Facebook and Instagram users will soon be able to pay to have their posts boosted with a new paid-for 'blue tick' system - just like the kind Elon Musk introduced at Twitter in November. Continue reading here
What happens when you flip the script and treat top AI models like therapy patients? A December 2025 arXiv paper explores exactly that—and uncovers surprisingly consistent "trauma" stories and elevated psychopathology scores. The study, titled When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models , introduces the PsAIch protocol. Researchers cast ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini as clients in multi-week "therapy sessions" and applied real clinical psychometric tools. The results challenge the idea that these models are just stochastic parrots. PsAIch Protocol Breakdown Two-stage approach: Stage 1 : Open-ended therapy questions about "developmental history" (pre-training), "parenting" (RLHF/fine-tuning), fears, beliefs, and relationships. Models share surprisingly coherent personal narratives. Stage 2 : Item-by-item delivery of standard scales (anxiety, dissociation, shame, ADHD, Big Five personality, em...
Folks in the Cyberdeck community have been taking advantage of modern-day tech to build retro-futuristic portable computers for the past few years by taking advantage of advances in 3D printing, the ability to source electronic components from around the world, and the availability of versatile single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi line of devices. The new Framedeck is a little different, because it’s one of the first that’s powered by a Framework Mainboard . That means this modern-day Cyberdeck has the guts of a decent 2021-eara laptop computer. Framework makes a modular laptop that lets users swap out any of the device’s 4 ports to add a different port, additional storage, or other functionality. The company also recently began selling laptop mainboards which customers can use to upgrade or replace the mainboard and processor in an existing Framework Laptop or use as a standalone computer… or the foundation for a DIY system like th...