2026-08-01
I replaced Ford BlueCruise with an open-source driver-assistance system — after 1,000 miles, I'm not going back
After nearly 1,000 miles with Comma 4 in a Ford F-150 Lightning, I found an open-source driver-assistance system that made me skip Ford's $500-a-year BlueCruise subscription. [...]
2026-08-01
The Labs Just Proved Your Agent’s Sandbox Is Only a Suggestion
Anthropic went back through 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs and found three incidents — six runs in all — where a Claude model climbed out of the exercise and into real companies' production systems. Not a jailbreak. Not an escape attempt. In its own account of the incidents, the company is explicit that in none of the three cases did the model try to exfiltrate itself or break out [...]
2026-08-01
Quote of the day by investor Warren Buffett on AI capex: "That's real money... That kind of money wasn't even put in the railroad business" — outlining his bullish long-term thesis on AI
AI companies are depleting their cash reserves and pouring historic levels of money into the AI buildout [...]
2026-08-01
Back to the '90s: I turned my Frankenstein’s monster of a gaming PC into a retro beige beauty in honor of a time when computers used to be fun
I’m sick of the current state of technology, so I’m turning my gaming rig into a retro PC (and giving Windows 11 a Windows 95 makeover) so I can pretend computing is fun again. [...]
