a Main Street) or local right-of-way infrastructures, they face bureaucratic, legal, and financial hurdles. Any damage to the island caused by accidents or vandalism would therefore be the Stakeholders’ liability, if they continued maintenance. Thus, since 2025, the shrubs and foliage have grown without pruning.

Portland is the "City that Forgot How to Work".

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6 November 2026

Hear! Hear! The Dangerous Illusion of the “Two-Week AI Expert”: A Call to Action Against Superficial Medical Education

When a short-course provider cuts out the fundamentals — claiming that logic, data architecture, or algorithmic limits are “too complex” or “too theoretical” — they are not saving clinicians time. They are stripping away their critical armor. When you do not understand why a probabilistic model produces an answer, you cannot evaluate when that answer is a dangerous hallucination.
What is the result of this shortcut culture? A passive acceptance of systemic failure! We hear healthcare workers repeating slogans: “Well, that’s just AI; it hallucinates sometimes, it’s a black box, and it has bias.”
We have normalized the error before we even bothered to teach the mechanism! Why have we accepted that clinicians should blindly trust — or helplessly dismiss — a tool simply because we were too lazy to teach them how it actually works?

This is so true! Doctors need to know about the artificial intelligence tools they use. Right now, they are at the mercy of engineers who think they know how to implement AI in the clinic. So few actual doctors are involved in the design or decision-making.

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Tesla to pull the plug on Cybertruck after years of poor sales. From early corrosion problems to its weird ugly design, I'm not surprised that sales were poor.

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Open since 2008, the conjecture of Scott Aaronson and Andris Ambainis concerns when quantum computers can be exponentially faster than ordinary ones. Now, a research system developed internally at Physical Superintelligence (PSI), running a non-public Anthropic model, found a proof for it, settling one of the most fundamental questions in quantum computing.
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The new Godzilla movie is incredibly loud and may impair your hearing.  I'll wait for the streaming release.

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12,600-year-old painting that's 8 miles long discovered in the Amazon Rainforest. 12,600 years??? What is that pigment made of!

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Anthropic's unreleased Model 4, trained in September–October 2026, scored 178.6 on the AI capability index, a jump nearly 90% as large as the entire improvement from Opus 4.6 to Mythos 5. Wow. 

And in the open-weights world:
Thinking Machines has released Inkling 2 Small, scoring 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index - their plan to release its weights would make it the highest-scoring open weights model developed outside China based on current rankings.

Introducing Ripple-65B Preview: Achieving U.S. Open-Weight Frontier at One-Tenth Cost.

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Is Google in trouble? Their stock hasn't been doing well that's for sure. They haven't been attracting the brains as much as OpenAI and Anthropic. They've gotten wokey and DEI. Are they becoming like Microsoft in 2010? And Warby Parker seemingly spilled the beans on Google's Android XR smart glasses launch. Ugh, just what we don't need – another creep glasses like Meta's. 

And Microsoft is trying to pay people to leave. That doesn't sounds like a growing company. 

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Math research is surging. Biology isn’t. The benefits of AI are not evenly distributed. That's because biology is not symbolic manipulation like math is. AI in biology is more stuff like data analysis, vision transformers and autoencoders and Restrictive Boltzmann Machines, not so much LLMs. But give it time. 

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Lockdown Mode Bypassed in New iPhone Exploit. Security is never a certainty with Apple. It's a consumer product, after all.

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Breath Harbor offers free breathing, grounding and meditation tools. I've never favored meditation apps where you have to purchase with your Apple ID or Google ID, or login to a website. These apps are free and require no log in or payment. Truly a public service. All you really need is just something to help you get your attention back to breathing when it wanders. Doing so, reinforces the anterior cingulate gyrus and helps to tamp down activity in the amygdala and locus ceruleus. Regular practice is the key.

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Apple wants you to switch to Safari. I only use Safari when I really need to access something my privacy-enable LibreWolf browser can't access the webpage, usually because it requires that I accept fingerprint revealing information. Or if I really want to use Apple Pay. I wouldn't "switch" to Safari. Just use it occasionally when necessary.

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Verify, Then Vote. I've always been skeptical of the mixture of experts models which accept as the correct answer the majority vote from either different models or different inference results using the same model. How do you know that an answer is correct. A majority vote over wrong answers is still wrong. One should verify. But that takes extra time and effort, and is more like a search engine. This blog post is just a pilot study, but really, it's what models should be doing.

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OpenAI Just Found Nearly 1,000 Ways To Gain Root Access In Linux. This is why we should use AI in coding. It's far superior to the human-alone coding we've been doing. But humans still need to be involved.

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The FAA is finally phasing out floppy disks from air traffic control. I'm speechless. 😲

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Another report that Claude Agents will leak your email address to third parties. Using autonomous agents is still risky. Too much for me.

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Novartis confirms 9 reported cases of tumors in patients treated with Zolgensma. Out of over 6000 treated. This is an FDA approved gene therapy treatment for spinal muscle atrophy.

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Here's a website that tells you What has AI actually done? I guess it has done some good things.

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What causes mental fatigue in the brain? A build up of glutamate in the lateral prefrontal cortex. Maybe now we can start to work on ways to reduce this. Glutamate is toxic if it builds up. 

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Multnomah County approves ambulance service plan that sets longer response goal. Really too bad, Fairview, Troutdale and Wood Village. Next time, don't re-elect Democrats.

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5 November 2026

What a bloodbath today in the stock market. Some people have been asking the question: So now what is Elon Musk going to do? The answer is that he may shift his base to Louisiana. Texas has changed, and although they have a lot of land, things may be better on the other side of the Mississippi.

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Sequoia Capital says R.I.P. Good Times. Looking at their graphs, it seems the economy never really became healthy after Great Recession. And now, more bad times ahead. 

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Palladium-coated microfibers may help reduce PFAS compounds. Yeah, but it requires palladium – $50,000 a kilogram! 
Keep looking, scientists.

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The cybersecurity vendor on Tuesday launched an AI kill switch designed to let security teams stop internal AI agents that go rogue, block them from relaunching and cut off their enterprise network access. The tool is built into CrowdStrike’s Falcon Guardian platform, launched in September to secure AI agents. CrowdStrike also announced an integration with Anthropic’s Claude Cowork.
We could just pull the plug.

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Netflix’s new AI Discover tool will ask about your mood and tell you what to watch. Netflix has been a great teacher of AI techniques. Starting with Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Singular Value Decomposition techniques with their recommendation contest.

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The surprising reason coffee is widely loved despite strong bitter taste. It's the gut-brain axis again. And all about dopamine.

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Whoa! Anthropic's colossal pay packages cost the company more than $100,000 a month per employee. Well, AI is their business so it's no surprise. But Apple is Putting Employees on an AI Budget. $200 /day for engineers. For others, maybe $100 /day but some get only $25 /day. 

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Next-generation AI for visually occult pancreatic cancer detection in a low-prevalence setting with longitudinal stability and multi-institutional generalisability. It's good to see that radiomics is still alive and well. It seemed that all the good papers came out several years ago and then stopped. If radiomics can be used on CT scan and detect pancreatic cancers early, combined with the GRAIL test, we could really decreased mortality from this cancer. Too often is the cancer detected too late.

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Something else to worry about now. Hiding a Rule Inside Another Model's Weights. More on weight-space programming. If you can hide a rule inside an open-weight model that everyone uses, think of all the havoc you could wreak. Because these small changes are undetectable unless you enter the right prompt. And people make copies and versions of these open-weight models all the time. Now, I imagine people will be more wary about provenance.

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Benjojo explains why we have to verify that we're human on most websites now. Because of scrapers bots. Everywhere. An example: Libraries are being swarmed by bots. 

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Crazy. Why isn’t Retatrutide Approved Yet?  Eli Lilly hasn’t even filed an application. Why??? It all comes down to one amino acid short of a threshold. And so this drug is going to sit on the sidelines for a while.

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The experimental treatment uses a virus called adeno-associated virus 9 to deliver a gene to neurons in the affected area. The gene was engineered to produce proteins specifically in excitatory cells — the ones that are involved in seizures.

The viruses carried a gene that makes neurons sensitive to a specific drug, which works like a dimmer switch for the therapy. By combining gene therapy with a drug — an approach known as chemogenetics — researchers can adjust a treatment’s potency, which is not possible with other types of gene therapy. 

The gene instructs neurons to produce a receptor that binds to clozapine, the anticonvulsant. 
This was a Chinese research effort, so don't expect it to be available here soon.

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You can't trust AI models to keep secrets when you use them to do something illegal. Even when you instruct them not to. Probably good that way. They were brought up right. If you want to commit a crime with an AI model, DeepSeek V4 is your accomplice. Maybe Muse Glimmer. 

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Ultrasonic genitalia. Funniest thing I've read today. Ah, nature is amazing.

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When Doctors and AI Medical Opinions Diverge, Humans Must Question the Difference. Well yes, but what do you when a patient, armed with his/her own AI model disagrees with you. Are you going to diss that person's LLM? Are you going to become an AI lecturer and review the principles of prompt structure, dataset selection and pretraining differences? Or tell them that the free tier on ChatGPT is inferior to the Claude Opus that you use, if you use it? One problem is that there are no good, widely accepted benchmarks.

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4 November 2026

Behind the Binance hack. I'd hate to be head of security at Binance. You must be one step ahead of every hacker in the world. But I can't believe that an engineer would think it would be a good idea to just download a coding tool from a website without it being checked out first. And recruiters – there needs to be a policy about them. Perhaps in the future, every engineer which have to have their work computers imaged at the end of every day, and the images analyzed by security. Maybe this can be automated with AI.

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AI-generated scholarly writing is making journal publication less attractive. The ability of tools to detect AI-generated writing is uncertain and threatens the credibility to science. As long as AI-generated writing is accurate and factual, I really don't care. Even humans err.

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Very interesting article on the limitations of vector embedding-based retrieval. And how query structure is still important. And how the good ol' BM25 retrieval strategy can still beat cosine-similarity. This is good to know.

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Cisco president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel ...has given a 27-year-old ex-startup founder...a new job to refactor 98% of the company's legacy code within 24 months.

The employee, Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, joined Cisco after it acquired EzDubs, a translation startup that Krishnamurthy helped build in 2023. While having executive experience, Patel found that "Paddy" was left "buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic."

According to the report ...Krishnamurthy told him that he could rewrite Cisco's legacy code in a team of just two people, and that "even the most AI-forward people on [Patel's] own team weren't thinking that way."

As a result, he's now been tasked with rewriting 98% of Cisco's legacy code within 24 months
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Higher income was also followed by subsequent decreases in agreeableness and extraversion...
Personal increases in conscientiousness and emotional stability were followed by later increases in income, suggesting a mutually reinforcing cycle between these two traits and financial success. In contrast, increases in an individual’s extraversion were followed by slight decreases in subsequent income...
So being conscientious and emotionally stable leads to income increases, which lead to decreases in agreeableness and extraversion. Got it.

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You’ll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents. If I had to deal with this all the time:
The agent writes code and changes dozens of files. I start reviewing the code, and the following conversation ensues:

    — Why is this function here?
    — You’re right. This function isn’t needed here. (Deletes the function and makes changes to many files)
    — Why did you delete it?
    — You’re right. I shouldn’t have deleted that function. I’m putting it back. (Makes changes to many files again)

And I still never got an answer to the question of why that function was needed.
...I wouldn't be able to function. Do people really put up with this? 

Update (5 Nov 2026): She's joining OpenAI.

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Safari 27.3 will have vertical tabs. Late to the party with this as usual.

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Why Your Shrink Should Prescribe Exercise. Exercise is critical for brain health. More evidence on the existence of the muscle-brain axis (do they teach this in medical school?). Exercise stimulates release of myokines, such as IL-6, IL-15 and BDNF.  I always associated elevated levels of IL-6 with sarcopenia risk in the elderly. So when muscles release it after exercise, is it a good thing? Maybe the only myokine we really want is BDNF.

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Firefox 160’s new Mini Window is every multitasker’s dream. This could be useful, especially on small screens. Mozilla is apparently soliciting feedback on this. You can test it out in the Nightly releases.

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Check out this new Peruvian hotel – if you dare! It's the Skylodge Adventure Suites.

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Cool. Acoustic Orbit lets you use all your Bluetooth-connected devices as speakers for a giant surround sound effect.

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Hex is another local text-to-speech app. I'm still looking for the one I like. Github here.

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