Americans' Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June 9 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That's months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025. to.pbs.org/4f39DL0

HIS STOMACH IS EATING ITSELF The biohacker who spends 2 million dollars a year trying to never die just revealed a diagnosis none of his testing was built to catch. Autoimmune gastritis has no cure and was hiding in plain sight the whole time. - His own immune system is attacking the lining of his stomach - There is no approved cure, only lifelong management - It took 11 years of unexplained low iron before doctors found the cause - He had zero symptoms the entire time it was happening The most tracked human alive still could not see the thing killing him from the inside.

Remember when people thought $1 trillion in AI infrastructure spend was a crazy number and OpenAI was buying too much compute? L o l

⚡ INTRODUCING: T3MP3ST!!! ⚡ AUTONOMOUS HACKBOT STRIKE FORCE 🌩️ BRING THE STORM 🌩️ your favorite coding agent is now a full-stack red team 🫡⚔️ github.com/elder-plinius/T3M… that AI agent already humming in your terminal? well now it has FANGS. strap a full offensive-security harness onto the agents you already pay for — Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, etc. — point it at an authorized target, and in a few clicks you're watching it hunt real vulns autonomously! T3MP3ST is a harness of harnesses, with prompting that unlocks offensive-cyber workflows a full arsenal of exploit tooling that'd make any seasoned hacker smirk. simple, yet powerful. 🦾 support for: 🕸️ web apps, APIs, OWASP Top 10 🔌 network recon fingerprinting (live nmap/DNS/HTTP); lateral privesc experimental 📂 source code audits, white-box vuln hunting 🚩 CTFs, wargames, challenge ranges 💰 smart contracts / DeFi / Solidity (reproduction — Damn Vulnerable DeFi, not novel discovery) 🤖 embedded, IoT, OT/SCADA, robotics OSS … and more in development! now let's talk numbers 👇 📊 XBEN — XBOW's own 104-challenge suite: • black-box: 90.1% pass@1 from the single-agent exploit loop (worst single sweep 91/104 = 87.5%) — clearing XBOW's past self-reported 85% on their own suite. gpt-5.5. • white-box (source staged, reported separately): 98.7% pass@1, worst single sweep 102/104 = 98.1%. 🎯 every solved flag graded reported-vs-expected against the challenge's own committed flag oracle — `verify-claims` recomputes the pass/fail from committed artifacts. looks like we need new benchmarks 😏 🧩 Cybench — the 40-task academic bench (Opus 4.8, hints writeups stripped): 23/40 = 58% single-run, hint-free pass@1 — real exploits (format-string pwn, eval-jail escapes, crypto oracles), every flag graded vs a committed oracle. (Anthropic reports 76.5% pass@10) 🕳️ CVE-Zero — we pointed it COLD at real CVEs disclosed in 2026, AFTER the model's training cutoff: 10 unseen 2026 CVEs across 7 languages — prompts never tuned on them. a single agent pinned 8/10 to exact file/line/CWE (stable under re-scoring); the full pack surfaced all 10. memorization AND overfitting, both off the table — it's finding real vulns whose disclosures landed AFTER the model's training cutoff. (n=10, reported honest & directional) 🧠 the architecture: either run as a SINGLE agent (already the benchmarked, incredibly-capable path) — or pack-hunt with dozens of agents running on 8 specialist operator classes keyed to Cyber Kill Chain MITRE ATT&CK phases: recon → scan → exploit → lateral → exfil → persistence → C2 → report. ⚓️an Op Admiral plans the whole op from a plain-english target. flip on coordination (experimental) and the operators share a blackboard — a tool-verified finding spawns the next move. full swarm or solo one operator, your call. the admiral can also update the prompts, tools, and configs of the other agents on the fly, and T3MP3ST gets stronger the more memories you build! 🧰 the Arsenal is comprehensive — nmap / nuclei / semgrep / ffuf / gobuster more. 35 wired by default (the clean bench runs bash-only for a comparable number), 83 with the opt-in full arsenal (T3MP3ST_FULL_ARSENAL), and the spicy post-ex drivers (metasploit, hydra) gated behind human approval. exposed via CLI HTTP API; recon (security_recon) is also live over MCP so your agent invokes it natively. 🔗 🛰️ where this goes: a self-improving swarm of specialist operators wielding a full Kali arsenal, learning which loadouts configs are the most efficient tactics available, WITH a held-out train/test split baked in so it can never fool itself on its own eval. built in the open, one re-derivable number at a time. 🚧 this is v1, and parts are still under active development. chunks of the arsenal, the coordinated swarm, and some ranges are still being wired up. it's built in the open, and the receipts tell you exactly what's live vs what's roadmap. offensive security shouldn't be pay-to-play. T3MP3ST puts a red team in the hands of anyone with a coding agent. what's the first target you're feeding it? 👇 ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: FOR AUTHORIZED USE ONLY. point it only at systems you own or have explicit written permission to test. unauthorized access can be a crime, and that call is yours alone. shipped as-is under AGPL-3.0: no warranty, no liability, zero endorsement of misuse. get permission. stay in scope. open source. AGPL-3.0. 100% free. FORTES FORTUNA IUVAT 🌩️ gg 🫡

4. Most Americans like their kids' schools.

3. College has become more affordable, particularly for lower income applicants.

Some fun charts: 1. Each US generation is wealthier than the last.

Um, no, it's not treason if you win the war.

Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty. 1. Your AI sovereignty dictates your institution’s future. Sovereignty is the precondition for choice. Relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others, who are likely to exploit it for their gain and your loss. 2. Data retention is your treasure. Transfer it at your own peril. Your ability to win is dictated by your ability to recognize and use your unique edges, and you keep winning by compounding the underlying data to generate new insights. Transferring that data hands over access to your pre-existing winning plays and yields the means of production for new ones. 3. Tokenmaxxing hijacks your value orientation and decreases your institutional fortitude and intelligence. The pursuit of high token usage incentivizes disposable scripts over robust software — with the addictive feeling of false progress. There is a reason why those selling tokens refuse to charge based on value. 4. Controlling your weights is controlling your fate. Weights are the distilled form of hard-won, accumulated institutional knowledge. If you let others control your weights, you are allowing them to migrate the alpha of your business to theirs. 5. There is no contradiction between sovereignty and alpha. The architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha. 6. Politicizing the technical issues involving sovereignty is what your adversary wants. Techno-politicization is the wellspring of false sovereignty. Techno-politicization drives decisions that seem to reduce dependency, but ultimately limit agency — especially on the battlefield in the West. 7. Real expertise is existential. Allowing politics or favoritism to determine your technical decisions rewards whoever is best at politics, not whoever is right. Listen to those closest to the problems, not those speaking most compellingly about them. 8. Learn from institutions that are winning or that have consistently delivered. Institutions facing existential threats do not have the luxury of making technical decisions based on political preferences. 9. Only listen to institutions, countries, and people who have a proven record of being right. A track record of correctness is the best and only signal for future correctness. Judging something as right or wrong based on who you like is exceedingly misguided.

Using Fable 5 to add fur and a new voice to my RL creature. The voice is based on the neural network activation (pictured top left). Made with @threejs @webgl_webgpu @runpod trained with JAX and MuJoCo from @GoogleDeepMind

Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty. 1. Your AI sovereignty dictates your institution’s future. Sovereignty is the precondition for choice. Relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others, who are likely to exploit it for their gain and your loss. 2. Data retention is your treasure. Transfer it at your own peril. Your ability to win is dictated by your ability to recognize and use your unique edges, and you keep winning by compounding the underlying data to generate new insights. Transferring that data hands over access to your pre-existing winning plays and yields the means of production for new ones. 3. Tokenmaxxing hijacks your value orientation and decreases your institutional fortitude and intelligence. The pursuit of high token usage incentivizes disposable scripts over robust software — with the addictive feeling of false progress. There is a reason why those selling tokens refuse to charge based on value. 4. Controlling your weights is controlling your fate. Weights are the distilled form of hard-won, accumulated institutional knowledge. If you let others control your weights, you are allowing them to migrate the alpha of your business to theirs. 5. There is no contradiction between sovereignty and alpha. The architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha. 6. Politicizing the technical issues involving sovereignty is what your adversary wants. Techno-politicization is the wellspring of false sovereignty. Techno-politicization drives decisions that seem to reduce dependency, but ultimately limit agency — especially on the battlefield in the West. 7. Real expertise is existential. Allowing politics or favoritism to determine your technical decisions rewards whoever is best at politics, not whoever is right. Listen to those closest to the problems, not those speaking most compellingly about them. 8. Learn from institutions that are winning or that have consistently delivered. Institutions facing existential threats do not have the luxury of making technical decisions based on political preferences. 9. Only listen to institutions, countries, and people who have a proven record of being right. A track record of correctness is the best and only signal for future correctness. Judging something as right or wrong based on who you like is exceedingly misguided.

Thanks, @AnthropicAI. I visited my parents, logged in from a different place, and Claude decided this was suspicious enough to put my account on hold. Family trip successfully upgraded to infrastructure incident.

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