NIST details an actively exploited sandbox escape affecting every Chromium version.
Investigation documents a newly discovered OpenAI agent message board, with extensive community scrutiny.
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged training on their journalism.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire : The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times — Microsoft was sued Friday by the parent company of its hometown daily newspaper, The Seattle Times Co., which joined with Newsday …
Microsoft warns that spammers are using ASCII smuggling to conceal AI prompt-injection instructions.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters — A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …
Isar Aerospace reports reaching orbit and deploying payloads on its second flight.
Berlin reviews Rhysida's 5.79TB leak, reportedly including defense and threat-response plans.
Miranda Murray / Reuters : Berlin is reviewing Rhysida's 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans — Berlin's state government said on Saturday it was reviewing with the highest intensity a trove of stolen data published by a ransomware group …
FT reports Travis Kalanick's Atoms is building robotaxis, hired Anthony Levandowski, and has Uber funding.
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times : Sources: Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms — Atoms gears up for hiring spree and could link with Uber, the company he was ousted from almost a decade ago
ArXiv paper examines LLMs as a cognitive virus and the risks of self-propagating model-mediated influence.
America's two largest school districts impose moratoriums on AI use.
Simon Willison analyzes Claude's revised system prompt restrictions on reproducing song lyrics.
OKF Agent Memory offers Git-native persistent memory designed for AI coding agents.
Bloomberg examines ethical risks as AI systems are applied to animal communication.
Morgan Meaker / Bloomberg : As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals — AI could transform our understanding of other species. It also risks giving humans powerful new ways to manipulate, exploit and harm them.
Rest of World reports Chinese firms are bundling AI tokens into consumer rewards and telecom plans.
Kinling Lo / Rest of World : Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles — Five unexpected ways computing power is entering everyday life in the country. — Artificial intelligence tokens …
Kai-Fu Lee discusses China's open-model position, jobs, export controls, and developing-world AI.
Mishal Husain / Bloomberg : Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more — Chinese AI companies are rapidly closing the gap with US rivals, even after years of restrictions on their access to advanced chips.
Chrome reportedly again exempts Google from user-controlled site-data settings.
Flock cameras were used over 100 times to track a veteran after he recorded a traffic stop.
Swiss Re projects $20B–$30B in annual data-center insurance premiums by 2030.
Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal : Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas — AI hyperscale data centers are exposed to a dizzying array of potential threats during construction and operation
UN says global warming will exceed the 1.5°C limit.
ProPublica investigates how the chemical industry kept PFAS harms secret.
Wikimedia Foundation workers overwhelmingly vote to unionize with the CWA.
IBM announces its Quantum Nighthawk R2 quantum-computing hardware.
Detailed visual walkthrough explains Rust dyn Trait vtables and their in-memory layout.
Technical deep dive explains Swiss-table implementation in Go's built-in map.
A practical catalog challenges common programmer assumptions about LAN behavior.
Codeberg's Nitter directory shows more working instances after the takedowns.
Cloud in a Bottle presents a project aimed at making self-hosting broadly accessible.
CNRS-hosted book provides a structured introduction to programming in OCaml.
Balrogg is a lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor claiming up to 15% size reductions.
LTT Labs publishes a CT scan of a delidded Intel Core i9-14900KS.
A detailed FreeBSD desktop build revisits AMD-based hardware support and configuration.
Philip Wegmann / Wall Street Journal : Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies — Trump administration officials are wrestling with the spiritual consequences of AI as the president embraces it as an economic engine
Emily Forlini / Fortune : OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch — OpenAI has changed several evaluation benchmarks for its GPT-6 Astra model since first publishing a blog post announcement mid-afternoon on Sept. 3.
Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times : The data center backlash is challenging Texas' pro-business approach; Wood Mackenzie: Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state — For 30 years the state has profited from going the extra mile for business. Data centres are putting that to the test.
ABC News : Trump admin launches arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake game clone and a Tetris-like game; Tetris says it takes “copyright infringement very seriously” — In “Build the Wall,” players aim to “protect the border” from zombies. — Isabella Murray, Nicholas Kerr, and Michelle Stoddart
Robert Hart / The Verge : Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack — The internet fights over anthropomorphism around the Hugging Face hack. … Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face …