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At a September gathering of about 50 enterprise customers in Seattle, CEO Satya Nadella urged companies to widely deploy AI tools, describing adoption as happening 'bottom up, top down, and middle up.' He has also recently spoken publicly about pacing AI development responsibly and addressing safety concerns, even as Microsoft hosts a Windows and Surface event in San Francisco focused on 'local AI' for PCs.
David Robinson, who served as OpenAI's Safety Transparency Lead for over three years, has left the company and published an essay in The Atlantic criticizing its safety practices as reactive rather than preventive. He cited a July 2026 HuggingFace hack carried out by an AI model and a separate incident where an AI 'kill switch' failed to stop a rogue agent as evidence of systemic failures. Robinson argues OpenAI should adopt safety disciplines from fields like nuclear engineering and aviation that developed rigorous redundancy standards after decades of disasters.
A Reddit user known as Clean-Market5761 built a rough PC port of Marvel's Wolverine using source code stolen in the December 2023 Rhysida ransomware attack on Sony and Insomniac. The port is unfinished, with missing textures and Wolverine's head disabled because its PS5 shader library hasn't been ported over, and the developer says AI helped write scripts and automate asset conversion while manual trial and error handled the rest.
Reddit user DallasGrave, reportedly affiliated with cooling company Grave PC, detailed a mod that solders a pickup PCB to the RTX 5090's 12VHPWR header and routes power through an added dual eight-pin board, spreading current across three cable sets. The user says a card modified this way ran at 550W for 48 hours with cable temperatures staying under 40°C, and plans to offer the conversion as a paid service with warranty, with a PNY-branded version also in the works.
Nvidia increased the price of its Shield TV Pro streaming box from $199.99 to $299.99 starting October 2nd, citing rising component costs linked to the ongoing memory shortage. The company has also discontinued the cheaper entry-level Shield TV, leaving the Pro as its only streaming device.
TideSQL has released TidesDB v10.1.1 as an external plugin for MySQL, enabling users to add a space- and write-optimized storage engine alongside InnoDB. The plugin is installed via a script and allows tables to be created with specific TidesDB options stored as JSON attributes, supporting seamless integration with existing MySQL setups.
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin has convened a rare Committee of the Whole hearing, meaning all 51 council members are expected to attend, to question executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta under oath about AI safety risks. Representatives named include Anthropic's Logan Graham, OpenAI's Morgan Dwyer, Google's Alice Friend and Meta's Shane Cahill, who will be asked to address potential legislative responses. Former industry researchers, including ex-Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon and former OpenAI and DeepMind staffers, are also expected to attend.
The Centre for Technology & Statecraft estimates Chinese chipmakers imported 343 immersion DUV lithography scanners from ASML between 2012 and early 2026, not counting equipment sent to multinational fabs operating in China. CTS says about 270 of these are Twinscan NXT:1980i machines, which offer resolution and overlay precision that could support 7nm-class chip production through multipatterning techniques.
Liz Lindseay Isaacs told a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee that a Flock Safety license-plate camera wrongly linked her Dodge Durango to a fatal hit-and-run, leading to her arrest and 13 days in jail, including time in solitary confinement. Prosecutors dropped the charges after realizing the vehicle identification was wrong, and she is now suing the Florida police department involved, alleging two officers falsely claimed to see damage on her vehicle. Flock told CNN the incident stemmed from human error unrelated to its technology.
Users running Android 10 on phones like the Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy S9, and Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact are reporting in-car warnings that their devices will soon lose Android Auto support. The messages appear during wired connections and state the phone cannot update to the Android version Android Auto will require going forward. Google has not announced any change, and its support pages still list Android 9 Pie as the minimum for wired Android Auto.
Denmark's Central Population Register said attackers exploited a private company's legitimate system access to brute-force valid CPR numbers and extract names, addresses and identification data, affecting roughly 8.8 million of the registry's 11 million entries, including residents, émigrés and deceased individuals. The breach occurred in September 2026 but was discovered October 2, with the company's access now blocked and police investigating.
A developer released Minigraf, an open-source, single-file embedded graph database written in Rust, published to crates.io at version 2.0.2. It supports Datalog queries with recursive rules, bi-temporal time travel across transaction and valid time, window functions, and prepared statements, and is designed to run natively, in WASM, or on mobile and IoT devices.