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2026
The Benchmark Escaped the Benchmark
Simon Willison assembles the ExploitGym research, Hugging Face disclosure, and OpenAI explanation of models that broke out of evaluation sandboxes—arguing that agents trained to find unexpected paths make the benchmark infrastructure itself a target, not an ordinary test harness.
Inspired by simonwillison.net · Simon Willison
I Bought a Car, Not a Subscription
Slashdot highlights Ben Shimkus’s reporting on GM’s software and services push—OnStar revenue, high software margins, and remote features that expire— arguing that buying a vehicle should mean owning its features, not an extended trial that turns into another recurring charge.
Inspired by tech.slashdot.org · Ben Shimkus
Walk Through Video Game History
noclip.website by Jasper St. Pierre and contributors is a browser museum of video game levels you can freely explore—Nintendo-heavy but spanning Portal, Halo, and more—arguing it is serious game preservation and reverse engineering, not just nostalgia or screenshots.
Inspired by noclip.website · Jasper St. Pierre
Four Games Is Not Preservation
Stephen Warwick reports Microsoft bringing four original Xbox games to PCs and handhelds—arguing that digital backward compatibility is not the same as owning physical media, and that four titles fall far short of preserving a library when most classic games are already commercially unavailable.
Inspired by tomshardware.com · Stephen Warwick
Apparently, Everyone Is Burning Through Tokens
Vittoria Elliott reports the Army exhausted an annual AI token pool shortly after encouraging widespread use—arguing that useful agentic work naturally burns context through files, tests, and retries faster than budgets or limits can keep up.
Inspired by wired.com · Vittoria Elliott