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Consumer prices rose 0.4% in October and core prices 0.3%, each a tenth of a point above forecast; one former Fed economist puts the annual rate near 4%. With the economy growing at a 3.4% clip and tariffs and gas prices feeding through, AP says a Fed rate hike in December now looks highly likely.
VulnCheck counts 442 CVEs attributable to Anthropic seven months into Project Glasswing, about 0.5% of this year's CVEs, with only two exploited in the wild. Anthropic's own ledger shows 37,966 findings but just 217 fixes and 1,654 duplicates. Of the first 34 Anthropic reports curl has published, 19 were judged not to be vulnerabilities.
Ben Thompson argues that Intel's and AMD's diverging results trace back to fundamental differences in the two companies' histories, and wonders whether Intel needs to find a new (old) path.
Scott Alexander takes apart a rhetorical trap: accuse someone of ignoring outside critics, then keep naming critics further from their view until you find one they really do dismiss. His alternative is exponential decay. Spend most of your effort on views near your own and progressively less on each ring further out, enough to catch the outlier that turns out to be right.
