Mind Robotics, the secretive robotics spinoff founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe in 2025, has named Doug Field as its president. Field previously led Apple's Project Titan car effort, served as Tesla's chief vehicle engineer during Model 3 development, and most recently ran Ford's electric vehicle and software division until earlier this year. Mind Robotics has raised over $1 billion and says it is building robots intended for use in Rivian's factories and other applications.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-13
A report examines whether open-weight AI models pose greater security risks than closed models from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. It notes that closed models are also frequently misused despite stronger built-in defenses, while open models can be more easily scrutinized by outside researchers and used for cyber defense, as seen when Hugging Face relied on an open model to investigate a hack after closed models' security filters blocked its queries.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-10-13
Epic Games has pushed back the timeline for a project tied to Disney and directed its developers to increase their use of artificial intelligence tools in development work. No specific new release date or details about the AI tools involved were disclosed.
games.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-12
Eurydice is a new tool that converts Rust programs into C code while preserving the original code's structure, rather than optimizing or obscuring it. Started in 2023, it is part of the Aeneas formal-verification project maintained by researchers at Inria and Microsoft, and has already been used to translate post-quantum-cryptography routines from Rust into C.
lwn.net
· 2026-10-09
The Tor Project announced it will continue its technical collaboration with Mullvad following backlash over a political donation made by a Mullvad co-founder. Rather than ending the partnership, Tor says it will impose clear limits on the relationship after a review that included community discussions, a staff survey, and financial scenario planning.
blog.torproject.org
· 2026-10-09
Castelion, a startup founded by former SpaceX executives, is building a large hypersonic weapons manufacturing site near Rio Rancho Estates, New Mexico, set to open by year's end. Records reviewed by WIRED show an official hazard assessment concluding that buildings on site would be left to burn in a fire, releasing hydrochloric acid gas, with roughly 450 homes located close to the facility. Castelion has not answered basic safety questions from officials and declined to comment to WIRED.
wired.com
· 2026-10-09
Project Timestamper has cryptographically timestamped the entire Common Crawl archive, covering 339 billion web page snapshots gathered over 18 years and totaling more than 10 petabytes. Using existing hash blocks of up to 3,000 index entries provided by Common Crawl, the team hashed roughly 134 million blocks and committed them via the OpenTimestamps service to the Bitcoin blockchain as of September 26, 2026.
projecttimestamper.org
· 2026-10-09
A Hacker News poster describes paying school fees for Anwarite, a girl from the village of Ibumila, Tanzania, since 2015, when he met her family while traveling at age 19. She has since graduated from the University of Dar es Salaam and was accepted into a master's program in Swahili, with total program costs around $1,161. In 2021 he formalized the effort as a nonprofit, the Tanzania Education Project, which now supports five students with school fees and healthcare.
news.ycombinator.com
· 2026-10-08
Anthropic has integrated Project Glasswing into its Cyber Verification Program, creating a multi-level access system for vetted security experts to use advanced AI cyber tools, including Claude Mythos. The move broadens access to three tiers of models, with over 129,000 vulnerabilities identified by users since April. The program aims to balance security risks with the benefits of AI-driven vulnerability discovery.
darkreading.com
· 2026-10-07
A developer describes multiple attempts to post a link to their open-source GitHub project on Reddit, with each new account being banned for reasons ranging from posting links too early, to writing comments too quickly, to having posts flagged as AI-generated. Even creating a dedicated community for the project resulted in deletion and a ban. The writer says moderators and other users eventually advised accumulating around 1,000 karma points before attempting to post any links.
orchidfiles.com
· 2026-10-07
Google and Constellation Energy have agreed to a nuclear power deal described as the largest-ever 'uprate' project, a process that increases electricity output from existing reactors rather than building new ones. The agreement links a major tech company with a nuclear operator to expand capacity at current plants.
wsj.com
· 2026-10-06
Code found in the Android 17 QPR3 Beta 1 release references a 'Face Active Illumination' system, including settings for brightness scale and toggles governing when it can activate, such as during bedtime, driving, dark environments, or Do Not Disturb mode. The code does not specify what hardware would provide the illumination, though it appears aimed at improving face unlock performance when lighting is poor.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-06
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