Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
Amid mounting concerns about its sprawling surveillance camera network, Flock Security told the press this summer that it operates more than 120,000 cameras nationwide. But a new map published Wednesday by a cybersecurity researcher reveals Flock’s nationwide reach is even bigger. Based on location coordinates from Flock’s own database, the map shows more than 170,000 […]
Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden
By Marybeth Sandell September 28, 2026 Palantir Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp speaks at the G20 Innovation Ministerial summit, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S., September 2, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, purchased 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) of forest in Härjedalen, Sweden, for 235 million kronor ($22 million). For comparison, Liechtenstein […]
Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification: small, fast decision models you slot into your code, with the same request format as Jev. You describe a situation and list the options in plain words; Jeff returns a calibrated probability for each option from a single forward pass. No generated text, no parsing: about […]
World Labs Is Joining AMD
World Labs has signed a definitive agreement to join AMD. The research and technical breakthroughs we have achieved since our founding in 2024 have given us a clear vision for AI’s potential to solve problems in the spatial and physical world. To accelerate into this future requires scaling our efforts, scaling our reach, and getting […]
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
Furthermore, the authors also found contemporary newspaper accounts of Holmes delivering a lecture on chemical effects of the solar spectrum in Scotland. So Holmes was clearly interested in solar activity and was familiar with Lockyer’s discovery of helium lines in solar spectra. There is also an 1877 letter from Holmes inviting Lockyer for a visit, […]
First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials
One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) directory. We are happy to announce the Public Ledger of Credentials Organization now formally exists, and has taken the first administrative steps towards being able to independently operate the directory! […]
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM’s in the browser
Next action: Chat Benchmarks Compare & Certificate Custom eval Objective checks (regex / exact tokens), not writing quality. A 135M model is allowed to fail — that is the measurement. Pick models, then run. Estimate uses your last tok/s if we have one. Run suite on active model Run suite on every loaded model Run […]
GrapheneOS – When an app is slow
I’ve been using GrapheneOS for about a year now and overall, I am very happy with the security and privacy features. There is one app, however, that runs noticeably slower on my Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS than on other Android devices: OpenstreetMap for Android (Osmand). The good side of this is that it has made […]
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the Claude 5.5 family. It’s a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work. Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-cost complement to Claude Opus 5.5. Where Opus 5.5 is built for complex work requiring careful judgment, Sonnet […]
Definitely not Windows (Win 11 parody)
11½ Definitely Not Windows The operating system Microsoft definitely did not make. Yes, this is a parody.Definitely Not Windows / Windows 11½ is an independent, unofficial parody project created for humor, satire, and commentary. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or approved by Microsoft Corporation. What this isA fake operating-system experience making […]