70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

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Something I've tried to argue for a few years now is that a big part of the attraction of Elon Musk to his obsessive fans is that he is offering any kind of vision of a future that doesn't require some sort of uncomfortable compromise or total despair, and it doesn't matter if it's never fulfilled.

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I typically don’t comment on Meta’s earnings reports because I work there. However there were several key ideas of note about AI. Mark said Meta expects >10x improvement in Muse’s compute cost efficiency next year. Susan cited smaller models, higher GPU utilization and inference optimizations.

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