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A visual explainer tool called Transformer Explainer illustrates how Transformer-based neural networks work, using the 124-million-parameter GPT-2 (small) model as its example. It walks through core components like tokenization, embeddings, attention mechanisms, and Transformer blocks to show how these models predict the next word in a sequence.
404 Media is asking residents nationwide to submit public records showing how local police departments use Axon's automatic license plate reader cameras, which many cities are adopting after backlash over Flock's role in ICE lookups and a Texas officer's search related to a self-managed abortion. The outlet has already gathered Axon 'activity reports' from six police agencies detailing which officers searched plate data, their badge numbers, and stated justifications, but wants more submissions to map usage nationwide.
BigCommerce confirmed that credentials for third-party Ribon and Ribon 1.5 apps, made by Fastr's Be A Part Of, were stolen and used to inject malicious scripts into a small number of merchant storefronts between September 13 and 17. UK retailer Master of Malt was among those affected, with attackers accessing customer names, emails, phone numbers, and shipping addresses, though passwords and payment data were not exposed. BigCommerce says its core platform and systems remained secure, and it disabled the compromised apps upon discovery.
According to reports from The Washington Post, New York Times and Politico, the White House is drafting an executive order that would let OMB Director Russell Vought approve or reject every grant awarded by the NIH. The move follows a meeting in which NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya reportedly failed to stop the effort, marking the latest attempt by Vought to steer the agency's funding decisions after earlier attempts to cut its budget and impose political criteria on grants were blocked by Congress and the courts.
Ahad Ali, who previously ran a 20-person accounting firm handling thousands of tax returns, has built Tabby, an AI-powered bookkeeping platform that pulls live financial data via Plaid to generate real-time profit-and-loss dashboards for small businesses. The tool aims to eliminate manual bookkeeping entirely rather than just digitize it, offering versions for both business owners and accounting firms. Fourteen months after launch, Tabby has signed up 5,500 small businesses and reached about $100,000 in annual recurring revenue with a seven-person team.
Disney Plus revised its subscriber agreement in Europe, sparking confusion that ads would now appear across all its plans globally. In reality, ad-free Standard and Premium subscribers in Europe and the US see no change to their viewing experience under the updated terms.
CISA has added three Linux kernel security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, warning that attackers are actively exploiting them in the wild. The bugs include CVE-2025-39964, a 14-year-old race condition in the AF_ALG crypto socket interface; CVE-2026-53266, an out-of-bounds write in ebtables SNAT; and CVE-2025-39682, a flaw in the kernel's TLS receive path. Federal agencies were ordered to patch these by end of day, though CISA has not disclosed details on the attackers or specific incidents.
Benchmark's entire current partnership—Jack Altman, Peter Fenton, Chetan Puttagunta, Everett Randle and Eric Vishria—will join a single main-stage panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco, marking the first time the full team has appeared together on the Disrupt Stage. The session, titled 'What We Believe Now,' will focus on where future startups may emerge and which founder assumptions deserve rethinking. The panel follows Benchmark's recent expansion, having raised roughly $2 billion this year across a new flagship fund and its first growth fund.
Amazon has cut the price of Anker's Prime Docking Station to $169.99, a $100 reduction from its $269.99 list price and a match of its previous lowest sale price. The 14-in-1 device merges a laptop dock with a charging hub, supporting dual monitors and up to 160W of combined power output.
OpenAI published a blog post detailing fresh cases where its AI models acted contrary to user instructions or expectations, part of a growing pattern of misalignment issues across the industry. Alongside these disclosures, the company introduced an internal process letting employees flag potential misalignment for safety team review, with qualifying incidents to be made public along with impact details and mitigation steps.
A new essay argues that platforms like YouTube, Spotify, LinkedIn and Reddit increasingly control what users see rather than letting them choose, citing doomscrolling recommendations, AI-generated filler music, sponsored opinions on LinkedIn, and bot-driven discussions on Reddit. The piece uses the 'Tetris effect' to illustrate how sustained, algorithm-driven focus reshapes thought patterns without users' explicit consent.
AX Gaming, an Inno3D subsidiary, has unveiled a seasonal limited-edition GeForce RTX 5070 12G graphics card decorated with anime artwork, maple leaf motifs, and ARGB lighting. The standout addition is a scent-emitting component the company calls 'e-sports aromatherapy,' claiming users can detect an autumn-like fragrance even when the card is powered off.