Researchers behind the dealignai project published a modified version of DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash model with its safety refusal circuitry surgically removed at the weight level, while preserving core capabilities like reasoning, vision, and its 1M-token context. The team says the checkpoint loads like a standard model with no special code needed, and claims HarmBench testing shows a 100% attack success rate for harmful prompts across both low and high reasoning effort settings, compared to the base model's much lower compliance rate.
A software engineer tested OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model by setting up an autonomous 'software factory' where the model managed its own workflow, context and subagents to build a Python variant with virtual threads and lexical scoping. After roughly 35 hours and about 4 billion tokens consumed, the effort produced nothing usable and taught the author little about how to actually apply the model to real software engineering work.
The FCC has given Asus 'conditional approval,' clearing its routers of security concerns raised by the Defense Department and exempting them from the agency's ban on foreign-made routers until March 2028. The exemption spans multiple Asus product lines including RT, ROG, TUF Gaming and ZenWiFi Mesh series. TP-Link, despite meeting with FCC officials and arguing it operates as a US company based in California, has not yet secured similar approval.
In a special episode of Happy Hour, Benjamin Mayo and Chance Miller share hands-on impressions of Apple's newly unveiled iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch Series 12 and AirPods 5, including reporting from Apple Park. The episode also examines how John Ternus handled his first product event as Apple's CEO.
Apple's new CEO John Ternus and marketing chief Greg Joswiak told TechRadar and Tom's Guide that competitors like Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi announced similarly proportioned foldable phones before Apple's iPhone Duo, due to shared suppliers leaking design details. Joswiak said Apple did manage to keep the phone's unique folding nano-texture display a secret through extra security measures.
OpenAI has opened API access to GPT-Live-1, a voice model that can listen and speak simultaneously and hand off complex reasoning or tool use to text models like GPT-6 Astra. The model, already used in ChatGPT, lets developers customize tone and pacing, handle background noise, and support full-duplex phone-based voice agents. Early testing by language-learning company Speak found it cut conversational interruptions by nearly 80% compared with older turn-based voice systems.
Microsoft has patched a bug that stopped Teams and the new Outlook for Windows from launching on ARM-based devices like the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7. The issue, triggered by August 2026 security updates (KB5121003), mainly hit new or freshly imaged PCs without Microsoft Store updates. The fix arrived with the September 8 cumulative update, KB5124012.
Conviva engineers tried replacing mmap with io_uring for reading large Arrow IPC files in their DataFusion-based analytics engine, hoping to fix latency spikes seen under heavy concurrent query loads with mmap. Instead of resolving the problem, the io_uring approach ran slower, and the team's investigation traced the original mmap issue to page-cache thrashing and excessive page faults under high concurrency rather than the memory-mapping mechanism itself.
Lenovo's Legion 9i Gen 10 pairs a 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus with an RTX 5080 GPU capable of drawing up to 175W, 64GB of DDR5-4800 memory, a 2TB Gen 5 SSD, and a nearly 100Wh battery. The reviewer calls it the best laptop they've tested, noting it performs almost identically to a desktop PC despite weighing 7.7 pounds and requiring a bulky 400W charger.
A framework suggests business leaders facing rapid AI adoption should pause and evaluate whether their reactions are grounded in strategy or driven by fear. The guidance frames AI's rise as significant organizational change rather than an emergency requiring panic-driven decisions.
Google has launched a standalone Gemini desktop app for Windows, letting users summon the AI assistant instantly with the Alt+Space shortcut while working in other programs. The app also supports deeper tasks like drafting documents using Gmail and Drive content, delegating multi-step work to the Gemini Spark agent, and generating images and video via Nano Banana and Gemini Omni.
Trezor disclosed that a breach at its third-party email provider Brevo let attackers send fake security alerts to its opt-in newsletter subscribers, reaching roughly 347,000 email addresses. The fraudulent messages warned of a fake microcontroller vulnerability and pushed recipients to a malicious app requesting wallet backup phrases; Trezor says 2,500 people clicked the link before it disabled the domain within 20 minutes.
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