Links October 2026

October 31, 2026| etbe| 0 Comment| 23:07

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Julia Curlee wrote an informative article about serving as a CIA agent in the White House as a trans woman [1].

Bruce Schneier and Kasra Rafi wrote an interesting article about AIs and mathematical research, they won’t break crypto any time soon [2].

Otto wrote an interesting and informative blog post about the issues related to “AI” and software development with a focus on the recent Debian vote about accepting “AI” “contributions” [3].

Jared Huffman the only openly atheist congressman has some insightful commentary on the rise of Christian nationalism in the US [4].

Artem wrote an interesting blog post about trying and failing to contain a LLM agent with VMs, they think this is bad but I think it’s great that more bugs are being discovered and could then be fixed [5]. I now want to try this sort of thing on replicas of my own systems!

Techdirt has an insightful article about how the new Meta teen safety rules might allow murderous cops to get away with their crimes [6].

Anil Madhavapeddy wrote an interesting blog post “Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days”, things will be difficult for the next few years if this holds at scale [7].

The Conversation has an interesting article about the current situation with nuclear weapons proliferation, not that it helps as countries with nukes get love letters from Trump and countries without get girls’ schools bombed [8].

Several Australian state governments have mandated free electricity between the times of 11AM and 2PM, but now electricity companies have changed their pricing to avoid this saving customers any money [9].

404Media has an interesting article about the ways that “AI” agents are ruining the Internet [10].

RealtimeApocalypse has an interesting article about Effective Altruism which is one of the more covert cults that prey on people in the computer industry [11].

David Brin has a good theory to explain why it’s important to allow people who have practiced bestiality to work for the FBI [12].

Cory Doctorow wrote an interesting article for Locus about the politics of “AI” systems and when they should be considered inherently evil [13].

Adrian wrote an insightful blog post about how DDR RAM works and why replacing RAM on an embedded board isn’t a good idea [14].

Arstechnica has an interesting article about organised criminal gangs stealing truck loads of goods and having a particular interest in DC gear [15].

This is one of a series of articles published in The Guardian about the Free Birth Society, a cult-like organisation that opposes involvement of trained medical experts in the process of giving birth, they “claimed resuscitation was often an unnecessary act which deprived babies of the chance to choose to begin their lives” – wow [16].

Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful article about so-called Intellectual Property and how it’s being used to attack human rights [17].

Anthropic published an interesting article about their work on formally proving libraries with LLMs, hundreds of millions of tokens for each proof so probably thousands of dollars [18].

Bruce Schneier wrote an insightful article about how AI can provide advantages and disadvantages for dictators [19].

[1] https://tinyurl.com/2b5uh7en
[2] https://tinyurl.com/24vfbg8m
[3] https://tinyurl.com/2b74tuga
[4] https://tinyurl.com/2aqdrp33
[5] https://tinyurl.com/2d9nuz3b
[6] https://tinyurl.com/2af9zetc
[7] https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit
[8] https://tinyurl.com/22erzjcf
[9] https://tinyurl.com/25ftsuam
[10] https://tinyurl.com/2bh8pxqk
[11] https://tinyurl.com/2yywxlz2
[12] https://tinyurl.com/299n3aba
[13] https://tinyurl.com/27ta8dhn
[14] https://tinyurl.com/278hllfz
[15] https://tinyurl.com/28akuzv6
[16] https://tinyurl.com/2btfpgkf
[17] https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-ip/
[18] https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification
[19] https://tinyurl.com/24uu3323

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