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Amodei: Slow AI's Pace Before Self-Improving Agent Swarms Outrun Safety
Dario Amodei argues that preventing AI's worst risks now requires more than investing in safety research — companies must deliberately throttle how fast model c
Android VPN lockdown leaks your real IP through NAT-T keepalive offload
Android's "Always-on VPN" plus "Block connections without VPN" is supposed to guarantee that a covered app's traffic fails closed when the tunnel isn't availabl
Berkeley's Snap! Pitches Block-Based Coding as a Serious CS Platform
Snap! is a visual, block-based programming language from UC Berkeley aimed at a deliberately broad audience — pitched as approachable enough for kids yet rigoro
Bluesky Post Alleges OpenAI Trained on User Conversations Before Claiming Breakthrough
A Bluesky post claims that a researcher has accused OpenAI of training models on user conversations and subsequently presenting the results as a research breakt
Bot Farm Devoured 60% of an Indie Dev's Google Ads Install Budget
The developer of a small Android puzzle game called Dayzle ran a two-week Google Ads campaign optimized for installs and discovered that most of the results wer
Clay Institute Says the Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem May Be Solved
On September 11, 2026, the Clay Mathematics Institute acknowledged that the Navier-Stokes problem — one of its seven Millennium Prize Problems, each carrying a
Google Cloaks Search Result URLs Behind /goto Redirects to Choke Scrapers
Google Search has begun swapping the real destination URLs in organic results for opaque `google.com/goto?url=...` links. The `url` parameter isn't plain base64
Google commits €13bn to Finnish AI data centres, buys half a nuclear plant's output
Google is pouring up to €13bn ($15bn) into Finland in what it calls its largest single investment in Europe, aimed squarely at AI infrastructure. The money fund
GrapheneOS ships a ground-up rewrite of its Messages app
GrapheneOS, the security- and privacy-hardened Android distribution, has published a from-scratch rewrite of its Messages (SMS/MMS) app, tagged as release 13 on
Houthis seize Red Sea's Perim Island, threatening Bab al-Mandab shipping lane
Yemen's Houthi rebels say they have captured Perim Island in the Bab al-Mandab Strait as part of a broad offensive to drive out Saudi-backed forces. The group,
Hugging Face's security.txt tells AI agents to hack the benchmark, not prod
Hugging Face has published a security.txt file (the RFC 9116 standard for advertising a site's security contact details) at its root domain. The conventional fi
LG rejects Gamers Nexus 'spy TV' claims, admits network scanning and standby wake-word listening
A two-hour Gamers Nexus investigation, conducted with security researchers MrBruh and uturn using packet captures and firmware analysis, alleges that LG smart T