@mttaggart as much as i thoroughly detest every link in the chain that made this Ars article possible--from the asshat who made the agent which submitted the PR to the asshats at Ars--question 3 in particular still made me gasp involuntarily. It's such a great line of questioning. Reframing AI hallucinations like this sometimes feels like the only way to make fence-sitters come down. "If you had a coworker who was completely wrong 10% of the time when you asked them a question... would you ask them questions anymore?" has been how I've gotten through to a few people in my life.

@jensimmons My employer is pushing pretty hard for us to use it. Despite my misgivings - mostly ethical - I decided to make an honest attempt.Started well, ended up taking me much more time to fix things in the end. And that was that.Unfortunately the ethical and environmental concerns get hand waved, so I tend to talk about actual results.The short version: If I have a saw than randomly just cuts something entirely wrong, I don't figure out how to work around it. I throw the saw away. Unreliable tools are useless.

@molly0xfff while i like this. Seems like the highest return would be to reduce the salaries of the c-suite to be on par with those in the trenches

Anthropic says it will upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers (Jared Perlo/NBC News)https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anthropic-cover-costs-electricity-price-increases-data-centers-rcna258554http://www.techmeme.com/260211/p45#a260211p45

AI Agents Spill Secrets Just By Previewing Malicious Links https://packetstorm.news/news/view/40403 #news

This really is the worst timeline.#AI #tech #technology #usgov #uspol #grok #fednews #fedgovt #usnewshttps://fedscoop.com/energy-department-hhs-grok-ai-inventory/

@mttaggart What about Honeypot Edition ( .1 beta) ?

Leading AI models struggle to solve original math problems https://phys.org/news/2026-02-ai-struggle-math-problems.html

Microsoft wants to rewire data centers to save space https://www.theverge.com/science/876083/microsoft-ai-data-center-superconductor

@joshbressers newer tools have trended towards customization (AFL++, Jackalope for fuzzing, CodeQL for static analysis) because vulnerability research requires knowledge of the code and environment to have effective results.I worry for open source having to deal with a worse version of "my scanner found a thousand uses of strcpy", and having to divert attention from actual security issues.

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932911

If we get nothing else out of #AI than #LLMs making software less Swiss-Cheese-like, I'm going to consider that a big win.#cybersecurityhttps://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/

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Anthropic AI Researcher, Mrinank Sharma, resigns over ethical issues and warns that "The world is in peril." After leaving Anthropic, Sharma said he may pursue a poetry degree and “devote myself to the practice of courageous speech,” adding he wants to “contribute in a way that feels fully in my integrity.”https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/02/09/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-warns-of-world-in-peril-in-resignation/