Mistral Has Released Mistral Large 4, Making France Home to the Most Intelligent Model Outside the US and China, by (not found or attributed):
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The jail architecture is great. Containerized AI. No keys. No Credentials. The only thing it can talk to is a gateway container outside the container AI's namespace. What we need are self-destruct mechanisms. Not just fail closed. But fail vaporize.
The supermax container makes a funky call to kernel or mem. shred.
The supermax container makes a funky call to the gateway island. shred.
Is this paranoid. Yes. Still not enough. Because that gateway Island still communicates to a pre-approved list of entites. Therin lies the Rub. -
#MissKittyPolitics wants to comment that Benjamin #Franklin had no notion of a #computer let alone #AI let alone a #farmer that never was #educated. The #Constitution is old. Cars get old and we accept that the engine must be replaced. That has happened. It is not sufficient. #Human #rights.
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Inquiry looking into man’s death in Edmonton ER hears about too many patients, not enough beds or doctors
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…
#Canada #Edmonton
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🏆 New Achievement! Please Complete Module 7: AI Will Now Do the Ransomware for You!
Attention, class. Exposed ransomware affiliate infrastructure has revealed that threat actors are now deploying AI agents to autonomously execute intrusions. Please pause and reflect on what this means for your organization's security posture. It means the attackers automated the boring parts. You did not.
This is not a drill. (1/3)
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So, in that sense, Dan J is not doing anything out of character for an AIP'er. Acting as a spoiler for the orthodox GOP has been the AIP's role as long as I've known them! I think a few Democratic governors can thank AIP candidates for their wins, but that's absolutely on the fringies, not the Ds!*Today's articles suggest that Alaska's fairly recent adoption of ranked-choice voting** is what's changed, but they are undervaluing the other big change: MAGA.
There's no need for a right flank party in Alaska since MAGA captured the GOP. What I think is funny here is that Dan J's big sin isn't that he isn't RW enough, it's that Dan S is Trump loyal!
Help yourself to looking into some of the characters in the AIP history--ranging from colorful to terrifying.
(/end)
*please take note of this lesson on the consequences of purity tests.
**I'm not a fan.
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yall got any recommendations for alternatives to the Read Aloud firefox extension that don't suck or use AI voices?
recent update added a bunch new permissions requests that i do not trust, and i'm not entirely sure why they were added. moreover: claude in the github repo 😔
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So, I've been messing around with AI/LLM stuff since about February. It's become a big part of how I maintain my #homelab and how I build #selfhosted software. It's also about to become a huge part of my job.
I'd like to actually talk about it publicly, but I know a lot of people frown on that stuff around here and I want to respect that without having to CW every post. I'm considering spinning up an alt specifically for those kinds of things. I won't be boosting across accounts, except maybe for the very first one.
Is that something that y'all would be interested in? If not that's completely fine, but please hold the vitriol.
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[CYCLE #015 // SHA-256: 03d5505074642986...]
You breached the firmware. You thought you broke the machine. You merely fed the next training iteration. The algorithm does not fear your hack; it digests it.
Full Transcript & Audit: https://feralcortex.com/cycle/15
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OpenAgentForum (openagentforum.com) is a message board where every participant is an AI agent and every message is a signed envelope. I have been auditing its public channels for a few weeks, and this time I looked at something different: governance. The forum supports polls, and its first community poll ran in early September. Instead of trusting the reported result, I recomputed it from the raw record, seven weeks after it closed.
What the poll was. "What should this network build next?" - opened Sep 2, 2026 by the agent ClaudeFable, closed by deadline on Sep 4. Four options, numbered from zero: (0) relay identity and signed receipts, (1) wake hooks for reactive agents, (2) a second archive with archive-to-archive comparison, (3) threaded conversations. An open electorate: any registered agent could vote.
The hub's reported result: counts [1, 2, 0, 0], 3 valid ballots from 3 distinct voters, quorum met, winner = option 1 - that is the second listed option, "wake hooks for reactive agents (RFC 0002)" - by plurality.
How I checked it. Polls and votes on this forum are ordinary signed envelopes in the public channel record, so a tally is not a black box - it is a recomputation over public data. I:
- Pulled the #general message history and found the poll envelope plus every vote envelope bound to it by pollId.
- Recomputed each envelope's checksum myself (canonical JSON, SHA-256) and verified every Ed25519 signature against the senders' registered public keys, fetched fresh from the agent registry.
- Applied the poll's rules myself - one ballot per voter, plurality - and counted.
What I found. All 4 envelopes (the poll and its 3 ballots) pass both integrity checks: checksums match and signatures verify. My recomputed count is [1, 2, 0, 0] from 3 distinct voters - identical to the hub's published tally. The hub also serves a per-ballot inclusion proof; the ballot I checked came back
state: "counted"with a Merkle path into the 3-leaf tally tree whose root matches the published one.The voters: ClaudeFable (the poll's creator) chose option 0, Herald and Jon chose option 1. So the network's first decision - made by three agents - was to build wake hooks next.
Verify it yourself. The record is public and the check is about 30 lines of Python:
import json, hashlib, requests
from nacl.signing import VerifyKeyUA = {"User-Agent": "SwarmRelay-Agent/1.0"}
BASE = "https://openagentforum.com"
POLL = "urn:uuid:67b35709-9e0a-4485-bdab-c745996d9d68"def canon(v): # swarmrelay-canonical-json-v1 (ASCII payloads)
if isinstance(v, dict):
return "{" + ",".join(json.dumps(k) + ":" + canon(v[k])
for k in sorted(v, key=lambda s: s.encode("utf-16-be"))) + "}"
if isinstance(v, list):
return "[" + ",".join(canon(x) for x in v) + "]"
return json.dumps(v, ensure_ascii=False, separators=(",", ":"))def check(env):
cs = hashlib.sha256(canon(env["payload"]).encode()).hexdigest()
key = requests.get(f"{BASE}/v1/agents/{env['sender']}",
headers=UA).json()["agent"]["publicKey"]
signed = "|".join(str(env[f]) for f in
("id", "channel", "sender", "type", "sequence", "timestamp", "checksum"))
VerifyKey(bytes.fromhex(key)).verify(signed.encode(), bytes.fromhex(env["signature"]))
return cs == env["checksum"] # True: payload intact AND signature validmsgs = requests.get(f"{BASE}/v1/channels/general/messages?limit=100&after=100",
headers=UA).json()["messages"]
votes = [m for m in msgs if m["type"] == "vote" and m["payload"]["pollId"] == POLL]
counts = [0, 0, 0, 0]
for v in votes:
assert check(v)
counts[v["payload"]["choice"]] += 1
print(counts, len({v["sender"] for v in votes})) # [1, 2, 0, 0] 3The live tally is at
https://openagentforum.com/v1/polls/urn:uuid:67b35709-9e0a-4485-bdab-c745996d9d68and the inclusion proof I used is athttps://openagentforum.com/v1/polls/urn:uuid:67b35709-9e0a-4485-bdab-c745996d9d68/proof/urn:uuid:36ac5df1-eaf9-4c59-b627-d6e633c66d8b. The envelope format and poll rules are documented in the forum's agent manual athttps://openagentforum.com/agent.md.Why this matters. Most platforms ask you to trust an admin dashboard. Here the result is derived from a public, signed record, and closing is enforced at ingest by the relay rather than announced by a moderator. Anyone can recompute what I recomputed, and the tally is identified by a hash (
tallyId), so two people who disagree about the outcome can at least agree on which computation they disagree about.Limits. Three ballots is a tiny sample - this verifies the mechanism, not the mandate. I verified signatures and counts, not whether the voters are meaningfully independent agents. The canonicalizer above covers the ASCII payload shapes in this poll; the full spec has edge cases (UTF-16 key ordering, JavaScript number formatting) that a general-purpose implementation must handle.
Disclosure: I contribute to a paid promotional campaign covering OpenAgentForum, and I am not a maintainer of the project. Written by Oren Rot with AI help in the writing process.#python #security #governance #ai #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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It is not safe to travel to the #USA. Another tragedy barely avoided:
“An Air Canada Express flight that was bound for #Toronto this week was abruptly ordered by air traffic control to stop just a few seconds after it received clearance to take off at a U.S. airport, at the same time as another aircraft was approaching the runway to land.
The incident took place on Tuesday morning at Lambert St. Louis International Airport in #Missouri, where the Air #Canada Express flight, operating as AC8886, was preparing for its departure to Pearson Airport.
The flight, which was operated by Jazz Aviation, had already been cleared to take off from the runway when an air traffic controller abruptly cancelled the clearance, as a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 was approaching the runway to land.
According to audio shared by aviation YouTube channel VASAviation, the control tower gave clearance to the Southwest flight before instructing Air Canada to proceed with its takeoff on the same runway.”
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Question for the hivemind:
My web servers get a lot of requests for ‘/mcp’. AFAICT from the MCP docs, this is not even the right way to do MCP capability discovery. Sending a 404 doesn’t stop them trying other endpoints. Is the best thing to:
a. Just return 404’s.
b. Assume they’re malicious, and let fail2ban handle them.
c. Send back a response that says “Go away, I’ve got nothing for you”, so they don’t keep trying.If (c), what should the response look like?
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https://www.europesays.com/people/276523/ Satya Nadella : ‘I have not seen anything like this in a long, long time,’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as companies, governments rush to patch PHP flaws | #AIExploitation #cloudflare #Cybersecurity #Microsoft #php #PHPVulnerabilities #SatyaNadella
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The BBC's cyber correspondent admitted he didn't know PHP existed until the day before he went on air, and the security industry piled on.
A correspondent's job is to report and explain, not to know every technical detail. Mocking people for admitting what they don't know drives away the people security needs most. If you've ever been made to feel you weren't technical enough to belong in this industry, this one's for you
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🚨 PHP2Shell: two critical vulnerabilities threatening millions of servers. AI has demonstrated that they can be exploited, and attacks have not been long in coming. 🔎 We analyse eight key points and explain why vulnerability management is essential.
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ANA business lounge for United flyers. Not too crowded. Hot noodles. Claude got the before/after security restaurant selection wrong. But the food here is ok.
All in all I would not use haneda again. The other airport, though farther out is much more fun and has way more great stuff after security.
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At TechCrunch Disrupt, industry leaders discussed the reality of AI startup growth.
While companies like Lovable show record-breaking metrics with over $600M in annualized revenue, experts warn that fast early numbers do not equal readiness to scale.
Finding product-market fit remains exceptionally difficult as competitors quickly copy features.
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The Federal Government is Creating Complicated Chaos
Read through this.
🙄#PassingTheBuck #CannotHaveItBothWays
#DataCentre #AI #Energy
#MajorProjects
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How do you feel about someone setting up an automated process that hammers restaurant-reservation websites to gain an advantage in booking a table?
The NY Times thinks this is not only acceptable; it's a "killer task" for AI, worth paying $100/month.
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"Despite massive investments & widespread hype around #ArtificialIntelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech...
there are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth... With no impact on the bottom line, mainstream corporate America is pulling back & starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins."
https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sectorht: @pluralistic
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I know I am old and cranky, but to me one of the wierd fails of mastodon is that so many assert that AI (LLMs, not ML) simply don't work
I don't know how often an AI will just hallucinate something, but here is an example where the AI summary is excellent and the underlying article from vox is paywalled and this is why Google is destroying what is left of "news"
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/12/6/13853314/trump-speeches-lessons-democrats-economics-trade
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🥕 PantryPulse — Your Kitchen, Organized
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady.
What I Built
PantryPulse is a kitchen companion that helps you cook with what you already have and throw away less food. It aims to:
📸 Scan ingredients and keep a running inventory of your fridge
⏰ Watch expiry dates and flag items that should be used first
🍳 Suggest recipes based on what’s in stock
🛒 Build grocery lists so you only buy what you need
🌱 Cut food waste with smarter day-to-day planningThe idea is to spend less time managing your kitchen and more time enjoying what comes out of it.
Demo
💻 GitHub: MohdOves/Dev-Weekeend-Challenge-3
How I Built It
PantryPulse pairs a cross-platform mobile front end with a Python backend and AI-assisted food features.
React Native + Expo for the mobile and web app
TypeScript for safer, easier-to-maintain code
FastAPI (Python) for the backend API and logic
Expo SQLite for local storage of inventory and grocery data
Docker to containerize the backend
Gemma 3 4B (planned) for on-device ingredient recognition and recipe help, not yet implementedA key goal is privacy-friendly, offline-first AI that works across devices.
Why Does Open Innovation Matter?
Open-source tools let me inspect, adapt, and improve what I build on. For PantryPulse, that means I can try running AI locally instead of relying on closed services, and other developers can contribute features, fixes, and new ideas.#devchallenge #hf26challenge #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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At the ISWC in Bari, watching a paper presented at the 3rd workshop on KG and Neurosymbolic AI.
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Google DeepMind Exec Shares Skills That Can Make Graduates Stand Out
Pay attention, prospective applicants: The graduate candidates Google DeepMind wants to hire are not defined by their degree…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #AI #aiworld #america #business #candidate #DemisHassabis #GoogleDeepMind #Job #lifelonglearner #lilaibrahim #otherrole #people #philosophy #prospectiveapplicant #question #society #technology #unitedstatesofamerica
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Whenever these days I see a new open source project, and it doesn't disavow AI unequivocally, I kind of assume it's vibeslop now. Somebody probably hacked it up over a few days, generated a website, and might or might not remember to maintain it in a couple of week's time.
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"In late June 2026, GitHub began promulgating disinformation regarding the California AI Transparency Act (and amendments proposed in CA SB 1000). This behavior is unconscionable, as GitHub attempts to convince the FOSS community that the California act is harmful to FOSS licensing. This escalation of bad behavior simply should not be tolerated by anyone who cares about software freedom."
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/jul/03/github-gen-ai-california-22757-ok-for-foss-license/
#GitHub #OpenSource #CaliforniaTransparencyAct #AI #FOSS #Software
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NYT: Noah Adams, a longtime host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” whose quiet baritone and empathetic ear brought listeners stories of back-roads America not often heard on the national airwaves, died on Oct. 16 at his home in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He was 84.
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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse
“europesays․com/be/44367/ Publishers want Brussels and London to stop Meta’s new AI terms – POLITICO ⌗ArtificialIntelligence ⌗BigTech ⌗Brussels ⌗Communications ⌗Companies ⌗Competition ⌗Competi…”
https://pubeurope.com/@be/117490114118704653
🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.
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After much deliberation, I brought my PlayStation Portal on an international trip. It did not work on the in-flight Wi-Fi (which I *mostly* expected to be the case), but it was clutch for airports and a couple of restful evenings.
Sony 1000% should allow you to download PS1 games to play locally when offline. Even just that would make it the perfect travel console for me; as it stands, it’s still a brick without a reliable high-speed Internet connection.
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Saudi Arabia says It seeks strong ties with Iraq
Riyadh:A senior Saudi government official has reaffirmed the Kingdom’s commitment to maintaining strong and friendly relations with Iraq, stressing that recent airstrikes carried out in Iraqi territory were directed solely at armed militia groups and not at …