Friendly reminder that when our administrators mention “non-state actors” they mean you (unless you’re a fed).
Alan Siefert
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Curious to see blockchain analytics on any Bitcoin tolls paid to Iran and whether those coins will be successfully tracked through coinjoins.
There it is. The US is pressuring China to stop open sourcing their AI models and in return get some Nvidia chips. The US government wants you to have to rent your AI from centralized, tightly controlled US corporations.
Scott Bessent: “The two AI superpowers are going to start talking. We're going to set up a protocol in terms of how do we go forward with best practices for AI to make sure nonstate actors don't get a hold of these models,"
CNBC
U.S. can hold AI talks with China because ‘we are in the lead,’ Bessent tells CNBC as nations plan safety protocol
The U.S. Treasury secretary also said President Donald Trump would likely comment on the Taiwan issue in coming days.
I hope the US delegation gets told to pound sand when it asks the Chinese to stop open sourcing their best AI models during their meeting this week.
Probably either the next or the one after next generation of open source AI models will be the one where the US government tells us we can’t have it. Should be interesting.
Anthropic has begun KYCing for access to Claude. It’s vital that open source AI keeps up in capability to provide a viable alternative to this.
Startup Fortune
Anthropic's new ID and facial scan requirement for Claude is pushing privacy-conscious users toward local AI models - Startup Fortune
Anthropic has rolled out biometric identity verification requirements for access to its most powerful Claude models, demanding government-issued ID...
I won’t use any OS or app with state-mandated malware for my daily driver. As for websites that don’t work without handshaking with the malware, I’ll do what I can with existing alternatives and maybe have a secondary minimal compliance device like an iPhone for the invasive sites I absolutely need to access.
Linuxiac
Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.
A new federal bill proposes OS-level age verification, advancing beyond state laws to establish a potential nationwide requirement.
An open source phased array radar 👀 
CNX Software - Embedded Systems News
AERIS-10 open-source hardware radar can track multiple objects up to 20km away - CNX Software
AERIS-10 is an open-source hardware, "low-cost" (more on that later) 10.5 GHz phased array radar system featuring Pulse Linear Frequency Modulated ...
This thing sounds pretty cool. Looking forward to hearing more! 
Open Source For You
Tenstorrent Debuts Open Source AI Workstation For Local Inference - Open Source For You
Tenstorrent has unveiled TT-QuietBox 2, a liquid-cooled RISC-V AI workstation with a fully open source stack that brings teraflop-class inference a...
I’m considering familiarizing with git.idk.i2p since we’re probably going to need an anonymous GitHub in California. Unrestricted 3D printer firmware and Linux without ID verification are couple types of software about to become illegal to share here. 3DP gun files are already illegal to share.
Does nostr play well with i2p?
I guess we’re waiting for Deepseek V4 to be distilled on GPT 5.4 Pro a bit.
If you ever feel dumb think about the California legislators who are currently trying to regulate Linux and 3D printer firmware.
How are US demonstrations of it being acceptable to arrest or kill heads of state going to change geopolitics and national security calculations for other nations going forward?
Guide on running trillion-parameter Kimi K2.5 locally on a cluster of Framework Desktop systems. No mention of RDMA or Converged Ethernet (RoCE), but I’ll bet that will get much higher tokens/sec if configured that way. Pretty cool to get it usable locally in any case! https://www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/technical-articles/2026/how-to-run-a-one-trillion-parameter-llm-locally-an-amd.html
If the EU wants to shut down Trump’s pressure on Greenland, just threaten to allow ASML to sell EUV machines to China. Done!
AI expert: “Super intelligent AI will be able to distribute itself widely, making it impossible to pull the plug.”
Same AI expert: “Super intelligent AI will emerge from hyperscaling and needs to run on a giant server cluster in OpenAI/Google data center. Can’t run on consumer hardware.”
Is there anything, short of a US civil war, that could prevent the US from centralizing military power worldwide and eventually becoming the World Government? Not sure even China is up to the task.
I’m predicting that after computer hardware manufacturers have forced us all to run demanding software like games on their rented cloud services because consumer hardware is no longer made, there’s going to be a new hacker movement to turn decommissioned data center servers sold on eBay into PCs.