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Would it be wrong to call a grocer in Paris to ask if their refrigerator is running?

This is a story from 2018 that I ran across this morning. No need to hack a website when they post the password online. https://www.businessinsider.com/hawaii-emergency-agency-password-discovered-in-photo-sparks-security-criticism-2018-1?op=1

Today, I decided to ask it this question. The response was genuinely interesting.

An amateur astronmer used Claude and Codex to find an exoplanet candidate. His results were good enough that he was given a slot on the TESS observatory.

And people worry about AI bias. :rolleyes: Female AI Agents 'Paid' Less Than Males https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-gender-pay-gap-study-b3061881.html

Anthropic is banning cruel or abusive behavior toward its models after a project was set up to purposely torture them. https://www.engadget.com/2281765/anthropic-bans-sustained-and-needless-abusive-or-cruel-behavior-toward-its-ai-models/ Reminds me of this. :oldtongue:

I just can't believe how someone could raise a six year old child so disturbed as this. https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/new-video-reveals-moments-after-student-shoots-teacher-271218245543

This is an interesting weather site that I ran across this morning. https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=23.16,-91.38,5z

Would you like some excessive data usage with your coffee? https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-in-10-days-3416399/

Visited an out of the way museum (Glenstone) in the DC area yesterday. It's part museum and part nature preserve. Tickets are free but go fast.

Here is the OpenAI video where I learned about Scheduled Tasks - https://forum.openai.com/home/videos/event-replay-inside-openai-how-openai-teams-use-codex-to-do-more-2026-07-14. Scheduled chats are at the top of the menu on the left: At 27:20, it shows how to set up a recurring Schedule...

Don't worry. It won't fail until the worst possible moment.

You don't have to write it every day. The OpenAI Plus account allows 5 automated, scheduled queries. They run on whatever schedule that you want (daily, weekly, etc.), using your instructions for what you're interested in. I also have it set up to email me but it doesn't put much in there...

I use a scheduled task in ChatGPT for some things like this. I'm mainly interested in new papers on AI memory architectures. I haven't told it which sites to review but that is easy enough to set. Once per week, I get an email notifying me of the latest results and a link to my ChatGPT...