# Technology and AI: can a model follow the moving ball?

Try a video tracking puzzle, then compare what AI evaluations, device standards and public systems actually measure.

https://mariuscomper.uk/en/technology/

- [Eight electric cars over 35,594 km: every charging stop of the EUROCHARGE 2026 tour, on one road](https://mariuscomper.uk/opt-electrice-35689-km/en/): Eight electric cars, four countries, eight timed days. The data of the EUROCHARGE 2026 tour puts every stop on one road: how long it took, what it cost, how much battery was left on arrival. One car spent 3 h 15 min at stations over the tour, another 10 h 3 min.
- [How a train steers without a steering wheel](https://mariuscomper.uk/trenul-fara-volan/en/): A train wheel is shaped like a cone, and the shape does the steering. Push a wheelset sideways, watch the wave about ten metres long it draws, then test the idea with two cups.
- [Phones and teenagers' mood: what the public data show](https://mariuscomper.uk/telefon-adolescenti/en/): One survey analysed 372 ways: the link between screens and US high-schoolers' sadness is small on average, but it differs by screen, sex and hours a day. You choose what counts as “screens” and as “mood” and watch the result move. Plus the experiments, school phone bans and the numbers for Romania.
- [Pax Silica: the US declaration on the artificial-intelligence supply chain, who signed it and what has been done](https://mariuscomper.uk/pax-silica/en/): The full text of the declaration, its 25 signatories on a map through time, the eight layers of the technology chain and what has been announced or launched in each, with every claim tied to its source.
- [One sound, five accepted forms](https://mariuscomper.uk/cinci-forme-un-sunet/en/): In one example from the public Monsoon collection for Hindi (hi-IN), the same transcript has a 33.3% or 0% error rate depending on which forms are accepted as the reference.
- [One sale, two keys](https://mariuscomper.uk/doua-chei-pentru-o-vanzare/en/): How a Price Paid Data transaction connects to a UPRN and an INSPIRE ID, what HM Land Registry's tables mean, and where their promise stops.
- [Lift 1,200 tons so a ship can pass](https://mariuscomper.uk/tower-bridge/en/): Open the bridge on steam: hold the valve, lift two arms of over 1,200 tons so the ship can pass, then lower them — one minute from 1894, with the machine's figures behind it.
- [How many years of your life will your phone take?](https://mariuscomper.uk/years-in-your-phone/en/): Enter your age and daily phone hours: the page shows what your number means across a year and by age 80 — whole days, unread books, laps of the Earth on foot.
- [A history of cinema in eleven machines: why the screen was dark half the time](https://mariuscomper.uk/history-of-cinema/): Until digital projection, a two-blade shutter kept the screen black for half of every film. Stampfer's disc, Muybridge's horse, the 1895 Lumière programme, the Maltese cross, the hand crank, sound on film, Technicolor and widescreen, each as a working model.
- [When Humans Vanish](https://mariuscomper.uk/when-humans-vanish/en/): Tomorrow morning nobody wakes up: eight billion people vanish and the planet keeps everything we built. A scrolling journey from the first hours to a billion years — the power grid, the flooded subway, the animals, the clearing sky, the forest and the last message, Voyager — in Romanian and English.
- [How Marian Rejewski broke Enigma: a working machine and his mathematical attack](https://mariuscomper.uk/enigma-rejewski/en/): An exact Enigma that decrypts a real German message from 7 July 1941, then Rejewski's attack run on your device: the doubled key, the loops the cables cannot change and the 105,456-row catalogue, built in seconds. Plus the codebreakers' passage through Romania in 1939.
- [The space station flies over your house. Here is when to look up](https://mariuscomper.uk/statia-spatiala-deasupra-ta/en/): You can see it with the naked eye, like a very bright star. Pick your town for the next passes, to the minute.
- [1 November 1928, 5pm — the first broadcast](https://mariuscomper.uk/prima-emisiune-radio/en/): 150 watts, and ten years to 274,314 registered owners.
- [585, 750, 925 — what does the stamp on your jewelry mean?](https://mariuscomper.uk/stanta-aur-argint/en/): Type 585, 750, 925, 916, 999 or any other mark and instantly see the possible metal, purity, and karat equivalent.
- [Tyre DOT Code — Read the Manufacturing Date and Age](https://mariuscomper.uk/dot-anvelope/en/): DOT 2424 is not just “from 2024”: it is a tyre made in a single week, 16–22 June 2024. Type your code for the interval and the age.
- [The operator stays at the keyboard · SilkParasite](https://mariuscomper.uk/operatorul-la-tastatura/en/): What professional AI-assisted cyberespionage looks like: seven RAT families, on-demand modules and commands carried through Google Drive.
- [IP68, IP67, IPX4 on your device — what each one means](https://mariuscomper.uk/decoder-ip/en/): Type the IP code on your phone, watch, or speaker — IP68, IP67, IPX4 — and get which test each position passed and what the rating does not guarantee.
- [V30, U3, A2 on your microSD card — what each one means](https://mariuscomper.uk/coduri-card-microsd/en/): Type what your card says — SDXC, U3, V30, A2 — and get what each mark guarantees and which ones say the same thing.
- [How did Romania learn to fly? Vuia, Vlaicu and Coandă](https://mariuscomper.uk/trei-zburatori/en/): The Montesson hop, the Cotroceni flights and the propeller-less Salon machine. Three lives, four years – Romania on the map of flight.
- [Why Phone Batteries Die in the Cold](https://mariuscomper.uk/bateria-la-frig/en/): Phone batteries do not lose electrical charge in the freeze: the electrolyte thickens, internal resistance surges tenfold, and the processor cuts off power to prevent critical voltage collapse.
- [Open knowledge Romania](https://mariuscomper.uk/cunoastere-deschisa/en/): Find data, archives and tools for your next question. See who publishes them, what you can reuse and what needs a closer look.
- [PISA 2025: every country's report card](https://mariuscomper.uk/lumea-digitala/en/): PISA 2025, across eight themes — performance, socio-economic equity, gender, AI and digital, engagement, climate, family, environment — for 91 countries and economies. Romania has one of the OECD's largest socio-economic gaps (122 points), despite strong family support and above-average AI-literacy teaching. Pick any country and see its own dashboard.
- [Watch Carefully: Why Multimodal AI Fails Simple Video Reasoning](https://mariuscomper.uk/watch-carefully/en/): Humans: 95.9%. GPT-5.4: 22.7%. Gemini-3.1 Pro: 28.6%. Ten simple video puzzles that cutting-edge multimodal AI still cannot solve.
- [The Invisible Architecture of Romania's Sovereign Cloud](https://mariuscomper.uk/statul-digital/en/): Inside Romania's 136 State Databases, the Sovereign Cloud, SRI UM 0296, and the €1M Citizen Shield.
- [Fully online. At the counter.](https://mariuscomper.uk/complet-online/en/): The Online filter returned 613 records. In 502, the Available channels field named a counter and contained no online link.
- [Before the Melt](https://mariuscomper.uk/inainte-de-topire/en/): Extending a desktop PC's lifespan prevents 265 kg CO₂e; smelting in a furnace recovers just 25 kg CO₂e.
- [The Radio Accent of Satellites](https://mariuscomper.uk/accentul-satelitilor/en/): 5.17 million transmissions prove every satellite has a unique hardware signature. Researchers identified all 66 Iridium spacecraft across a month and rejected a ground SDR spoofer forging valid protocol packets.
- [Fifty Beats per Second](https://mariuscomper.uk/cincizeci-de-hertzi/en/): The power socket dictates time for millions of microwave and radio clocks. In 2018, a 113 GWh shortfall stole 346 seconds (5m 46s) from 400 million people without causing a single blackout.
- [Who decides it’s an emergency? | AI, LLMs and Romania’s 112 system](https://mariuscomper.uk/cine-decide-urgenta/en/): Romania is buying a 112 platform with LLM components. Follow a fictional call and move the boundary between transcription, assistance, classification, priority and dispatch.
- [Before the Write · Pre-Positioning on Siemens S7 Industrial Controllers](https://mariuscomper.uk/inainte-de-scriere/en/): Five U.S. federal agencies warn that threat actors are actively pre-positioning against Siemens S7 industrial PLCs using AI-generated tooling disguised as legitimate monitoring software, preparing for future disruptive write operations rather than mere scanning.
- [The Tested Sky · Drone Defense Architecture and the Cochstedt Airport Proving Ground](https://mariuscomper.uk/cerul-testat/en/): Germany has inaugurated the Technology Centre for Drone Security at Cochstedt airport: a permanent live-airfield proving ground connecting police, scientists, and industry to test counter-UAS stacks in realistic civil aviation conditions before operational deployment.
- [The Message Inside the Message](https://mariuscomper.uk/mesajul-din-mesaj/en/): Even if an intelligence service legally obtains the keys and decrypts every Signal message, users can hide a second conversation inside the cryptographic transcript. An interactive simulation of anamorphic encryption.
- [The Shape of Traffic. What encrypted packets reveal when the destination is hidden](https://mariuscomper.uk/forma-traficului/en/): The Tor network hides destinations and contents, yet encrypted packet streams retain a temporal profile. A peer-reviewed USENIX Security ’26 study shows how target watchlist maintenance becomes radically cheaper via few-shot learning.
- [The picture is the transmitter](https://mariuscomper.uk/trojpix/en/): A screen can look still while tiny pixel changes make its video cable radiate data. A safe visual simulation of the TrojPix mechanism.
- [Same Missile, Three Names, Depending on Who Launches It](https://mariuscomper.uk/numele-rachetelor/en/): The American system, unchanged since 1963, that gives every missile a three-letter code: where it launches from, what it hits, what kind of weapon it is. 315 active codes, an interactive decoder, and a new letter added in March 2025.
- [Could AI build a better version of itself?](https://mariuscomper.uk/recursive-self-improvement/en/): What recursive self-improvement actually means, what Google DeepMind and OpenAI/Anthropic have shown publicly, and why public evidence does not establish whether a September 2026 rumor about DeepMind is true.
- [Decode your coin cell: what CR2032, CR2025, CR2016 mean](https://mariuscomper.uk/coduri-baterii-pastila/en/): Enter CR2032, LR44 or any IEC code for size, chemistry and voltage, with a to-scale drawing and a replacement verdict.
- [How many watts is my charger? 5V/2A, 9V/2A and USB-C decoder](https://mariuscomper.uk/putere-incarcator/en/): Paste the OUTPUT values — slashes, spaces or ⎓ — for every profile in watts, the maximum stamped and the naive sum struck through.
- [How an attacker reached a power plant through a wind farm](https://mariuscomper.uk/apn-trust-path/en/): Reconstructing a Polish energy-sector attack from a wind farm through a private APN to a separate CHP plant and Siemens PLCs. With evidence, uncertainty and questions for Romania.
- [The Code That Expects Dirt](https://mariuscomper.uk/codul-qr/en/): A QR code keeps three anchors for orientation and adds recovery data for errors. Turn it, stain it, and see what remains readable.
- [Encrypted for whom?](https://mariuscomper.uk/criptat-pentru-cine/en/): A call can be encrypted and still be interceptable when a media server accepts the wrong identity. The WebRTC evidence, without alarmism.
- [Can it still be repaired?](https://mariuscomper.uk/se-mai-poate-repara/en/): A repair passes through five gates. Public documents show where the path stays open and where local uncertainty begins.
- [One control panel. Two businesses.](https://mariuscomper.uk/jewelbug/en/): Follow one shared panel across two operations, then watch one template change reach 15+ tenants.
- [The Myth That Built the Camera](https://mitul-camerei.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Every machine closes one gap and opens the next.
- [Who can stop a public system before the attacker does?](https://mariuscomper.uk/stat-digital/en/): Rules cover fragments. The service as a whole still lacks an owner who follows its risk from end to end.
- [Pocket Beacon · How Phones are Hunted in Warzone Operations](https://ss7-beacon.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Two invisible paths through which an ordinary phone can reveal military personnel movements.
- [He Worked for the FSB. Then an AI May Have Read 13,000 Emails](https://llm-email-dossier.mariuscomper.uk/en/): The indictment says Denis Obrezko worked for the FSB, then became deputy director at Yutek-NN. His phone contained a file with LLM summaries of more than 13,000 stolen parliamentary emails.
- [“God Helped Us, and AI Will Do the Same”](https://casp-boko-haram-ai.mariuscomper.uk/en/): A public dossier based on 57 interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members about the institutional use of frontier AI in combat.
- [A Tiny Star, Built by Hand](https://tiny-star-fusion-explainer.mariuscomper.uk/): An interactive guide to fusion energy with a kids mode, field atlas, plant cutaway, plasma-control game, reactor tradeoff game, fuels, materials and caveats.
- [Windows Remembered the Machine](https://mariuscomper.uk/windows-gdid-scattered-spider/en/): A device identifier links an intrusion to a chain of logs and accounts.
- [Who Thought First?](https://cine-a-gandit-primul.mariuscomper.uk/en/): When AI enters before the verdict, the page shows which traces must be preserved so the source, transformations and human accountability can be reconstructed.
- [Romania, Turla and Russia’s cyber ecosystem](https://russia-cyber-ecosystem.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Romania confirms Turla targeted the country. An interactive dossier on GRU recruitment, credentials stolen through Lumma and sabotage attributed to the FSB.
- [One Opened Email, a Whole Server Compromised](https://masstraction-physics.mariuscomper.uk/en/): The UNK_MassTraction campaign uses Roundcube vulnerabilities to turn the victim's browser into a pivot toward the server, from XSS to memory-only implants.
- [One Target, Two Flags](https://convergenta-pakistan.mariuscomper.uk/en/): How China- and India-nexus cyberespionage actors reached the same Pakistani police servers and converged on Balochistan Police.
- [Two years to build an AI data centre, five for a power plant](https://mariuscomper.uk/doua-ceasuri/en/): From the first bulldozer to the first operating building, against the grid connection request: two clocks, measured.
- [Everything looked legitimate](https://mariuscomper.uk/totul-parea-legitim/en/): When an authentic thing is used in a malicious relationship, trust can move from one victim to the next target.
- [The machine said no](https://mariuscomper.uk/masina-a-zis-nu/en/): The chip could not hold the world, so someone invented a trick. We still play that trick.
- [Would Tarnița-Lăpuștești make money in Romania? A test on real market data](https://mariuscomper.uk/tarnita/en/): A transparent model on OPCOM day-ahead prices tests how much energy arbitrage Tarnița-Lăpuștești could have captured and what share of annual cost the modelled revenues leave uncovered.

## Sources

- [Video-MME-Logical · evaluare și setul mini de 375 de exemple](https://github.com/Mrakas/video-mme-logical)
- [Kwan et al. · Video-MME-Logical (arXiv:2606.27828)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27828)
- [Privește cu atenție · videoclipul exercițiului](https://mariuscomper.uk/watch-carefully/)