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Most of an AI system is made of things you did not build: pretrained weights, public datasets, Python packages, a coding assistant, a handful of MCP servers. Each of those is a trust decision. An AI supply chain compromise is what happens when an attacker exploits one of them.
NPR dug into the upside-down world of FEMA flood insurance in coastal areas, and found many homeowners have no financial choice but to let their homes collapse.
I write Ruby for a living, and about two years ago it started bothering me that I had no real idea what happens between typing x = 5 and the machine doing something about it. So I wrote a toy interpreter over a weekend. Got it evaluating arithmetic.
For 80 years, nuclear weapons stayed under government control. Today’s emerging existential technology sits largely with private companies and a few CEOs.