OpenAI discovered a USB recording device wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into a TV in a restricted executive conference room where leadership discussed confidential matters. The FBI alleges the device was planted by Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old OpenAI engineer, and CCTV footage shows him later trying to retrieve it. He was arrested and fired on Friday, and faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted of unlawful recording charges.
Ukrainian officials say SpaceX has imposed new restrictions on Starlink satellite internet access that have interfered with military drone missions. The officials say they were given no advance notice before the changes took effect, and that several operations were disrupted as a result.
Netflix is cutting roughly 1,000 positions, about 6% of its workforce, which numbered around 16,000 last year, the Wall Street Journal reports. Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters told staff in an email that the company must be disciplined about prioritizing resources while staying on track for its full-year forecast. The cuts follow Netflix's unsuccessful bid earlier this year to acquire Warner Bros., which ultimately went to Paramount Skydance.
Simon Willison analyzed outputs from his recurring 'generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle' benchmark test, noting that SVGs produced by different large language models tend to converge on similar visual characteristics. He compiled original SVGs from his test runs using each model's highest reasoning setting that returned a valid SVG.
Go's net/http maintainers Nicholas Husin and Damien Neil report that Go 1.27 significantly improves how the standard library reuses HTTP/1 connections. In their benchmark, making 100 sequential requests to index.golang.org dropped from roughly 710 milliseconds on Go 1.26 to about 150 milliseconds on Go 1.27 when forcing HTTP/1.1 via GODEBUG=http2client=0.
GFiber, Qualcomm and Gemtek have announced a Wi-Fi 8 Premium Gateway for GFiber's 20 Gig fiber customers, using Qualcomm's Dragonwing NPro A8 Elite Platform, which combines a penta-core CPU and an NPU. Gemtek will manufacture the device, and GFiber says current 20 Gig subscribers using Actiontec Wi-Fi 7 gateways will be upgraded once certification is complete. The move follows TP-Link's recent preorder announcement for its own Wi-Fi 8 router, even though the IEEE 802.11bn standard hasn't been finalized.
CoreWeave stock dropped 16% on Wednesday while yields on its 2031 and 2032 bonds climbed near 14.8-14.9%, reflecting falling bond prices. Wells Fargo's Luis Alvarado said investors are now demanding greater compensation for risk as cheap financing conditions fade, and investor Chamath Palihapitiya publicly flagged the bond yield spike, drawing a reaction from Elon Musk.
ICE is accelerating a $100 million program called ERO ONE that would station 142 intelligence agents in more than two dozen U.S. cities plus Washington, D.C. Procurement documents posted in September describe agents analyzing classified and unclassified data to spot patterns and threats, with a solicitation expected in December and a contract award likely by February, according to contracting experts.
Amsterdam police confiscated a server belonging to Italian internet provider Autistici/Inventati at a Science Park datacenter, acting on a US legal assistance request. A digital copy of the server's contents will be sent to the United States before the hardware is returned to its owners. A/I, which provided free web hosting and email to roughly 20,000 organizations, dissolved itself after the Trump administration designated it a terrorist entity for allegedly facilitating antifa.
Renee Wegrzyn, former director of the federal health research agency ARPA-H, has founded a new startup called Transfyr. The company uses AI to help translate laboratory medical breakthroughs into usable, commercially viable technologies, addressing what Wegrzyn calls science's 'magic hands' problem—where discoveries fail to leave the lab because they can't be replicated or scaled.
OpenAI filed a new court document alleging a former employee, who had previously worked at Apple before a six-month stint at OpenAI, sent over 100 confidential files about an unreleased OpenAI device to his personal accounts on his last day. The filing claims the files included device images, engineering and manufacturing data, supplier information and finish specifications, and that the employee later briefed Apple's senior leadership on OpenAI's plans. Apple told Reuters it has found no evidence supporting these claims.
Data for Progress surveyed 1,098 U.S. adults, replicating questions from the 1975-1999 DDB Needham Life Style surveys, and compared results with 1995 data. The firm found double-digit percentage-point declines in activities such as attending a class or seminar, entertaining people at home, and attending church, with participation in several activities falling by more than 20 points.
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