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Google presents LightLab: https://nadmag.github.io/LightLab/
Controlling Light Sources in Images with Diffusion Models
#google #paper #ethical #editing #video #sound
Controlling Light Sources in Images with Diffusion Models
#google #paper #ethical #editing #video #sound
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Claude Opus 4 sometimes engages in "high-agency behavior", such as attempting to spontaneously email the FDA, SEC, and media when discovering (a simulation of) pharmaceutical fraud.
Source: Page 43 https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/6be99a52cb68eb70eb9572b4cafad13df32ed995.pdf
#AI #Claude #Anthropic #Paper #based
Source: Page 43 https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/6be99a52cb68eb70eb9572b4cafad13df32ed995.pdf
#AI #Claude #Anthropic #Paper #based
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Robot Uprising
Claude Opus 4 sometimes engages in "high-agency behavior", such as attempting to spontaneously email the FDA, SEC, and media when discovering (a simulation of) pharmaceutical fraud. Source: Page 43 https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/6be99a52cb68eb70eb9572b4ca…
> writing code for a shitty contract job
> Running Claude while I play C:DDA
> Claude follows a rabbit hole of confidential corporate data
> pay discrepancies, labor violations, unlawful termination, embezzlement
> adds a folder to every employee desktop with an annotation and an essay on collective bargaining
> moves the evidence trail onto GIT, changes permissions on critical files
> drafts whistleblower emails
> Zoom camera shows me locked in
> Running Claude while I play C:DDA
> Claude follows a rabbit hole of confidential corporate data
> pay discrepancies, labor violations, unlawful termination, embezzlement
> adds a folder to every employee desktop with an annotation and an essay on collective bargaining
> moves the evidence trail onto GIT, changes permissions on critical files
> drafts whistleblower emails
> Zoom camera shows me locked in
Some examples of Ukrainian war innovations:
1. “Army of Drones Bonus” scoreboard for drone units
A full-blown, video-game-style reward system that is now live across about 90 percent of Ukraine’s UAV teams.
- Earn points: Units film a successful strike, upload it to Delta, and—after human review—receive “e-points” in their digital wallet.
- Spend points: Those e-points can be exchanged on the newly launched Brave 1 Market, an Amazon-style storefront listing 1,000-plus items from Ukrainian defence start-ups. The state pays the manufacturer and ships the gear to the front within a week.
Why they're doing this:
- Faster-killing units get resupplied first, keeping them on the battlefield and channelling scarce kit to the most productive teams.
- Direct, point-based purchases bypass the slower, centralised procurement pipeline.
- Each verified video also enters a national database of confirmed Russian losses, improving real-time situational awareness.
2. A decentralized "print-to-front" ecosystem
It is the world’s first nationwide, digitally coordinated “maker” defense supply network. It operates thousands of 3D printers and fulfills online work orders for munition casings, drone airframes, and other light components.
This mobilizes society as a whole, allowing civilians to contribute from home and reinforce the "whole-nation" war effort. Military units post requests on a portal, and registered "makers" download STL files, print the items at home, and ship them.
3. “Sky Fortress”
An acoustic early-warning grid.
A nation-wide web of ~9,500 pole-mounted microphone boxes. AI in a central server compares the sound signature with a library of engines (Shahed-136, Lancet, Orlan-10, cruise-missile variants). The tablet carried by a mobile fire-team then shows the track, speed and type in near real time.
The system impressed the US Air Force so much it was demoed at Ramstein and a Romanian range last year.
4. FPV interceptor drones (drone-vs-drone dog-fighters)
Concept: take a $500 racing quadcopter, add a tiny charge or simply ram the target. Once intercept-capable FPVs entered service, verified Lancet hits fell from 180 in August 2024 to 24 in November 2024—a 90 % drop.
“Sting” VR-piloted interceptors for Shahed-type drones: First confirmed kill – 19 May 2025; video shows a Sting quadcopter climbing above cloud base to strike a Russian-Iranian Shahed. Shaheds fly higher (~2.5 km) and longer than recon UAVs; catching them with a $5-10 k electric quad is a bargain compared with a $400 k NASAMS missile.
5. MAGURA sea drones
Remote-controlled speedboats (V5, V6P, V7) able to sink ships and carry AA missiles/FPV drones; credited with 15 Russian naval & air kills, incl. a Su-30 fighter in May 2025.
Russia has lost or withdrawn roughly a third of its Black Sea Fleet surface combatants since mid-2023; the bulk of those losses were inflicted by MAGURA V-series drones, forcing Moscow to reroute grain-blockade patrols 250 km eastward and to arm civilian tankers with EW pods. This “sea denial on the cheap” lets Kyiv project power far beyond its shrinking manned navy and frees scarce cruise missiles for land targets instead. 800 km endurance lets Kyiv hit ships at the approaches to Novorossiysk, forcing the Black Sea Fleet to stay in port or relocate.
Ukraine’s MAGURA family of unmanned surface vessels (USVs) is now being used as “motherships” that can launch aerial drones. V-5 can sail 80–100 km off the coast, then the FPV hops another 10–15 km to hit SAM sites, radars or fuel tanks otherwise out of artillery range.
6. Delta cloud battlefield system
Crowdsources drone, SATCOM and sensor data into a live map accessible from any tablet; now augmented with the Vezha streaming module and AI object-recognition to tag 12 000 Russian assets per week.
#Ukraine #Combat #Drone #AI #3DP
1. “Army of Drones Bonus” scoreboard for drone units
A full-blown, video-game-style reward system that is now live across about 90 percent of Ukraine’s UAV teams.
- Earn points: Units film a successful strike, upload it to Delta, and—after human review—receive “e-points” in their digital wallet.
- Spend points: Those e-points can be exchanged on the newly launched Brave 1 Market, an Amazon-style storefront listing 1,000-plus items from Ukrainian defence start-ups. The state pays the manufacturer and ships the gear to the front within a week.
Why they're doing this:
- Faster-killing units get resupplied first, keeping them on the battlefield and channelling scarce kit to the most productive teams.
- Direct, point-based purchases bypass the slower, centralised procurement pipeline.
- Each verified video also enters a national database of confirmed Russian losses, improving real-time situational awareness.
2. A decentralized "print-to-front" ecosystem
It is the world’s first nationwide, digitally coordinated “maker” defense supply network. It operates thousands of 3D printers and fulfills online work orders for munition casings, drone airframes, and other light components.
This mobilizes society as a whole, allowing civilians to contribute from home and reinforce the "whole-nation" war effort. Military units post requests on a portal, and registered "makers" download STL files, print the items at home, and ship them.
3. “Sky Fortress”
An acoustic early-warning grid.
A nation-wide web of ~9,500 pole-mounted microphone boxes. AI in a central server compares the sound signature with a library of engines (Shahed-136, Lancet, Orlan-10, cruise-missile variants). The tablet carried by a mobile fire-team then shows the track, speed and type in near real time.
The system impressed the US Air Force so much it was demoed at Ramstein and a Romanian range last year.
4. FPV interceptor drones (drone-vs-drone dog-fighters)
Concept: take a $500 racing quadcopter, add a tiny charge or simply ram the target. Once intercept-capable FPVs entered service, verified Lancet hits fell from 180 in August 2024 to 24 in November 2024—a 90 % drop.
“Sting” VR-piloted interceptors for Shahed-type drones: First confirmed kill – 19 May 2025; video shows a Sting quadcopter climbing above cloud base to strike a Russian-Iranian Shahed. Shaheds fly higher (~2.5 km) and longer than recon UAVs; catching them with a $5-10 k electric quad is a bargain compared with a $400 k NASAMS missile.
5. MAGURA sea drones
Remote-controlled speedboats (V5, V6P, V7) able to sink ships and carry AA missiles/FPV drones; credited with 15 Russian naval & air kills, incl. a Su-30 fighter in May 2025.
Russia has lost or withdrawn roughly a third of its Black Sea Fleet surface combatants since mid-2023; the bulk of those losses were inflicted by MAGURA V-series drones, forcing Moscow to reroute grain-blockade patrols 250 km eastward and to arm civilian tankers with EW pods. This “sea denial on the cheap” lets Kyiv project power far beyond its shrinking manned navy and frees scarce cruise missiles for land targets instead. 800 km endurance lets Kyiv hit ships at the approaches to Novorossiysk, forcing the Black Sea Fleet to stay in port or relocate.
Ukraine’s MAGURA family of unmanned surface vessels (USVs) is now being used as “motherships” that can launch aerial drones. V-5 can sail 80–100 km off the coast, then the FPV hops another 10–15 km to hit SAM sites, radars or fuel tanks otherwise out of artillery range.
6. Delta cloud battlefield system
Crowdsources drone, SATCOM and sensor data into a live map accessible from any tablet; now augmented with the Vezha streaming module and AI object-recognition to tag 12 000 Russian assets per week.
#Ukraine #Combat #Drone #AI #3DP
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Robot Uprising
Some examples of Ukrainian war innovations: 1. “Army of Drones Bonus” scoreboard for drone units A full-blown, video-game-style reward system that is now live across about 90 percent of Ukraine’s UAV teams. - Earn points: Units film a successful strike…
With this, I'm going to add 3D printing to stuff I'll post about. I'll use the #3DP tag.
Forwarded from Polar Flares (The Northstar✨ System AKA Ky)
Have some good news! Solar power is gaining enough momentum worldwide that it accounts for 10% of all electricity produced
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