David Harrison

Restrict the advertising. Require lengthy spoken disclaimers (“most gamblers will lose money, some will lose everything”, etc). If this isn’t enough, require gamblers to place bets in physical locations.

further evidence that maybe these people are not the sharpest tools in the shed

guy with hundreds of thousands of GPUs he's hoarding is worried about stranded compute maybe all these neoclouds should do something useful, like a flying car marketing stunt

I get the feeling that Sweeney resents the fact that he's making video games that are, at least in part, artistic products that people buy for emotional reasons, and that he wishes people would just treat Fortnite like it's productivity software

Notes on Kimi K3.1 - this one is a big deal, the first time an open weights (well, soon-to-be open weights) model has competed this credibly with the current frontier simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/23/...

I'm glad we have the earning numbers data to show how odd the merger between the car company and the rocket company and the AI company and the social media company would be

The Conversation going deep on how Aussies and Kiwis can safely take a couple days off from work to dive into GTA6, limiting hassles with their employers: theconversation.com/want-to-take...

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Wow, run Android apps natively on MacOS: github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk

‘Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers. “Unlike closed frontier models, organizations can post-train Super VL on their own data, deploy it on their own infrastructure and own what they build.”’ techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/n...

"We are the dictionary" is a banger of a mike drop

I wrote another blog post! This one is about why Epic's new Linux anti-cheat approach doesn't seem like it'd deter any enthusiastic cheaters: codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...

Consumers are *really* bad at expressing their economic well-being, it's basically just whatever pump prices are. Which is why maximizing EV share of the vehicle fleet is so important for breaking the carbon political economy in the US. Any other solution is doomed.

If there's anything I've learned from buying Chromebooks for the last ~5 years, there's basically no point buying these at RRP - if you wait a few weeks they will be on sale, often at massive discount. I assume the same will be true for Googlebooks. Just wait for the sales at retail.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

I know every day it's just the same sort of absolutely moronic shit from these idiots and you'd go insane trying to keep up with it all, but this is a real mask off moment for how transparent they are in their contempt for the American people

Microsoft running their ‘new products’ live stream with the CEO and their viewer count is going down as the event is going on. Why? It’s all AI.

Come chat with me about feminine computer creativity :) Did you make experimental hobbyist games? Did you mod the sims? Did you make Neopets fan sites? Are you Australian and over 18yo?

Following my reporting in August the privacy commissioner is launching an investigation into the app maker behind the Kmart glasses. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into” is such a banger

“.. if a large part of the economy is just less rate sensitive and that is what is pushing the economy to grow faster, then the Fed, unfortunately, has to hurt the part of the economy that is more rate sensitive.” 👀 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b...

Watching so many countries, including here in Australia, just whining about diesel prices instead of just getting seriously about the business of electrifying our transport backbone, is irksome

I mean let's not forget these models have secretly been hacking governments for the last couple months, figuring out how to pop calc.exe is also not a big stretch

This is fascinating! So the hypothesis is that LLMs internally use the "Clock" algorithm, which is a probabilistic form of addition. This is different than tool use, where an LLM would just call code to actually calculate in the way a calculator does. I had Claude give me an example of "Clock"

Another awful crypto story - the term "wrench attack" is now in the vernacular: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Incredible video

what they don't say is that our noble cyber warfighters, oh whoops sorry i mean "cyber defenders", could also just use these same open models to report vulnerabilities without Anthropic gatekeeping everything for their own financial gain

oof

Brisbane, however

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So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.

‘In August, open-weight models accounted for 56 per cent of all tokens processed through Vercel’s AI Gateway, up from 7 per cent in December.’ www.ft.com/content/d9de...

Already seeing people putting this into production running on local hardware. Apparently requires a lot of fine tuning but after that works very well and is amazingly fast (I've heard 20ms for a response on a support ticket type inquiry which is wild).

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

@opensource.google: the RSS feed for the Google Open Source blog is 404ing - any chance of a fix? There are several links in the page but they are all dead at the moment. Thanks!

Journalists stop ascribing agency to large language models 2026 challenge

Australians shouldn’t tolerate our governments’ and regulators' ongoing failure to protect us from exploitation by Big Tech. We need to be able to depend on our regulators to keep us safe, but at the moment we can’t.

These look pretty good. They're a bit expensive (what isn't these days) but the problem with today's Chromebooks is that they're too cheap and underpowered to feel nice to use for a lot of tasks. But otherwise these are really great systems for a lot of purposes.

it is easier to get money to build housing for GPUs than it is to get money to build housing for people fortune.com/2026/09/20/u...

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT

I know it's right there in the preview but "The end of human existence might be bad for financial markets" is too good not to repeat