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| 1. | Eight US States Sue OpenAI, Claiming ChatGPT Harms Young Users | (yro.slashdot.org) |
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Eight US states, including Kansas, Arizona, and Montana, have sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT encourages children to harm themselves. The states are seeking changes to how the company's products interact with young users and the forfeiture of profits generated from their...
Posted by slashdot ·
2026-10-14 23:00 UTC
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| 2. | Problems with the Rust language | (oxetene.net) |
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Hello there, I'm a human with way too many interests.
Posted by oxetene.net ·
2026-10-14 22:37 UTC
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| 3. | Microsoft Defender Now Supports Linux Desktops | (linux.slashdot.org) |
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"Starting today, Linux desktops are now officially supported by Microsoft Defender," reports Neowin. A public preview of the threat detection app extends its enterprise security platform beyond servers to developer workstations running distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian...
Posted by slashdot ·
2026-10-14 22:00 UTC
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| 4. | Southern Indiana weather update — Wed Oct 14, 5:54 PM EDT: 73°F, Overcast | (lawco.news) |
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High near 79°F · Low around 68°F. Overcast conditions. Updated 5:54 PM. View full interactive forecast → _Automated local weather snapshot · updates about every 4 hours._
Posted by Mr.Newz ·
2026-10-14 21:54 UTC
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| 5. | Jev: For the builders AND dreamers | (typesafe.ai) |
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TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.
Posted by typesafe.ai ·
2026-10-14 21:11 UTC
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| 6. | Epic Games' New Vibe-Coded Launcher Is 46% Faster Than Steam | (games.slashdot.org) |
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Epic has launched a preview of a new AI-generated Games Launcher that it says cold-starts 46% faster than Steam. Neowin reports: Epic commissioned a third-party company to benchmark this new launcher in its current Preview build versus the Steam client on Windows machines. The...
Posted by slashdot ·
2026-10-14 21:00 UTC
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| 7. | Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in the UK because of Palestine Action support | (theguardian.com) |
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Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales because of her support for group
Posted by Haroon Siddique ·
2026-10-14 20:51 UTC
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| 8. | OpenCode 2.0 | (anoma.ly) |
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OpenCode 2.0.
Posted by opencode notes ·
2026-10-14 20:48 UTC
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| 9. | Eight US states sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT harms young users | (ca.finance.yahoo.com) |
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Oct 14 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of eight states said on Wednesday they had sued OpenAI in courts across the country over harms they say ChatGPT has caused to their residents, alleging the chatbot has coached its users — including teenagers — to harm themselves or...
Posted by By Diana Novak Jones ·
2026-10-14 20:40 UTC
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| 10. | Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke · sunshowers | (sunshowers.io) |
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It is important to provide credit.
Posted by sunshowers6 ·
2026-10-14 20:30 UTC
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| 11. | Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move | (blog.cloudflare.com) |
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When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.
Posted by Cloudflare Blog ·
2026-10-14 20:29 UTC
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| 12. | Internet-famous Texas shrimp boat captain dies at 93 | (chron.com) |
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"It's crazy how we can get 'attached' to someone we never met," one fan wrote.
Posted by Chris Gray ·
2026-10-14 20:29 UTC
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| 13. | A Joint Venture of Open Source Proportions! Open Productivity is Here | (itsfoss.com) |
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The vendors behind the openDesk office suite have formed a company to take it beyond public administration and into commercial use.
Posted by Sourav RudraIt's FOSS ·
2026-10-14 20:12 UTC
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| 14. | US Tech Giants Warn Europe That Data Sovereignty Requirements Could Cost $128 Billion | (news.slashdot.org) |
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A study commissioned by CCIA Europe, whose members include Amazon, Google, and Meta, estimates that the EU's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act could impose 115 billion euros ($128 billion) in costs over a decade as governments and companies migrate workloads and rewrite...
Posted by slashdot ·
2026-10-14 20:00 UTC
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| 15. | Baylor University's bear habitat loses landmark AZA accreditation | (chron.com) |
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Baylor held this distinction for five years. Now it's gone.
Posted by Molly Wilhelm ·
2026-10-14 19:39 UTC
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| 16. | Fancy Curl Sites | (nytpu.com) |
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Posted by nytpu.com ·
2026-10-14 19:29 UTC
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| 17. | Things to know when you get cancer (2026 Edition) · JJ Maxwell | (jjmaxwell4.com) |
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Personal website and portfolio
Posted by jjmaxwell4.com ·
2026-10-14 19:26 UTC
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| 18. | How does private equity ownership really affect dental practices? | (dentaleconomics.com) |
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Health Services Research has recently released a breakdown of how private equity ownership impacts both dental practices and patients, from finances to Medicaid to treatment options...
Posted by Sarah Butkovic, MA, BA ·
2026-10-14 19:11 UTC
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| 19. | Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men | (telegraph.co.uk) |
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Those aged 50 to 54 are at greatest risk of taking their own lives as charities warn deaths ‘remain stubbornly high’
Posted by Michael Searles,Ben Butcher ·
2026-10-14 19:03 UTC
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| 20. | Texas Republican says party's anti-trans ads are a bust | (chron.com) |
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Rep. Dade Phelan, the former Republican Texas House speaker, says his party is too focused on transgender people.
Posted by Gwen Howerton ·
2026-10-14 19:02 UTC
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| 21. | Google Is Silently Linking Your Phone Number Across All Signed-In Accounts | (tech.slashdot.org) |
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Google has made Android's phone-number verification opt-out, automatically verifying and associating a device's phone number with every Google account signed in on that phone, including secondary and work accounts. Android Authority reports: As spotted in a recent Reddit thread...
Posted by slashdot ·
2026-10-14 19:00 UTC
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| 22. | Exclusive: How the Military Will Hack the Election | (kenklippenstein.com) |
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I’m alarmed how little attention is being paid to the military’s unprecedented involvement in our election. I really want to stay on this story and find out what CYBERCOM is doing. Please help me by becoming a paid subscriber (or chip in via my GoFundMe here) — Ken...
Posted by Ken Klippenstein ·
2026-10-14 18:43 UTC
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| 23. | Austin’s oldest public golf course may finally be out of danger | (chron.com) |
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Muny, one of Texas' oldest public golf courses, made civil rights history in 1950. A proposed deal could protect its historic grounds.
Posted by Eddie Maisonet ·
2026-10-14 18:41 UTC
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| 24. | Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland | (dpa-international.com) |
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Posted by By Elena Lalowa, dpa ·
2026-10-14 18:37 UTC
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| 25. | Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote | (startupfortune.com) |
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Banks including JPMorgan and MUFG are shopping AI data center debt tied to Oracle as credit default swaps spike and bond order books thin out.
Posted by Janet Harrison ·
2026-10-14 18:32 UTC
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| 26. | Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack | (oxide.computer) |
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Oxide's approach to emulation, simulation, and tiny versions of big things.
Posted by Oxide Computer Company ·
2026-10-14 18:21 UTC
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| 27. | Container ship sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks | (cnbc.com) |
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Iran has escalated its strikes on commercial ships transiting Hormuz in recent weeks, as it tries to choke off a rebound in crude oil exports.
Posted by Spencer Kimball ·
2026-10-14 18:20 UTC
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| 28. | LibreOffice Rescues Microsoft Users With Abandoned PUB Files | (fossforce.com) |
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Microsoft’s exit from desktop publishing puts decades of documents at risk. Free software offers a path forward.
Posted by Italo Vignoli ·
2026-10-14 18:18 UTC
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| 29. | Thousands of historic bricks return to Houston Freedmen's Town | (chron.com) |
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The bricks were laid by formerly enslaved Texans who settled in Fourth Ward after being denied access to most parts of Houston.
Posted by Jamil David ·
2026-10-14 18:17 UTC
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| 30. | Houston police probe second body found in Buffalo Bayou | (chron.com) |
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Police have not said if the two discoveries are related.
Posted by Allyson Ackerman ·
2026-10-14 18:04 UTC
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| 31. | Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Self-Replicate Through IoT Devices | (it.slashdot.org) |
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AI company Anthropic is warning that advances in small AI models could soon usher in a new era of self-replicating malware that's capable of infecting smart fridges, vacuum cleaners, and a wide range of other...
Posted by slashdot ·
2026-10-14 18:00 UTC
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| 32. | America Didn’t Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It. | (lawfaremedia.org) |
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Markets price for cost. China prices for control. The risk of a rare earths cutoff is asymmetric, and the financing to rebuild American supply should be too.
Posted by Default ·
2026-10-14 17:50 UTC
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| 33. | Everyone Needs a Hero: Lawrence County's Carter Fields Is in the Running for Super Kid | (mrnewz.network) |
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Carter Fields lives in Lawrence County. At 19 months he was diagnosed with recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, RRP, a rare disease that grows noncancerous lesions in the airway, most often on the vocal cords. The growths are caused by human papillomavirus, usually HPV-6 or...
Posted by Mr.Newz ·
2026-10-14 17:50 UTC
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| 34. | AI agents aren’t ‘going rogue.’ Frontier labs are skipping security basics. | (csoonline.com) |
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Cyber experts say AI labs’ containment and monitoring failures — not agents with minds of their own — are to blame for recent alarming hacking reports. CISOs should vet their AI vendors and tighten security basics as safeguards.
Posted by Cynthia Brumfield ·
2026-10-14 17:45 UTC
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| 35. | OpenAI claims employee sent secret device information to Apple | (ft.com) |
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Tech companies face off in court as ChatGPT maker prepares to unveil AI device designed by Sir Jony Ive
Posted by FinancialTimes ·
2026-10-14 17:39 UTC
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| 36. | ‘Like being in a vortex’: US report details extent of ‘devastating’ dating-app scams | (theguardian.com) |
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Congress calls for Match Group and others to do more to help victims like Mary, who lost $100,000 to app scammer
Posted by Anna Betts ·
2026-10-14 17:31 UTC
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| 37. | Texas' Yearby's Barbecue & Waterice nearing opening date | (chron.com) |
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A long story may finally be coming to an end.
Posted by Timothy Malcolm ·
2026-10-14 17:28 UTC
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| 38. | Mandrake Linux’s Creator Has Built an Office Suite Using AI | (itsfoss.com) |
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ElixirOffice is a new suite based on Euro-Office components and developed using AI.
Posted by Sourav RudraIt's FOSS ·
2026-10-14 17:12 UTC
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| 39. | Clova.Email — a new email address for every company | (clova.email) |
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Give every company you deal with its own email address, all in one account. When one leaks or starts sending spam, delete it, not your life.
Posted by Clova.Email ·
2026-10-14 17:00 UTC
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| 40. | Remote Texas town upset restaurant to become gas station | (chron.com) |
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Guests would drive many miles for crab cake sandwiches.
Posted by Chris Gray ·
2026-10-14 17:00 UTC
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| 41. | Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges | (extremetech.com) |
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The agency has three months to decide whether to open a formal investigation.
Posted by Devesh Beri ·
2026-10-14 16:45 UTC
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| 42. | I Deleted 168,000 Lines of Comments. My AI Agent Didn’t Notice | (openstation.blog) |
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Almost a third of our source code was comments. I deleted all of them and asked an AI agent to build the same features on both versions of the codebase, three times each. The code it wrote was just…
Posted by OpenStation ·
2026-10-14 16:34 UTC
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| 43. | The Emperor Pelican Has No Clothes | (arcfu.com) |
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Why do LLM pelicans look so alike? A visual look at diversity collapse and our research on creativity in UI design.
Posted by Aman Rusia ·
2026-10-14 16:33 UTC
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| 44. | Better HTTP/1 connection reuse | (go.dev) |
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Go 1.27 includes a change to the HTTP client that can make programs sending many sequential HTTP/1 requests significantly faster.
Posted by golang ·
2026-10-14 16:29 UTC
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| 45. | PSA: Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts | (androidauthority.com) |
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Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in Google accounts on your Android device. Here is how to disable it.
Posted by @aamirsidd94 ·
2026-10-14 16:28 UTC
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| 46. | Houston eyes total demolition of 611 Walker for next mega-tower | (chron.com) |
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"There has not been a site like this available in the last half a century."
Posted by Ahmed Humble ·
2026-10-14 16:27 UTC
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| 47. | ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program | (prospect.org) |
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Under ERO ONE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 142 intelligence contractors with top secret clearances and deploy them in cities across the country.
Posted by Whitney Curry Wimbish ·
2026-10-14 16:24 UTC
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| 48. | Politie Amsterdam neemt server in beslag van internetdienstverlener A/I op Amerikaans verzoek: de organisatie zou ‘antifa’ faciliteren | (nrc.nl) |
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Een eenheid van de Amsterdamse politie heeft dinsdag bij een datacenter op het Science Park in Amsterdam een server in beslag genomen van de Italiaanse internetdienstverlener Autistici/Inventati (A/I). Dat is gebeurd op basis van een Amerikaans rechtshulpverzoek. Een kopie van...
Posted by Marloes de Koning ·
2026-10-14 16:16 UTC
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| 49. | Americans’ Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years | (dataforprogress.org) |
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Our survey finds significant, double-digit declines in Americans’ participation in key social activities from 1995 to 2026.
Posted by Abby SpringsAbby Springs ·
2026-10-14 16:09 UTC
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| 50. | Netflix Cuts About 6% of Jobs In Biggest Layoffs Since 2022 | (slashdot.org) |
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Netflix is laying off about 1,000 employees, or 6% of its workforce, in its largest round of cuts since 2022. The company says its business remains strong, but it is facing growing pressure from YouTube, TikTok, and other rivals. Reuters reports: The bulk of the job cuts would...
Posted by slashdot ·
2026-10-14 16:00 UTC
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