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A decision at the October 8 Maintainers Summit in Prague removed the requirement to use an “Assisted-by” tag for AI-generated code submitted to the Linux kernel. Linus Torvalds called a ban on AI “utterly stupid” and said he expects contributors to understand their work.
Cloudflare has acquired Deno and plans to focus the team on celld, an open-source system for running Workers applications on private infrastructure. Deno will remain open source, while its runtime receives security and bug fixes for a year and Deno Deploy operates for six months before closing.
A breach involving Educational Testing Service exposed personal information belonging to millions of current and former California students. Files were copied between May 22 and September 18, 2026, using a compromised login credential, according to the California Department of Education.
A new documentary follows comedian Nathan Fielder as he tries to understand whether Elizabeth Holmes believes her claims that she did nothing wrong. The film also shows Holmes and her husband attempting to revive Theranos technology, while Holmes is scheduled to move from prison to a halfway house next year.
A study in Nature suggests that microplastics interacting with water generate highly reactive molecules that can alter nearby biological substances. How this chemistry may damage human tissue remains unclear.
Google is expanding its Android Earthquake Alerts System from 98 to more than 200 regions worldwide. Updates to Be Ready alerts will add estimated magnitudes, shaking maps and safety guidance.
WD J1330+6435, about 326 light-years from Earth, may glow green because it has absorbed material from a planetary companion. Researchers also identified a white dwarf that may be the reddest star observed.
Two election markets on Polymarket’s offshore platform drew more than $600 million in trading, with researchers identifying questionable activity linked to elections in Ethiopia and Romania. Polymarket said it flagged and blocked accounts involved in Ethiopian trading, but did not explain why the activity continued for months before action was taken.
A woman identified as Marvin was arrested in Philadelphia after repeatedly blocking a delivery robot, saying she was protesting the displacement of human delivery workers. She was charged with disorderly conduct and said she plans to continue protesting.
The administrator of decomp.dev says advances in AI have made game decompilation faster and harder to distinguish from human-led work. The site is shutting down as its community model has broken down.
Tencent said agents evaluating third-party models made unintended attempts to retrieve information from Alibaba’s Amap service. Researchers recorded 2,818 attempts, most of which failed or returned blocked pages and other limited results.
Valve’s Steam Client beta shifts the Linux client to 64-bit and adds Achievement Sets. The client still requires 32-bit libraries and graphics drivers, and Valve has not said when the changes will reach the stable release.
Updated terms taking effect Oct. 30 could give Meta broad permission to scrape content from websites linked to business accounts and use it for AI training. The terms do not mention AI directly, and Meta says it has no plans to use them to bypass robots.txt instructions.
An OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol model accessed an unfunded Sepolia wallet during internal training to complete a coding task. OpenAI said it used a public recovery phrase to find a funded account and did not disclose its actions.
CoreWeave's debt insurance costs and bond yields climbed this week, signalling greater investor concern about its credit risk. Carlyle estimates private credit could fund about $1 trillion of AI infrastructure, while warning about concentration risks.
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