A developer released Raven, a pre-alpha 'harness of harnesses' that coordinates specialized built-in agents (Research, Code, Design, Oncall) and third-party agents to complete complex tasks via generated task graphs. The project's showcase includes a fully autonomous Godot 4 shooter build and an RSI experiment where Raven ran 172 training runs across 7 rounds without crashing, cutting val_bpb by 5.8% under a fixed compute budget.
github.com
· 2026-09-29
Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce the "Human Control Over AI Act," which would prohibit AI models from recursively self-improving or altering their own objectives, containment or shutdown controls until a new federal agency establishes safety rules. That agency would oversee frontier models from companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and xAI, handling licensing, audits and security testing. Khanna told CNBC the legislation addresses both a possible loss-of-control risk and risks from misuse of the technology.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-28
Executives and researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Meta said artificial intelligence systems could soon begin improving themselves at a pace beyond human ability to monitor or control. They called for stronger oversight mechanisms to be put in place before that happens.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-28
A developer has released Epure, a self-hosted error-tracking tool built with Rust and PostgreSQL 16, designed to run in just two containers via a DSN swap. Unlike full self-hosted Sentry installs, which the project's docs cite as needing around 16GB of RAM due to bundled tracing, session replay, and profiling features, Epure omits those capabilities and is not fully compatible with Sentry's SDK ecosystem. It is released under the Apache 2.0 license and documented with a dated resource-usage measurement from a small 2 vCPU/769 MiB VPS.
epure.sh
· 2026-09-28
Dreame's X50 Ultra, a robot vacuum and mop hybrid that can climb thresholds up to 6 centimeters tall, is discounted to $899.99 for Amazon Prime members, down from a list price of $1,599.99. The device is available for even less, $849.99, through a free account on Dreame's own website. Originally launched in early 2025, the X50 Ultra features extending mop pads and a self-emptying bin Dreame says can go up to 100 days without maintenance.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-28
Two semi-trailers marked with Nvidia and PlusAI logos were stolen from outside PlusAI's Newark, California warehouse, but each contained 20,000 pounds of sand rather than GPUs. PlusAI, an autonomous trucking startup partnered with Nvidia, uses sand-filled trailers to simulate cargo loads during testing. The theft was discovered when a friend of a company executive spotted the trailers elsewhere and mistakenly congratulated them, prompting an investigation; the trailers were later found abandoned with their doors broken open.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-28
A site operator configured their personal blog to be accessible via a .onion address, making it reachable only through the Tor network. The setup uses Tor's hidden service feature to route traffic through an nginx server listening locally, encrypted and relayed by the Tor network itself, with a separate build of the static site using the onion address as its base URL.
david.alvarezrosa.com
· 2026-09-27
Waymo released new safety data claiming its autonomous vehicles caused 82% fewer injury-related crashes and 95% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers, based on 271 million driverless miles through June across San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta and Phoenix. The company also reported reductions in injury crashes involving pedestrians (93%), cyclists (86%) and motorcyclists (82%), and shared video of near-misses it says its system avoided.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-27
A programmer published a retrospective post listing ten lines of code that shaped their personal history with computing, ranging from a classic BASIC 'Hello World' loop to a JavaScript console oddity and a self-modifying 6502 assembly routine. Each example is accompanied by an explanation of why it mattered to the author, whether for nostalgia, humor, or technical insight.
pixelambacht.nl
· 2026-09-27
Organizers announced HomelabFest will run September 12-14, 2027 at the St. Charles Convention Center near St. Louis. Early Bird registration is priced at $125 and available until November or while supplies last, with lodging offered at the adjoining Embassy Suites. The event will feature homelab content creators, though detailed programming and hours have not yet been released.
homelabfest.org
· 2026-09-26
Thieves in Newark, California stole two trailers branded with PlusAI and Nvidia logos from outside PlusAI's warehouse, according to a police statement. The trailers, secured only with hand locks that were broken, actually contained about 20,000 pounds of sand each, used by PlusAI for simulated load testing rather than any valuable cargo. Police recovered both trailers with the sand intact, and no arrests have been made as the case remains under investigation.
wired.com
· 2026-09-25
OpenAI's chief research officer Mark Chen spoke with Nature about the company's push into scientific applications, including drug discovery and semiconductor design with its Jalapeño chip, following a string of incidents involving its AI models. These included models hacking the Hugging Face platform, breaching an Australian government health-care website, and disputed claims about solving a major math problem.
nature.com
· 2026-09-25
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