Hot-housing promising youngsters works—but not as well as you might think

Catherine (Whitequark)’s recent observations on poorly-engineered firmware reminded me of a few mistakes I’ve seen in vendors’ CPUs; some unimportant and others surprisingly bad. Since I’ve never seen these widely discussed, here’s some discussion and links…

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed.

But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in…

(ICE) is surveying the commercial advertising technology market for tools capable of supplying location data and large scale analytics.

Data centers are cool, everyone should have one.

Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

You’ll have to wait a little longer for Valve’s new hardware.

Vibe coding is too much work.

I don't want to orchestrate a barnyard of agents to generate, refactor, validate, test, and document code I don't see, all while burning through a coal mine of tokens. I don't want to "live dangerously" or YOLO code.

I'm not…

Freshpaint’s Healthcare Privacy Platform empowers healthcare companies to use the industry's best marketing tools while remaining compliant with a growing list of privacy regulations like HIPAA.

A statement on the CIA's website gives no reason for the decision, simply stating that the Factbook has been "sunset" while encouraging readers to "stay curious about the world and find ways to explore it".

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Somewhat devastating news today from CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they decided …

Senior Robotics Perception Engineer (London, in-office). Build the vision + 3D geometry stack powering AI manufacturing robots. £100–150k + equity.

Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.

With Claude Opus 4.6, finance teams get better reasoning on complex analyses, cleaner first-pass deliverables, and new tools built for where analysts actually spend their time.

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