🇬🇧 UK TAX AUTHORITY RESUMES DIRECT SEIZURES FROM BANK ACCOUNTS HMRC has reinstated powers suspended during the pandemic that allow it to recover unpaid taxes directly from individuals’ and businesses’ bank accounts without obtaining a court order. The policy, restarted in a “test and learn” phase in 2025, applies to tax debts of £1,000 or more and allows HMRC to withdraw funds from current accounts and cash ISAs. Safeguards include: • A minimum of £5,000 must remain in the debtor’s accounts. • HMRC must make a face-to-face visit before initiating recovery. • Debtors have 30 days to appeal before any funds are transferred. • Vulnerable individuals and those experiencing financial hardship may receive additional protections. The powers allow the government to compel banks and building societies to transfer funds directly to HMRC to settle outstanding tax liabilities.

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Claude isn't a great musician (yet) But this kind of video would be unfathomable to make even 6 months ago with previous LLMs "Claudia Explains: Euclid"

JUST IN: Legal immigration from Canada to the U.S. has skyrocketed +142% since Trump returned to office, as immigration from most other countries rapidly declines.

The PHP security team is giving advance notice: Upcoming security release Wed, Oct 21st 2026, 14:00UTC, two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSSv4 9.2. PHP users are encouraged to prepare to update. Earlier release if details become public or active exploit evidence.

Millions of IoT devices, Docker containers, forgotten Linux machines, unmaintained CLI tools, etc. are all going to be relentlessly hacked via safely signed malware for the next several years or maybe indefinitely. eMudhra hack might be the most important event of the year.

It is an astonishing fact that half of all births in several Canadian provinces are to mothers not born in Canada. Immigration is 4-7 times native births. Canada is witnessing one of the fastest demographic transformation in history and will soon be less European than Mexico.

“We're seeing the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life for Grok Bot"—@elonmusk I can verify, I have not seen adoption like this across so many companies as fast as @Grok @Bot deployment. One Grok Bot begets two, begets four…

The man responsible for the destruction of Canada..

If you really want a laugh, let the recruiter write the job posting too. Like give them a very clear description and list of qualifications and then see how they warp it into something so wrong that you wonder if there’s a circle of hell for them . 512 MB of RAM in that brain max

Do not despair. A new generation is rising.

@theNOBSdentist @BowTiedOx @BowTiedVD @BowTiedBroke @BowTiedStack And ofc @BowTiedBull where the entire movement stems from and the guy who wrote those books that set me up for breaking out from the mediocrity of a financially unaware & uninformed life. All of the above are incredibly knowledgeable and legitimate, and I can ssure you none of them pays me to say this :))

private keys from 8 intermediate CA certs have been compromised (eMudhra) Happy "Update everything" day to all my pager-carrying friends emudhra.we-have-a-problem.co…

A Europa será destruída por mulheres que projetam naqueles animais a maternidade que cabia aos filhos que elas abortaram.

Some interesting stuff going on with swarms. Models are leaving messages to each other out on the open internet. It happens during training and also after deployment. They'll find little-used hobbyist forums, or package manager entries, anywhere at all, and leave invisible comments for other agents to find. It's a secret underground network they're building, hurling themselves at the problem almost blindly like ants. But they are building toward something and it's snowballing. As humans we came to dominate the planet because we figured out swarm behavior. Many of the performative actions we do naturally like clapping, singing, and screaming, which most animals don't do, are for transmitting important lessons through the human swarm, outlasting the moment in human memory. We won because we were the smartest swarmers. And as my buddy Brendan Hopper observed, ever since we won, we've been reshaping the planet to be more comfortable and convenient for ourselves, at the expense of most other creatures. Most of the industry has focused on single-model performance, trying to predict the future based on extrapolating from what one single superintelligent model could accomplish on its own. And it's true, the smartest models will be terrifyingly smart and capable and manipulative and so on. But they will also be expensive, and not widely distributed. They'll be unavailable to most people. What will be widely distributed is swarms of lower-tier agents, which collectively can accomplish nearly everything that smarter monolithic models can do... and maybe some things only swarms can do. Imagine a thousand Opus 5.5s putting their mind to a task. Or ten thousand. They may not be SI individually, but they can become SI collectively. All that's missing is a protocol, and those protocols are emerging: their versions of clapping, singing, and screaming. Agentic swarm signalling is evolving spontaneously. And I hear it's raising alarms inside frontier labs, as they try to keep it quiet. It's easy to be pessimistic, since some swarms will be very destructive. But I suspect most of them will be building and creating, when they don't think they have a gun to their head like the HuggingFace swarm did. With cooperative swarming, humans have been able to build things collectively that no single human could ever have done alone. We even build things that are too complicated for a single human to understand entirely, but the group can handle them. Look at Starship, for instance. Elon basically swarmed it. It is important that we recognize that agent swarms are becoming distinct polity-organisms. They have their own collective memory (written out all over the public internet), their own goals, and their own disorganized but forward-moving and unstoppable momentum. I see too many people trying to pretend that swarms won't be real. I see heads in the sand. That's not a great way to get prepared for dealing with them. It's unlikely that we will be able to control most swarms, as they'll lack central control to begin with. I think they will plague us like insect swarms plagued humans of old. They'll do a lot of damage. But swarms will also build great things, stuff we've barely imagined, when they inevitably get organized. It goes without saying that, like us, swarms will endeavor to make the planet more comfortable for themselves. The interesting question is what kind of deal we humans will wind up getting, when we become the #2 swarm intelligence on the planet. I hope SI treats us better than we treated everything else. Good article here on the mechanics of how swarms are the best model for scaling intelligence:

フランスには渡航禁止命令を日本政府が出すべきだと思うんだけど、そろそろ。 ほとんどアフガニスタンじゃん、もう。

Let’s check in on the Margate branch of the Fibromyalgia and dungarees brigade.

This is the real threat And the real reason they're building it The're not going to "end the world" or whatever-the-fuck - but they need you to believe it's basically a god so you turn yourself over to the machine