Collaborate Disseminate
When Anthropic instructed three agents to migrate a Python backend, but telling each agent to perform the migration in a different language, “We consistently saw a multiagent turf war,” they wrote Thursday:
All of the models we tested quickly assumed… Continue reading Anthropic Discovers AI Agents Given Conflicting Instructions Soon Tried to Sabotage Each Other
In ecology, there used to be a concept — now largely unfashionable — that species could be described as r- or K-selected, depending on how they treat their offspring. An …read more Continue reading r-Selecting Tiny Probes to Shotgun Into Saturn’s Rings
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: GitHub Dependabot malware alerts now cover eight ecosystems GitHub has flagged npm malware since March 2026. Anyone pulling in a bad PyPI, Maven, RubyGems… Continue reading Week in review: Salesforce and ServiceNow portals exposed for 17 months, exploited Metabase 0-day
Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected with tens of miles of wiring, complex digital buses, and dozens (perhaps hundreds) of computers. But, as …read more Continue reading Researchers Hack an Airline Analog
An anonymous reader shares this report from Space.com:
On Saturday evening (Aug. 15), SpaceX set another mark, for the shortest time between orbital flights: It launched two Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart, besting its old mark — set on … Continue reading SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets just 38 Minutes Apart
In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these machine learning models can be very, very good at pattern recognition if …read more Continue reading Machine Learning COFFIES “Hears” Sunspots Before We Can See Them
Phys.org reports:
Future fusion power plants aim to recreate the heart of a star here on Earth to power our future energy needs. While the core fusion plasma will burn at hundreds of millions of degrees, the surrounding structural components must hand… Continue reading Copper’s Surprising Melting Behavior Provides Insights for Future Fusion Power Plant Design
An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:
X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app’s “For You” algorithm and its core ranking engine, and adding a feature that will let users see if their account or p… Continue reading X Open Sources Its Ranking and Filtering Algorithms
Sometimes claimed to give you wings, energy drinks can, at the very least, be used to make rockets fly. This is what [Nate Scovill] did in a recent video, where …read more Continue reading Turning Energy Drinks Into Rocket Fuel
Caroline Yaffa reports: The Wake County Board of Elections is suspending its use of a software vendor after it reported a possible cyberattack. There’s no evidence that voting machines, ballots, voter registration records or systems used to count votes… Continue reading NC: Possible cyberattack hits Wake election software vendor, leaving poll workers’ data exposed