📣 Etherlink 6.4 Upgrade Status Etherlink 6.4 was successfully activated on block #45,018,602 🗳️ Thanks to all Tezos bakers who participated in the governance vote 🧑‍🍳 A full post-mortem covering the reported vulnerabilities and fixes will be published soon.

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky. When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit. We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted. In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation. H/T to colleagues that shared this with me socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hu…

LLMs are pretty bad at coming up with original jokes, but often they can at least explain why some jokes are funny. I was playing around with a dataset of jokes and noticed one that LLMs tend not to get at all. It's not particularly funny or clever, but it relies heavily on a good theory of mind. On one run, Gemini Pro did manage to get it, but it was the only one. GPT 5.4 Pro, Opus 4.6, and Grok consistently miss it.

📣 Etherlink 6.4 has been injected. This is a security and liveness hardening upgrade based on issues found during internal stress tests and audits ahead of the first Tezos X kernel release. 📍 Proposal period: Fast Governance Period 401 From L1 levels #13,565,089 (June 9 11:25 UTC) and #13,569,888 (June 9 19:25 UTC). Bakers: Please check participation instructions below ⬇️

Here is our current plan for OpenAI: openai.com/index/built-to-be…

Keir Starmer set to impose internet restrictions on millions of Britons within days gbnews.com/politics/social-m…

They finally hit pause on the Jones Act for 76 days during the energy crunch, and the numbers that came out are straight-up nuclear. In that short window, more clean petroleum products moved by tanker from the Gulf Coast to the West Coast than in the entire previous eleven years combined. The domestic Jones Act fleet stayed fully employed the whole time the foreign ships didn’t steal their work, they took the surge demand the protected fleet couldn’t handle. New routes appeared overnight that the law had blocked for decades, including direct Houston motor fuel to Hawaii and Strategic Petroleum Reserve crude reaching California for the first time in history. And when you look at who actually showed up to move the barrels? Between 74 and 85 percent were U.S. companies or vessels from close allies and trusted trading partners. The big scary China takeover everyone’s been warned about for years? Roughly 8 percent. The data ripped the mask off a century-old protection racket that’s been raising fuel prices in Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and everywhere else while pretending to protect national security and American jobs. But here’s where it gets dangerous for the people still defending this thing the part that shows the entire insurance policy argument was never real in the first place. Full breakdown, the charts that make the old excuses look ridiculous, and what this actually means for reform? It’s all on the Substack. Link in bio. Go read it before the usual suspects try to memory-hole the numbers.

Armando Iannucci (‘The Death of Stalin’) and Simon Blackwell (‘Veep’) are writing the script for ‘PADDINGTON 4’. (Source: variety.com/2026/film/global…)