Daily Tech News 12 August 2025

• Thomas Dhomke, the GitHub CEO who just told programmers to either adopt AI for development or leave the industry, has left the industry. (GitHub)
  
  He'll be leaving GitHub at the end of the year.

• Wikipedia lost its challenge against the UK government's requirement that all the site's moderators must be registered with the government. (BBC)
  
  This is required by the Online Safety Act which ostensibly was created to prevent children from seeing porn. It's obviously complete bullshit because there is no porn on Wikipedia, and the moderators aren't children.
  
  Almost as if this was never about the porn.
  
  
  
• LLMs aren't world models. (Yosef K)

  A friend who plays better chess than me - and knows more math & CS than me - said that he played some moves against a newly released LLM, and it must be at least as good as him. I said, no way, I'm going to cRRRush it, in my best Russian accent. I make a few moves - but unlike him, I don't make good moves, which would be opening book moves it has seen a million times; I make weak moves, which it hasn't. The thing makes decent moves in response, with cheerful commentary about how we're attacking this and developing that - until about move 10, when it tries to move a knight which isn't there, and loses in a few more moves. This was a year or two ago; I've just tried this again, and it lost track of the board state by move 9.

  This aligns with recent posts of leading AI tools losing chess matches to an Atari 2600.
  
  The Atari doesn't know much, but it does encode the rules of chess. The LLMs... Don't.
  
  
  

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