OpenAI says three fired researchers breached sensitive-information policies, rejecting claims they were punished for safety advocacy.
Michael Considine / CNBC : OpenAI says it didn't fire three researchers for “raising safety concerns or speaking out”, but due to violating “clear policies on handling sensitive” info — OpenAI on Friday defended its decision to fire three safety researchers, saying they had committed a “significant breach of trust.”
Bloomberg reports September cyberattacks exposed millions of Japanese records as AI lowers barriers for attackers.
Sarah Hilton / Bloomberg : A slew of cyberattacks hit Japanese companies in September, exposing the data of millions and prompting calls for security checks, as AI lowers hacking barriers — A cascade of cyberattacks has hit Japanese companies over the past few weeks, prompting the government to call for security checks …
SoftBank is reportedly seeking up to $100B from Gulf investors for an AI-focused buyout fund.
Financial Times : Sources: SoftBank is seeking to raise up to $100B from Gulf investors for a fund to buy companies and improve their operations with AI and other advanced tech — Founder and chief executive Masayoshi Son has held talks with senior figures in the UAE in recent weeks
Anthropic is creating a 2028 presidential-engagement program to educate candidates in both parties on AI policy.
Emily Forlini / Fortune : Anthropic is setting up a “presidential engagement” program for the 2028 US elections that will offer AI policy education to candidates in both parties — Anthropic is setting up a “presidential engagement” program ahead of the 2028 elections, building an in-house team …
Biohub announces a $1.8B global commitment to make biological data AI-ready.
StepFun's Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context mixture-of-experts model, has appeared on OpenRouter.
This project presents latent factorization for sub-1-bit LLM compression.
DuckDB's Ducklake project brings a lakehouse-style format and catalog to its analytical database ecosystem.
LWN examines concrete work to reduce undefined behavior in C, a core systems-language reliability problem.
Bevy 0.20 ships a major release of the Rust game engine.
Mitchell Hashimoto proposes OSC 7501, a terminal protocol for reporting program status.
A safe-Rust port of Quake runs directly in the browser.
ETH-68 introduces an Ethernet audio interface for Linux.
ICANN's new-gTLD application process includes a proposed .lan domain.
OpenTelemetry explains how to build products that export telemetry to any observability stack by design.
MXC is an open-source sandboxed code-execution system.
K10s is a clickable Kubernetes terminal UI built in Go with Bubble Tea.
The 2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking tracks and compares proposed browser-platform priorities.
Cloudflare kept 1.1.1.1 outside French piracy blocking orders and avoided penalties.
A new CRAM technique reportedly delivers much faster reads from compressed memory.
IDC reports global PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year in Q3 amid supply constraints and higher prices.
IDC : Global PC shipments dropped 20.1% YoY in Q3 to 62.7M units due to higher prices and supply issues; Lenovo dropped 22.6% YoY, HP 30.9%, Dell 25%, and Apple 11.3% — Q3 delivered the widely expected PC downturn, with supply constraints, high price points, and logistical disruption eroding the usual seasonal lift
SpaceX is acquiring low-band spectrum to make Starlink a major US mobile carrier.
Bloomberg : SpaceX agrees to acquire a low-band spectrum portfolio to help Starlink “become a major mobile carrier in the US”; AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon fall 6%+ after hours — Elon Musk's SpaceX said it acquired low-band spectrum that will enable it to use its Starlink satellites to become a …
Meta has banned ByteDance ads and third-party paid campaigns linking to TikTok across several countries.
Bloomberg : Meta bans ByteDance ads and paid marketing, plus third-party campaigns linking to TikTok, in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam — Meta Platforms Inc. banned advertisements in the US from ByteDance Ltd., the former controlling owner of TikTok, intensifying the competition with the popular social video site.
Apple reportedly asked suppliers to cut iPhone 18 Pro component output by 15–20% as memory costs hurt demand.
Nikkei Asia : Sources: Apple told some suppliers to cut iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max component production by 15%-20% as higher memory costs pushed up prices and hurt demand — TAIPEI — Apple has told some of its suppliers to cut production of components for its newly launched iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max …
Reuters reports the US suspended Microsoft and other major IT firms from a key green-card program.
Glyph argues that programming is not uniquely special, amid changing assumptions about software work.
Terence Tao asks what educators should tell students in response to AI's effects on learning and assessment.
A user describes using Claude Code to identify a previously unknown planet candidate.
Serverless Horrors documents a $10,811.41 serverless bill failure.
TechSpot publishes a 30-month OLED burn-in test update with long-term panel results.
Matthew Belloni / Puck : Sources: Netflix is preparing for layoffs that will impact ~5% of employees, or ~850 jobs, amid pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price — Facing pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price, the streamer is prepping for a round of layoffs in the near future, per sources.
Associated Press : Microsoft denies JD Vance's claim it replaced thousands of US workers with foreign workers last year, saying most H-1B applications were for existing employees — President Donald Trump's administration announced Thursday it was suspending Microsoft and several other firms …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : A US judge sentenced Raheim Hamilton, co-creator of the dark web marketplace Empire Market, to 40 years in prison for facilitating $430M in illegal transactions — The co-creator of Empire Market, one of the largest dark web marketplaces before its shutdown, has been sentenced to 40 years …
Reuters : Sources: Flock plans to let go of ~270 employees, or 18% of its staff, at the end of October; the layoffs come after a voluntary buyout program in September — Flock Safety plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday …
Washington Post : Satya Nadella and Michael Dell were awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by the White House during an appearance alongside other tech leaders — President Donald Trump celebrated tech billionaires such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at an event with arguably awkward timing
Jared Perlo / NBC News : President Trump awards Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and Sergey Brin the National Medal of Science at a White House summit promoting innovation — President Donald Trump joined Michael Kratsios to award the Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su and Sergey Brin amid announcements about new science funding.
Mikita Balesni / @balesni : AI researcher Mikita Balesni says he believes OpenAI fired him, Tomek Korbak, and Jasmine Wang for “prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI” — Two other safety researchers and I were fired from OpenAI last week. We wrote this letter to leadership. I believe we were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation.