anthropic has proudly announced[1] that their latest model is capable of burning down basically everything by automating the identification of significant vulnerabilities in open source code. and that you should pay them to use their llm to find and fix vulnerabilities first

i'm a programmer, not a computer security expert. the vulnerabilities discussed in the blog post seem significant, but it's not clear to me how serious they are and how often software like this deals with such bugs. i'm also not sure how different this is in practice from fuzz testing. anyone in infosec able to weigh in? how big of a deal is this?

[1] https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

1) when you close your eyes, can you visually imagine objects? e.g. picturing an apple with details like color, texture, shape, lighting, etc

2) when you close your eyes, can you visually imagine the faces of people you know very well? e.g. recalling details of the face of a spouse or family member, what they look like when making different facial expressions, etc. if possible try to separate this from recognizing them by non-facial features such as hair or accessories

friend sent me this image which has sniped me directly in the linguistics autism

its a map by reddit user topherette posted 6 years ago on r/mapporn[1]. theyve taken chinese place name etymologies and roughly transliterated them to old english / germanic equivalents (with some exceptions for, i guess, flavor?)

which is a fun idea, if a bit imperalist. but the baffling thing is how they've done some of these. like how in the hell does "taiwan", which translates as "platform bay", end up as "folkstow"

based on their comments i don't think they actually speak any chinese language, they were just using a dictionary and internet etymologies. so my pale ass doing the same thing is probably not going to be able to do much better. but what the hell

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/hcjz1t/oc_fully_anglicised_china_based_off_actual/

this is the clearest communication i've heard on this topic, with specific sources and analysis supporting it:

no one should be eating (agricultural) red meat. it's bad for you, its bad for the ecosystems that are displaced by meat production, and its increasingly bad for the earth as a whole

quoting the interdisciplinary report that the video opens with:
« we must rapidly reduce meat consumption if the world is going to avoid ever more catastrophic climate change and environmental decline. »

whatever your personal feeling on it is, i urge you to watch the video. the food industry, specifically the large conglomerates that own most food production in the US, have done everything they can to cultivate uncertainty about this.

https://youtu.be/eo9iKHhcZuQ