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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board | 238

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
collusion.wiki

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.

Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem | 79

Mathematical image reminiscent of elliptical curves
anthropic.com

Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem \ Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions | 54

nvd.nist.gov

NVD - Home

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns | 33

Summary card of repository mv12star/shitter, described as: Alternative Twitter front-end. Fork of zedeus/nitter on GitHub.
codeberg.org

Instances - mv12star/shitter - Codeberg.org

shitter - Alternative Twitter front-end. Fork of zedeus/nitter on GitHub.

Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year | 22

techdirt.com

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year. | Techdirt

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a…

Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread | 57

news.gallup.com

Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

Perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. hit a record high in 2026, with broad agreement across partisan lines.

Shutting down our public encrypted DNS | 26

mullvad.net

Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead | Mullvad VPN

Mullvad has operated public encrypted DNS (DoH) servers since 2022. They are unnecessary when using Mullvad VPN — traffic is already encrypted and Mullvad VPN's internal DNS handles all queries.

Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge | 34

jestoph.com

On solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge | jestoph’s tech blog

Or: Why do I always do things the hard way?

Statichost.eu – European static site hosting | 49

statichost.eu

statichost.eu - 100% European static site hosting

Static hosting for frontend developers who care where their sites live. Git push, custom domain, done — on European infrastructure owned by Europeans, all the way down.

Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive | 27

torrentfreak.com

Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John Doe' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive * TorrentFreak

A routine John Doe lawsuit could become part of Strike 3 Holdings' $446 million AI training case against Meta.

Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search | 35

productrise.app

Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer | 34

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

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 [stingrae]

opentrailpaper.com

OpenTrailPaper — DIY e-paper bike computer

OpenTrailPaper is open-source bike computer firmware for the LilyGO T5S3 4.7" E-Paper PRO. It supports offline maps, GPX routes, FIT recording and Bluetooth sensors.

Can AI design circuit boards yet? | 73

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

EEBench, a physics-graded electrical engineering benchmark
eebench.org

Can AI design circuit boards yet? — EEBench

OpenAI showed GPT-6 Astra routing a PCB. We built EEBench to find out whether AI-designed circuits actually work.

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems | 64

AI-generated reconstruction of a turboprop aircraft flying low over a city highway
sylvainkalache.com

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems — Sylvain Kalache

AI-assisted incident response can lower MTTR while leaving engineers less prepared for the complex incidents automation cannot solve.

Netherlands pulls gold out of the US | 29

Netherlands pulls gold out of the US

abc.net.au

Netherlands pulls gold out of the US

IBM Bob | 110

IBM Bob

IBM Bob mascot, a friendly robot with a smiling face wearing a blue to purple gradient hard hat holding code representing an AI partner.
bob.ibm.com

IBM Bob

AI SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) partner.

Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop | 16

reason.com

Wisconsin cops used Flock to track a veteran after he recorded a traffic stop

A lawsuit claims the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office used the cameras in retaliation against the vet for exercising his First Amendment right.

Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI 44

nytimes.com

Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

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Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out | 41

armature.tech

Which tools do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 16,893 sessions to find out. · Armature

We watched almost 17k sessions across different types of personas, with 1,163 prompt variations, 75 repositories and 3 coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) actually implementing the solutions instead of just recommending one.

GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter | 39

GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

openrouter.ai

GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says | 37

pbs.org

Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says

Git hosting that never leaves Europe | 31

Git hosting that never leaves Europe

pushin.eu

Pushin.eu — Git hosting that never leaves Europe

Sovereign, GDPR-native git hosting — code, issues, and CI, all on European soil.

How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret | 13

propublica.org

How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% | 55

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engineering.atspotify.com

Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% | Spotify Engineering

Most of what an AI coding agent does for me isn't thinking. It's I/O.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 | 19

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

arcprize.org

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) | 28

devquasar.com

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

Nobody is saying why OpenAI and Anthropic had outages | 3

wired.com

Nobody is saying why OpenAI and Anthropic had outages

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How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+ | 22

arstechnica.com

How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA | 11

wikiworkersunited.org

Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA

US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones | 21

theguardian.com

US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones