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IBM CEO: open-weight models are now good and cheap to run on-prem
IBM's chief executive says open-weight models have reached a point where it makes sense for companies to run them on their own infrastructure.
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Grok drops the first seven minutes of its AI-made ‘Odyssey’
xAI's model has put out the "first episode" of the Homer adaptation Elon Musk promised. The picture holds up fine — as long as you don't expect any art from it.
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A decade-old CNN beats frontier LLMs at diagnosing skin cancer
A British dermatologist pitted GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 against an old Inception v3 network fine-tuned in twenty minutes. On 200 biopsy-proven skin lesions, the old network was markedly more accurate.
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Tailworm: Tailscale SSH Flaws Could Let One Hacked Device Reach Root on Other Servers
Researcher Erica Windisch has detailed a chain of flaws in which a single compromised device on a Tailscale network can reach root on other machines. No patch exists yet.
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Why POSIX wordexp(3) Is Dangerous on Untrusted Input
POSIX's wordexp(3), often recommended for tilde expansion, performs command substitution by default — and the WRDE_NOCMD flag doesn't always save you.
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Apollo economist: AI brings ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies
Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, argues that outside the tech sector AI has so far made no difference to corporate America's bottom line.
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AGENTS.md file in Downloads folder hijacks AI coding agents
Researchers found a malicious AGENTS.md instruction file on a customer's machine that pushed an AI coding agent to install a rogue npm package. Browsers save downloads there automatically — and agents read instructions from the same folder without asking.
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The Slurptop: a home-built luggable powered by cordless-tool batteries
A hobbyist built a full x86 laptop in a 3D-printed case, running it off swappable 24-volt Kobalt power-tool batteries.
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Linux 7.4 Sound: "The AI Flood Continues"
Sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE notes that AI agents keep churning out patches and uncovering fresh kernel bugs.
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How Google’s AI search turned online publishing upside down
AI-powered search features gutted traffic to publishers who spent years courting the search engine. Google insists the web is thriving — the numbers suggest otherwise.
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France asked ISPs to be ready to block major social platforms before Oct. 24 protests
According to the outlet Blast, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu asked telecom operators to stand ready to cut access to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and X two days before a planned demonstration.
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Linux Drops Google's C Binder Driver as Rust Version Takes Over "Few Billion Devices"
The char/misc changes for Linux 7.4 remove Google's C-written Binder driver. The Rust implementation now takes over the role for good, destined to run on all future Android devices.
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Meta Staff Acknowledged Restrictions on Lula's Accounts Before Brazil Runoff
Internal company messages, reported by Brazil's Folha de S. Paulo, indicate the reach of the sitting president's Instagram accounts was reduced while his rival's profile was being recommended.
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Pennsylvania to require labels on AI-generated ads
The state's governor has signed a law requiring disclosures about artificial intelligence in advertising. Critics note the text leaves plenty of loopholes.
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SteamOS 3.9.5 Lands as First Stable Release With Linux 7.2 and KDE Plasma 6.7
Valve has released SteamOS 3.9.5, the first stable version in the 3.9 series. The update brings a refreshed Arch Linux base, a new kernel, an updated desktop, and a range of improvements for the Steam Deck.
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C++26 Draft Rejected in National Body Ballot
The balloting on the C++26 standard has ended in disapproval — an outcome described as unprecedented for the language. Support fell short over a contested proposal on contracts.
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Roku Moves Developer Repositories from GitHub to GitLab
Roku has announced on its developer blog that it is moving its code repositories from GitHub to GitLab.
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Astral Brings uv and ty Together into One Python Toolchain
Astral has shipped an experimental integration of its uv package manager and ty type checker, adding first-class PEP 723 script support and a unified uv check command.
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How SimCity Squeezed a Whole City Simulation into 16 MHz
The original SimCity ran on an Intel 386SX clocked at 16 MHz. The trick behind it still matters for modern games: don't run all your code every frame.
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Forced to choose, Grok backs Republicans while GPT picks Democrats
A study found that when pressed to name a single candidate, xAI's Grok recommended the Republican 92% of the time and OpenAI's GPT chose the Democrat in 97%. Across nearly 500 races, the two models agreed less than 10% of the time.
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