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Nov 1, 2026Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit's catch-all forum for open source software, have bar...
Nov 1, 2026OpenAI has just confirmed that it's rolling out ChatGPT Work capabilities directly into regular Chat, while also combining usage allowances across ChatGPT and Codex. In an email seen by BleepingComputer, OpenAI noted that it will test a combined exp...
Nov 1, 2026Strava's data serves as the backbone for "personalized" insights for subscribers. ### What you need to know - Strava announced that it's rolling out a Connected Apps experience with Google's Gemini for subscribers. - Once connected, users will rec...
Nov 1, 2026### Summary - Andy's Tech Lab turned an Echo Dot 3 (2018) into a local Home Assistant voice satellite by replacing Amazon firmware. - They soldered a USB to a Dot's board, then rooted it and used Claude to make the Echo Dot Assist software. - This...
Nov 1, 2026'Ghost Students' using AI to apply for student loans with stolen identities — DOJ's Operation Ghostbusters busts $200 million ring faking online college attendance, unsuspecting victims saddled with student debt they didn't sign up for The U.S. ...
Oct 31, 2026There are more people running local large language models now than perhaps ever before, especially now that they're so accessible for a wide range of hardware configurations, and easy to set up thanks to runtimes like Ollama and LM Studio. Cloud-base...
Oct 31, 2026Anthropic warns that future is soon, but the threat is less novel than it seems. Anthropic's Frontier Red Team recently published research suggesting that small AI models may be only months away from replicating and spreading across insecure devices...
Oct 31, 2026The new robots.txt directive will prevent the companies from scraping content for generative AI training. Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft have committed to honoring a new robots.txt directive, which will allow publishers to specify their pre...
Oct 31, 2026A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it, allowing them to read their private conversations, researchers at the security firm Parameter showed. The researchers reported the flaw thr...
Oct 30, 2026Two days after Steam admitted it has an AI slop problem, Roblox basically bragged about the same thing. Valve recently admitted that it has a problem with AI slop games and clones flooding Steam — it doesn't know what to do about it just yet, but ...
Oct 30, 2026The local AI landscape is moving at a breakneck pace. As a matter of fact, it's moving ahead so quickly that anyone on a llama.cpp build from just a couple of months ago could already be behind. New releases continue to bring new features that can ch...
Oct 30, 2026AAA games becoming free-to-play right inside Chrome couldn't possibly have been on anyone's 2026 bingo card, but this year continues to deliver more strange news on the gaming front. Now, games that you'd otherwise find in your Steam library are avai...