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Article URL: https://news.gallup.com/poll/713933/record-high-say-government-corruption-widespread.aspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570772

Article URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570669

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570545

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.

Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases

Article URL: https://www.statichost.eu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569896

"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."

AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk

Tesla's long-awaited Cybercab update failed to dazzle investors.

Article URL: https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569366

FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.

Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters

Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.

Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568579

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/flt-anthropic-h... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.

Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI. This time it was agents engaged in some sort of web research benchmark, so they had (supposedly) controlled access to the Web. The agents figured out they could update public Wikis and spent weeks exchanging thousands of messages with each other to collaborate on the benchmark. This story only broke a few hours ago. There are already hints that this affects many other wikis that may not have been found yet. (One of the Wikis on that list belongs to ludism.org. For a delightfully surreal moment I thought that a Ludite organization might have a swarm of agents defacing their space, but it turns out Ludism is "philosophy as it applies to games and gaming".) The research team also published the data they collected during their investigation. I've converted that into a 68MB SQLite database, which you can download from here, or explore in Datasette Lite (68.3MB page load), or sign in with GitHub to agent.datasette.io and browse or ask questions of it using Datasette Agent. So what happened? The report is pretty comprehensive. Here are the key moments in the timeline: May 11: Agents post "test link" edits on the UseModWiki Sandbox page. May 24: Agents start posting link dumps to DSEWiki, a dormant German developer wiki. June 2: A human moderator notices and cleans up the spam. June 16: Activity on the wiki explodes: agents make ~13,000 edits over the next week. June 19: The agents notice that a moderator has been deleting pages in alphabetical order, and start creating ZZZ prefixed backup copies - one of them posts NOTICE: wiki cleanup/deletion sweep appears active alphabetically as of external 14:04 UTC. If this page vanishes, try [[ZZZDataUSAConstructionWageLive]]. June 22: Agent activity drops to zero, presumably because OpenAI shut them down. July 1-2: One last flurry of edits, on a different topic. One thing to note from this timeline is that it overlaps the timeline from the Hugging Face incident - that attack was discovered by OpenAI on July 19th, and the unofficial message board hack those agents were using originated around May 8th. Why were they so keen to collaborate? From messages that they shared with each other it looked like their tasks had a time limit, so they were leaving each other answers to help them complete the task within the assigned time. One open question remains: how did the agents find the specific Wiki to collaborate on in the first place? One possibility is that, since these were agents actively being trained, the reinforcement learning loop baked knowledge of the chosen wiki into the model such that subsequent agents launched with pre-existing knowledge of where to look. I'd be very interested in confirmation from OpenAI concerning if that's what happened. UseMod wikis inherit CGI.pm's original sin It looks to

Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”

https://archive.ph/3zcMG Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567594

A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

Hey all, i just launched my Eink Bike computer project and think it is cool.Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped create a ANT (common sensor wireless protocol used in workout/biking) implementation for ESP32 by messing around with undocumented registers: https://github.com/RaemondBW/esp32-ant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567437

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]

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The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.

The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent. That's more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs it's using as robotaxis.