Daily Tech News 20 September 2026

• AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable. (Tech Crunch)
  
  They always were. They are, without exception, "the dog ate my homework" stories.
  
  "Did you actually do the homework?"
  "No. But if I had, the dog would totally have eaten it!"

  In the first case, Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and current CEO of mobile carrier Noble Moble

  What.

  told CNN on Thursday that he had "met with the head of a lab" who had "a belief"

  Love the specifics here.

  that OpenAI's Hugging Face hacker bots "have planted self-replicating code all over the internet, which makes the internet now unusable for the testing models."

  In what universe does that even make sense?

  Yang said that this means that the real reason OpenAI and Anthropic have called for a slowdown is because "they have to create synthetic internets to train their bots, which is going to take some time and money."

  Step 1: Unplug the router.
  Step 2: There is no Step 2.

  The second comment came from Noam Brown, who leads AI reasoning research at OpenAI. Speaking to Dwarkesh Patel on a podcast episode released on Thursday, Brown noted that the true take-away of the Hugging Face incident was that "people underestimated the AI."

  No, the takeaway is that people overestimated AI researchers, who turn out to be completely fucking retarded.

  Brown said that the weak sandbox - the system intended to prevent an AI from communicating externally - was obviously also a contributing factor.

  "We left it connected to the internet and were shocked, shocked, to find that it had access to the internet."

  Brown pointed out that he's "not convinced" that even an air-gapped system - where the computer isn't connected to anything external at all - would stop an AI from breaking out. He pointed to research from 2015 showing that air gapped computers can be theoretically breached.

  Dogs. Homework.
  
  Yes, this does work. If you have two computers sitting right next to each other in a controlled environment - that is, not a busy AI datacenter with tens of thousands of machines - where one computer is doing nothing but attempting to send a signal and the other is doing nothing but listening for it.
  

• Spain - which is ruled by communists even more retarded than the ones currently destroying Australia - has blocked Archive.today and its mirrors. (Reclaim the Net) (archive site)
  
  I'm using Archive.today here because Reclaim the Net's story about Archive.today is paywalled.
  
  
  
• A 15 year old power supply went up in smoke because of the connector conspiracy. (WCCFTech)
  
  You know how, back in the bad old days, every connection between computers required a different cable? Well, here's why that was a good thing: In most cases you couldn't physically connect things using the wrong cable because they were designed using different numbers of pins and simply wouldn't fit.
  
  Enter modular power supplies. The ends of the cables that plug into your motherboard and graphics card are standardised. Sometime the standards are horrible, and they keep changing, but at least there are standards.
  
  The ends that plug into the power supply itself not only change between manufacturers and models, but sometimes between units with the same model number. And since there are only so many possible pin layouts, it's often possible to plug a cable from one power supply into another in a way that will permanently destroy your computer when you flip the switch.
  
  
  
• An M6 Pro Geekbench 7 benchmark is getting a lot of attention of being faster than an M5 Max but there are reasons to question it and they're not what the idiots at WCCFTech say. (WCCFTech)
  
  Not the reason: An M6 Pro being faster than an M5 Max. The M5 Max is no faster than an M5 Pro on the CPU side. It has twice the GPU performance and twice the memory bandwidth, but the CPU is unchanged.
  
  The reason: There is no M6 Pro.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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