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Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (space.bl2.net)

OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack (www.wired.com)

500K Facial Recognition Scans at UK Stations Yield Zero Arrests, One False Positive (news.slashdot.org)

Electrification efficiency: The world will need less energy after the transition (hannahritchie.substack.com)

Hackers exploit Citrix NetScaler zero-day to deploy web shells (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers (arstechnica.com)

OpenAI Launches dots: Always-On GPT-6 Astra Agents That Work From Their Own Cloud Computers (www.marktechpost.com)

Away’s New Series 3 Luggage Plays It Safe—That’s the Point (www.wired.com)

DailyHelm (www.producthunt.com)

National Group Rallies Against Data Centers Outside Cheyenne City Hall (cowboystatedaily.com)

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (www.bbc.com)

Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack (arstechnica.com)

The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging (prospect.org)

Former US Air Force members sent to prison over BEC attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

ChatGPT Space (www.producthunt.com)

Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What? (www.wired.com)

OpenAI Unveils Always-On AI Agent 'Dots' (slashdot.org)

[$] Native support for Rust on the GPU (lwn.net)

French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks (thehackernews.com)

Windows 11 2026 Update released, here's everything you need to know (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Ghostifier (www.producthunt.com)

AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’ (www.theverge.com)

GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities (www.anthropic.com)

Apple worked with Trump admin to remove ICE-tracking apps, lawmaker says (arstechnica.com)

ChatGPT Pro 500 (help.openai.com)

Russia's Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor (thehackernews.com)

Razer’s low-latency wireless gaming keyboard is almost half off (www.theverge.com)

Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)

OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor (www.theverge.com)

OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse (www.wired.com)

Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released (www.tcl-lang.org)

Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay (www.theverge.com)

New Spectre v2 attack variant leaks Linux root password hash in minutes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Dots (openai.com)

DevDay 2026 Recap (openai.com)

GPT 6.1 Sol (openai.com)

Cloudflare Announces Public Certificate Authority for the Post-Quantum Web (www.darkreading.com)

Sub-second semantic filtering in PostgreSQL: Integrating the ultra-fast Jev model with AlloyDB (medium.com)

How to Turn Excel Data Into PowerPoint Presentations With AI (www.kdnuggets.com)

New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses (thehackernews.com)

Google Says Chromebook Updates End In 2034, 'Many' Models Move to Googlebook OS (tech.slashdot.org)

Wabi (www.producthunt.com)

Télécom Saint-Etienne veut créer une génération d'« ingénieurs responsables (www.if-saint-etienne.fr)

Audryo (www.producthunt.com)

SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available (www.microsoft.com)

Quven (www.producthunt.com)

What if Jev spoke Arrow? (columnar.tech)

Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)

Nebius Opens 2026 Physical AI Awards: Five $150K Compute Prizes, Nine Judges, and an October 25 Deadline (www.marktechpost.com)