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    | LessWrong
    Published on December 9, 2025 4:57 PM GMTCredit: Nano Banana, with some text provided.You may be surprised to learn that ClaudePlaysPokemon is still running today, and that Claude still hasn't beaten Pokémon Red, more than half a year after Google proudly announced that Gemini 2.5 Pro beat Pokémon B [...]
    | Wikinews
    Monday, December 15, 2025   Politics and conflicts Related articles 15 December 2025: NBI seeks Interpol Red Notice for former lawmaker Zaldy Co 3 December 2025: Australian MP Barnaby Joyce resigns from the National Party 20 November 2025: Current New York Police Department commissioner agree [...]
    | LWN
    Version 8.16.0 of the calibre ebook-management software, released on December 4, includes a "Discuss with AI" feature that can be used to query various AI/LLM services or local models about books, and ask for recommendations on what to read next. The feature has sparked discussion among human users [...]
    | LWN
    Vojtěch Polášek has announced an unofficial effort to create a Fedora-based distribution designed for visually impaired users: My ultimate vision for this project is "NO VOJTUX NEEDED!" because I believe Fedora should eventually be fully accessible out of the box. We aren't there yet, which is whe [...]
    | ScienceDaily
    Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn from the environment, and coordinate socially. Surprisingly, birds show many of these same traits, f [...]
    | ScienceDaily
    A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming stable structures that generate mass and symmetry breaking on their own. The approach may even expla [...]
    | LWN
    Despite depending heavily on tools, the kernel project often seems to under-invest in the development of those tools. There has been progress in that area, though. At the 2025 Maintainers Summit, Konstantin Ryabitsev, who is (among other things) the author of b4, led a session on ways in which the [...]
    | ScienceDaily
    Researchers discovered a hidden molecular “switch” that herpes viruses rely on to invade cells. By combining AI, simulations, and lab experiments, they identified and altered a single amino acid that shut down viral entry. What once might have taken years was achieved far faster using computational [...]
    | LWN
    Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, grafana, kernel, libsoup3, mysql8.4, and wireshark), Debian (ruby-git, ruby-sidekiq, thunderbird, and vlc), Fedora (apptainer, chromium, firefox, golangci-lint, libpng, and xkbcomp), Mageia (golang), SUSE (binutils, chromium, firefox, gegl, go [...]
    | LWN
    Linus Torvalds released 6.19-rc1 and closed the 6.19 merge window on December 14 (Japan time), after having pulled 12,314 non-merge commits into the mainline. Over 8,000 of those commits came in after our first 6.19 merge-window summary was written. The second part of the merge window was focused [...]
    | Wikinews
    Sunday, December 14, 2025   Sports Related articles 14 December 2025: Football: Nottingham Forest defeat FC Utrecht 2-1 11 December 2025: 10-man Preston North End draw with Coventry City in Championship fixture 4 November 2025: India wins 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup, defeating South Afric [...]
    | Wikinews
    Sunday, December 14, 2025   Sports Related articles 14 December 2025: Football: Nottingham Forest beat FC Utrecht 2-1 11 December 2025: 10-man Preston North End draw with Coventry City in Championship fixture 4 November 2025: India wins 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup, defeating South Africa [...]
    | LessWrong
    Published on December 4, 2025 6:46 PM GMTHighly capable AI systems might end up deciding the future. Understanding what will drive those decisions is therefore one of the most important questions we can ask.Many people have proposed different answers. Some predict that powerful AIs will learn to int [...]
    | LessWrong
    Published on October 11, 2025 4:29 PM GMTI've noticed an antipattern. It's definitely on the dark pareto-frontier of "bad argument" and "I see it all the time amongst smart people". I'm confident it's the worst, common argument I see amongst rationalists and EAs. I don't normally crosspost to the EA [...]
    | LessWrong
    Published on November 27, 2025 8:45 AM GMTThis is a public adaptation of a document I wrote for an internal Anthropic audience about a month ago. Thanks to (in alphabetical order) Joshua Batson, Joe Benton, Sam Bowman, Roger Grosse, Jeremy Hadfield, Jared Kaplan, Jan Leike, Jack Lindsey, Monte MacDi [...]
    | Slower News
    New link (with rationale) on Slower News - Media category. Grokipedia is new but it’s a serious contender to Wikipedia. AI is rewriting the internet.
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