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Benchmaxxing: When the Benchmark Becomes the Target

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Public benchmarks in AI provide important signals and allow for regression testing, directional validation of model updates, and public discussion of capabilities and limitations. But the more attention a benchmark…

Secure Agent Harness Execution: Preventing Escape

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Layer 1: Infrastructure Isolation (Network) Harness environments sit on an isolated VLAN or segmented network with restrictive firewall policy. Egress is default-deny; only explicitly required destinations, such as the model…

Gillmor Gang: Fractured Fairy Tales

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[embedded content] 1971 is the name of the year and an Apple TV+ documentary series billed as The Year That Music Changed Everything. It’s also the number of hours the…

The true cost of Amazon’s low prices

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This story is part of a Recode series about Big Tech and antitrust. Over the next few weeks, we’ll cover what’s happening with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. On…

Web3 is the future, or a scam, or both

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Web3 is a scam. Web3 is a world-changing opportunity to make a better version of the internet and wrest it away from the behemoths who control it today. Web3 will…

Posting less, posting more, and tired of it all

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Mona, a tech executive in Boston, stopped using Facebook during the pandemic. She felt the posts she was seeing were incongruous with what was happening in the outside world. “‘Look…