#Effort

The Israeli Effective Altruist firm Irregular caused unsecured AI models to hack real targets.

Real-SWE benchmarks frontier AI models on private production codebases licensed from real companies. Eight model and harness configurations, ten tasks, 640 scored rollouts.

I keep hearing anecdotes from people who used coding agents to reverse-engineer and automate devices in their homes. I think this is an interesting illustration of the impact of the …

An international effort to free the trapped men brought attention to the country’s informal mines, where panning for gold can pay more than minimum wage.

Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.

Anthropic's latest Claude model isn't just faster or smarter. Opus 4.8 is being pitched as more honest, more careful, and better suited to complex coding projects.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 update lets you control how hard Claude thinks before it answers.

“Time and Water” is about one Icelandic man’s effort to document the beauty of glaciers as a time capsule for the future, before climate change changes the landscape of his homeland.

From Dev.to - opensource: The OpenAI Breach Wasn't About OpenAI – It Was About the 84 Packages Above Them

Everyone talks about how small AVIF files are. Almost nobody talks about what it costs to generate...

A lot of learners assume something simple: If I work hard enough, it will be noticed. But...

Sunderland 0-0 Man United: The Black Cats battled to a point as United, who have already secured Champions League football, failed to find a winner

The hosts enjoyed a bright first half with Chemsdine Talbi and Noah Sadiki impressing, while Joshua Zirkzee narrowly nodded over for United.

The effort proxy broke. When everyone can generate 200 plausible words for free, what signals actually matter?

From Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide: How to Train to Run Faster (Not Just Farther)

Spend a few minutes observing how most students approach learning today, and a pattern becomes...

A “people-owned” rescue effort for Spirit Airlines has gone viral, claiming $22 million in pledges from would-be founding patrons. It has no cash, no actual bid, and no business plan to fix an airline that was losing money before it shut down.

From Entrepreneur – Latest: Why Is Everyone Clicking on ‘Ugly’ Content? The Answer Might Surprise You

Doing Lake Placid this year, during training , even on an “easy ride” I like to take the climbs a little harder than normal race effort. My race effort is around 135-140 bpm but I’ll do my climbs at more like 150-155 bpm.…