OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms
The firm used unreleased models to tackle hundreds of high-profile problems.
OpenAI paid $300 for a bug that gave away its paid models
Researcher says he will not report again after $300 OpenAI bug bounty payout though it advertises up to $100,000.
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
Discord’s Second Attempt To Roll Out Age Verification Is Going Badly
Many people aren't happy, again, but Discord says it has to move forward with these changes due to new laws across the globe
Former Twitch exec calls secrecy over Dr Disrespect’s ban a “big mistake”
Former Twitch director Marcus ‘djWheat’ Graham has criticized the platform’s lack of transparency around major bans such as Dr Disrespect’s.
Someone just vibe coded the entire Adobe suite
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
Obscura VPN 'We View Consumer Data as Toxic Waste' | itsfoss
Obscura VPN splits your identity from your browsing across two independent companies so neither can see both. Founder Carl Dong on trust, QUIC, reproducible builds, and why the no-logs promise stopped being enough.
Court finds ALPR (Flock) was an unconstitutional search & 4A violation. (positive news)
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AI chatbots give us a narrow slice of knowledge: Researchers warn of ‘knowledge collapse’
We are exposed to a much narrower range of knowledge through AI chatbots than through a basic web search. This is documented by a new study led by the University of Copenhagen. As more and more of us turn to AI chatbots…
Microsoft’s Terrifying New Patent | LG-Style ACR for Games & Software
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AI is now a health care issue: AI drove nearly $1 billion in extra health care costs over just 2 years – with no evidence patients got any …
Analysis of BCBS claims data found growing use of AI coding tools contribute to higher hospital billing costs and increased healthcare spending.
Pirating the Pirates
Notes from the underground of film preservation.
Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends
Some of Amazon’s descriptions sound more like a roast.
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
Meta Is Refusing to Remove AI-Generated Facebook Videos of Graphic Child Abuse, Including a Baby Roasting in an Oven. Meta is making it cle…
We sent Meta 19 Facebook accounts sharing AI-generated videos of graphic child abuse. 24 hours later, it hadn't taken them down.
“Has No Friends”: Amazon Is Keeping Amazingly Detailed Records on Its Customers and They Are Downright Insulting: Here's how to check yours.
Customers are discovering the dossiers that Amazon is building on their shopping habits, and what they find is downright insulting.
openSUSE Leap 16.1 Adds Immutable Mode; Leap Micro Discontinued
Starting with Leap 16.1, the separate immutable flavor will cease to exist.
GM Admits It Needs Hybrids Again: 'We're Not Tone Deaf'
General Motors will launch new hybrid vehicles as customer demand and sales surge for the alternative powertrain. GM sells only one hybrid: the Corvette.
Here’s the Email You Get When an OpenAI Model Hacks Your Organization: OpenAI will wish you the "best" after hacking into your company.
If your company is hacked by an OpenAI agent, the ChatGPT maker will thoughtfully email you a heads up and wish you the "best."
Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns
AFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts
Tommy Lee Jones Has Been an Alien in Japan for 20 Years
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Singapore government launches dating app with Gale-Shapley stable matching algorithm
The launch of FirstDate comes as the ageing nation wrestles with a record-low fertility rate.
Eichmann could do nothing but repeat orders. He had nothing but theory and could not speak outside of it because he did no thinking. MAGA a…
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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died | CNN
The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.
US man arrested as second suspect in Canada mass school shooting planned with ChatGPT
Justice department detained James Codey Bryant and allege he offered ‘technical advice’ to primary suspect
Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back
Grant retirement went off the rails, so Redmond is offering affected organizations help starting over
Mozilla Thunderbird 157 Fixes 100% CPU Usage, OpenPGP, and IMAP Issues
Mozilla Thunderbird 157 rolls out with fixes for a 100% CPU usage bug, OpenPGP key handling, IMAP message saving, Gmail OAuth2, and CalDAV.
Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets
Run the CLI in autopilot mode and take your chances
GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start
GrapheneOS is calling out Google over its negligence in providing certain patches.
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
Open Grind: an unofficial open-source Grindr client for Android, Linux, macOS and Windows
Unofficial Grindr client. Free, open source client with no ads, no trackers and no paywalls, driven by the community.
BBC reporting on DPRK (North Korea) overlaid on queen funeral procession
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The AI boom is making the world’s cheapest smartphones disappear
AI data centers are driving demand for memory chips, pushing phone makers to raise prices and abandon some of their most affordable models.
ChatGPT keeps signing fake New Yorker cartoons with real artists' names
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
Oracle Health Hack Exposes Data of Nearly 20M People
Patient names, Social Security numbers, doctors and diagnoses might have been breached in the cyberattack.
WebBrain: a GPL-3.0 browser extension that turns any LLM (including local ones) into a browser agent
Open-source AI browser agent for Chrome and Firefox (monorepo) 🧠 - webbrain-one/webbrain
OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
âThereâs a perception of mobster behaviorâ from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
Scott Jenson: Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?
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Resident Evil and The People Who Hate It | Regular Eyepatch Wolf
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OpenAI’s “ChatGPT for Teens” Is an “Unsafe” Mess: "It is incumbent for OpenAI to earn the trust of parents and to show them, not just tell …
A new Common Sense Media report found that guardrails said to be included in OpenAI's "ChatGPT for Teens" aren't working as promised.
Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation Over ‘Anticompetitive’ Merchant Credit Card Transaction Fees
A class action lawsuit alleges Visa, Mastercard and some of America's largest banks have conspired to artificially inflate merchants' credit card transaction fees.
RAM to see 'meaningful price increases' before 2026 is out, as the memory crisis is predicted to last 'at least' another 3 years
Chatter on the grapevine, and from analyst firms, about the memory supply shortage has taken another gloomy turn.
Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open…
Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't…
Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family: "They're trying to know you like a friend, which is honestly pretty creepy."
Meta's buzzy new AI agent comes with some major privacy risks — not just for users, but anybody on the periphery of its users' lives.
Software developers are not okay
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
About Hacktoberfest 2026 and its news this year
What Hacktoberfest is, how to take part in October 2026 now that pull requests no longer count, and what twelve years of it taught open source, good and bad.
Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings
Only about one-third of surveyed retailers plan to invest in self-checkout technology this year, significantly fewer than in 2025, according to an annual retail industry report. While...
Does the gender pay gap extend to AI? New research finds female AI agents ‘paid’ less
New research from University of Limerick has found gender bias in the workplace could be replicated in interactions with artificial intelligence. The study, co-authored by Dr Mary Hausfeld of UL's Kemmy Business School,…
The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.
The Internet Marked Flock Safety CEO’s Home As A Public Toilet Online
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley faces online mockery over an allegedly blurred home, raising real questions about surveillance executives and personal privacy.