JP Morgan takes a look at Claude Mythos.
Mythos reminds me of Kurt Gödel's citizenship test when he purported to identify a loophole in the Constitution which would allow a dictator to assume power.Mythos has now “saturated” this benchmark since it no longer reflects the upper limit of what Mythos can do in terms of cyber exploitation and detection. Mythos does not just find vulnerabilities, it also creates working code to exploit them.
Examples of what Mythos found:
- a vulnerability in OpenBSD, a security-focused open-source operating system that had escaped detection for 27 years. OpenBSD is operating system mostly used to run servers; the vulnerability if exploited would let an attacker take control of any machine on the network without needing a password or any credentials
- a flaw in the video encoder FFmpeg that escaped detection in 5 million previous automated tests
- vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel which could be exploited to take complete control of a user’s machine
Pi and the Mandelbrot Set. Now this is really cool. Who comes up with this stuff?
And here is an interesting article for math nerds: All elementary functions from a single operator:
That's it! You can derive addition, multiplication and trig functions from it.
Why do rural hospitals close? Well this graph (below) gives you a hint. Look at all the Medicaid enrollees that boomed under Obama and Biden. So many people who can't afford private insurance. This is why the socialist model fails, and to make all of our healthcare socialist would be a disaster. Obamacare was a boon to hospitals in the first phase, while it lasted. All that money went to hospitals and we all saw the new construction that took place. All that glass and steel. Now, they are struggling. Healthcare is not a human right, but is something that a civil society endeavors to provide in order to relieve suffering. But there is no right to its existence, and we are seeing the closure of hospitals, rural ones first.
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Evil. The Biden Admin Knew of COVID Vaccine Stroke Risk and Covered It Up. Newly-released documents show a systemic cover-up. Disgusting. Someone should be punished for this.
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In case you didn't already know, here is a list of Google search site modifiers that might get you to zoom in on what you're looking for. I've known about most of these, but since I don't use Google directly, some of these were new.
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AI Is Using So Much Energy That Computing Firepower Is Running Out. But datacenter construction is up against headwinds. So much pushback. We need them, but not under the conditions that tech complanies request, and our politicians must heed the needs of constituents. Or else stuff like this will happen.
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Who's going to win the AI race? Will Apple be the surprise winner? I don’t think so. Apple's AI Chief John Giannandrea Departs This Week. Doesn't look like he has much confidence. But maybe they need someone with a better, winning vision?
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Clinical trial shows gene editing works for β-Thalassaemia. People with β-thalassemia have an advantage in malaria prone places because their erythrocytes don't survive as long, but heterozygotes don't usually struggle much with their disease. The problem is with the homozygotes. It's nice to have a treatment for them.
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The surprising reason anti-Asian hate is going unpunished. I read this because it was authored by Garry Tan.
It was a narrow ideological layer speaking over the immigrant families and elderly Asians who wanted the simplest thing in the world: Protect us, arrest the people doing this, and punish them when they kill. But that wasn’t what Stop AAPI Hate wanted. Its own 2025 survey, conducted with NORC at the University of Chicago, undermines its entire advocacy platform.
But instead of advocating for what Asians wanted, this groups said:
“We don’t need more mass incarceration, we need more racial healing and solidarity.”Yeah, we do need more incarceration. In September of 2023, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a report entitled “The Federal Response to Anti-Asian Racism in the United States”. From the report:
“Hate crimes, prosecution and incarceration of the attacker does nothing to address those needs.”
But it shows little interest in how to stop those crimes by getting the perpetrators off the streets. The only explanation I can see for all this is that the Staff Director did not want to let anything into the report that might conflict with the progressive agenda.
This was during the Biden administration. Asians have little political clout.
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AIs can ‘memorize’ data they shouldn’t. Can they be forced to forget? It's easy to train a model on data. But how do you get it to selectively "forget" something it trained on? Some startups claim to know how to do that. But it's not clear that it works in all cases.
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Estrogen Levels at the Moment of Trauma Predict PTSD. Women suffer more from traumatic events and face twice the lifetime risk of PTSD. This is why it's especially hard when they go through certain crimes. We need to do more to protect especially girls and young women from psychological trauma, when estrogen levels are higher, even though it's hippocampal estrogen that correlates with PTSD risk.
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We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History, and Almost Nobody Has Noticed. Yeah, I hadn't heard of these hacks. Even crosswalk signals are being hacked. Are people just lax about security?
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The Zechner-Lopopolo Continuum. Can't believe we're having this discussion. No wonder comp sci majors can't find jobs. We can't even be sure we need them.
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Oregon's economic downturn is even hitting Bend.
Seattle’s economic outlook is in choppy waters, but officials hopeful. What are they hopeful about? That "weak spots in the economy are balanced out by new taxes and a slightly improved outlook on sales tax revenue." Taxes.
Mayor Katie Wilson has long favored new progressive taxes — on capital gains, for example — over cuts to city services...Inflation is expected to reach at least 4% here while employment is not expected to grow at all for the next two years. Last year, employment dipped by 0.1%
The only meaningful growth in employment in the Seattle area was in health care and education, while trades, manufacturing and information technology jobs all saw declines.
Growth in healthcare and education, the two places where progressives can find employment, besides government and NGOs. Not healthy at all.
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