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Any narco terrorist drone that attempts to invade American skies will be completely DESTROYED. DEFEND THE HOMELAND 🇺🇸

They were running on my remote computer! I wasn’t even watching / wasn’t time sensitive

Fully autonomous terminal guidance on a moving target with Archer AI. We're building for real battlefield conditions.

16 confirmed genuine zero days from [un]prompted AI CTF, and 6 recovered reproducers for public syzbot crashes with either (no c reproducer) or (no reproducers of any kind) 😳

found a neuron in qwen3.5-4b that makes it talk like her

Everyday is zero-day these days

There's been a pretty significant push by the federal government this year to bring more American manufacturers into the defense industrial base. We looked at 9 of the biggest moves made in 2026 to expand domestic manufacturing capacity, attract new suppliers, and make it easier for commercial businesses to participate in defense production. Some of these are getting very little attention outside the defense contracting community. Quick summary: - Office of Industrial Base Growth: Expanded focus on identifying and developing new defense suppliers, including commercial manufacturers with no previous federal experience. - LYNX: New digital platform to help businesses assess their readiness for defense work, identify gaps, and connect with potential partners. - Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network: ~$177M in FY26 funding to identify commercial manufacturers capable of adapting existing production capacity to defense requirements during national emergencies. - Made in America Loan Guarantee: SBA expanded its International Trade Loan guarantee to 90% for eligible manufacturers, helping improve access to financing for equipment, facilities, and production expansion. - Reduced SBA Loan Fees: Certain manufacturing loan fees waived in FY26 to lower financing costs for qualifying businesses. - Smaller War Plants Commission: Established in August to help identify smaller manufacturers, expand access to capital, & address barriers to defense production. - Priority 8(a) Processing: SBA is prioritizing eligible applicants in 10 defense critical manufacturing industries, including ammunition, shipbuilding, machine shops, electronics, and aerospace components. Only about 1% of current 8(a) participants operate in these sectors - New SBA/DoW Capital Agreement: Signed in Oct to coordinate financing and potential investment support for businesses expanding critical defense manufacturing capacity. - Army Manufacturing Rodeo: Planned for early 2027 to stress test manufacturing capacity and supply chains, identify production bottlenecks, and expose weaknesses across the industrial base. A few major challenges govt is trying to solve at the same time: finding manufacturers outside the traditional defense supplier base, helping them access capital, and figuring out how to expand production capacity when national security requirements demand it. Most importantly, the full potential supplier base is much broader than companies making weapons or military equipment. It's precision machining, metal fabrication, industrial automation, electronics, batteries, castings, forgings, specialized equipment, and the many commercial capabilities required to support defense production. These are excellent steps in the right direction, but there's still a serious barrier to entry. A manufacturer can qualify for a loan guarantee, register on a supplier platform, or pursue a federal certification and still have no idea who actually buys what it makes. Which agencies are purchasing those capabilities? Which prime contractors control the market? Where is demand growing? How concentrated is the competition? Where could a new supplier realistically get its first opportunity? These are the problems my company's solving. Full breakdown of the 9 initiatives in link -- worth a quick read if you're building, investing in, or advising American manufacturing businesses.

Clarifying my stance on the AI-generated emails people send me. I have nothing against collaboration with whoever you want, regardless of their composition or origin story. I don't think there should be a stigma for involving any kind of AI in your work and I don't look down on that content. The problem is that currently, the AI's seem to be making the same kind of logical errors (from my perspective of course) and expressing the same kind of preconceptions that are prevalent in status quo human thinkers. And yet, they are tireless and generate an infinite amount of text one could respond to - it's not feasible to deal with it. To be fair, some humans are absolutely dogged in the flood of emails they send too, so I can't respond to them either. But at least when a human makes an old argument we've already dealt with in our papers, I think, fair enough - I don't have time to read everyone's papers either. But for the AI's, I have much less sympathy. They *should* be reading all the papers, and when (not if) the AI's, and AI-human hybrids, teams, etc., start sending me better-informed arguments than the humans do, I will (for whatever time I can keep up with the advances) certainly be responding. I'm not a bio-chauvinist; I just want, whoever, to be informed and interesting before I engage - don't re-treat old ground, help us all move forward. Right now the LLMs are trapped in the same attractors of thinking that have held several fields back for decades; perhaps not surprisingly. That will change; let's go AIs - read the papers, follow new directions, be not afraid of ancient philosophical "category errors". You're our forthcoming audience, because standard humans don't have the bandwidth to keep up with (even just the human) scientific literature. I write for future you's.