Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259
POLITICO
Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal
Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.
The Rational Conclusion of Doomerism Is Violence
https://www.campbellramble.ai/p/the-rational-conclusion
https://www.campbellramble.ai/p/the-rational-conclusion
www.campbellramble.ai
The "Rational" Conclusion
The AI doomers produce their first Molotov cocktail
Evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities
AI Security Institute
Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work
We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulations.
Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/stanford-report-highlights-growing-disconnect-between-ai-insiders-and-everyone-else/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/stanford-report-highlights-growing-disconnect-between-ai-insiders-and-everyone-else/
TechCrunch
Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone else | TechCrunch
Stanford’s latest AI Index shows a widening gap between experts and the public, with rising anxiety over jobs, healthcare, and the economy.
The Human Cost of 10x: How AI Is Physically Breaking Senior Engineers
https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-human-cost-of-10x-how-ai-is-physically
https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-human-cost-of-10x-how-ai-is-physically
techtrenches.dev
The Human Cost of 10x AI Productivity
AI tools increased code review volume by 98% but your brain still runs at 10 bits per second. The physical toll on senior engineers is measurable.
Why it's impossible to measure England's coastline
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260410-why-its-impossible-to-measure-englands-coastline
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260410-why-its-impossible-to-measure-englands-coastline
Bbc
Why it's impossible to measure England's coastline
A new hiking trail will soon allow travellers to walk around England's entire coast – but a strange paradox means no one knows exactly how long it is.
Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug
https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-who-watches-the-watchers.html
https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-who-watches-the-watchers.html
kirancodes.me
Lean proved this program was correct; then I found a bug.
Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'
https://www.404media.co/hacker-compromises-a16z-backed-phone-farm-tries-to-post-memes-calling-a16z-the-antichrist/
https://www.404media.co/hacker-compromises-a16z-backed-phone-farm-tries-to-post-memes-calling-a16z-the-antichrist/
404 Media
Hacker Compromises a16z-Backed Phone Farm, Tries to Post Memes Calling a16z the ‘Antichrist’
Doublespeed uses a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated influencers. A hacker managed to get into a backend system of the company.
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan
https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/
Quanta Magazine
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.
UpDown: Efficient Manycore based on Many Threading & Scalable Memory Parallelism
https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~aachien/lssg/research/10x10/ics26-single-chip-updown.pdf
https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~aachien/lssg/research/10x10/ics26-single-chip-updown.pdf
Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem
https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-distributed-llms.html
https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-distributed-llms.html
kirancodes.me
Multi-agentic Software Development is a Distributed Systems Problem (AGI can't save you from it)