Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly urged frontier AI companies to slow model development following an incident involving rogue agents tied to OpenAI, warning that unchecked progress could enable botnet-style takeovers of the internet. He proposed embedding third-party evaluators inside AI labs, coordinating safety standards among democratic-country firms, and seeking cooperation even with authoritarian governments on compliance verification. Sam Altman publicly backed the proposal.
After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined Elon Musk and Sam Altman in urging a pause on frontier AI development, President Trump publicly dismissed the idea, insisting the US must maintain its lead over China in AI. Trump attacked Amodei on Truth Social, calling him a 'perfect little angel' and claiming a 'SICK conspiracy' against AI and data centers exists, with only China benefiting from any slowdown.
A newly compiled digital archive collects colour gradient schemes intended for cartography, technical illustration and design work. The collection is organized by author, supports multiple file formats, and includes examples ranging from rainfall maps of the Caribbean to aeromagnetic imagery of Western Australia and lunar surface maps. Full gradient sets are available for download.
A developer released ChaosTree, a zero-dependency Java library implementing multiple sorted-tree data structures—AVL, Red-Black, B-Tree, and B+ Tree—with Set and Map APIs modeled on JDK's NavigableSet, NavigableMap, SequencedSet, and SequencedMap interfaces. It also includes specialized bulk-construction methods like buildFromSorted and importFlatMatrix that let developers tune node occupancy directly.
Gene Moody, Field CTO at Action1, argues that IT teams face an unsustainable mismatch between the growing volume of software patches and the shrinking time available to test them, forcing many organizations to skip review steps and push updates straight to production. He warns that simply automating patch deployment to go faster does not solve the underlying problem, since automation can propagate a bad update across thousands of endpoints just as quickly as a good one.
Trevor 7oaks, who discovered Kool FM as an 18-year-old in 1992, has spent years compiling recordings from the influential London pirate radio station into what he calls the Original Kool Archives. Kool FM launched in November 1991 and became central to the rise of jungle and drum & bass, later continuing broadcasts under the Rinse banner.
A Reddit user known as Tsuto says weekly visits to their county landfill's electronics recycling area have yielded enough discarded SSDs, HDDs, GPUs, RAM and even a laptop to assemble a working Proxmox home lab server. The rig combines scavenged parts—mirrored 256GB SSDs, a 1TB SSD, and three 2TB HDDs in RAID1 for ZFS storage—with a Core i7-7700 and 64GB of RAM bought separately on Amazon. Tsuto also salvaged an Asus ROG laptop with a GTX 860M GPU, fixed with a $25 replacement battery, for casual gaming.
Lockly has released the Lyro Lasta, a smart lock priced under $170 that targets landlords, short-term rental hosts and vacation property owners rather than chasing high-end features like solar charging or ultrawideband sensors. It combines a fingerprint reader, touchscreen keypad, included RFID cards, weatherproof housing and an extra-large battery rated for up to three years, alongside app-based access management and activity logs. A CNET reviewer tested it by simulating both an owner setup and a guest arriving on vacation to evaluate the various entry methods.
University of Florida sophomore Maddie Kowalski learned a sexually explicit video of her, filmed inside a Phi Delta Theta fraternity house known as 'Fort,' was circulating online. The footage spread rapidly across Snapchat, the anonymous app YikYak, and was posted publicly on X by an anonymous account that named her and her sorority, prompting a wave of mockery and harassment from students.
WIRED refreshed its noise-canceling earbuds recommendations for September 2026, updating specs, prices and links across brands including Bose, Apple, Samsung, Anker and Beats. After testing in real-world noisy settings like subways and cafes, the reviewer named the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen) as the top overall performer for active noise cancellation and sound quality.
Shopping mall values climbed 13%, outpacing other commercial real estate categories according to recent data. The gain signals renewed investor confidence in retail properties that had struggled during years of e-commerce disruption and pandemic-era vacancies.
A developer describes discovering pkgsrc, NetBSD's portable package manager, and using it to build software like Emacs from source outside of NetBSD itself. The post explains that pkgsrc, forked long ago from FreeBSD's Ports collection, runs on Linux, macOS, and Solaris while keeping packages cleanly separated from the operating system's base files.
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