Claude Opus 4.7 is out, and I’ve been interfacing it with the National Rail Live Departure Boards API. I leave you with a poem inspired by the current departures from St Pancras station.
MCP gives AI tools access to powerful capabilities but is notorious for heavy token use. AXI is a promising token-efficient alternative, but it relies on predicting typical tool usage. I've proposed a modification where tools self-tune through an OODA loop. github.com/kunchenguid/...
Steven Murdoch
Steven Murdoch
Reuters were accused of acting illegally in guessing the URL of an unreleased report in 2002. I didn’t hear anything after the initial reports so presume it was quietly dropped or settled. blog.citp.princeton.edu/2002/10/31/i...
For 19 years, GPS satellites have secretly broadcast a “numbers station” in their signals. We decoded 12M messages: a 2011 flash where 31 satellites flipped in hours, “ghost” substrings repeating years apart, and a “TEXT” prefix spreading now. lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/...
I spoke to The Guardian about Anthropic’s call for mechanisms to slow the development of frontier AI capabilities. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
My article on hidden messages within GPS signals was featured on @404media.co. www.404media.co/the-u-s-mili...
It was also covered in the @wired.com Security Newsletter www.wired.com/story/securi... and discussed on Hacker News news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4841...
UCL Computer Science are hiring Section Managers to support the development and delivery of teaching, research, and strategy within their section. I’ll be leading the Foundational Computer Science section, where the InfoSec group is based. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Motivation
AXI §1–10 tell you what to optimize for, but not how to know whether you got it right. Every AXI tool ships with best-guess defaults — 3-4 default fields, a row limit, a truncation thres...
