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GPT-6 Astra Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s .name Termination Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% The largest electric aircraft just flew [video] Unusual Suspects OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 The death of San Francisco's Market Street The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring – Founding Creative Engineer GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet Audacity 4.0Bleeping Computer
Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules HPE patches critical ArubaOS-CX remote code execution flaw Microsoft: KB5120998 mouse reset bug affects only non-English PCs OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down ahead of 'Astra' model launch Anthropic confirms Claude is down, multiple models affected Critical Elementor Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites Your Employee’s Password Appeared in an Infostealer Log. Now What? Microsoft says KB5120998 Windows update resets desktop settings Plex warns users to patch security vulnerabilities immediately Microsoft Teams, Outlook fail to launch on ARM-based Windows PCs Hackers exploit Sangoma Switchvox flaw to deploy reverse shells WordPress backup plugin flaw exposes millions of sites to takeover attacks Hackers exploit critical JFrog Artifactory flaw to forge admin tokens Ransomware protection for MSPs: A 6-point checklist for faster recovery Dropbox accounts breached through Lenovo email verification flawArs Technica
Supreme Court urged to let states regulate sports bets on prediction markets Trump’s 100% tariff on drones will be disaster for the US, critics warn Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed" “Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead. Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit saysSlashdot
Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling Google Defeats US Bid to Force Ad Tech Sale FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug Into the Wall Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results 'Mixed' FTC Sues Amazon, Accusing the E-Commerce Giant of Misleading Advertisers Kalshi Dishes Out Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to George Santos California's Age Verification Bill Passes with Linux Exemption Intact Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage? States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court RulesEvents
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DJI’s new robovac can climb obstacles, vacuum quietly, and claims much improved privacy Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility Florida blocks Flock cams on state highways Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA VI leaks Meta glasses are a workplace menace OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what? OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness teamCipher Brief
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