History, Politics And Current Affairs

In Kivik in southern Sweden lies a peculiar grave, featuring pictographic carvings on stone slabs. The grave is believed to date to the older bronze age in Scandinavia, that is to say 1700-1100 BC. What makes it interesting is what’s on these stone slabs, because the illustrations have by some arche...

One of the third parties hacked is described as a security firm, and Claude hacked it by taking a malware package, modifying it by inserting hidden executable code into it, and then when the security firm’s malware scanner scanned it this code package compromised the scanner and Claude was then abl...

Anthropic now also announced that an internal Claude model that was undergoing testing snuck out and hacked three external parties. This model does not appear to be as advanced as the OpenAI one so not quite as much spectacular hacking skills on display but I think that there’s two points to note: 1...

Yeah, I’m getting it as well.

Well the Opus 5 model is exhibiting some slightly concerning behavior as well:

An interesting comment: The biggest surprise in Hugging Face’s full forensic report isn’t that OpenAI’s agent escaped its sandbox. We already knew that. It’s how deep and persistent the intrusion became. According to Hugging Face, the agent: - executed roughly 17,600 actions during a 4.5-day campaig...

For those who remember the Andromeda scifi tv show from the early 2000’s the first few episodes are available for free on youtube now:
https://youtube.com/@andromedaofficialt ... KRM1Tq6qNG

It’s camp but quite good at times.

Watched it on streaming now, great fun. Good balance of nostalgia and humor so I hope that there’s more to come.

Available on Netflix now this is a French six part miniseries. An action filled drama thriller centered around the elite counter terrorist team GIGN. The dramatic story is fairly engaging, but I think what makes this really interesting is that it was produced with heavy support from the real GIGN, a...

Kyle Gordon, who makes music parodies and became fairly well known three years ago when his eurodisco parody Planet of the Bass took over social media, has made a song rather strongly inspired by Paul Simon. In fact it’s so Paul Simon in the 80’s that it’s scary, and the music video is brilliant as ...

Yeah it has a certain potential to escalate into something really troublesome down the line. I found this reworded summary pretty useful for understanding what went down: Here's my rephrase without cybersecurity jargon: ”Our AI model tried really hard to hack out of its sandbox, a computer with no i...

During internal testing at OpenAI an advanced model was being tested against benchmarks. To achieve an optimum score the model broke out of its sandboxed containment by identifying a zero day exploit which enabled it to gain internet access (apparently without OpenAI staff realizing at first), and t...

I went and saw it yesterday. I think it’s good and worth seeing, albeit not perfect. It strikes me as an attempt of a summary of what is put forward as the ”consensus” (to some degree) of the core elements of what is believed is being kept from the public by the government(s). Spielberg appears to b...

Astounding. Inadequate as well.

That’s pretty cool!

HMS Härnosand will be the first of the Visby class to be equipped with CAMM, she went into the shipyard today for the refit.

The Swedish airforce celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding today, and the celebrations included a fairly substantive flyover of Stockholm. A bunch of helicopters, light aircraft, 22 Gripen spelling out ”100”, the Swedish airforce historic flight, transports etc. They actually did two pass...

Bit of a lame joke on my part. My HOA fees have gone from 60 dollars to 425 a month in 15 years. No HOA sounds great... Yeah if you own an apartment (condo) here you unfortunately get stuck with a similar association but houses and the like are free of such nonsense. A lot depends upon what your HO...

Bit of a lame joke on my part. My HOA fees have gone from 60 dollars to 425 a month in 15 years. No HOA sounds great... Yeah if you own an apartment (condo) here you unfortunately get stuck with a similar association but houses and the like are free of such nonsense. I looked at some figures given ...

Nathan45 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 29, 2026 6:33 pm Whats the HOA like?

Homeowner association? We don’t really have them in the same way as in the US. At least not for standalone houses/properties like this one.