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Appointees to Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

The White House:

The Council will be co-chaired by David Sacks and Michael Kratsios. The following individuals have been appointed:

Marc Andreessen
Sergey Brin
Safra Catz
Michael Dell
Jacob DeWitte
Fred Ehrsam
Larry Ellison
David Friedberg
Jensen Huang
John Martinis
Bob Mumgaard
Lisa Su
Mark Zuckerberg

Under President Trump, PCAST will focus on topics related to the opportunities and challenges that emerging technologies present to the American workforce, and ensuring all Americans thrive in the Golden Age of Innovation.

Scientific American observes that 12/13 are executives, and only one, Martinis, is an academic researcher. But I mean, of course a council like this, from this administration, is going to be made up of big-cap corporate executives and founders. I’d say it’s more surprising there is even one academic researcher than that there aren’t more.

I’m more intrigued by the companies who aren’t represented: no one from Apple, no one from Microsoft, no one from Amazon. (That left room for two from Oracle, that well known bastion of corporate virtue.) Read into that what you will. Me, I can’t help but suspect that this administration is taking on a profound stink, and something like appointments to this council are akin to a game of music chairs where Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Andy Jassy, and Jeff Bezos are happy not to have gotten seats.

Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked via a misconfigured npm package, revealing internal codenames, a "Self-Healing Memory" architecture, and more (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked via a misconfigured npm package, revealing internal codenames, a “Self-Healing Memory” architecture, and more  —  Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products …

Arc Raiders 'Fragmented Logs' quest walkthrough

A complete guide to the 'Fragmented Logs' quest in Arc Raiders including where to find the out-of-service terminal and the conduit backrooms.

Anthropic's Claude Code Source Code Reportedly Leaked Via Their npm Registry (Guru Baran/Cyber Security News)

Guru Baran / Cyber Security News:
Anthropic's Claude Code Source Code Reportedly Leaked Via Their npm Registry  —  Anthropic's proprietary Claude Code CLI tool has had its full TypeScript source code inadvertently exposed through a misconfigured npm package, after a security researcher discovered a leaked .map file referencing …

Meta launches new ‘prescription optimized’ smart glasses

While Meta has released several versions of its AI glasses over the last few years, today it announced it's released two new styles specifically geared toward those of us with less-than-perfect vision. Dubbed the Ray-Ban Meta Optics Styles, the new frames come in a rectangular "Blayzer" style and a circular "Scriber" version. Compared to the […]