Nathan Lambert examines GLM-5.3’s open release and the absence of major attacks despite claimed Mythos-level cyber risk.
Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI : GLM-5.3's open release has yet to produce major attacks despite Anthropic's warnings about its Mythos-level cyber risk, undercutting calls to ban open models — Open-weights, ideology, and acknowledging trade-offs. … Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.
Utah is set to allow AI systems to examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight.
Reuters reports South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used in hacks of the country’s banks.
Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk, citing failed guardrails and homework assistance.
Jay Peters / The Verge : Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk”, saying its guardrails fall short of OpenAI's promises and it continues to do kids' homework — ChatGPT's teen-focused experience 'doesn't send alerts to parents when it should,' according to an assessment.
Boston Dynamics names former Amazon Alexa leader Rohit Prasad CEO after Robert Playter steps down.
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg : Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who spent 12 years helping build and expand Alexa, as its CEO, after Robert Playter stepped down — Boston Dynamics appointed former Amazon.com Inc. executive Rohit Prasad as chief executive officer to lead the Hyundai Motor Co …
Data-center digital-twin startup Turba Labs emerges from stealth with $52M in seed and Series A funding.
Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal : Turba Labs, which develops tech for optimizing AI infrastructure by creating digital twins of data centers, emerges from stealth with a $52M seed and Series A — The data center build-out is exploding across America. But what if AI didn't need more—more chips, more energy, more resources …
A federal court gives Michael Smith 18 months for bot-streaming AI-generated music to collect $8M+ in royalties.
Bill Donahue / Billboard : A US federal court sentences Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty to using bots to stream AI-generated songs, making $8M+ in royalties, to 18 months in prison — Michael Smith admitted earlier this year to using bots to stream fake songs billions of times in a first-ever criminal case over streaming fraud.
Strands releases Decider 2B, a small open-source model designed specifically for decision-making.
A close look at Claude Code’s suggested commit messages argues the feature is optimized for the model, not the user.
Erdosproblems.com explains how AI-generated submissions are overwhelming its mathematical problem-solving workflow.
A developer assesses why vibecoding feels less satisfying than writing software by hand.
André Klein documents using vibecoding to recreate Photoshop’s time-and-pressure interactions.
Japan’s state-backed Rapidus partners with 17 companies, including Synopsys, to help customers design chips.
Reuters : Japanese chipmaker Rapidus is partnering with 17 companies, including US-based Synopsys, to help customers design chips; Rapidus has $15B+ in state funding — Japan's Rapidus, with $15 billion in state backing, is tying up with chip design firms as it seeks to answer a major question hanging …
Finland orders Google to halt two data-center builds pending environmental impact assessments.
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC : Finland orders Google subsidiary Tuike Finland Oy to halt data center construction in Muhos and Kajaani by October 23, pending environmental impact assessments — Google has been ordered to halt work on two data centers it's developing in Finland, a month after the tech giant committed …
Hackers obtained counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other major services, threatening HTTPS trust.
Arizona’s court-system breach exposed data on 1.3M people, including protection orders and foster-care reports.
Associated Press : A September 24 cyberattack on Arizona's court system stole PII for 1.3M people, including 30K orders of protection and 150K reports from a foster care board — A cyberattack on Arizona's court system stole personal information for more than a million people and is believed to have started …
OpenSSH 10.6 is released by the project, making this a direct upstream security-tooling update.
New work reports an integer-multiplication algorithm with complexity below n log n.
A new arXiv result claims subquadratic 3SUM and subcubic all-pairs shortest paths.
Miguel Grinberg benchmarks Python 3.15 to quantify the release’s real-world performance changes.
Two ARM64 compiler optimization bugs in GCC and Rust affected curl, illustrating cross-toolchain correctness risk.
Steve Klabnik explains a case where randomness that looks adequate fails under a specific technical constraint.
State of Devs 2026 publishes fresh survey data on developers, their tools, and changing work practices.
An Adobe Creative Suite cleanroom port to Rust offers an ambitious compatibility and systems-language experiment.
Parseable presents its open observability datalake and claims ingestion of 100M time-series points per minute.
Penguin Mail launches as an open-source Rust Linux email client with built-in AI features.
Tapo’s Rust/Python library adds support for TP-Link’s TPAP protocol, expanding local smart-home integration.
Citizen Lab reports a Toronto VPN provider plans to leave Canada over the proposed lawful-access bill.
US lawmakers introduce multiple measures targeting Flock surveillance following 404 Media’s reporting.
The European Commission is considering a broad levy on large companies that would capture major US tech firms.
Financial Times : Sources: the European Commission considers taxing big US tech companies through a broad levy on large corporations to avoid singling out individual companies — European Commission considers a broad levy on all large companies to avoid singling out US digital services groups
Sammy Barker / Push Square : PS5 modders using AI tools have rapidly installed emulators, as jailbreaks spread across social media; recent games requiring newer firmware are inaccessible — This is fine.png — A game of cat-and-mouse between Sony and hackers is very much underway, as the PS5 has been jailbroken to a massive degree in the past week.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Spotify expands audiobooks to 180+ markets, bringing its catalog to 750M+ users, and adds 350K+ titles in 120+ languages in partnership with 300+ publishers — Spotify announced on Wednesday that it's expanding audiobook access to over 180 markets worldwide, including regions across Europe …
Financial Times : GoTo and Grab face pressure to offer drivers better deals; GoTo's share price has fallen 90% from its 2022 peak, while Grab's has fallen 50% in the past year — Asia's market leaders Grab and GoTo face squeezed margins over push to offer better deal to workers
Owen Walker / Financial Times : Sources: Singapore distances itself from regulating Hyperliquid, citing its “decentralized nature”, even as the crypto futures DEX confirms it is based there — City-state averse to risk and scandal tries to distance itself from homegrown Hyperliquid Labs and its popular ‘perps’
Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg : Filing: China-based Transsion, which commands 53% of Africa's mobile phone market by unit sales, is seeking to raise as much as ~$428M in a Hong Kong share sale — Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co., which dominates the market for smartphones in Africa, is seeking to raise as much as HK$3.36 billion …
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : AI startup acquisitions by other AI startups hit 195 through September 29, up 14% from 2025, but the number of buyers grew just 2%; OpenAI was the most active — Some of the AI industry's fastest-growing startups are becoming serial acquirers, buying smaller companies to fill product gaps …