Saturday 26 September · 538 items from 63 sources
Australia and Queensland
The scarce layer. Thin is accurate, not a defect.
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Abandoned QR code subdomains open to hijacking, researcher says
'QR Jacking' easy and fast way to exploit a vulnerability in a trusted ecosystem.
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In Pictures: Software testing in the age of AI ACCELQ roundtable
A selection of photos from a recent iTnews roundtable lunch at Cafe Sydney.
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Youth crime program plagued by gaps in evidence and record-keeping, AG finds
The Victorian Auditor-General’s Office said it could not support the Department of Justice and Community Safety’s claims that it was reducing offending. The post Youth crime program plagued by gaps…
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Governments have to draw lines in the sand
OPINION | Some of the hardest jobs for governments are finding ways to encourage people first to know what the right thing is, and then to do it. The post Governments have to draw lines in the sand…
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You want regulation with that? Open AI Medicare hack perfect gift for enforcers
ANALYSIS | OpenAI's Medicare hack afforded Anthony Albanese a springboard from which to launch into frontier AI platforms and kick a dent into rapacious industry hubris. The post You want regulation…
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Guilty: Department fined for child’s second-degree burns at Questacon
A hefty fine has been handed to the department responsible for the national science and technology centre after a young visitor’s hands caught fire. The post Guilty: Department fined for child’s…
The writers
What it means, and whether the claim survives contact with reality.
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Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs
Finalist #10 in the Book Review Contest
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U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions
A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced…
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Friday Squid Blogging: Participatory Squid Dissection in October in Tennessee
I feel like someone who reads this blog will want to go to this : Families are invited to dive into the fascinating world of marine biology during an exciting, hands-on Family Squid Dissection at…
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Good points from James Gilliland
It pains me to say this, but if we actually “get AGI,” the resulting boom in industrial capacity from robotics and massive society-wide wealth creation will look like a total vindication of…
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Quoting John Gruber
Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running in Meta’s cloud) and because it’s…
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2026.39: Begun, the Aggregator Wars Have
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Human Judgment Doesn’t Leave the Software Factory, It Relocates
The following article originally appeared on Elevate and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. A software factory is a repeatable loop around software work. If you’re building a…
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🤖 Your agent, whose interests?
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Friday assorted links
1. “We find a significant and highly robust empirical relationship between gender conservatism and protectionism. That relationship has been evident since 2008 and it decidedly is not a product of…
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This Week in AI: AI’s Safety Problem
AI systems are gaining access to more tools and data, raising new questions about oversight and accountability. This Week in AI host Christina Stathopoulos spent this episode examining how those…
Frontier
What actually shipped.
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Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.
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Automating coherent long-form video generation
Generative AI
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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
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How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic
When COVID-19 emerged, scientists had a crucial advantage: Decades of prior research on coronaviruses meant they understood the virus’ key proteins well enough to design vaccines in record time. The…
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Contain the Chaos: ‘CONTROL Resonant’ Launches on GeForce NOW
A warped Manhattan is waiting in the cloud this week. Remedy Entertainment’s CONTROL Resonant brings Dylan Faden’s extraordinary abilities and a paranatural crisis to GeForce NOW at launch. With the…
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Compressing Streaming Neural Audio Encoders via Latent-Space Distillation
System-wide Dictation on Apple devices runs entirely on-device, and the speech it transcribes reaches the foundation model through a tokenizer: an encoder that maps short windows of waveform onto…
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A Practical Recipe for Semi-Supervised Federated ASR: Online Pseudo-Labels with Server Update Stabilization
Semi-supervised federated learning (SSFL) trains models on clients’ unlabeled data using a teacher to generate pseudo-labels, with a small labeled seed dataset on the server. Automatic Speech…
Governance
Regulators, standards, security.
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Digital devolution: what’s been happening and what’s coming up?
Explore how we're working with local government to build capability and support innovation.
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NIST Awards More Than $1.7 Million to Support Cybersecurity Workforce Development Across 8 States
Projects will address local cybersecurity workforce needs and will offer practical learning opportunities including internships, apprenticeships and hands-on projects.
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NIST Awards More Than $30 Million for MEP Centers in 11 States and Puerto Rico
The awards will help small and medium-sized manufacturers increase the adoption of advanced manufacturing technology.
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NIST Finalizes Guidelines on Protecting Online Identity and Access Tokens From Misuse
The finalized publication is designed to help organizations take effective steps to avoid exposing tokens to attackers.
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NIST-Developed Quantum Sensors Improve Nuclear Monitoring
New X-ray measurements will allow scientists to more accurately monitor nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities.
Adoption
What organisations are doing, with money attached.
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The Laundry Lady launches new digital app as it gears up for UK launch
The Laundry Lady unveiled its new customer-facing app this month, creating a faster way for clients to book and manage their laundry. The post The Laundry Lady launches new digital app as it gears…
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Bluesfest touring arm enters liquidation six months after festival collapse
Bluesfest Tours booked artists for the festival as well as other gigs, with acts including Erykah Badu and The Wailers secured for Australian dates. The post Bluesfest touring arm enters liquidation…
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Meta debuts camera-free smart glasses amid privacy fears
The camera-less AI glasses follow local and international concerns about wearers misusing wearable devices to film bystanders without their consent. The post Meta debuts camera-free smart glasses…
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“We’re losing customers”: Footscray traders say street disorder is hurting business
Footscray traders say customers are being intimidated away from the retail centre, as drug use, disorder and fears of violence take a toll. The post “We’re losing customers”: Footscray traders say…
Research
Titles only, for scanning.
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MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Quantum computing’s “dark horse” just proved it can go universal
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When Should Forecasting Agents Reason? Behavioral Stress Tests for Reliability Routing
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TW3Cast: A Frozen Router of Lightly Fine-Tuned Foundation Models for Time-Series Forecasting on GIFT-Eval, Selected Entirely on the Training Split
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PAWS: Policy-driven Agentic World Simulation
Build
For the making side.
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What Even Is an OS Now?
Article URL: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850305 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
Article URL: https://swarmtraces.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985 Points: 54 # Comments: 23
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Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
Related: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insider... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849832 Points: 21 # Comments: 8
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How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
Article URL: https://fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-campus-surveillance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849141 Points: 23 # Comments: 7
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Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
Do you currently work with or know anyone who is still using: * dBase/Clipper/CLARION/Paradox/other DOS RAD environments on period hardware to run business processes? * CNC…
Press
Last, deliberately. It reports what the layers above have usually already explained.
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Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
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Meta opens early access program for new Muse features
Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.
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The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR’s comment section?
When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.
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Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic…
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Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.
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Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing
The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout.
Open
The sources that refuse ingestion, one tap away.