Swedish startup Scaleout Systems showed off an autonomous loitering munition, built on a BAE Systems Bofors airframe, that used onboard AI running on an Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to detect, rank and strike an armored vehicle without human guidance mid-mission. The demo, part of NATO's DIANA-backed ALMA and FEDAIR programs, completed the full flight in under 320 seconds using no external communications, relying instead on locally trained computer-vision models shared via a 'Tactical Computer Vision Network.' A human pilot remained available as a failsafe but was not required once the mission began.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-20
Intel has stopped its long-running bug bounty program that paid researchers up to $100,000 per vulnerability, replacing it with a new Intigriti-hosted disclosure process that offers no financial rewards. The bounty board remains visible but is marked as suspended, and Intel has not publicly explained the decision. The program had run since 2017 and accounted for roughly 105 of 231 CVEs Intel patched in 2020.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-19
California faces pressure from the Trump administration, which is withholding Bipartisan Infrastructure Law broadband funds from states unless they agree not to enforce net neutrality rules. California and Illinois remain the only states yet to finalize their BEAD funding agreements, and California is weighing whether to accept the federal money and abandon enforcement of its own net neutrality law or fight the condition in court. Nearly 30 advocacy groups have urged state leaders to defend the law rather than trade it away for funding.
yro.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-18
During the recent conflict with Iran, a US special operations analyst used an AI chatbot to help produce an intelligence report claiming a Chinese vessel was carrying nuclear weapons components. The military mobilized to intercept the ship, with armed personnel and aircraft readied, before officials discovered the report was based on a hallucinated AI output and called off the operation.
cnn.com
· 2026-09-18
A new whitepaper, 'Opening Doors Through Education: The William Louey Effect,' tracked scholarship recipients from the William S.D. Louey Educational Foundation over three decades, from lower-income backgrounds in China into careers spanning business, finance, academia, engineering and education. Rather than stopping at graduation, the research examined their later leadership roles, financial outcomes and tendency to mentor others.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-17
A physics PhD candidate who posted a 'Who wants to be hired?' listing on Hacker News describing skills in C++, CUDA, GPU programming and LLM inference was contacted by multiple unrelated people, each pitching the same senior software engineering role at one company with a different referral code attached. The job's referral program reportedly pays $1,500 per successful hire, and the messages appeared to use keyword matching and AI-generated personalization rather than genuine assessment of fit.
blog.melashri.net
· 2026-09-17
Spotify is broadening its podcast partner program this fall to 35 additional regions, including Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Poland, Chile, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. Podcasters in these markets will be able to earn revenue from both ad and Premium subscriber activity across video and audio formats, while retaining sponsorship income and freedom to distribute elsewhere.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-17
California's Public Utilities Commission is scheduled to vote on a resolution that would exempt broadband providers from the state's net neutrality law in order to accept $1.86 billion in federal BEAD broadband deployment funding. The Trump administration's NTIA has required all states receiving BEAD money to waive enforcement of net neutrality and rate regulation against participating ISPs statewide, not just in funded areas, for up to 14 years. California and Illinois are the last two states yet to finalize their BEAD funding agreements.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-16
Priority Pass, the airport lounge membership program, announced plans to broaden its benefits over the next year, including more fast-track security lanes at airports, additional partner lounges, and personalized recommendations powered by artificial intelligence. The changes aim to extend the program's value beyond simply granting lounge access before flights.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-15
Verus is an open-source tool that mathematically verifies Rust programs against formal specifications, checking correctness across all possible inputs rather than sampling test cases. It builds on Rust's existing memory-safety guarantees to also confirm that code produces expected results and doesn't leak sensitive data.
amazon.science
· 2026-09-14
Google has opened a formal beta program for its Drive app, letting users opt in to test upcoming features before they roll out broadly. The program follows similar early-access schemes Google runs for other apps like Gmail and Photos.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-14
A developer built and detailed a Rust implementation using the Z3 SMT solver to perform counterexample-guided synthesis of loop-free programs, based on the technique described in Gulwani et al.'s Synthesis of Loop-Free Programs paper. The post breaks down the underlying logic formulas into simpler explanations and walks through the code, while noting the implementation struggles to match performance on some harder benchmark problems from the original literature.
fitzgen.com
· 2026-09-11
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