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Published October 4, 2026
Meta Muse: 2.8 Million Downloads and Two Security Flaws
Meta Muse launched September 8, 2026 and became the top AI app in the US. In the same two weeks, one zero-day was patched and another flaw was downgraded.
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Published October 3, 2026
Dots: The Four Permission Layers Behind Always-On AI Agents
Dots runs around the clock on a cloud computer. OpenAI's four permission layers show which operations may proceed alone, and which must go back to a human.
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Published October 1, 2026
AI Slop: The Word That Named the Content Glut
In 2025, one four-letter word won the word-of-the-year vote. Not for being trendy, but because of the cheap content flooding the internet.
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Published October 1, 2026
Why AI Misreads Long Documents, and What Actually Fixes It
A pattern repeats across models: accuracy peaks when the relevant information sits at the start or end of a document, and collapses in the middle.
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Published October 1, 2026
The 2017 Transformer Architecture That Changed How Machines Learn
Eight P100 GPUs and 3.5 days were enough to beat the BLEU record. The paper did it by deleting the recurrence the field once considered mandatory.
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Published September 30, 2026
When Did AI First Appear? Not 1956, but 13 Years Earlier
The name was coined at Dartmouth in 1956, but the idea was written down in 1943. AI's history shows a pattern that keeps repeating.
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Published September 30, 2026
20 Countries Cap Social Media for Kids, Indonesia Moves First
Australia from December 2025, Indonesia from March 2026. At least 20 countries have similar rules, but only some are actually in force.
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Published September 30, 2026
AI Bots Are Now 57% of Web Traffic, and Nobody Reports It
Cloudflare counts 57.5 percent of web traffic as bots. The number is not as simple as it looks, and here is how to read it.
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Published September 29, 2026
G30S From a Historian's View: The Numbers Nobody Counted
Historian Anhar Gonggong reads G30S as the end of a 45-year ideological argument. What remains is not a verdict but a number nobody ever counted.
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Published September 29, 2026
The World's Most Advanced Chip Is Not NVIDIA's or AMD's
The most advanced chip out of the lab is not a GPU. IonQ traps individual atoms above silicon, and NVIDIA is now its partner, not its rival.
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Published September 29, 2026
25,000 Bottles Recalled, and Class II Is the Second-Mildest Tier
The FDA recalled 25,027 bottles of a blood pressure drug from an Indian maker over failed dissolution specs. Class II means reversible harm.
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Published September 28, 2026
Red Card in Minute 34, Indonesia Hold Malaysia 0-0 in Jakarta
Thom Haye was sent off in the 34th minute, yet Indonesia still walked away from the GBK derby with a point. The group race is decided on 1 October.
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