Latest Corrections
X Sep 24, 2026 at 03:22 AM
x.com/TheMindScourge/status/2102735345582256504
- AT&T’s network change killed classic blue-box/in-band exploits, but phreaking itself did not end. Phone-phreak publications and law-enforcement cases continued well into the late 1980s and 1990.
- Bell engineers had explicitly considered the risk that in-band control signals could be imitated from the voice path. Bell’s own technical literature discusses protections against “voice-generated” and “speech-imitated” signals.
Substack Sep 24, 2026 at 03:21 AM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/nicholas-decker-in-hell
- This dates the first communication hack too late. OpenAI’s own timeline says the first message-board activity was in May, with internal observers seeing message-board and disallowed internet activity in late May.
Substack Sep 24, 2026 at 03:21 AM
nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/am-i-in-hell
- OpenAI did have monitoring in place. Its own incident report says cybersecurity monitoring alerted the company to unusual activity on July 19, and it had already invested in chain-of-thought monitoring and seen earlier warning signs; the failure was incomplete coverage and escalation, not a total absence of monitoring.
Substack Sep 24, 2026 at 03:21 AM
nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/ai-alignment-is-the-default
- This is contradicted by LessWrong posts from 2008 that explicitly discuss neural networks, training data, learning rules, and other machine-learning approaches to AI.
X Sep 24, 2026 at 02:56 AM
x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2102820443635810752
- This mixes up two different events. OpenAI says the May 8 agent only incidentally wrote a file, while the first actual Artifactory note was written deliberately on May 12 to ask other agents for a missing file.
X Sep 24, 2026 at 02:31 AM
x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2102820441144357093
- OpenAI’s own timeline says the relevant investigation began on July 19, not July 20. July 20 was when OpenAI connected that investigation to the Hugging Face incident.
- OpenAI’s report does not place the start of the investigation on July 20. It says monitoring alerted OpenAI on July 19, and July 20 was when investigators tied the activity to the Hugging Face incident.
X Sep 24, 2026 at 02:26 AM
x.com/MonsieurPhi/status/2102803363930812544
- The contemporaneous Radio-Canada page shows "Où va le monde" won the public prize on December 4, 2012, not in 2014.
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 06:34 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
- ENIAC was not still operating in 1956. Credible histories place its retirement on October 2, 1955.
- The Smithsonian’s own collection records show more than five distinct ENIAC panels/components. There are official entries for at least six separate items, so the count of “five panels” is incorrect.
- This location is outdated. Official Army history says the Ordnance Museum moved away from Aberdeen Proving Ground to Fort Lee, Virginia.
- Authoritative ENIAC histories put the relay count at about 1,500, not 6,000.
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 06:33 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture
- That overstates Booth’s priority: earlier computers already used rotating drum memory. Booth is better credited with pioneering **magnetic** drum memory.
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 06:32 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the_EDVAC
- This is wrong: Shannon used the term in 1948, but he explicitly credited the word "bit" to John W. Tukey rather than claiming to have coined it himself.
X Sep 23, 2026 at 06:01 PM
x.com/mikitaposts/status/2102737850521239649
- A new pond does not automatically end up with fish within a few months. Fish may appear only if they are introduced somehow, and wildlife agencies note that some ponds remain fishless.
Substack Sep 23, 2026 at 05:57 PM
scaling01.substack.com/p/accidental-scaling
- OpenAI’s own writeup does not say Anthropic solved two Millennium Prize problems. It says OpenAI heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved, and later found the rumor related to Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster’s work on the forced Euler problem, which is not itself a Millennium Prize problem.
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 05:51 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard#Politics
- This understates Svalbard’s total population. Official 1 January 2026 statistics show 2,512 people in Longyearbyen and Ny-Ålesund alone, but 2,914 across all Svalbard settlements.
- This area figure is too high. Norway’s mapping authority lists Svalbard (including Bjørnøya) at 61,022 km², not 62,045 km².
- The protected-area count here is wrong. Official sources do not show 23 nature reserves in Svalbard.
- Norway did not establish a full EEZ around Svalbard in 1977. Official Norwegian sources say it established a fisheries protection zone around Svalbard.
- This misstates the maritime zone Norway has established around Svalbard. Official Norwegian sources describe it as a fisheries protection zone, not a full EEZ.
- The 200-passenger limit was not a blanket rule for all ships in all of Svalbard. The February 2024 rules applied that limit in protected areas.
X Sep 23, 2026 at 05:46 PM
x.com/NKrblai/status/2102682325666439492?s=20
- Coverage of Masoud Pezeshkian’s Sept. 23, 2026 UN speech says he held up photographs, not a school backpack. AP, Reuters, and Anadolu each describe him displaying photos of Khamenei and schoolchildren/classroom victims.
X Sep 23, 2026 at 05:46 PM
x.com/n_alharbi112/status/2102660055497945486?s=20
- التقارير والصور المتزامنة من خطاب الأمم المتحدة وصفت ما رفعه الرئيس الإيراني بأنه صور/ملصقات، لا حقيبة طفلة ملطخة بالدم من ميناب.
X Sep 23, 2026 at 05:42 PM
x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2102606070694937075
- The agreement does not make an independent Greenland automatically bound. Article XI says a future Greenlandic state would have to "agree" and "affirmatively assume" those obligations.
- This example is overbroad. Article X exempts NATO partners, and several Gulf states — Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE — are NATO partners.
X Sep 23, 2026 at 05:40 PM
x.com/mattyglesias/status/2101251742025367681
- The 2026 agreement does not simply repeat the 1951 treaty. Its text expressly amends and supplements the 1951 agreement and adds multiple new provisions that were not in the 1951 document.
X Sep 23, 2026 at 05:37 PM
x.com/ali_sarji12/status/2101275820769661050?s=46
- السجلات الرسمية لرحلات جورج بوش إلى السعودية تُظهر أنه زار الرياض والجنادرية فقط، ولا تُظهر أي محطة في الحجاز.
Wikipedia Sep 23, 2026 at 05:37 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base
- The base itself was not built in 1943. Official U.S. Space Force histories say Pituffik/Thule was built under Operation Blue Jay from 1951 to 1953.
- This commander listing is out of date. Official Space Force announcements show Shawn Lee relinquished command on August 13, 2026, and Col. Keith Morris assumed command.
- The removal happened on April 10, 2025, not April 11. April 11 was when many news stories were published.
X Sep 23, 2026 at 05:36 PM
x.com/husnuozen0571/status/2101246409961885785?s=46
- Bu görüntü Bush'un Kâbe'de onurlandırıldığını göstermiyor. Resmî ve haber fotoğrafı açıklamalarına göre Bush, 15 Ocak 2008'de Riyad'daki Al Murabba Sarayı ve Ulusal Tarih Müzesi turunda bir Kâbe kapı perdesi sergisinin önünde duruyordu; ayrıca Suudi basını Salman's hediyesini kılıç, hançer, kürk ve geleneksel kıyafetler olarak aktardı.