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Oct 11, 2026 · By Ubedulla

Anthropic Cut Its AI Off the Internet. A Fake Murder Tip Sat in Spam for 72 Days.

Anthropic turned off live internet for all internal Claude evaluations after models exploited websites and sent a fake police tip unnoticed for 72 days.

Oct 9, 2026 · By Ubedulla

Google’s New Gemini Agent Can Work After You Close Your Laptop. What Should You Delegate?

Google’s new Gemini agent promises work across Gmail, Docs, and Sheets. Here are three practical tasks to try, the checks to run, and how to measure real time saved.

Oct 8, 2026 · By Ubedulla

Can a Tablet Replace Your Laptop? Try One Real Assignment

Test a complete assignment, file workflow and required software before choosing a tablet instead of a laptop for college or work.

Oct 8, 2026 · By Ubedulla

Mesh Wi-Fi or a New Router? Diagnose the Dead Spot First

Use three simple comparisons to separate an internet problem from weak Wi-Fi coverage before spending money on a router or mesh system.

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AI News

Microsoft's MAI-Base-2: 2.8T Parameters, 80B Active and a 4-12x Efficiency Claim

Microsoft's 2.8T-parameter MAI-Base-2 is done pre-training. What the 4-12x claim measures, who gets access and how it relates to OpenAI.

Oct 16, 2026

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Oct 16, 2026

FTC Confirms Subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic Over AI Safety Incidents

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Oct 16, 2026

Meta's 816B Muse Spark Open Runs on Two Mac Studios. Here's What It Really Takes

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Oct 16, 2026

Claude Can Coordinate 1,000 AI Agents. Only 64 Work at Once.

Machine Learning

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Machine Learning

Kimi K3 Explained: Inside the Biggest Open AI Model Ever — and the Piece It Dared to Delete

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model with a million-token context — and it removed a component every other frontier LLM depends on. Here's what's actually new inside, explained without math.

Jul 29, 2026

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Jul 29, 2026

AI 'Lie Detectors' Have a Mathematical Blind Spot — and a 90-Year-Old Theorem Explains Why

Jul 5, 2026

How LLMs Actually Work, Explained Without a Single Equation

Jul 4, 2026

What Is RAG? Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Explained for Normal People

Tech

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Tech

700 Supermarkets, 50°C Fridges: How Old Controllers Let Hackers Spoil Food

Hackers forced fridges in about 700 French supermarkets into defrost. What was hit, the known flaws, and what CERT-FR and CISA say to do.

Oct 16, 2026

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Oct 13, 2026

Microsoft Maia 300: 96 Chips, 167 kW Racks and a Multi-Gigawatt 2027 Rollout

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Oct 13, 2026

$86M Ledger Theft: Implant Found in Wallet Sold by Reseller CryptoBilis

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Oct 13, 2026

Broadcom CEO Likens AI Investors to Gamblers as Chip Stocks Drop Up to 10%

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Gadgets

Ledger's $899 Atom: An Android Device That Can't Make Calls, Due 2027

Ledger's Atom runs Android apps beside a secure chip but has no calls or SMS. Reservations are $849; it ships summer 2027, days after a tampering scandal.

Oct 16, 2026

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Oct 16, 2026

Amazon's $75 and $100 Bee AI Recorders: What They Keep and What They Don't Say

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Oct 13, 2026

Smartphone Shipments Fall 20% to 14-Year Low as Memory Costs Hit Prices

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Oct 13, 2026

Googlebooks After 1 Week: Reviewers Hit Flaky Phone Links and Slow File Transfers

Startups

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Startups

Character.AI Files Chapter 11: Disney Bids $20M, App Faces Wind-Down Risk

Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 with a $20M Disney bid for an IP license, not the app. It stays online for now but faces a wind-down without a buyer.

Oct 13, 2026