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The Day Everything Looked Fine — Until It Wasn’t The dashboards were green.
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The Day Everything Looked Fine — Until It Wasn’t The dashboards were green.
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An exceptionally weird controversy has come back to haunt Cox Media and a pair of marketing firms, which claimed they were secretly listening to users via phones and smart devices - despite little evidence they actually could. On Thursday the Federal Trade Commission announced that Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works would pay a total of $930,000 to settle allegations that they were in fact lying about spying on people to target ads. As chronicled by Techdirt a couple of years ago, Cox publicl
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Six-hour data pipeline. Spot termination. Job crashes. 45 minutes of compute lost. Engineer paged at 2 AM. This isn't a tooling problem — it's a decision-making problem. And humans don't scale.
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Anthropic appears to be preparing for the public rollout of the Mythos model, which was announced in April as a restricted model that poses major security risks to private and public software. [...]
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