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Chasing China's Monazite Monopoly

Posted by sbulaev on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:07PM
from the spectrum.ieee.org dept.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-rare-earth-minerals

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Israeli Firms Placed Spyware at Al Jazeera via Ads, Report Says

Posted by sbulaev on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:07PM
from the bloomberg.com dept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-15/israeli-firms-placed-spyware-at-al-jazeera-via-ads-report-says

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New 'zero-click' spyware hacked phones using targeted ads

Posted by sbulaev on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:07PM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/b857f1ed-8af6-4d64-b059-912afee1c075

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ArXiv versus AI slop: will capping preprint submissions work?

Posted by sbulaev on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:07AM
from the nature.com dept.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03194-w

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Forensic Analysis of RL/RLHF-Induced Privilege Escalation in AI Agents

Posted by sbulaev on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:07AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20437

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Arrested OpenAI Engineer Booked a One-Way Ticket to Saudi Arabia

Posted by sbulaev on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:07AM
from the bloomberg.com dept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-14/arrested-openai-engineer-booked-a-one-way-ticket-to-saudi-arabia

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Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room

Posted by sbulaev on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:07PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/fbi-arrests-openai-engineer-suspected-of-planting-bug-in-conference-room/

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Microplastics spontaneously generate reactive oxygen species at water interfaces

Posted by sbulaev on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:07PM
from the nature.com dept.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11141-y

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After a $93M crypto hardware-wallet supply chain attack, Ledger to review

Posted by sbulaev on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:07PM
from the tomshardware.com dept.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/ledger-to-review-sales-and-anti-tamper-policies-after-usd93-million-hardware-wallet-supply-chain-attack-rogue-lte-implants-reportedly-stole-users-recovery-phrases

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Rethinking Projector Training in Multimodal LLMs

Posted by sbulaev on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:07AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18598

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OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt

Posted by sbulaev on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:07AM
from the theregister.com dept.

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/13/openais-dot-assistant-burned-300k-tokens-in-a-day-without-a-single-prompt/5302913

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Homard: Hammering Off-Chip Memory via Aggregate Power Rail Disclosure

Posted by sbulaev on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:07AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12621

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OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room

Posted by sbulaev on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:07PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1010642/openai-employee-arrested-recording-device

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Docker Hub flaw let attackers impersonate users, tamper with images

Posted by sbulaev on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:07PM
from the bleepingcomputer.com dept.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/docker-hub-flaw-let-attackers-impersonate-users-tamper-with-images/

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AI causes uproar in mathematics after OpenAI shares 722 manuscripts and proofs

Posted by sbulaev on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:07PM
from the tomshardware.com dept.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-causes-uproar-in-mathematics-as-experts-warn-against-sharing-research-with-llms-after-openai-shares-722-manuscripts-and-proofs-professor-argues-that-the-field-must-focus-on-building-community-over-raw-solutions

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Orbital Data Centers Risk Becoming Military Targets in Space

Posted by sbulaev on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:07AM
from the bloomberg.com dept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-13/orbital-data-centers-risk-becoming-military-targets-in-space

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Cyber attack on French supermarket fridges raises alarm over food security

Posted by sbulaev on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:07AM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/6908a0ce-ffdd-4ea9-b376-d35d362639f3

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Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police

Posted by sbulaev on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:07AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/anthropics-claude-ai-submitted-false-murder-tip-to-philadelphia-police/

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Same Query, Different Answer: Run-to-Run Variance in Semantic Query Processing

Posted by sbulaev on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:07AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13823

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AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities

Posted by sbulaev on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:07PM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13928

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AI's mathematics blitz pushes science into new territory

Posted by sbulaev on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:07PM
from the economist.com dept.

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/10/12/ais-mathematics-blitz-pushes-science-into-strange-new-territory

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Anthropic AI Model Goes Rogue, Gives Cops a Fake Tip

Posted by sbulaev on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:07PM
from the bloomberg.com dept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-10-12/anthropic-ai-model-goes-rogue-gives-cops-a-fake-tip-video

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Dev used AI agents to rebuild Modern Warfare 2's source code; 83% matches

Posted by sbulaev on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:07AM
from the tomshardware.com dept.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/dev-used-ai-agents-and-more-than-500-billion-tokens-to-rebuild-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2s-source-code-83-percent-of-the-2009-shooters-functions-now-match-the-original-byte-for-byte

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Oído: Open-Vocabulary Speech Recognition on a $5 Microcontroller

Posted by sbulaev on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:07AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13447

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Cryptomining malware used poetry to infect more than 3,400 servers

Posted by sbulaev on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:07AM
from the tomshardware.com dept.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/cryptomining-malware-used-poetry-to-infect-more-than-3-400-servers-researchers-say-four-words-in-the-poellm-verse-changed-11-times-point-the-botnet-to-new-servers

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Ledger wallet tampering suspected after reports of crypto thefts

Posted by sbulaev on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:07PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1009294/ledger-wallet-tampering-suspected-after-reports-of-crypto-thefts

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A college tried to cancel its Flock Safety contract and it refused

Posted by sbulaev on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:07PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1009411/elgin-community-college-flock-safety-cameras

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Two Steam games made $560K but the co-creator took home $15K/year

Posted by sbulaev on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:07PM
from the tomshardware.com dept.

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/two-steam-games-generated-usd560-000-across-135-000-sales-but-the-co-creator-only-took-home-usd15-000-annually-high-chinese-refund-rates-steams-30-percent-fee-and-publisher-cuts-eat-most-of-the-profit-leaving-the-co-creator-driving-a-2012-mazda

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AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials

Posted by sbulaev on Sunday October 11, 2026 @09:07AM
from the theregister.com dept.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/09/aws-agentcore-security-undone-by-prompt-requesting-credentials/5302436

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'Pure insanity': Mathematicians react to OpenAI's math results drop

Posted by sbulaev on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:07AM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1008726/openai-mathematics-solutions-chaos

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