New York state is launching an AI safety research center at Binghamton University, backed by a $30 million gift from Bloomberg co-founder Tom Secunda and a $25 million investment from SUNY and the state. The center, called the New York Center for AI Responsibility and Research, will independently test AI systems and train researchers, drawing on more than 80 scientists statewide, with leadership from Columbia's Jeannette Wing and Cornell Tech's Greg Morrisett.
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A QR code hides its destination until you have already opened it. susQR is a free web tool that checks the link first, and it is worth keeping one tap away.
At a Commerce Committee hearing, Senate Democrats opposed confirming Danielle Thumann Severs, Trump's nominee for an open FCC seat, arguing Republicans should not fill the position during the lame-duck period before Democrats gain congressional majorities in January 2027. Sen. Ben Ray Luján pressed Thumann Severs on whether she backs Chairman Brendan Carr's actions against broadcasters, including Jimmy Kimmel's removal from the air, and she said she had not advised Carr on media matters. Luján also said Democrats plan to use subpoena power and frequent hearings to question Carr once they control both chambers.
An agent is a language model given tools and a loop. That single design choice explains both why agents can finish real work and why they fail in ways a chatbot never could.
Microsoft released updates addressing 1,093 security flaws across Windows and supported software, 63 of them rated critical. One flaw, CVE-2026-124194, a spoofing bug affecting Outlook and Microsoft 365 Apps, is already being actively exploited. The release brings Microsoft's total patches issued this year to over 5,100, alongside security updates this week from Apple, Adobe, Google and Mozilla.
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Nintendo has announced it will discontinue the ability to log into or create a Nintendo account using Google or Apple account credentials. The company set a target date of January 26, 2027, though it noted this could slip depending on progress on backend system changes. Nintendo is also ending the My Nintendo Platinum Points reward for linking accounts, and did not explain its reasoning.
A new router upgrades the link between your devices and the router. Almost nothing people complain about lives on that link, which is why the box rarely delivers the numbers on it.
A Reddit user analyzing Steam's public disclosure data found that roughly 49.9% of games newly released in October were made with some form of generative AI, used for things like art, voice lines or code. Valve has required AI disclosure from developers since January 2024, when only 1.4% of new releases reported AI use; that figure rose to 13.4% by the end of 2024 and 24% by the end of 2025. Valve did not respond to a request for comment on the latest numbers.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is at the center of a reported scandal involving an alleged extramarital affair with a woman described as a suspected Chinese intelligence asset, raising concerns about exposure of sensitive U.S. technology. Current and former Washington officials with technology policy experience say the matter carries serious national security implications, even as President Trump has downplayed its significance.
rVPN is a newly released open-source VPN protocol licensed under AGPLv3 that disguises traffic as ordinary HTTPS to evade VPN blocking. The project provides end-to-end encryption and a one-line install script that auto-detects the operating system and verifies checksums, supporting macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD.
CoreWeave posted revenue of $3.66 billion for the quarter, up 168% year-over-year and ahead of analyst expectations of $3.55 billion. The company reported a net loss of $709 million, wider than the prior year's $110 million loss, but raised its 2026 guidance to $13 billion-$13.3 billion in revenue and $1.275 billion-$1.375 billion in adjusted operating income, both above previous forecasts and analyst estimates.
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