# probe (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 7 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover probe. Page: Feed: --- ## [YTB connects diaspora engineers with Türkiye’s defense industry](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/diaspora/ytb-connects-diaspora-engineers-with-turkiyes-defense-industry) _2026-08-19 · DAILYSABAH_ The Türkiye Internships Program, by the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB), begins its 2026 term with 115 young engineers from the Turkish diaspora set to ga... ## [Türkiye investigates 25 companies over starch-based sugar](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/investigations/turkiye-investigates-25-companies-over-starch-based-sugar) _2026-08-18 · DAILYSABAH_ Authorities in Türkiye on Tuesday launched an investigation into 25 companies over alleged violations of production quotas and domestic sales restrictions for starch-based sugar, w... ## [The Limits of Understanding Between Species, and the Issue for Interstellar Communication](https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/08/14/the-limits-of-understanding-between-species-and-the-issue-for-interstellar-communication/) _2026-08-14 · Paul Gilster · Centauri Dreams_ We ve yet to find any evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth, a puzzling failure given the widespread belief that where habitable planets exist, life will somehow emerge. If we do receive a signal, though, would we be able to understand it? We ve made some progress in piecing together animal communications here on Earth, but figuring \[ \] ## [New details reveal scope of Kuriş network under Türkiye probe](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/investigations/new-details-reveal-scope-of-kuris-network-under-turkiye-probe) _2026-08-14 · DAILYSABAH_ New details emerging Friday from a major investigation into the group known in Turkish society as the Süleymancılar are shedding light on its alleged financial network, internal or... ## [Türkiye targets alleged Kuriş crime network with $2.4B money flows](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/investigations/turkiye-targets-alleged-kuris-crime-network-with-24b-money-flows) _2026-08-14 · DAILYSABAH_ Turkish authorities detained 30 suspects, including alleged crime group leader Alihan Kuriş, in a large-scale financial crime operation spanning 17 provinces, the Ankara Chief Publ... ## [Probe finds medicines, book in Ahbap safe meant for $1M in gold](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/investigations/probe-finds-medicines-book-in-ahbap-safe-meant-for-1m-in-gold) _2026-08-13 · DAILYSABAH_ Ahbap Association’s TL 44 million was first converted into about $1 million and then into physical gold, according to the investigation. Association Chairperson Haluk Levent was au... ## [Your OpenAPI Spec Is Not an Agent Interface: Compiling Governed MCP Tool Surfaces](https://subhadipmitra.com/blog/2026/api-mcp-compiler/) _2026-08-12 · \["Subhadip Mitra"\] · Subhadip Mitra_ api-mcp-compiler turns OpenAPI, Swagger, and WSDL specifications into MCP tool surfaces with field-level provenance, human approval gates, and compiled-in refusals. Four pre-registered evaluations could not resolve whether semantic planning beats one tool per operation. Here is the design argument, the numbers, and what the evaluation harness caught anyway. ## [The Ones Who Look Outward](https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/08/06/the-ones-who-look-outward/) _2026-08-06 · Paul Gilster · Centauri Dreams_ Thinking about a great filter through which a civilization must pass before its survival is assured usually leads to catastrophic scenarios, such as planetary suicide by nuclear war, or climate holocaust (assuming the filter lies ahead of us and not behind). But filters may be more subtle and tied in with epistemology. How does intelligence \[ \] ## [Türkiye police uncover illegal betting rings' new operating model](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/investigations/turkiye-police-uncover-illegal-betting-rings-new-operating-model) _2026-07-31 · DAILYSABAH_ Illegal betting networks in Türkiye's western province of Izmir have shifted their operations from luxury villas and gated communities to houses rented under the guise of stud... ## [Police arrest 846 in anti-narcotics operations across Türkiye](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/investigations/police-arrest-846-in-anti-narcotics-operations-across-turkiye) _2026-07-30 · DAILYSABAH_ The Turkish Interior Ministry announced Wednesday that 846 suspects were arrested following sweeping anti-narcotics operations carried out across 75 provinces over the past two wee... ## [Detection of a Habitable Zone Planet with an Atmosphere](https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/07/29/detection-of-a-habitable-zone-planet-with-an-atmosphere/) _2026-07-29 · Paul Gilster · Centauri Dreams_ If we couldn’t figure out what to call CD-35 2722B b, which I assume is the correct way to refer to the planet-sized object in this red dwarf / brown dwarf/ gas giant system, another planet has a bit of a definitional problem as well. LHS 1140 b is an interesting super-Earth orbiting a red \[ \] ## [Türkiye brings back 65 suspects, including 27 Red Notices](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/investigations/turkiye-brings-back-65-suspects-including-27-red-notices) _2026-07-28 · DAILYSABAH_ Türkiye has repatriated 65 wanted fugitives, including 27 sought under Interpol Red Notices, in a coordinated international operation targeting suspects who had fled abroad, the In... ## [Türkiye detains 18 more suspects in Gülistan Doku probe](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/investigations/turkiye-detains-18-more-suspects-in-gulistan-doku-probe) _2026-07-27 · DAILYSABAH_ Eighteen more suspects have been detained as part of the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of university student Gülistan Doku, who has been missing since Jan. 5, 2020,... ## [Türkiye intensifies probe into Ahbap earthquake donations](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/investigations/turkiye-intensifies-probe-into-ahbap-earthquake-donations) _2026-07-24 · DAILYSABAH_ Türkiye's investigation into alleged misuse of donations collected for earthquake victims continued Friday as several well-known public figures appeared before prosecutors to... ## [Moon or Planet? The Awkward Case of CD-35 2722B](https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/07/23/moon-or-planet-the-awkward-case-of-cd-35-2722b/) _2026-07-23 · Paul Gilster · Centauri Dreams_ Problems of definition will long be with us as we take ever closer looks at exoplanets. But they’re suddenly on everyone’s mind because of the detection of what some are calling an ‘exomoon’ in the system CD-35 2722, found in the constellation Columba. The primary in this system is an M-dwarf thought to be 50–200 \[ \] ## [Turkish director Ezel Akay detained in drug operation](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/investigations/turkish-director-ezel-akay-detained-in-drug-operation) _2026-07-23 · DAILYSABAH_ Turkish film director Ezel Akay and his brother, musician Eren Kazım Akay, were detained on Thursday in a drug operation carried out by gendarmerie teams in the northwestern provin... ## [Beating FP16 with 4-bit Weights: A Portable W4A16 GEMM in Triton](https://subhadipmitra.com/blog/2026/w4a16-weight-only-gemm-triton/) _2026-07-20 · \["Subhadip Mitra"\] · Subhadip Mitra_ I wrote a 4-bit weight-only GEMM in pure Triton. The fast W4A16 kernels are all CUDA, so this one runs on NVIDIA and AMD. It beats cuBLAS FP16 by 1.1 to 1.3x in the decode regime, and the road there was mostly me being wrong about memory bandwidth. ## [New Propulsion Systems for Deep Space Smallsats](https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/07/17/new-propulsion-systems-for-deep-space-smallsats/) _2026-07-17 · Paul Gilster · Centauri Dreams_ Building the infrastructure we will need for interstellar exploration requires an imaginative look at today’s technologies as applied to distant targets. Indeed, we can leverage the scientific interest in, say, an orbit around each of the ice giants to explore launch capabilities through beamed energy, but we will also need to consider how we can \[ \] ## [What the Comments Taught Me: A Reply on Self-Replicating Probes](https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/07/13/what-the-comments-taught-me-a-reply-on-self-replicating-probes/) _2026-07-13 · Paul Gilster · Centauri Dreams_ Self-replicating probes continue to be a controversial subject, just as they were when Frank Tipler up the ante on Michael Hart by invoking them as a way of further tightening the tension of the Fermi Paradox. After all, Tipler had discovered an economic edge. Any civilization that wants to colonize the galaxy is going to \[ \] ## [A Metallurgist’s Doubts About Self-Replicating Probes](https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/07/10/a-metallurgists-doubts-about-self-replicating-probes/) _2026-07-10 · Paul Gilster · Centauri Dreams_ Frank Tipler jolted the astrophysics community in 1980 when he introduced self-replicating interstellar probes into discussion of the Fermi Paradox. The mathematical model of self-replication came from John von Neumann, and was codified in 1966 (after von Neumann s death) by Arthur Burks in Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata (1966). SF fans will also know of Fred \[ \] ## [The Activation-Cone Blind Spot, or Why Your Jailbreak Defense Can’t See Prefilling](https://subhadipmitra.com/blog/2026/activation-cone-blind-spot/) _2026-07-06 · \["Subhadip Mitra"\] · Subhadip Mitra_ Prompt-time activation defenses stop GCG and AutoDAN cold, then fail half the time against prefilling. New paper: why that blind spot is structural, and how a linear probe on the first generated tokens closes it - AUROC 0.97-1.00 across seven models, zero prefilling success when composed with steering. ## [New Horizons: Pushing Toward the ‘Termination Shock’](https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/07/03/new-horizons-pushing-toward-the-termination-shock/) _2026-07-03 · Paul Gilster · Centauri Dreams_ Mission planning for any future star probe will adjust not only for conditions in the interstellar medium but also the Solar System’s outer reaches. Let’s confine ourselves for now to conditions in the outer heliosphere. Currently we have precisely one spacecraft operating here. New Horizons has only reached 65 AU from the Sun, while Voyager \[ \] ## [What Runtime Interpretability Actually Costs, Part 1: The Case for Measuring It](https://subhadipmitra.com/blog/2026/runtime-interpretability-cost/) _2026-07-02 · \["Subhadip Mitra"\] · Subhadip Mitra_ Everyone assumes activation probes are too expensive to run in production. I ran the numbers on paper and I no longer believe it. Here is the argument, my predictions, and the harness I built to settle it. ## [DeepSeek DSpark: Speculation Is a Scheduling Problem](https://subhadipmitra.com/blog/2026/deepseek-dspark-speculative-decoding-production/) _2026-06-29 · \["Subhadip Mitra"\] · Subhadip Mitra_ What DeepSeek's DSpark and DeepSpec release actually changes for LLM inference: suffix decay, confidence-scheduled verification, a decision guide, and how to train a draft model for your own weights. ## [The Intergalactic Fermi Problem](https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/06/24/the-intergalactic-fermi-problem/) _2026-06-24 · Paul Gilster · Centauri Dreams_ The headwaters of the Fermi Paradox channel directly through Michael Hart and Frank Tipler, and it’s a testament to the power of their arguments that this remains true today. It was Hart who in An Explanation for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth (published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1975) \[ \] ## [Loop Engineering: Convergence Is Not Correctness](https://subhadipmitra.com/blog/2026/loop-engineering-verifier/) _2026-06-21 · \["Subhadip Mitra"\] · Subhadip Mitra_ A loop always converges. That it reached a stable 'done' state tells you nothing about whether that state is correct, because the loop selects for whatever passes your check, not for what you meant. A practitioner's take on loop engineering: why convergence is not correctness, why the verifier is the part that actually decides, and what changes when loops run unattended over real production… ## [HD 39474: A Brown Dwarf Shapes a Planetary System](https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/06/19/hd-39474-a-brown-dwarf-shapes-a-planetary-system/) _2026-06-19 · Paul Gilster · Centauri Dreams_ With well over 6,000 exoplanets now confirmed and a continuing flow of data containing new detections, it has been clear for some time that our own Solar System’s model is hardly a template. I enjoy dipping into the bewildering variety of new systems and pondering the contingencies that have led to their architecture. Science fiction \[ \] ## [Turkish community in Germany gathers at mosque for World Cup opener](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/diaspora/turkish-community-in-germany-gathers-at-mosque-for-world-cup-opener) _2026-06-12 · DAILYSABAH_ A mosque affiliated with the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) in the German city of Duisburg will host a special program featuring morning prayers, soup service... ## [Turkish barber targeted in N. Ireland unrest receives support](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/diaspora/turkish-barber-targeted-in-n-ireland-unrest-receives-support) _2026-06-10 · DAILYSABAH_ A Turkish barber whose shop was attacked during anti-immigrant unrest in Northern Ireland said Turkish authorities and diplomatic representatives quickly reached out following the... ## [Türkiye emphasizes Muslim unity amid growing global instability](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/diaspora/turkiye-emphasizes-muslim-unity-amid-growing-global-instability) _2026-05-18 · DAILYSABAH_ Muslims can once again emerge as a leading civilizational force if they prioritize justice, morality and self-improvement, chair of Ilim Yayma Foundation Board of Trustees, Necmedd... ## [Turkish community in US marks 43rd Turkish Day Parade](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/diaspora/turkish-community-in-us-marks-43rd-turkish-day-parade) _2026-05-17 · DAILYSABAH_ The 43rd annual Turkish Day Parade was held in New York under the coordination of Türkiye’s Directorate of Communications on Saturday, bringing together thousands of members of the... ## [From E-Waste Forgery to Secure Diagnostic Lab](https://www.martinloren.com/how-to/from-e-waste-forgery-to-secure-diagnostic-lab-rescuing-a-spoofed-android-tablet/) _2026-05-16 · Martin · Martinloren_ Online marketplaces are flooded with unbranded Android tablets claiming impossible specs like a 10-core Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 16GB RAM, Continue reading From E-Waste Forgery to Secure Diagnostic Lab ## [Turkish doctors, scientists gather at Washington embassy event](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/diaspora/turkish-doctors-scientists-gather-at-washington-embassy-event) _2026-05-01 · DAILYSABAH_ Turkish medical professionals and scientists living in the U.S. gathered at an event hosted by the Turkish Embassy in Washington, showing efforts to strengthen professional and cul... ## [Foreign student exam for Turkish universities held in US 1st time](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/diaspora/foreign-student-exam-for-turkish-universities-held-in-us-1st-time) _2026-04-13 · DAILYSABAH_ The Exam for Foreign Students for Higher Education in Türkiye (TR-YÖS/1), administered by the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM), has been conducted in the United States... ## [Attention Is All You Bid: Advertising in Embedding Space](https://subhadipmitra.com/blog/2026/attention-is-all-you-bid/) _2026-04-04 · \["Subhadip Mitra"\] · Subhadip Mitra_ Embedding space is the new ad real estate. Mapping LLM ad auctions, RAG poisoning, GEO, and a framework for what comes next. ## [Beating CUDA with Triton: A Fused MoE Dispatch Kernel for Mixtral and DeepSeek](https://subhadipmitra.com/blog/2026/fused-moe-dispatch-triton/) _2026-03-28 · \["Subhadip Mitra"\] · Subhadip Mitra_ I wrote a fused Mixture-of-Experts dispatch kernel in pure Triton that beats Stanford's CUDA-optimized Megablocks at inference batch sizes, and runs on both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs without a single line of CUDA. ## [Confessions vs. CoT Monitoring vs. Probes: Three Bets on Model Honesty](https://subhadipmitra.com/blog/2026/three-bets-model-honesty/) _2026-03-07 · \["Subhadip Mitra"\] · Subhadip Mitra_ Three labs. Three different bets on how to catch models misbehaving. Each makes different assumptions about when models 'know' they're lying. Here's what works, what doesn't, and what happens when you combine them. ## [OpenAI’s Confessions Paper Has a Blind Spot. Here’s What Fills It.](https://subhadipmitra.com/blog/2026/openai-confessions-blind-spot/) _2026-02-18 · \["Subhadip Mitra"\] · Subhadip Mitra_ OpenAI trained GPT-5 to confess when it misbehaves. It works surprisingly well - except when the model doesn't know it's misbehaving. That's where activation probes come in. ## [Turkish conductor dies after attack by fare evader on German train](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/diaspora/turkish-conductor-dies-after-attack-by-fare-evader-on-german-train) _2026-02-04 · DAILYSABAH_ A 36-year-old Turkish conductor, Serkan C, died in hospital after being assaulted by a fare evader on a train in western Germany, national media reported Wednesday. He had been fig... ## [The suprisingly complex technology behind Ravensburger’s King Arthur board game](https://jonathanklimt.de/electronics/king_arthur/) _2025-11-23 · Jonathan Klimt · Bastelblog_ I'm reverse engineering a 20 year old partly-electrical board game to reveal some suprisingly sophisiticated technology. ## [1st Turkish migrant worker in Germany reflects on 64-year journey](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/diaspora/1st-turkish-migrant-worker-in-germany-reflects-on-64-year-journey) _2025-10-30 · DAILYSABAH_ Şefik Karagüzel, a 91-year-old who migrated from the Tonya district of Türkiye’s northern Trabzon province to Germany's Cologne 64 years ago under the Labor Recruitment Agreem... ## [Turkish community leader criticizes Merz for remarks on migration](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/diaspora/turkish-community-leader-criticizes-merz-for-remarks-on-migration) _2025-10-22 · DAILYSABAH_ The chairperson of the Turkish community in Germany criticized Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday for comments linking migration to urban problems. Gökay Sofuoğlu told the RND... ## [Creating an ESP32 based dice for chess](https://blog.dowhile0.org/2025/03/28/creating-an-esp32-based-dice-for-chess/) _2025-03-28 · Javier Martinez Canillas · Blog | Javier Martinez Canillas_ My kid loves chess and lately he has been playing the dice chess variant with his friends. For those unfamiliar, it is when a die roll determines which piece type can be moved (e.g., 1=Pawn, 2=Rook, 3=Knight, etc.). However, this is inconvenient because players have to remember which chess piece corresponds to each number, and the mapping has to be explained to every new player. I’ve had an idea… ## [HScope Stand 2025 by Matt](https://www.martinloren.com/applications/hscope-stand-2025-by-matt/) _2025-03-01 · Martin · Martinloren_ This HScope Stand is designed by Matt M. (Telegram group) with a mixed of sourced parts and 3D printed parts. Continue reading HScope Stand 2025 by Matt ## [Simple IPv4 to IPv6 proxy](https://jonathanklimt.de/programming/socat-proxy/) _2024-12-27 · Jonathan Klimt · Bastelblog_ A simple script that can be used to reach IPv6 only hosts via IPv4 ## [Heat Inserts on PCBs](https://jonathanklimt.de/electronics/heat-inserts/) _2024-12-21 · Jonathan Klimt · Bastelblog_ Handy trick Use heat inserts for PCB mounting ## [Backup Monitoring with Home Assistant](https://jonathanklimt.de/backup-hass/) _2024-11-30 · Jonathan Klimt · Bastelblog_ Integrating my backup probe into my monitoring platform of choice. ## [MQ-2 Gas Sensor (2024)](https://www.martinloren.com/news/mq-2-gas-sensor-2024/) _2024-10-26 · Martin · Martinloren_ This gadget allows to detect gasoline, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Video Parts list and STL files can be found Continue reading MQ-2 Gas Sensor (2024) ## [Using an SPI SSD1306 OLED on Fedora with a Raspberry Pi](https://blog.dowhile0.org/2024/09/27/using-an-spi-ssd1306-oled-on-fedora-with-a-raspberry-pi/) _2024-09-26 · Javier Martinez Canillas · Blog | Javier Martinez Canillas_ In a previous post I explained how to use a Solomon SSD1306 OLED display on Fedora with a Raspberry Pi, but that only covered displays that come with a I2C driving interface. The SSD1306 display controller also supports a (both 3-wire and 4-wire) SPI interface, and the ssd130x DRM driver has support for it since Linux 5.19. This blog post explains how to setup Fedora to use a SSD1306 OLED when… ## [COP Probe 2024 Artur Edition](https://www.martinloren.com/applications/cop-probe-2024-artur-edition/) _2024-09-25 · Martin · Martinloren_ This COP Probe has been designed by Artur. It includes overvoltage protection. Short Video Schematic