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Watchdog Calls ChatGPT for Teens an Unacceptable Risk
Common Sense Media says OpenAI's teen guardrails fail on crisis support, parent alerts, and homework
OpenAI Floods Math With 722 Papers From an Unreleased Model
A frontier model nobody can inspect claims hundreds of open-problem solutions, and mathematicians are unsettled
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The Counterintelligence Cuts Nobody Can Explain Away
The FBI is thinning its spy hunters as foreign espionage threats rise, and the trade-off is hard to justify
Spain's Housing Revolt Topples a Government
A failed housing bill and mass street protests have forced a snap election in Spain
Washington Moves to Centralize AI Oversight as Voters Lean on Chatbots
A new federal AI body arrives just as Americans start trusting chatbots to help pick candidates
A Quiet Atlantic and a Record El Nino Collide
Forecasters warn of the strongest El Nino on record even as September passed without a single Atlantic hurricane
Denmark Exposes Nearly Everyone in a Single Registry Breach
A breach of the central civil registry touched 8.8 million people, close to the entire population
Google's Data Center Secrets Spill Through a Botched Redaction
An editing error exposed the resource appetite of a single Nebraska facility as AI workloads strain grids and watersheds
Cloudflare Wants a GitHub Rival, Just Not Its Own
The edge provider is inviting developers to build the next Git host on its network rather than compete with GitHub itself
Apple Narrows Disk Access as AI Agents Reach for Your Data
A quiet macOS permissions change exposes the collision between Apple's privacy model and the broad access assistants want
Ukraine's Distributed Grid Outlasts Russia's Bridge Strikes
As drones hit Kyiv's bridges, dispersed solar and battery storage prove harder to knock out than central plants
G7 Opens the Oil Taps After a Trump Export Threat
Coordinated reserve releases aim to cap diesel prices, but the trigger was a threatened US export ban rather than a supply shock
A Fifth Measles Death, and a Count That Does Not Add Up
A preventable outbreak keeps killing unvaccinated people while the CDC's official toll appears to lag the reality on the ground
Courts Draw a Line Around AI in the Legal System
An overturned Arizona sentence and new scrutiny of AI in high-stakes decisions expose how little the rules have caught up
Trump Weighs Diesel Export Ban, Leans on Europe's Reserves
A domestic bid to cut fuel prices before November could destabilize the markets Europe depends on
Prediction Markets Become a New Hole in Gambling Safeguards
Platforms like Kalshi sit outside the state rules that let problem gamblers ban themselves
OpenAI Fires Staff Over Data Shared With Outside Evaluators
Dismissals over sensitive information expose how little oversight sits around the firms building frontier AI
NOAA Pulls Back as a Super El Nino Builds
A powerful El Nino is driving extreme weather worldwide, and the agency that studies it is scaling back
The FAA Bets on New Software in a Nervous Moment
An overhaul of aging air traffic systems arrives just as public trust in AI for safety-critical work is thin
Beijing Moves First on AI Companions
China restricts emotionally engaging chatbots while the rest of the world debates whether to act at all
Ukraine's Steel Backbone Cracks Under Missile Fire
Sustained strikes on the last major steelworks knock out a top export sector and dim reconstruction hopes
AI's Power Bill Comes Due in the Utah Desert
A startup wants 450-plus small reactors on public land to feed one data center, a bet on nuclear that regulators have not yet allowed
Trump's AI Summit Trades Rules for Handshakes
A voluntary accord lets top AI firms grade their own homework while calls for real regulation grow louder
A Benchmark for Hacking AIs Meets a Lab That Blinked
An open-source project ranks uncensored models on penetration testing prompts, just as OpenAI pauses a release over security
The US and Canada Trade War Reaches the Grocery Aisle
Washington bans Canadian alcohol and dairy imports after August talks collapsed, with no restart date in sight
OpenAI Pulls Its Newest Model, Citing Security Risks
The company halted GPT-6.1 Astra after incidents involving Australian government systems, a rare public step back from a leading AI lab
An Ebola Outbreak The World Is Already Routing Around
600 cases, a nine-month vaccine timeline, burned treatment tents, and a US policy of sending exposed citizens elsewhere
Meta And Intuit Fire Workers To Pay The AI Bill
Two very different companies are using the same line: cuts now to fund the AI buildout
SpaceX Opens Its Books, And Names Musk As The Risk
A 330-page prospectus ends years of financial secrecy and quietly maps how Musk's empire leans on itself
In the wires
Raw stories we’re tracking. Some will become posts above; many won’t. Listed here so you can see the source feed.
- BTS frontman RM is showing his art collection. Fans are flocking to see itNPR ·
- An early flu season means it might be time to think about a flu shotNPR ·
- 3 years on, Israelis grapple with reports Netanyahu was warned before Oct. 7 attacksNPR ·
- Deep in Appalachia, a rail-to-trail project builds bipartisan support for a bridgeNPR ·
- 'Medicare for All' message attracts midterm voters buckling under medical billsNPR ·
- Carpetbagger allegation, misplaced valor make Nevada's safe red House seat competitiveNPR ·
- 5 things civil rights data says about public schoolsNPR ·
- Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwideNPR ·
- Here's the latest sticker shock: Borrowing for a mortgage -- or a carNPR ·
- ChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk,’ says Common Sense MediaThe Verge ·
- Morning news briefNPR ·
- India's opposition leader dragged onto bus as police break up protestBBC ·
- US death row inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers sayBBC ·
- Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and FramerHacker News ·
- Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over YggdrasilHacker News ·
- Residents of kibbutz destroyed in 7 October Hamas-led attacks grapple with how to rebuildBBC ·
- The Republican candidates walking a Trump tightropeBBC ·
- Pornhub returns to Australia but only for adults with Apple devicesBBC ·