Roomba manufacturer iRobot filed for bankruptcy today, reports Bloomberg.
After 35 years, iRobot reached a "restructuring support agrement that will hand control of the consumer robot maker to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co, its main supplier and lend…
Consoles de mão de Nintendo, Lenovo, Asus e Valve aparecem com ótimas ofertas nos sites da Amazon e do Mercado Livre, em preços que variam de R$ 1.396 e R$ 6.045
“When autocracy takes hold in a country, everything goes on as before—police go on policing, landlords go on collecting rent, people go on showing up to work. The transition takes place so smoothly because all the elements necessary to fascism were present under democracy.” todon.eu/@CrimethInc/115714319…
When autocracy takes hold in a country, everything goes on as before—police go on policing, landlords go on collecting rent, people go on showing up to work. The transition takes place so smoothly because all the elements necessary to fascism were present under democracy.
People imagine fascism as the opposite of democratic governance. In fact, it employs the same police, courts, property rights, patriotic mythology, and habits of obedience as state democracy. Wherever there is a powerful state with a monopoly on violence, fascism is only an election away.
This is why resistance to authoritarianism must take place at all times, not simply when an army is invading under swastika flags. We must never conflate the smooth functioning of the state with freedom itself. Assuming that the "rule of law" is identical with self-determination gives aspiring despots a free hand.
"This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, 'What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too?'"
The Trump administration is taking aim at the Somali American community in Minnesota with an immigration crackdown, punctuated by President Trump on Tuesday calling Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali American herself, “garbage” along with the rest of her community. trib.al/YyinVxa
Stopped by the BLUF social in DC before heading out to the burbs. Got to sit for the official MAL Bootblack, Matt, who did a great job on my Heritage boots
“In Rio de Janeiro, several Talipot palm trees have begun the only flowering of their entire existence.Offering a spectacle as striking as it is ephemeral.” en.jardineriaon.com/The-talipo…
Why do so many (especially political) YouTube video preview images look like a digital rendition of a 1980s National Enquirer cover that got rejected for being too over-the-top?
I think I can safely assume that I'm losing very little by avoiding that service altogether.
[split] This world + Franco Negrè @anarchia Delinquent Habits – This world Group Home – Be like that Run DMC – My adidas Agallah – Club hoppin Nas – Where are they now Dj Premier & Ransom – Chaos is my ladder Gangstarr – Blowin’ up the...
pro tip for student pilots: it really impresses PPL examiners when you request a radio check from the tower on both com radios before you leave.
I did this and my examiner made a note of it.
I later managed to fly out of range of the tower due to nervousness before switching to the next controller and had to relay my sign off through some other plane, which kinda cost me some points but hey.
Air to Ground Message:
WRITE-UP IN PBI. HAVING ISSUES WITH VHF1 YOU CAN HEAR BUT NO TRANSMISSION ATC CANT HEAR YOU. VHF2 IS WORKING FINE.
Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
A: #ade04bfd764
F: #f726022e0f5
#acars #vdlm2
The Giant Warrior Pirates finally reunite with Luffy! Who remembers them! Which feels weirdly out of character, as he doesn't remember anyone, but then again, most people Luffy meets aren't 70 feet tall. And then he goes full Dodgers to try to strike Saturn out, which isn't really a Looney Tunes/Western cartoon trope. I think Oda just really likes baseball.
"An Imminent Threat - Stussy and Edison's Resolve" is the 1146th episode of the One Piece anime. Mars frees York and they begin searching for the source of Vegapunk's broadcast, as Luffy, Dorry, and Brogy continue their rush to the shore, Peter and W…
Été is a marvellous, beautiful game dragged down by its ultra-progressive politics. If you enjoy creative gameplay, and are either a hardcore progressive yourself or willing to engage in détournement to subvert the game, you can have an excellent tim…
If I could build my own reading and writing space(s), then I would attempt to find opportunities that may be more readily available for the spaces. Unfortunately, zoning laws and the dreaded homeowner associations alike each restrict threats to property v
If I could build my own reading and writing space(s), then I would attempt to find opportunities that may be more readily available for the spaces. Unfortunately, zoning laws and the dreaded homeowner associations alike each restrict threats to property values, yet the concept of property values is inherently part of the market system of capitalism. While capitalism is not determined by markets but rather by the profit motive, which is often inherently unethical, I believe that anticapitalist ideals should allow for the following spaces of interest:
The room should be eight feet in length, width, and height–effectively a cube.
Ideally, there should be two (2) separate entrances, one interior and one exterior. However, under ideal circumstances I would not allow my exterior entrance to be my primary entrance.
My geographic preference regarding my reading and writing space, housing, and shelter would be a location tucked away in the Berkshires within relatively close proximity to Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in any direction.
Technik statt Torjubel – was der Fußball vom Staat gelernt hat reitschuster.de/post/technik-s… Der Videobeweis auf Speed zerstört den Fußball – und offenbart ein Prinzip, das auch unsere Gesellschaft lähmt: Kontrolle statt Vertrauen, Bürokratie statt Menschlichkeit. Ein bitteres Gleichnis. Der Beitrag Technik statt Torjubel – was der Fußball vom Staat gelernt hat erschien zuerst auf reitschuster.de. #news #press
Greenpeace activists have upset Fonterra’s Shareholders’ Fund meeting at the dairy giant’s Auckland HQ this morning, establishing a ‘nitrate emergency quarantine zone’ around the building and dumping 2000 litres of…
Ecosia, a European search engine that uses its profits to do good for the planet, has done something unusually concrete: they have placed €1,000,000 in a dedicated bank account, ready for the Nobel Foundation to claim the moment they decide to create a Climate Nobel Prize. The goal is simple: give climate leadership and innovation the independent, globally trusted recognition this moment demands, and help accelerate a cultural shift toward solutions. ✔️ ✔️ ecosia.org/browser
Profile is a treatise that includes that he has never married (60+ yo) then goes on “Have no fear as I have three dear older sisters and a mother so saintly I am awed by her even at her age of 86. No one could be wrapped more tightly in my protective wings then (sic) they are. […] They taught me of God and his wishes for me in how I treat others. My Dad- my hero and the king of our family left us last year.[…]
“Being a good man can only come from the desires of the heart and it is my heart I follow come hell or high water- perhaps even to a fault- […]- ultimately being hurt deep within the heart- a hurt so intense it wants to take the good from you and turn it into something diabolical.
Please trust me as the one who will ultimately break his back with glee just to put a sparkling stone on your delicate finger to signify your incalculable worth to me.”
It stands to reason that if you have access to an LLM’s training data, you can influence what’s coming out the other end of the inscrutable AI’s network. The obvious guess is that you’d need some percentage of the overall input, though exactly how much that was — 2%, 1%, or less — was an active research question. New research by Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute shows it is actually a lot easier to poison the well than that.
We’re talking parts-per-million of poison for large models, because the researchers found that with just 250 carefully-crafted poison pills, they could compromise the output of any size LLM. Now, when we say poison the model, we’re not talking about a total hijacking, at least in this study. The specific backdoor under investigation was getting the model to produce total gibberish.
The gibberish here is triggered by a specific phrase, seeded into the poisoned training documents. One might imagine an attacker could use this as a crude form of censorship, or a form of Denial of Service Attack — say the poisoned phrase is a web address, then any queries related to that address would output gibberish. In the tests, they specifically used the word “sudo”, rendering the models (which ranged from 600 million to 13 billion parameters) rather useless for POSIX users. (Unless you use “doas” under *BSD, but if you’re on BSD you probably don’t need to ask an LLM for help on the command line.)
Our question is: Is it easier to force gibberish or lies? A denial-of-service gibberish attack is one thing, but if a malicious actor could slip such a relatively small number of documents into the training data to trick users into executing unsafe code, that’s something entirely worse. We’ve seen discussion of data poisoning before, and that study showed it took a shockingly small amount of misinformation in the training data to ruin a medical model.
Once again, the old rule rears its ugly head: “trust, but verify”. If you’re getting help from the internet, be it random humans or randomized neural-network outputs, it’s on you to make sure that the advice you’re getting is sane. Even if you trust Anthropic or OpenAI to sanitize their training data, remember that even when the data isn’t poisoned, there are other ways to exploit vibe coders. Perhaps this is what happened with the whole “seahorse emoji” fiasco.
"Access to subsidies for childcare and healthcare, which are more common in Europe, can impact an American woman's decision to move abroad.
'People don't realise how far behind the US is on maternal care, parental leave, and healthcare,' Alyssa says, 'until they leave the country.'" bbc.com/news/articles/cgqz19ed…
The crazy thing in the case of the UK is both of the major institutional parties, Labou and the Tories in the bonkers lunatic right wing party of Reform want to replicate the US system.
They have gone very far in that direction.
The super wealthy are trying to spread the disease of neoliberalism into Europe even more than it has
Dysfunktionale Alt-Eliten gegen die Demokratie tichyseinblick.de/meinungen/dy… Bis vor kurzem glaubte man, dass Diktaturen in diesen Breiten aus der Mode gekommen seien. Erstaunlicherweise begegnet man immer mehr Liebhabern der Diktatur in Neu-Versailles. Zumindest sind sie in der Pandemie-Diktatur auf den Geschmack staatsautoritärer Maßnahmen gekommen. Die Freiheit stirbt phrasenweise und von Gesetz zu Gesetz, unbemerkt vom Bürger,
Der Bundeskanzler auf dem CSU-Parteitag: „So kann man ein Land nicht führen, wir müssen die Menschen mitnehmen.“ In der Demokratie müssen die Bürger überzeugt werden, während in einer Diktatur die Menschen mitgenommen werden.
Lesen, hören, schmecken, ruhen publicomag.com/2025/12/lesen-h… Publico-Autoren empfehlen, was Sie sich selbst und anderen zu Weihnachten schenken können: den große Ausstieg, Lämmer, Wein, Sinfonik, Lyrik und einen Staatskrimi Entzug – ein Geschenk für uns selbst von Jürgen Schmid Meine Weihnachtsempfehlung ist eigentlich eine Adventsempfehlung, die nicht käuflich zu erwerben ist und mit deren Verwirklichung sich viele ... Der Beitrag Lesen, hören, schmecken,
Publico-Autoren empfehlen, was Sie sich selbst und anderen zu Weihnachten schenken können: den große Ausstieg, Lämmer, Wein, Sinfonik, Lyrik und einen Staatskrimi Entzug – ein Geschenk für uns selbst von Jürgen Schmid Meine Weihnachtsempfehlung ist e…
Some background info o the importance of the Zatoka Bridge 1. It is the last major land link between #Odessa and #Romania The bridge connects Odessa → Belgorod-Dnestrovskyi → Izmail → Romania. If destroyed, all traffic must divert through long, vulnerable routes or rely on ferry crossings. This route is essential for #NATO and #EU logistics flow into southwestern #Ukraine. 2. It protects access to the Danube port cluster The Danube ports — Izmail, Reni, Kiliya — handle: Grain exports Fuel imp
Jimmy Lai, il magnate dei media di Hong Kong pro-democrazia, è stato dichiarato colpevole di collusione e sedizione nel processo a suo carico sulla violazione della sicurezza nazionale, nella sentenza firmata dai giudici Alex Lee, Esther Toh e Susana…
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