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Subliminal AI messages
Different AI models can send subliminal messages to other models.
Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up “subliminal” patterns in training data generated by another AI that can make their behavior unimaginably more dangerous, The Verge reports.
Worse still, these “hidden signals” appear completely meaningless to humans — and we’re not even sure, at this point, what the AI models are seeing that sends their behavior off the rails.
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Niche Internet forums thriving
Delve deep into a hobby, and you will surely come across websites dedicated to those specific interests. Forums, with old school topic and thread organization still thrive. Here is a great listing of forum communities that are still active.
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Walk off win via catcher in interference
Bases loaded. Bottom of the 10th. Walk off win through catcher interference, which hasn’t happened since 1971.
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Tarantulas in cake boxes
Tarantulas are mostly harmless, but in Germany, a nightmare feel scenario appeared: approximately 1500 tarantulas being smuggled in cake boxes.
Customs officials said on Monday they had found the shipment at Cologne Bonn airport in a package that had arrived from Vietnam. A Cologne customs office spokesperson, Jens Ahland, said they had been tipped off by a “noticeable smell” that did not resemble the expected aroma of the 7kg (about 15lb) of the confectionery treats.
“My colleagues at the airport are regularly surprised by the contents of prohibited packages from all over the world, but the fact that they found around 1,500 small plastic containers containing young tarantulas in this package left even the most experienced among them speechless,” Ahland said in a statement.
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Marine ranching
Artificial reefs to develop fishing populations isn’t a new thing. China, however, is scaling the concept to a degree where they have developed “marine ranches” that provide fishing stock for large populations.
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Clay the Claymore Plush
Do you need to add a stuffed, explosive combat ordinance plush to your collection? Well, now you can with Clay the Claymore plush.
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T-Rex Racing
Lyndsey Wasson went to the Emerald Downs Racetrack in Auburn Washington to capture the T-Rex Racing Championship.
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Two guys made their own fiber internet provider
Herman said he was the chief operating officer of his father’s construction company and that he shifted the business “from doing just directional drilling to be a turnkey contractor for ISPs.” Baciu, Herman’s brother-in-law (having married Herman’s oldest sister), was the chief construction officer. Fueled by their knowledge of the business and their dislike of Comcast, they founded a fiber ISP called Prime-One.
Now, Herman is paying $80 a month to his own company for symmetrical gigabit service. Prime-One also offers 500Mbps for $75, 2Gbps for $95, and 5Gbps for $110. The first 30 days are free, and all plans have unlimited data and no contracts.
And that’s been the key to their success – they had most of the know how to do it. They only needed to organize and acquire a few additional skills to build out the business.
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Home run derby robbery
This will definitely pop up in highlight reels forever.
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Lettervoxd
A fun site if you like worms: Lettervoxd. Look up where words used in movies.
