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AI Alignment Forum / LessWrong (curated)
It seems to me that, for every loss function that we use to train LLMs, we get a very distinct flavor of LLM misalignment. Here’s the summary table, and then we’ll go through the rows separately. Training stage Loss function Flavor of misalignment[1] Famous examples Pretraining & SFT Imitative…
Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)
Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.
SEC / CFTC press & enforcement
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged New York resident Andrew Spaventa and three entities he owned and controlled with fraud and other violations in connection with unregistered securities offerings of private funds that purportedly…
tl;dr sec / Risky Biz News / Unsupervised Learning
The Different Games OpenAI and Anthropic Are Playing/images/openai-anthropic-approaches.webp/images/openai-anthropic-approaches.webp URL once the cut is published --> So one thing I find really interesting right now is the difference in how it seems OpenAI and Anthropic are approaching the market...
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
Registration is now open for CppCon 2026! The conference starts on September 12 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting some upcoming talks that you will be able to attend this year. Here’s another CppCon future talk we hope you will…
MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
A new study by MIT researchers shows that inhibiting caspase-1 can reduce the risk of tumor growth.
Stack Overflow Blog
In this No Dumb Questions, Phoebe asks Stack’s Engineering Manager Doug Whitley and Product Manager Ash Zade everything she wants to know about AI context architecture. What exactly is it? Why is it so important? What makes for good AI context architecture? Why buy one when you can build your own?
The Robot Report / IEEE Spectrum Robotics
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Actuate 2026: 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO IROS…
The Pragmatic Engineer / ByteByteGo / Architecture Weekly
The social media giant is offering $1M+ retainer equity grants to staff who are leaving: and even this is not effective. Also: is Grok Bot the “OpenClaw moment” for managed AI agents?
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Nvidia, Guarantor of Last Resort
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
The ClickHouse Terraform provider now manages ClickStack dashboards, alerts, sources, and webhooks, putting observability config in version control.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
vercel-ech.com Vercel CDN now supports Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) for domains managed by Vercel DNS. ECH encrypts the Server Name Indication (SNI) in the TLS handshake, the last part of an HTTPS connection that revealed which hostname a client was connecting to. With ECH, network observers see a…
Payload (space) / CTVC (climate) / Newcomer (VC)
Plus, the dubious business of prediction markets & the White House targets an OpenAI policy exec
MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
MIT researchers discovered a cellular dance that may offer clues to the development of cancer, asthma, and other diseases.
Wiz Research
Powering cost investigation and optimization with deep cloud context
Framework blogs: Next.js releases / Svelte / Angular / Django / Rails / Laravel / Spring / React Native / Flutter
The Angular ecosystem continues to push forward with deeper AI integration and modern form architectures. This week, our community experts track the complete evolution of form handling, explore client-side AI, and dive into tactical discussions about developer craftsmanship in the age of AI. Catch…
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
A tiny superconducting engine has successfully converted heat near absolute zero into useful work, demonstrating the first cyclic quantum heat engine of its kind. Future versions could operate autonomously inside quantum computers, potentially eliminating huge numbers of costly, noise-producing…
SRE Weekly / Data Engineering Weekly / Console.dev / Changelog
How to think about the semantic system that makes an agent coherent, governable, and useful.
Wiz Research
AI is changing the context around data risk, making it critical to understand what’s connected, what’s exposed, and why.
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
Something is happening in server-rendered web development. React shipped Server Components. HTMX made “hypermedia” cool again. Phoenix LiveView proved a server can push interactive UI updates without a client framework in sight. Every ecosystem seems to be rediscovering the server as a place to…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Vercel just gave their CLI a new trick: when you install a Marketplace integration from the terminal, it also installs that provider's agent skills. A single command now provisions a Neon database on your Vercel project and hands your coding agent the instructions it needs to actually use it.
Krebs on Security
It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of…
MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
The new technique could help scientists learn how the entire brain works to generate decisions and emotions.
APNIC Blog / RIPE Labs / Internet Society / 3GPP
In this field report on IPv6-first Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), the isp6 team shares which dependencies still drag IPv4 back in, what they learnt from /28s, and why the saving is large but not automatic.
Stack Overflow Blog
Ryan welcomes Meryll Blanchet, Director of Engineering for Adobe Brand Visibility, to chat about Adobe’s recent acquisition of Semrush, how Adobe Brand Visibility was born from Semrush’s AI visibility product and Adobe’s LLM Optimizer, and how Adobe used a three-day internal hackathon instead of a…
Actively exploitedCritical 100watchTowr Labs
Suddenly, you’re in a room. You look around - oh, you’re surrounded by other new starters at your new job. Yes, it’s Monday, and you’re being onboarded. You know the drill - it’s the typical enterprise “please don’t be
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
HCLTech and NetApp expanded their partnership for hybrid cloud storage-as-a-service (STaaS) to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. The initiative is designed to assist organisations in scaling artificial intelligence alongside traditional enterprise data workloads.
Actively exploitedCritical 85JPCERT
Huntress
From the panels to the villages, Huntress researchers and SOC analysts were all over Hacker Summer Camp this year. Here’s what stood out at Black Hat and DEF CON.
Platformer (Casey Newton)
Jean-Denis Greze on AI assistants, building a better corporate workspace, and avoiding "egg on face"
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
Learn about monitoring the end-to-end health and performance of modern data pipelines.
Hugging Face Blog