Some national security officials are suggesting bombing Chinese data centers if they achieve AGI. What could possibly go wrong.

Futurism

Former Obama Admin Official Says It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI

A new report by a former Obama-era national security advisor calls for the US to begin preparing drills in response to China's AI development.

I’m so anti-social that I’m relieved to see “spam risk” on the caller ID.

Disappointing that Qwen 3.8 2.4T A95B is text-only while Max is multimodal. At 2.4T there’s no reason to use that over Kimi K3.

A basic way that I’ll determine whether to keep using a security-critical product in the future is how often it’s updated. The Coldcard Mk3 hadn’t received any firmware updates in 4 years.

Why is entropy generated on PC operating systems better?

Does GrapheneOS have a duress password that puts it into a fake environment with minimal apps and files? Seems like it could be a good solution to the drive-wiping duress passwords causing legal trouble.

Need some pointers from the Chinese GPU smugglers to help us lowly consumers get GPUs with more than 32GB VRAM.

US AI labs are toast.

Fortune

Hugging Face says it resorted to a Chinese AI model to battle a fully autonomous cyberattack because U.S. model guardrails hampered its defense | Fortune

Hugging Face used Z.ai's GLM 5.2 after the guardrails of an American frontier AI model stymied its attempts at defense.

Claude Code is collecting data on you. Use Opencode instead.

CNBC

China warns about AI risks with Anthropic's Claude Code

China said specific versions of Claude Code posed back-door vulnerabilities that could send sensitive information to a remote server.

I wonder if Nostr will get a round of new users with the UK social media ban.

At 45 years old I finally got enough shoulder mobility back to do overhead squats again, which I haven’t been able to do since my 20s. Ankle mobility is still not great so I need to put 10lb plates under my heels, but I’m getting there!

Friendly reminder that when our administrators mention “non-state actors” they mean you (unless you’re a fed).

Curious to see blockchain analytics on any Bitcoin tolls paid to Iran and whether those coins will be successfully tracked through coinjoins.

There it is. The US is pressuring China to stop open sourcing their AI models and in return get some Nvidia chips. The US government wants you to have to rent your AI from centralized, tightly controlled US corporations. Scott Bessent: “The two AI superpowers are going to start talking. We're going to set up a protocol in terms of how do we go forward with best practices for AI to make sure nonstate actors don't get a hold of these models,"

CNBC

U.S. can hold AI talks with China because ‘we are in the lead,’ Bessent tells CNBC as nations plan safety protocol

The U.S. Treasury secretary also said President Donald Trump would likely comment on the Taiwan issue in coming days.

I hope the US delegation gets told to pound sand when it asks the Chinese to stop open sourcing their best AI models during their meeting this week.

Probably either the next or the one after next generation of open source AI models will be the one where the US government tells us we can’t have it. Should be interesting.

Anthropic has begun KYCing for access to Claude. It’s vital that open source AI keeps up in capability to provide a viable alternative to this.

Startup Fortune

Anthropic's new ID and facial scan requirement for Claude is pushing privacy-conscious users toward local AI models - Startup Fortune

Anthropic has rolled out biometric identity verification requirements for access to its most powerful Claude models, demanding government-issued ID...

I won’t use any OS or app with state-mandated malware for my daily driver. As for websites that don’t work without handshaking with the malware, I’ll do what I can with existing alternatives and maybe have a secondary minimal compliance device like an iPhone for the invasive sites I absolutely need to access.

Linuxiac

Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.

A new federal bill proposes OS-level age verification, advancing beyond state laws to establish a potential nationwide requirement.

An open source phased array radar 👀

CNX Software - Embedded Systems News

AERIS-10 open-source hardware radar can track multiple objects up to 20km away - CNX Software

AERIS-10 is an open-source hardware, "low-cost" (more on that later) 10.5 GHz phased array radar system featuring Pulse Linear Frequency Modulated ...

This thing sounds pretty cool. Looking forward to hearing more!

Open Source For You

Tenstorrent Debuts Open Source AI Workstation For Local Inference - Open Source For You

Tenstorrent has unveiled TT-QuietBox 2, a liquid-cooled RISC-V AI workstation with a fully open source stack that brings teraflop-class inference a...