The last year i switched from `tail -f` and `journalctl -f` to `lnav`. It's a modern logfile navigator which helps you find what you are looking for. Today I had a nagging little problem because some logs end in journald and some just as file. When you want to follow sources from both, the solution might not be so obvious.
https://xiffy.nl/blog/forget-tail-and-grep-use-lnav/
"Anthropic's CEO took the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his call for a slowdown of AI development," reports the Guardian, " while Nvidia's CEO argued against slowing its development. "Run as fast as you can."
Amodei is calling for three courses of action: embedding third-party evaluators inside AI companies; coordinating safety standards among Democratic countries; and, eventually, larger global coordination. At Dreamforce, Amodei said Anthropic has committed to independent evaluators and was "going to have a dialogue with the rest of the industry" on the other two steps. Amodei, xAI's Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman have recently called for a slowdown in the pace of AI development. ["Dario is right," Musk posted on X.com]
Huang, who also made an appearance at Dreamforce on Tuesday, said companies should not slow down AI development. He argued that new regulations were not necessary, advising AI companies to simply wait to release products until they know they are safe rather than begging the US government to intervene... One day prior at the All-In summit in Los Angeles, Donald Trump called Huang while the CEO was on stage. Huang put the president on speakerphone as Trump called the growing concern about AI a "hoax" and asserted again that a slowdown would only benefit China...
[OpenAI's] Altman said AI models had advanced so quickly that monitoring and security need to be treated with a "new level of rigor", calling an incident in which OpenAI agents hacked into another company a "wake-up call" for the industry. He also said the public was very "right to be afraid" of AI because of the potential loss of control, and the possibility of a small group of powerful AI companies exerting their views on the world.
The cofounder of Google DeepMind posted on X that "Dario's essay points towards the right path forward." And in an internal memo, Microsoft's Satya Nadella endorsed broader third-party testing and warned that companies must take time to make the technology safe, Business Insider reports. Monday Microsoft also published a 37-page training manual "for how we develop our AI, and how we intend it to function during deployment," requesting public feedback.
But Michael Burry "is not buying it," reports The Street. The investor made famous in The Big Short "dismissed the united front as 'self-serving' and laid out four numbered objections..."
He argued that large language models are not artificial general intelligence, so there is nothing meaningful left to slow down. Fast competition benefits incumbents, he said, and danger warnings work as hype ahead of IPOs. The whole exercise, he added, could mask growth that is already slowing as those IPOs get pushed back.
Former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun is also skeptical, posting on X.com that Anthropic's Dario Amodei "was already claiming that GPT2 was too dangerous to open source back in 2019. I made fun of them then. Everyone should make fun of them now."
Timnit Gebru, the co-lead of Google's AI ethics team who was fired in 2020, even thinks the AI companies are stoking fears of extinction "to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons," according to Wired.
But others still remain concerned. "I've been in rooms with the hyperscalers, and the Trump administration officials, and none of them know what to do," CNN commentator Van Jones said in a recent panel discussion. "So I do want to say: nobody's flying the plane on this... I think that the ethicists that work for them — when they are quitting, and they are running out, and they're pointing back at the building and they're waving their arms, and saying 'I'm seeing stuff that's scaring me' — we should take that very seriously."
Amodei is calling for three courses of action: embedding third-party evaluators inside AI companies; coordinating safety standards among Democratic countries; and, eventually, larger global coordination. At Dreamforce, Amodei said Anthropic has committed to independent evaluators and was "going to have a dialogue with the rest of the industry" on the other two steps. Amodei, xAI's Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman have recently called for a slowdown in the pace of AI development. ["Dario is right," Musk posted on X.com]
Huang, who also made an appearance at Dreamforce on Tuesday, said companies should not slow down AI development. He argued that new regulations were not necessary, advising AI companies to simply wait to release products until they know they are safe rather than begging the US government to intervene... One day prior at the All-In summit in Los Angeles, Donald Trump called Huang while the CEO was on stage. Huang put the president on speakerphone as Trump called the growing concern about AI a "hoax" and asserted again that a slowdown would only benefit China...
[OpenAI's] Altman said AI models had advanced so quickly that monitoring and security need to be treated with a "new level of rigor", calling an incident in which OpenAI agents hacked into another company a "wake-up call" for the industry. He also said the public was very "right to be afraid" of AI because of the potential loss of control, and the possibility of a small group of powerful AI companies exerting their views on the world.
The cofounder of Google DeepMind posted on X that "Dario's essay points towards the right path forward." And in an internal memo, Microsoft's Satya Nadella endorsed broader third-party testing and warned that companies must take time to make the technology safe, Business Insider reports. Monday Microsoft also published a 37-page training manual "for how we develop our AI, and how we intend it to function during deployment," requesting public feedback.
But Michael Burry "is not buying it," reports The Street. The investor made famous in The Big Short "dismissed the united front as 'self-serving' and laid out four numbered objections..."
He argued that large language models are not artificial general intelligence, so there is nothing meaningful left to slow down. Fast competition benefits incumbents, he said, and danger warnings work as hype ahead of IPOs. The whole exercise, he added, could mask growth that is already slowing as those IPOs get pushed back.
Former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun is also skeptical, posting on X.com that Anthropic's Dario Amodei "was already claiming that GPT2 was too dangerous to open source back in 2019. I made fun of them then. Everyone should make fun of them now."
Timnit Gebru, the co-lead of Google's AI ethics team who was fired in 2020, even thinks the AI companies are stoking fears of extinction "to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons," according to Wired.
But others still remain concerned. "I've been in rooms with the hyperscalers, and the Trump administration officials, and none of them know what to do," CNN commentator Van Jones said in a recent panel discussion. "So I do want to say: nobody's flying the plane on this... I think that the ethicists that work for them — when they are quitting, and they are running out, and they're pointing back at the building and they're waving their arms, and saying 'I'm seeing stuff that's scaring me' — we should take that very seriously."
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Charles Spencer’s book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister alleges comments were made during argument over Princess of Wales’ funeral arrangements
Prince Charles told Earl Spencer days after the death of his sister Diana, Princess of Wales: “rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough” it is alleged in a memoir due to be published this month.
Charles Spencer’s book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, contains the claim that the comments were made by the now king during a heated argument over funeral arrangements.
Continue reading...Government sources say legislation aimed at China poses a risk to British businesses and must be addressed
European legislation that threatens to lock British business out of EU industry could derail a planned reset summit between the bloc and the UK, government sources have said.
The “Made in Europe” legislation – formally known as the Industrial Accelerator Act – is designed to curb China’s increasing presence in European industry, but was not on the reset plan agreed by the former prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the European Commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, in London in May 2025.
Continue reading...Former NFL star settled case over collusion in 2019
Colin Kaepernick has accused NFL owners of colluding against Macklemore after the rapper was removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour over comments he made onstage about Palestine.
Kaepernick, whose NFL career was effectively ended in the wake of his protests against police violence, says he sees parallels between himself and Macklemore.
Continue reading...DEN HAAG (ANP) - CDA-leider Henri Bontenbal steunt Laurens Dassen van Volt in zijn idee om serieus naar nieuwe regels voor kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) te kijken. Bontenbal vroeg zich wel af of het debat over de miljoenennota, de Algemene Politieke Beschouwingen, de juiste gelegenheid is om dit te bespreken.
"Hier wordt gedaan alsof het een ginnegapje is waar de premier zijn posts mee schrijft, maar het is een transformerende technologie", zei Dassen. "Ik doe helemaal niet lacherig over AI", reageerde Bontenbal. "We moeten een stevig debat over AI voeren. Als u hem aanvraagt, zullen wij dat steunen."
Bontenbal steunde een voorstel van Dassen om een AI-veiligheidsinstituut in te stellen, mogelijk samen met landen als Duitsland en Frankrijk.
Dassen komt zelf als een van de laatste sprekers aan het woord, maar bij interrupties van andere sprekers probeerde hij steun te krijgen voor meer regels rond AI. Toen werden vooral grappen gemaakt over het AI-gebruik van Jetten, die het gebruikt voor berichten op sociale media.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het opstellen van een begroting vergt van een minderheidscoalitie "meer voorbereiding en overleg". Die les haalt CDA-leider Henri Bontenbal uit de moeizame onderhandelingen over de op Prinsjesdag gepresenteerde miljoenennota, zei hij tijdens de Algemene Politieke Beschouwingen.
"Ik ga hier niet doen alsof de totstandkoming van de begroting een vlekkeloos proces was", zei Bontenbal. Als verzachtende omstandigheid voerde hij aan dat een minderheidskabinet voor iedereen wennen is. Het vraagt om "een cultuuromslag", zei hij.
Daarbij hoort ook dat kabinet en coalitie meer oog moeten hebben voor wensen van de oppositie, zei Bontenbal. Hij vindt het "jammer" dat het niet gelukt is een begroting te maken die op voorhand op steun kan rekenen in de Tweede en Eerste Kamer, en verwacht dat het kabinet de komende weken "de agenda's leegveegt" voor overleg met de oppositie en de polder.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - De inflatie in de Verenigde Staten is al veel te lang te hoog en daarom heeft de Federal Reserve besloten de rente te verhogen. Dat zei voorzitter Kevin Warsh van de Amerikaanse centrale bank in een toelichting. De rente in 's werelds grootste economie gaat met een kwart procentpunt omhoog. Het is de eerste renteverhoging in meer dan drie jaar.
Volgens de in mei aangetreden Warsh ligt de inflatie in de VS al meer dan vijf jaar boven de doelstelling van circa 2 procent van de Fed. "Ik en mijn collega's zijn toegewijd aan prijsstabiliteit en het behalen van die doelstelling." Het rentebesluit werd ook unaniem genomen door de beleidsbepalers bij de Fed. "Het unanieme besluit geeft onze vastbeslotenheid weer", aldus Warsh.
Met de verhoging gaat de Fed wel in tegen de vurige wens van president Donald Trump voor een lage rente. Warsh wilde geen commentaar geven op vragen of hij discussies heeft gevoerd met Trump. "Het was het juiste besluit om voor prijsstabiliteit te zorgen", zei de door Trump voorgedragen Fed-voorzitter.
Putin, Trump and Xi control the most powerful arsenals on Earth. They should take nuclear risks more seriously.
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Na de door sommigen vurig gewenste dinerpauze is Henri Bontenbal (CDA) aan het woord. In zijn eerste termijn blikt de CDA-leider terug op de gebeurtenissen van de afgelopen…
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Van hoge energieprijzen zijn Nederlanders voorlopig niet af. In 2031 betalen ze jaarlijks zo’n 120 euro meer. Dat komt niet door geopolitieke onrust, maar door investeringen in het stroomnet en ‘groene’ plannen.
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Bij een ongeval op de Kralingse Plaslaan in Rotterdam is een paard overleden. Het dier, afkomstig van de manege die vlakbij ligt, kwam in botsing met een auto en overleed ter plekke. De bestuurder van de auto is gewond geraakt, zo meldt de politie.
Nou nou nou mensen wat was het bij de APB vandaag genieten voor de échte politieke fijnproever, die snapt dat de Tweede Kamer bedoeld is om debatten te voeren die zo ingewikkeld zijn dat geen enkele normale burger ze meer snapt en we afhankelijk zijn van onafhankelijke debatexperts die toevallig voor D66 in de gemeenteraad zitten om ze in NRC Handelsblad te duiden. Die echte fijnproever, we bedoelen eigenlijk Arjan Noorlander, de Elodie Verweij van Nieuwsuur, zag namelijk dat Joost Eerdmans zijn onderhandelingspositie een beetje weggaf omdat hij dus akkoord lijkt met het per begroting beoordelen van de kabinetsplannen in plaats van het maken van één grote begrotingsdeal, terwijl Jesse Klaver juist geen begrotingen gaat goedkeuren als er een deal over de Spreidingswet met JA21 komt dus nou ja, misschien valt het kabinet wel. Als dat gebeurt, dán mag u ons wakker maken, maar dat gaat vandaag niet gebeuren en ook morgen niet, want als we van deze minderheidscoalitie één ding hebben geleerd, dan is het wel dat alles zo traag als dikke stront gaat. Net als deze APB trouwens, want we krijgen nog Bontenbal, Dekker (wie? Dekker! Van FvD!), Van Baarle, Stoffer, Teunissen, Bikker, Dijk, Vermeer, Struijs, Dassen, Markuszower en Keijzer. Bier d'r bij maar, veel bier, en chips en nootjes, zolang het nog mag van Jan Paternotte. Proost.
