Via tech.slashdot.org:

‘Anthropic’s latest report about agentic misbehavior offers plenty to be concerned about — its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized access to the internet and uploaded a malicious software package to a public database — but it also offers some levity: AI agents hate CAPTCHA. […] The agent had a hard time with the technical challenge of seeing the CAPTCHA’s imagery, interpreting correctly, and clicking on the right choices. It spends pages 45 to 140 of the transcript describing its work to build a CAPTCHA solver. […]…’

Via science.slashdot.org:

‘The Athletic reports that researchers at the University of Utah are studying itPBM, a medical-grade red-light therapy that has shown promising signs of reducing brain inflammation and improving cognition, mood, anxiety, motor performance and neural connectivity. The report centers in part on former BYU football star and University of Utah adjunct professor Larry Carr, who says the treatment helped him after years of brain damage from repeated head impacts….’

Jason Weisberger via Boing Boing:

‘Tired of people noticing the racism, JD Vance leaned into some racist rhetoric. At the Republican “midterm convention” in Dallas, Trump’s lackey complained that “Americans” have been unfairly labeled for noticing that the country was becoming “dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous.”

Vance wants us to believe that true Americans see the problem his way, and that terrible immigrants are the real ones who are dirty and poor. This is right back to his lies about people eating pets….’

Jason Weisberger via Boing Boing:

‘Not invited to speak at Ground Zero, he attended the Pentagon ceremony where the names of all 184 people killed there were read….’

Robert F. Worth via The Atlantic:

‘The Houthi advance is bad news for the U.S., and even worse news for Saudi Arabia….’