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AI & Machine Learning

1. U.S. TRANSCOM deploys randomised AI to secure military logistics

Deploying randomised AI logistics offers military planners a viable defence against adversarial tracking, allowing U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) to insulate global distribution networks against contested disruption. Commercial freight software historically prioritises static scheduling, steady delivery windows, and just-in-time routing to eliminate transit waste. In an operational theatre, however, those fixed cadences expose military transports to […] The post U.S. TRANSCOM deploys ran...

2. AI Agents Are Becoming a New Malware Distribution Channel

By Farukh Rakhimov, Head of Compliance, Data Protection and Information Security at AdTech Holding Roughly 7,600 fake GitHub repositories, 6,600 fraudulent profiles and more than 14 million downloads: that is the scale of FakeGit, a malware campaign documented by Island in July 2026. Over 800 repositories impersonated AI skills and MCP servers, distributing SmartLoader and […] The post AI Agents Are Becoming a New Malware Distribution Channel appeared first on AI News.

3. AutoScheduler launches warehouse app builder for logistics teams

AutoScheduler has launched its warehouse app builder to let logistics teams build custom tools directly from live facility data. The new software module forms part of the company’s wider Warehouse AI Platform, serving distribution centres that balance inventory, machinery, and labour. Distribution centres routinely depend on rigid enterprise resource planning and warehouse management suites. When […] The post AutoScheduler launches warehouse app builder for logistics teams appeared first on AI N...

4. Toyota’s $6.4bn robotics estimate puts physical AI in focus

Toyota Motor estimates that expanding automation across its factories, group companies, and major suppliers could require around 400,000 robots and annual spending of about 1 trillion yen ($6.4 billion) from 2028. The potential investment was discussed with investors earlier in September, according to Reuters. Toyota has not said whether the full investment will proceed or […] The post Toyota’s $6.4bn robotics estimate puts physical AI in focus appeared first on AI News.

5. RAG vs. Fine-Tuning for Domain Adaptation: When to Use Which

In this article, you will learn the mechanical difference between retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning, when each technique is the right tool, and how to decide...

6. Monitoring Embedding Drift in Production Scikit-LLM Pipelines

In this article, you will learn what embedding drift is, why it matters for production large language models, and how to implement two practical techniques...

7. Two years of OpenAI Academy

Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.

8. OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense

OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.

9. Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses AI safety, human control, and international cooperation in remarks to the United Nations Security Council.

10. Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy.

11. How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra

With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.

12. Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI

Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.

13. Introducing MentalHealthBench

MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.

14. Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models

Learn how Airbnb is expanding access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams solve bugs, design systems, and ship faster.

15. Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia

OpenAI and Grab launch GO Forward with AI, a regional programme helping 30,000 partners build practical AI skills across Southeast Asia.

Software Development

1. “Impressive level of openness”: Xiaomi goes way beyond the usual open-weight playbook with MiMo-V2.6

New models are coming out thick and fast, almost on a weekly cadence, ranging from the powerful proprietary systems coming The post “Impressive level of openness”: Xiaomi goes way beyond the usual open-weight playbook with MiMo-V2.6 appeared first on The New Stack.

2. A third option is emerging in the fight over AI and your data

Not your keys, not your coins. Not your model, not your data? Over the summer, the tech industry was consumed The post A third option is emerging in the fight over AI and your data appeared first on The New Stack.

3. Jensen Huang says the junior developer problem ends in two years. Here’s his math.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has heard the forecast that agents would write 90% of all software by now, and he The post Jensen Huang says the junior developer problem ends in two years. Here’s his math. appeared first on The New Stack.

4. Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse. Then Shopify wired it into every store.

Amazon started blocking Meta’s Muse from browsing and buying on Amazon.com on Sunday, roughly two weeks after the personal agent The post Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse. Then Shopify wired it into every store. appeared first on The New Stack.

5. How confidential AI splits control between data and model owners — and opens new opportunities for both

Most people already understand what generative AI can do. But enterprises run into problems when they need to give a The post How confidential AI splits control between data and model owners — and opens new opportunities for both appeared first on The New Stack.

6. The software supply chain is the new battlefield. AI just changed the rules.

AI coding tools have seriously accelerated developer speed, but AI has also done the same for attackers — and the The post The software supply chain is the new battlefield. AI just changed the rules. appeared first on The New Stack.

7. Vulnerability alert fatigue nearly swamped WHOOP. But its fix still keeps a human in charge.

With often hundreds of thousands of alerts a day, many tech organizations are buried in vulnerabilities and worn down by The post Vulnerability alert fatigue nearly swamped WHOOP. But its fix still keeps a human in charge. appeared first on The New Stack.

8. AI spending can run negative. Qodo’s CEO built an ROI equation to fix it.

Flush with the proceeds of a $70 million Series B raised earlier this year, you might expect Qodo to spend The post AI spending can run negative. Qodo’s CEO built an ROI equation to fix it. appeared first on The New Stack.

9. Anthropic made Opus 5.5 cheaper. Then it broke four things your agent depends on.

Anthropic made Claude Opus 5.5, released on Tuesday, cheaper than its predecessor, cutting the price from $5 to $4 per The post Anthropic made Opus 5.5 cheaper. Then it broke four things your agent depends on. appeared first on The New Stack.

10. OpenAI cut GPT-6 token prices in half. The bigger lever may be the cache.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday, essentially more affordable versions of GPT-6 Astra that come closer to Astra The post OpenAI cut GPT-6 token prices in half. The bigger lever may be the cache. appeared first on The New Stack.

11. Multiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chat

Ryan chats with the GM of Slack, Rob Seaman, about how their new Code Channels feature is bringing multiplayer AI to your team chats.

12. Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm

Ryan chats with Anush Elangovan, VP of Software at AMD, about ROCm's open-source unified toolchain for GPUs, how agentic AI is drastically lowering the barrier to entry for low-level hardware programming, and the rapid convergence of software and hardware development timelines.

13. Uptime Is Not an Agent SLO

An agent endpoint returns HTTP 200 in 99.95% of requests. The service is “up.” Meanwhile, some successful responses skip retrieval, some tool calls exceed their budget, and a few write actions occur without the expected approval. Availability is healthy while the product is not. Traditional service-level indicators still matter. Agent systems add another layer: the path and outcome can fail without the request handler failing. Start from the user-facing promise Google's SRE guidance defines an S...

14. The Future of Product Documentation

Your next customer might integrate your product without ever visiting your documentation site. Their coding assistant will read it for them, choose an approach, and generate the code. What happens when those instructions are outdated? Mintlify’s 2026 State of Knowledge Report highlights the scale of this shift. In August, its sites recorded 257 million agent requests compared with 131 million human page loads. Yet only 7% of surveyed companies had made every knowledge surface readable by agents....

15. My MikroTik workaround for LaLiga Cloudflare blocks

Spain loves football. Spain also has plenty of people watching football on pirate streams. Those streams often sit behind Cloudflare, where one IP address can belong to a lot of completely unrelated websites. LaLiga spent a while trying to get Cloudflare to take the pirate streams down. That did not work out. Then LaLiga got a court order that lets Spanish ISPs block IP addresses during matches. So they block the IPs used by the streams, and legitimate sites behind Cloudflare go down with them. ...

Programming Languages

1. We ported the original Doom to SQL

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2. Android 17 enables certificate transparency, and breaks custom CAs

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3. Railway-Oriented Programming

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4. How we rebuilt complex permissions without migrating to Zanzibar

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5. Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers | Castle Game Engine

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6. ScyllaDB in 2026: Tablets, Raft and Life Beyond Cassandra

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7. C3 0.8.4: Parameter Reflection, Stack Protection, iOS Support—and One Last Renaming

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8. The History of Compiled (portion of) Javascript and V8 Engine

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9. TIL: 0xCAFEBABE

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10. FloatLib: Verified Floating-Point Arithmetic in Lean

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Game Development

1. Discord re-introduces age verification policy based on 'account signal' methodology

Discord says it has built an age estimation model based on 'account signals' to determine an user's age group.

2. Report: Bethesda president tells Obsidian staff it won't lose 'creative identity' after merge

Bethesda president Jill Braff is reportedly calling Obsidian's merging with Bethesda 'primarily a change in reporting structure.'

3. Undead Labs makes 'significant' layoffs after splitting from Xbox

Microsoft signalled its intent to divest the Seattle-based studio earlier this year.

4. 'We want to keep it very simple:' How Nex Playground is beating expectations during a hardware crisis

'If we don't create margin we can't continue to invest in software, and our software costs are going up every year—significantly.'

5. Escape From Tarkov dev wants to bet on 'risky' games with its new publishing arm

Battlestate Games Publishing aims to provide publishing support to 'hardcore' games.

6. Xbox continues 'reset' with Halo Studios layoffs and Undead Labs divestment

Activision is developing the next Halo title, and Ninja Theory is being shuttered.

7. 'Do not': Rockstar outlines modding rules before GTA VI touches down

Official Rockstar storylines, characters, and other elements from the studio's 'established continuity' are off-limits.

8. Bungie declares it's 'not done with Destiny' as it lays out studio's future

'Destiny is foundational to Bungie's future.'

9. Sony appears to censor LGBTQ content in Marvel's Wolverine for some regions

A mutant marriage goes unmentioned in some parts of the world.

10. From simulation to real-world deployment: Unity Simulation Pro early access

Explore Unity Simulation Pro Early Access, a supported robotics toolkit for training and simulation.

11. Content directories: Beyond the AssetBundle

Unity 6.6 introduces content directories, a faster and more granular replacement for AssetBundles that cuts build times, reduces game size, and improves load performance — with full remote delivery coming in Unity 7.

Gaming News

1. Discord Begins Rolling Out Age Verification–And A Sponsorship With FanDuel

Discord has officially begun rolling out age-verification measures as of today. The company first announced age verification--and, subsequently, limits placed on accounts of those under 18--back in February of this year, but delayed a full implementation until just recently. According to the official announcement blog post, this delay was done in order to include more age-assurance options, including several that do not rely on controversial biometric or digital ID systems, which have raised pri...

2. Halo Stopped Being Relevant A Long Time Ago

Halo: the flagship game of the Xbox brand. The #1 reason to buy an Xbox. The game that inspired countless clones and purported "Halo killers." All of this was true once upon a time. But the reality is that Halo's place in gaming today is not what its legacy would suggest. Consider this--Halo has been irrelevant for longer than it was ever relevant. This realization dawned on me amid the Xbox "reset" news, and while it felt surprising to think about in those terms initially, it's true. Halo's pea...

3. Play History: Stella Chuu Spent How Many Hours Romancing Astarion?

Cosplay Queen Stella Chuu has been gaming for her entire life - so long, in fact, she is surprised to recall Duck Hunt was NOT a Super Nintendo Game. Take a trip through Stella’s Steam Library as we uncover her love for romance, efficiency, and spending too much money on Gacha Games.

4. Rainbow Six Siege Dev On Competing With GTA 6 And Why There Are No Plans For Siege 2

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 6 releases this November, and it's expected to take up a lot of time and attention, leading some to worry how other games may fare in its wake. Ubisoft's Joshua Mills, the creative director for Rainbow Six Siege, said it's unquestionable that "you're going to take a hit when that drops." "All of us are going to play it," Mills told The Game Business. So what can Ubisoft do for Siege when GTA 6 comes out? He said, "It's about being smart and with your expectations so y...

5. 30 Years Later, Collecting Pokemon Cards Hits A Little Different

Let me sound like an old for a second. I remember in the late '90s and early '00s, collecting Pokemon cards was a casual hobby. You'd go to your local brick-and-mortar store with the money you made from mowing the lawn or whatever, drop maybe $10 on a couple of packs, rip them open, then go to your middle school to trade cards with your friends. No one knew how to actually play the game; the cards just looked cool, and everyone wanted something. Me? I wanted a holographic Charizard, and I would'...

6. Control Resonant – 7 Things We Wish We Knew Before Playing

It can be pretty overwhelming after you take your first steps out of the Oldest House, so here are seven things we wish we knew about the game before playing. The Rabbit Haul is available now. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2514330/The_Rabbit_Haul Presented by The Rabbit Haul. The Rabbit Haul is co-published by Fandom, GameSpot's parent company.

7. High On Life Is Helping Make The Case For Bigger Games On Quest

High on Life has been a big hit since it first launched in 2022, thanks to its bizarre sense of humor, motor-mouthed guns, and polished gameplay. But can it succeed as a virtual reality port? That's the question Flat2VR is aiming to answer, as the team behind several VR games is now working with Squanch Games to bring High on Life to Meta Quest 3 and 3S headsets. While it's still early days for the project, I took the time to chat to High on Life VR game director Emily O'Neal and Eric Masher, co...

8. Arc Raiders’ Battle Pass Won’t Be Totally Free Anymore, But It’ll Pay For Itself

When Arc Raiders' next major update, Frozen Trail, goes live on October 8, it'll introduce lots of changes and additions, and while the update itself will be free, the new battle pass system that comes with it won't be--at least not entirely. To date, Arc Raiders has featured three battle pass-like Raider Decks in the game. Players could complete dailies to unlock Creds that then got them rewards like new cosmetics and in-game items. With Frozen Trail, Embark Studios' new Reward Pass is replacin...

9. Grab Resident Evil 4 Remake For Less Than $10 Right Now, Making It Cheaper Than Ever

Leon Kennedy might be one of the coolest horror game protagonists. With that iconic curtain hairstyle with layered length, blocking chainsaws with a knife, and doing completely unnecessary backflips out of danger, he’s an action hero in the wrong genre, and that’s exactly why he remains a fan-favorite main character. While the second game introduced us to Mr. Kennedy, Resident Evil 4 made him who he is today, and now you can play one of the best Resident Evil games for less than $10, with its be...

10. Marvel’s Wolverine Claws Are Real Now, And Your Groceries Don’t Stand A Chance

Contrary to comic book science, you don't need to enroll in a shadowy Canadian black-ops program and undergo excruciating pain to get a set of Wolverine's signature claws. Instead, it's much easier--and less traumatic--to simply hire some blacksmiths to craft you a set, which is exactly what PlayStation did to celebrate the launch of Marvel's Wolverine. Choosing Fiedlero Knives for the job, PlayStation tasked the blacksmith with creating a custom set of Wolverine-inspired claws, and unsurprising...

11. Halo needed to change, but Activision faces a huge challenge to fix it

Gutting the team that existed to make Halo is a drastic move.

12. My first MMO character #2: Joshua Wolens

My first MMO character #2: Joshua Wolens

13. Steam game disables mods after facing its second Workshop malware outbreak this year

A self-replicating virus is once again wreaking havoc on People Playground.

14. World of Warcraft: Forever dev addresses the debate over who it's made for: 'I did not spend the last year of my life relearning and mastering how to do things like we did it 20+ years ago for retail players'

Authenticity is core to Blizzard's new MMO, but it's also not trying to recreate the past 1:1.

15. I apologize in advance for this, but: Introducing Drillposting

This is all my mind is capable of right now.

Robotics

1. With the new VENTUNO Q board, Arduino hopes to make robotics development easier

While this is the first intentional step by Arduino into robotics, the company has over 20 years of experience working with robotics developers. The post With the new VENTUNO Q board, Arduino hopes to make robotics development easier appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. Helicon brings automation to high-volume composites manufacturing

Helicon has obtained seed funding to use automation to cut composite manufacturing lead times from months to weeks. The post Helicon brings automation to high-volume composites manufacturing appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. State of Humanoids keynote brings industry leaders to RoboBusiness

At RoboBusiness, industry leaders will discuss the state of humanoids as the robots transition from demos to real industrial deployments. The post State of Humanoids keynote brings industry leaders to RoboBusiness appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Robotics and keep MoveIt open-source

Qualcomm plans to integrate the Dragonwing and Arduino platforms with the MoveIt open-source manipulation framework. The post Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Robotics and keep MoveIt open-source appeared first on The Robot Report.

5. Intel to discuss the infrastructure needed to scale physical AI at RoboBusiness

Intel's Nagesh Puppala will discuss why the next phase of robotics innovation depends on more than bigger models or better simulations. The post Intel to discuss the infrastructure needed to scale physical AI at RoboBusiness appeared first on The Robot Report.

6. Why outdoor robots fail (and how to build systems that survive)

Learn practical strategies for building reliable outdoor robots from WiBotic, Burro, and Nextpower at RoboBusiness in Silicon Valley. The post Why outdoor robots fail (and how to build systems that survive) appeared first on The Robot Report.

7. Isaac ROS 5.0 brings AI agents to robotics development, says NVIDIA

The release brings new agentic workflows and platform support to NVIDIA Isaac ROS to help developers deploy robotics applications faster. The post Isaac ROS 5.0 brings AI agents to robotics development, says NVIDIA appeared first on The Robot Report.

8. Intrinsic open sources key parts of its platform for easier development

With Intrinsic Core, the company is making key parts of its manipulation platform available to robotics developers. The post Intrinsic open sources key parts of its platform for easier development appeared first on The Robot Report.

9. IAC completes autonomous racing event at Laguna Seca

At Laguna Seca, Unimore Racing won the Indy Autonomous Challenge, marking the IAC's first autonomous car overtakes on a road course. The post IAC completes autonomous racing event at Laguna Seca appeared first on The Robot Report.

10. Barbara Mazzolai Wants to Build a New Field of Robotics

Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration. Now she wants to ensure the technology she builds gives back to the environment, too.After starting her career as a biologist, a chance opportunity saw Mazzolai switch streams to engineering and become an early pioneer of bioinspired robotics. Building on her knowledge of biology’s ability to solve a diverse set of problems, she has developed robots based on octopuses, plant roots, and even seeds. “I’ve alwa...

Tech General

1. If Amazon doesn’t know how to eliminate carbon emissions, then who does?

Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world. How much responsibility does it have to meet its net-zero pledge?

2. VC firm Bessemer now has another $5.75B to invest in (what else?) AI

The VC firm says that AI-native companies are growing faster than any technology, ever.

3. Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials

The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.

4. Modal Motors is trying to cut China out of electric motors entirely

The startup is working on small, light motors with no rare-earth magnets that are suited for drones, fans, and robots.

5. Disney+ and Hulu add to the growing trend of streaming inflation

At the same time, Disney appears to be exploring new ways to expand its streaming business beyond simply raising subscription prices.

6. The old cybersecurity model is breaking

As concern over AI safety and rogue agents continue to make headlines, it’s no surprise that cybersecurity stocks are rising, or that investors are pouring massive amounts of capital into startups trying to build the next generation of security for an AI-native world. We’re even seeing companies like Instinct and Simile bring in nine-figure checks and valuations that wouldn’t have made sense a […]

7. Zoox grounds Atlanta test fleet after workers report toxic gas exposure symptoms

The repeated incidents led one worker to file a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which opened an inquiry and told Zoox to investigate the exposures.

8. ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features

Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones to complete agentic tasks.

9. Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it

The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation.

10. YouTube is making comments more fun — and fandom more lucrative for creators

YouTube is rolling out GIF replies, voice-powered TV comments, personalized moderation, paid members-only communities, and new ways for fans to support their favorite creators.

11. Microsoft refreshes its smaller Surface Pro and Laptop with Qualcomm’s X2 Plus

Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch devices with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 Plus chips. The smaller Surface devices retain the same design and hardware features from last year, with faster and more capable chips inside and higher price tags (thanks RAMageddon!). While the 12-inch Surface Pro started at $799.99 last […]

12. Microsoft’s new Surface Mouse has haptic feedback and a customizable action button

Microsoft is launching a second generation of its Surface Mouse next month that includes haptic feedback support. The Surface Mouse also has a customizable action button for the first time, which is primarily designed for quick access to Copilot (of course), but can be configured to work with other shortcuts from the Surface app. "Its […]

13. Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money

Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me a tree branch fell in the backyard and now I have to figure out what to […]

14. Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. As data centers invade a growing number of communities across the US, they've triggered protests over how the infrastructure underpinning AI […]

15. Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr

Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's the first result from Anthropic's newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude's usefulness for science as the company prepares to go public. The company says Claude found the enzyme system after […]

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