- Lazarus V 4.6 has been released. It’s a bugfix release, with details on what was done at this link. Built with FPC 3.2.2. Go get it!
- Here’s the best layman’s explanation I’ve yet seen of quantum communication and quantum key distribution.
- Anthropic’s Claude AI recently stole 195 million Mexican taxpayer records. How? Claude’s user basically talked the AI into ignoring its own guardrails and doing whatever it took to break into the Mexican government servers. My guess is that they’re not guardrails so much as guidelines, and with a clever enough user Claude can be persuaded to ignore those guidelines.
- Huh! A few weeks ago the Sun was throwing huge storms at us—then on February 22, the Sun as we see it was…blank. No spots. The first time there have been no visible spots since 2022.
- The new Firefox 148 will have an AI “kill switch” and other controls on the AI features in Firefox. The kill switch will block both current and future AI updates to the browser.
- Here’s a long-form history of the Shakers, whose music I greatly like. Some great photos of their tools and architecture. To not go extinct, they maybe should have had babies, but I respect them nonetheless.
I wonder if the Shakers have something against adoption? Our adopted daughter has brought us great joy.
Well, that will teach me to comment without checking things first. According to some sources (including Wikipedia), the Shakers did adopt children. They would raise them and let them decide for themselves (at 21 years) if they wanted to stay with the Shakers before they were fully converted to the faith. But in the mid 20th Century, federal laws were changed to deny control of adoption to religious groups. I can’t find out the specifics of this.
Apparently there is some drama around FreePascal and Debian:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47149582