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Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A (yro.slashdot.org)
20 days ago

Unsealed docs: in its lawsuit, New York alleges TikTok gave thousands of users, including youth, non-functional safety features as part of placebo experiments (www.reuters.com)
20 days ago New York

Keyu Tian, a former ByteDance intern, raised ~$30M from 5Y and IDG for his unnamed AI lab that focuses on building world models, at a $200M post-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago AI IDG

Mecka, which collects human motion data to train humanoid robots, raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia, with participation from Nvidia, M12, and others (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago Robot Nvidia

Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” (www.wsj.com)
20 days ago AI

Samsung reports preliminary Q3 operating profit up 782% YoY to ~$80.1B, vs. ~$81.2B est., and revenue up 127% to ~$145.7B, lower than expected (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Samsung

Margaret Hamilton, who led an MIT software team for NASA's Apollo program and helped establish software engineering as a discipline, died on September 30 at 90 (news.mit.edu)
20 days ago NASA

Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts (games.slashdot.org)
20 days ago Google

Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
20 days ago

The AGs of Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska sue TP-Link, alleging it deceptively marketed its routers' security and didn't properly disclose ties to China (www.theregister.com)
20 days ago China

The DOD offers chipmaker Wolfspeed, which filed for bankruptcy in 2025, a conditional loan of up to $1.5B in exchange for warrants for up to 7.5% of the company (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago

Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase (www.wsj.com)
20 days ago AI Oracle

FBI: Ongoing FortiBleed attacks lock out FortiGate VPN admins (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
20 days ago FBI VPN

Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
20 days ago Google

OpenAI says GPT-6 in ChatGPT's Chat tab is powered by GPT-6 Sol for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go tiers (x.com)
20 days ago

Microsoft and Nvidia Unveil Surface Laptop Ultra For $2,599 (hardware.slashdot.org)
20 days ago Microsoft Nvidia

Sources: former White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is raising a ~$500M fund to back growth- and later-stage US AI companies, prioritizing national security (www.theinformation.com)
20 days ago AI

Anthropic cuts Sonnet 5.5 cache read price from $0.20 to $0.10 and adds monthly API credits: $100 for Max 5x, $200 for Max 20x, up to $500 shared by Team users (venturebeat.com)
20 days ago

Get 21 hours of CISSP training in this $19.99 learning bundle (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
20 days ago

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that includes interactive elements like charts, buttons, and forms in answers (openai.com)
20 days ago

Anthropic prices Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens for requests up to 100K tokens, and $0.50 and $2.50 above, vs. $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5 (thenewstack.io)
20 days ago

Microsoft opens preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599, shipping October 16; it has a breakaway port like Apple's MagSafe, but on a standard USB-C (www.windowscentral.com)
20 days ago Microsoft Apple

Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November (www.theverge.com)
20 days ago Microsoft

Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summaries and classification (www.anthropic.com)
20 days ago

Meta rolls out AI tools to find ads that secretly lead users to CSAM and says it took action against 33.2M pieces of child exploitation content in H1 2026 (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago AI

OpenAI's first report on teen ChatGPT use says teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on the chatbot, with less than 2% using it for 3+ hours straight (www.reuters.com)
20 days ago chatbot

Advantest confirms personal information stolen in ransomware attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
20 days ago

One Babbel subscription gets you all 14 languages for life (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
20 days ago

Musician sent to prison for $10 million streaming fraud using AI bots (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
20 days ago AI

SonicWall warns of max severity SSRF flaw in SMA1000 gateways (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
20 days ago

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