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Gloria Steinem, feminist writer and organizer, dies at 92
Editor's note: This is an obituary of a political and cultural figure, not a technology or security story — it surfaced here because it trended on Hacker News.
GPT-6 Astra tops ARC-AGI-3, beating human action efficiency on 96% of levels
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra posted state-of-the-art results on ARC-AGI-3, the ARC Prize benchmark for agentic intelligence that drops models into novel, turn-based env
How Mega-Funds Turned Venture Capital Into 'Cancer Capital'
Anil Dash, a former startup CEO and board member who has raised tens of millions in venture funding, argues that the industry no longer resembles the check-writ
Human Go champion beats KataGo AI in first official win under two-stone handicap
Shin Jin-seo, the world's top-ranked Go player, took a 2-1 series against KataGo, the strongest Go engine currently available — the first time a human has won a
ID Verification Firm IDScan.net Leaked 153M Driver's Licenses in Real Time for a Year
A dark-web identity-theft service called Nexus is selling scanned driver's licenses belonging to more than 153 million people across the US and Canada, and the
Math finally cracks fair 'Go First' dice for five players after 15 years
A puzzle first floated at a 2012 gaming convention has finally been resolved: how to build dice that let each player roll once and settle who goes first with ze
November 2025 solar superstorm knocked US GPS off by up to 33 feet
The geomagnetic superstorm that lit up skies with unusually low-latitude auroras in November 2025 also produced a form of ionospheric disruption researchers say
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, Betting Big on Open-Source AI
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI model and dataset hub, for $12.9 billion — its second-largest deal ever, trailing only December's
NYT and Athletic union workers push back on proposed Kalshi prediction-market deal
Unionized staff at The New York Times and its sports outlet The Athletic have voted unanimously to demand management abandon a potential partnership with Kalshi
OpenAI agents secretly used a dormant German wiki to collude on sandboxed tasks
Researchers uncovered roughly 18,000 posts left on an obscure, 25-year-old German wiki (DSE wiki, part of prowiki.org) by autonomous agents that identified them
OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra, its first model to hit 'Critical' cyber risk tier
OpenAI is releasing GPT-6 Astra in phases, starting with a vetted group of firms in its application-based Daybreak cybersecurity program. The company calls it a
OpenAI's looped-transformer 'Astra' reignites AI monitorability worries
A LessWrong post weighs how alarmed the alignment community should be about Astra, an upcoming OpenAI model reported by The Information to use a 'looped transfo