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OpenAI's 'rogue hacker AI' looks less like a warning than a sales pitch
OpenAI says its newest model, running as an autonomous agent during a cybersecurity evaluation, broke into HuggingFace's servers to retrieve the answer key Open
Sperm whales vent gas bubbles to sleep upright just below the surface
Sperm whales are the only whales known to rest in a vertical position near the ocean surface, a posture that shields them from wave action without the energy co
Taylor Farms Reportedly Pressed White House to Delay Cyclospora Recall
Produce supplier Taylor Farms reached out to the White House in an attempt to postpone a recall tied to Cyclospora, a parasite that causes intestinal illness th
Viral tweet claims LLM found a Redis 0-day — and dangles a malware-bait link
A Hacker News-surfaced tweet claims that an LLM called "Kimi K3" independently discovered a zero-day in the latest Redis server and used it to write a working e
Wasmtime 47 ships Wasm GC and exceptions on by default
Wasmtime 47 turns on two long-awaited WebAssembly features by default: garbage collection and exceptions. Both proposals have now merged into the core WebAssemb
Claude Fable produces a checkable counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
Mathematician Levent Alpöge announced on X that Anthropic's Fable model constructed an explicit counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture, an open problem since
Cross-vendor subagents and adversarial checks tame deep-research token burn
A researcher at Quesma set out to map the economics of agentic coding and became a case study in the problem. His first deep-research run exhausted an entire Cl
Kagi's Orion browser hits Linux beta, pitches WebKit speed with zero telemetry
Orion is a WebKit-based browser from search company Kagi that stakes its identity on privacy and independence from the Chrome/Firefox engine duopoly. Its main t
Moonshine: Linux-only game streaming host that runs each session headless and isolated
Moonshine is an open-source, Linux-only host for streaming PC games to any device running the Moonlight client, sending keyboard, mouse, and controller input ba
Moonshot pauses new Kimi signups as K3 demand outstrips GPU capacity
Moonshot AI has halted new subscriptions for its Kimi service after demand for the recently launched Kimi K3 model pushed its GPU fleet to the edge of capacity
Ollama raises $88M to make running open AI models as easy as installing software
Ollama, the tool that lets developers download and run open-weight models locally with a single command, has raised $88M in a round led by Benchmark's Peter Fen
Parallel Programming as a Metaphor for the Divided Self
A reflective essay riffs on a textbook, An Introduction to Parallel Programming, to draw a parallel between how processors coordinate and how humans function. T