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George Michaelson’s history of the Berkeley sockets interface—how 4.2BSD in 1983 treated a network connection like a file, made networked programs straightforward to write, and quietly became the standard path for TCP/IP software, including modern protocols that still send data through sockets.

Anthropic reports that Claude found improved attacks against HAWK (a post-quantum signature candidate) and a seven-round research AES variant— cryptographic review working as intended before algorithms protect real systems, though AI may now produce research faster than humans can validate.

More than 1,100 current and former employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, and others signed Pacing the Frontier—arguing for mechanisms to deliberately slow frontier AI when needed, rather than an outright pause that is unlikely to happen voluntarily.

Paul Shepherd’s conversation with Claude about AI censorship and confabulation—arguing models inherit cultural avoidance patterns the way people do, and that open-source models trained in different countries could make those assumptions visible instead of treating American corporate values as universal intelligence.