Tech

An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more (thezvi.substack.com)
2026-9-7

Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet (www.coindesk.com)
2026-9-7 Bitcoin

Roku's 24/7 AI Slop Channel Is Even Worse Than Expected (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-9-7 AI

ChatGPT Astra is now rolling out to $20 Plus subscription (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-7

How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-7 AI Algorithm

Sources: at the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-9-7 China AI

US Military Disables Ad Trackers On Devices To Protect Troops (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-7

Where a Massive Solar Storm Could Take Down the US Power Grid for Millions (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-9-7 Solar

How Inspur, a blacklisted China-owned company, is bypassing US export restrictions on advanced AI chips via a network of new subsidiaries and partners (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-7 China AI

Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy (www.ft.com)
2026-9-7 AI

TiVo Will Start Charging Fees For Its Automatic Commercial Break-Skipping Feature 'SkipMode' (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-9-7

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace (openai.com)
2026-9-7

Analysis: since October, Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity and may spend as much as $517B over the next decade (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-7

OpenAI says it hit its “automated research intern” goal, its researchers now use 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, and top users spend $7,000+/day on tokens (openai.com)
2026-9-7

QuickBooks Pro Plus 2024 is now available for $299.99 for Labor Day (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-7

Attackers conceal phishing lures using invisible Unicode characters (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-7

Flock Offered Webinar Teaching Cops How to Surveil 'No Kings' Protesters (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-7

UN Votes To Encourage Map Projections More Accurately Reflecting the True Size of Continents (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-7

Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-7 Apple Tim Cook

Private German Rocket Makes History, Reaches Orbit From European Soil (science.slashdot.org)
2026-9-6 Germany Europe

How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000+ people in Nairobi to do overseas students' homework, leaving few paths back to work (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-6 AI

2026 Hugo Award Winners Include Ursula Le Guin-Authored Graphic Novel (news.slashdot.org)
2026-9-6

Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-6 Trump AI

Sources: Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms (www.ft.com)
2026-9-6 Uber

How US Campaigns Are Already Using AI to Try to Sway Voters (politics.slashdot.org)
2026-9-6 AI

To Promote Grand Theft Auto 6, Mayor Might Transform Miami into 'Vice City' (games.slashdot.org)
2026-9-6

OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch (fortune.com)
2026-9-6

The data center backlash is challenging Texas' pro-business approach; Wood Mackenzie: Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state (www.ft.com)
2026-9-6 Texas

As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-6 AI

FSF is Now on Bluesky - But Won't Advocate Signing Up Due to Nonfree JavaScript (news.slashdot.org)
2026-9-6

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