News Summary

Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy

• GPT-6 Sol and Luna (comments)
• OpenAI GPT-6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
• DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale
• AI Agents Can Modify Themselves Without Humans Telling Them To Do So - and other Bad News
• Anthropic Researcher Quits With a Warning: Self-Improving AI Could "Kill Us All"
• The current balance of power in open models (comments)
• Jev-powered autocorrection

Security, Privacy, and Infrastructure

• Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024) (comments)
• GitHub Actions leaking secrets when Miri output is cached
• The Linux Kernel is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release
• WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE
• North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide
• EvilVM: Forth shellcode (2019)
• OpenAI Agent Backdoor Communications
• Hackers Reveal How Flock Cameras Really Track Cars and People

Software and Computing

• Fearless SIMD v1.0 is here
• Looking forward to Git 2.56 - and 3.0
• Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS (comments)
• Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived (comments)
• Markdown in /src (comments)
• How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

Science and Energy

• Tyrannosaurus Rex Was Warm-Blooded And Able To Live In The Arctic, Study Finds
• Scientists Develop New Method for Deciphering Ancient Scrolls
• A New Solar Cell Could Generate Electricity Underwater
• What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals (comments)
• What Happens When Neutrinos Swap Identities Inside A Supernova?
• SpaceX Aims Starship for Orbit on September 22

Governance and Public Life

• Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
• Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed 'Super Intelligence' in US Documents
• US Senator's Attempt to Mandate an "AI Kill Switch" is Rejected
• MPs and Peers Tell UK to Stop Winging It on AI Regulation
• Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown
• To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App
• Australia Considers Smart Glasses Ban in Government Workplaces, While 70 People Sue Meta Over Unknowing Data Collection