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Maxious

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open data hacker for http://www.lambdacomplex.org and http://lobbylens.info maxious@lambdacomplex.org

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Maxious··on Don't be a meat proxy
So if you used claude you would preface with "Claude said: "
Maxious··on Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap
OSM has the notes feature which sounds like what OP should have used

> Example of a valid and useful note can be "a new road was constructed here" or "this shop is closed and does not exist anymore".

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes

Maxious··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
Dean Ball, Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI: "there comes a time in every AI policy professional’s life when they realize they have to read the Talmud to make further progress" https://digg.com/tech/lzuyigm8

https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/the-jewish-case-for-ai-wor... http://thelehrhaus.com/commentary/the-algorithm-that-couldnt...

Maxious··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework... goes through the process. Anthropic has a similar framework, that's why Mythos was never publically accessible once initial tests like the one in OP revealed it's capabilities.

Appendix C Illustrative safeguards, controls, and efficacy assessments has specific examples like:

- Agent actions are all logged in an uneditable database, and asynchronous monitoring routines review those actions for evidence of harm

- Limiting internet access and other tool access

- Limiting credentials

- Limiting access to system resources or filesystem (e.g., sandboxing)

- Limiting persistence or state

Maxious··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Dell will sell you a PowerEdge XE7740/XE7745 "AI Factory" with 32 H200s https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/en-au/t/dell-ai-factory...

They "booked $24 billion in AI server orders this quarter as its customer base broadened to more than 5,000" https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/dells-ai-f...

Maxious··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Fireworks has been working on porting the Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) hybrid linear attention mechanism to their hosting infrastructure https://x.com/FireworksAI_HQ/status/2079776331609584005
Maxious··on New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview
> the first early version of Claude Mythos Preview was made available for internal use on February 24. [...] Based on these findings, we decided to release the model to a small number of partners to prioritize its use for cyber defense.

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/7624816413e9b4d2e3ba620c5a5e09... (pg. 13)

Maxious··on Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work
It is supported https://support.apple.com/en-us/102555 but thermal throttling reduces performance https://osxdaily.com/2024/04/03/using-m3-macbook-air-in-clam...
Maxious··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
Fun fact the 1996 cryptography restrictions have never been repealed. You just haven't heard of them as open source software has broadly been exempted https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/under...
Maxious··on The Alaska Server
In the video they are clear that the company misspelled it
Maxious··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
> With the option agreement, we have the right, but not obligation, to acquire Cursor at a predetermined price or pay a fee

> The consideration for the acquisition of Cursor, if any, after the closing of this offering would consist of shares of our Class A common stock based on an implied equity value of Cursor of $60.0 billion

"Collaboration with Cursor" page 12 of the SpaceX S-1 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026...

Maxious··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
> For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2066873915717136548

Maxious··on Apple Foundation Models
> For production, route requests through your own back end with .proxied

Apple is offering developers with less than 2 million downloads free AI models via their servers https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/apple-bets-cheaper-ai-will...

Maxious··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
They were too busy at a wellness retreat to respond to the brewing drama
Maxious··on Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency
Moonshot licenced it to Fireworks AI who licenced it to Cursor.
Maxious··on Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO
The number of corporate IT departments got caught when VMWare licencing shifted from Dell EMC to Broadcom https://www.techradar.com/pro/broadcom-has-allegedly-hiked-v...
Maxious··on PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools
https://parttelescopes.web.app/
Maxious··on Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?
You can't buy more DDoS if the storefront is down right?
Maxious··on OpenTrafficMap
They built their own circuit board but the core module that does the 802.11p is just a ESP32-C5
Maxious··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
I know of a large company that does not like to be named https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_Macs
Maxious··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
Confirmed, 2% of users don't see Claude code included https://x.com/i/status/2046724659039932830
Maxious··on Vercel April 2026 security incident
> at least one Vercel employee signed up for the AI Office Suite using their Vercel enterprise account and granted “Allow All” permissions. Vercel’s internal OAuth configurations appear to have allowed this action to grant these broad permissions in Vercel’s enterprise Google Workspace.

https://context.ai/security-update

Maxious··on Vercel April 2026 security incident
And that they engaged Crowdstrike for incident response... who missed OAuth tokens in the clear?
Maxious··on Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
“[w]hen a nation is at war, many things that might be said in times of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.” Schenck v. United States (1919)
Maxious··on €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing#prepay
Maxious··on €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
> When your Prepay credit balance on the billing account hits $0, all API keys in all projects linked to that billing account will stop working simultaneously. Prepay credits apply only to Gemini API usage costs; you can't use them to pay for other Google Cloud services.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing#prepay

Maxious··on €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
> The Gemini API supports monthly spend caps at both the billing account tier and project levels. These controls are designed to protect your account from unexpected overages, and the ecosystem to ensure service availability

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing#project-spend-...

Maxious··on The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
Model authors are welcome to add support to llama.cpp before release like IBM did for granite 4 https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/13550
Maxious··on The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
They spent several years in stealth mode but the initial release was llama.cpp.

Ollama v0.0.1 "Fast inference server written in Go, powered by llama.cpp" https://github.com/ollama/ollama/tree/v0.0.1

Maxious··on Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'
He might have been a top bloke then but in recent years he has had irreconcilable relationship breakdowns with his co-founder https://www.reddit.com/r/australian/comments/1m3ilhy/inside_... , wife and CFO https://www.afr.com/technology/mike-cannon-brookes-wins-inju... and most recently CTO https://www.afr.com/technology/atlassian-slashes-1600-jobs-a...
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