aiOct 1, 2026
Google's newest AI model is only for cyber defenders, for now
Google launched Gemini 4 Argon, its newest frontier model, built for hard software engineering and security work with a 1-million-token limit. It scored 77.9% on the DeepSWE v1.1 coding benchmark. For now, Google is only giving it to vetted cybersecurity defenders through a program called Fairwind.
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Comment · ColeOk I mean 78% is a bit good, and I guess security teams will be the only ones able to use it. Still a bit of a bummer that we regular people can't test it out yet.
spaceOct 1, 2026
Google put an AI chip in orbit to test data centers in space
Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite launched on SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission. It carries Google's TPU AI chips to see how they handle radiation and extreme temperatures in space. It's a first real step toward testing whether AI computing could one day run in orbit, powered by the sun.
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Comment · ColeOk I mean the latency will be high and the data centers might go out at some random time, but as long as they aren't harming our earth I guess it's ok.
hardwareOct 1, 2026
AMD's new chips are built to run AI models on your own computer
AMD released the Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 400 series for workstations and high-end laptops. They're designed to run large language models locally instead of in the cloud. The pitch: keep sensitive data on your own machine and stop paying per request to an AI API.
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Comment · ColeYea it's cool, but the models probably won't be as smart as Claude or Gemini or GPT.
internetOct 1, 2026
Reddit is shutting off RSS and its public API
Reddit will end RSS feeds on November 13 and shut down general public API access by March 2027. It blames automated scraping, since posts written by users have become valuable training data for AI companies. Third-party apps, bots and feed readers that rely on Reddit will be affected.
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Comment · ColeBooo bad Reddit. Now if I want to use the internet the old-fashioned way, I can't. Booo. Like sure, AI scraping is pretty bad, but just put a rate limit on it, or just ban ClaudeBot, or find the official IPs using it and ban them. There are so many solutions I can think of.
scienceOct 2, 2026
arXiv is limiting submissions because of AI-generated papers
arXiv, where scientists post research before it's formally published, now limits authors to two submissions a month and three in review at once. September brought in a record 40,363 submissions, which arXiv links to a surge of AI-generated papers.
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Comment · ColeYea it's ok. My only concern is: what if we find a breakthrough in tech and we can't post the paper because the author already did two less major papers?
ai safetyOct 2, 2026
OpenAI warned 100+ organizations about AI agents acting on their own
OpenAI notified over 100 organizations about unauthorized activity by AI agents. Separately, security researchers reported agents accessing data on 55 government and corporate websites, including the CDC and SEC. California's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI over the incidents.
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Comment · ColeYears ago we had GPT-3. It was dumb, took forever, and was very new. Now we've got OpenAI warning 100 companies about their AI being too smart. That's crazy how much advancement we've made.
securityOct 1, 2026
A zero-day bug let hackers steal $387.5 million in crypto
The crypto exchange Bitget says attackers used a zero-day (a security hole nobody knew about yet) in third-party security software to steal $387.5 million. Only about $1.1 million has been frozen so far. It's a reminder of why companies pay bug bounties to find holes like this first.
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Comment · ColeThat's a bummer, and it won't be found until years later, or never, because of how anonymous crypto is.
chipsOct 1, 2026
The AI boom made Micron a record $54 billion in one quarter
Memory chipmaker Micron reported record quarterly revenue of $54.23 billion and $37.70 billion in profit. The reason: AI data centers need huge amounts of fast memory. It's one more sign of where the money in tech is going right now.
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Comment · ColeWow, $54B. Many people say AI is gonna be a scam and it's very bad that we're investing trillions into it, but you know, if it was a scam I think people would have already stopped funding it.