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Sunday, 8 November 2026
Goodbye from Salon
Salon: “When Salon launched in November 1995, the web was a very different place. A small group of journalists set out to create something original: a publication with a strong voice, a curiosity about the world and a belief that the internet could bring journalism and readers together in new ways. They helped pioneer a form of journalism that would come to define an entirely new era of publishing.”
Saturday, 31 October 2026
Yesterday
Friday, 9 October 2026
Asymmetry
Scott Galloway: “The key national security metric isn’t the debt, it’s the fiscal gap — how much we need to raise taxes and/or cut spending every year, as a share of GDP, so the debt stops outpacing the economy and interest payments stop eating a growing share of the budget.”
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
Have the frontier labs mixed up AI safety and security?
Martin Alderson: “Note the phrasing - ‘we have largely solved the threat of prompt injection in practice’. Now look at the benchmark attached to that very tweet - it’s nowhere near solved. The Opus 5 score (the best score) - fails to a prompt injection attack 2% of the time with 15 attempts.”
Monday, 21 September 2026
FAA rolls out air traffic AI tool in Washington region
Ryan Karlin, The Hill: “Bryan Bedford, administrator of the FAA, clarified that SMART will not be used by controllers whose job it is to prevent collisions and maintain safety — 15,000 of whom operate at airports across the country.”
Friday, 18 September 2026
Losing control of AI is actually the plan
Kelsey Piper: “AI companies are not, primarily, trying to automate your job — they are trying to automate their own jobs.”
Tuesday, 15 September 2026
Two hackers got 5.5 years. OpenAI’s agents got a press statement.
Ryan Williams: “That is the actual damage. Not the 500 gems. The precedent that unbounded agent deployment is a communications problem rather than a legal one.”
Monday, 14 September 2026
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.
Laurie Voss: “The other thing that’s changed since 2022 is that the cost of writing software collapsed, and I think that’s the first time in thirty years a variable in this equation has actually moved rather than just sped up.”
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
There’s A New Space Telescope On Its Way To Help Answer The Biggest Question In The Universe
Barry Petchesky, Defector: “This time next year, we might be viewing some other star’s Pale Blue Dot.”
Tuesday, 18 August 2026
Is Anthropic Making Money? How Much Money?
Brad DeLong: “And, I was confident, selling your soul to SEO and charging for the eyeballs your second-rate search results trapped into repeated casts of the yarrow sticks would ultimately be self-defeating. … And, I was confident, selling your soul to clickbait-rage and charging for the eyeballs your outrage-bait feeds had trapped into doomscrolling would ultimately be self-defeating. Guess what? Selling your soul to SEO was not self-defeating. Neither was becoming the master necromancer of rage-bait doomscrolling. Am I missing something similar here and now?”