AI News

Daily headlines: Earthquake and drought to compete for Colombia's budget - BNamericas (www.bnamericas.com)

Nepotism Network (www.producthunt.com)

MSPs asked to pause Scotland's AI data centre boom - BBC (www.bbc.com)

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (www.wsj.com)

Data Centers and Water Supply in California: Issues to Address Early in Project Development (www.jdsupra.com)

Acronis warns of actively exploited flaw in its cPanel backup plugin (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Inside NVIDIA’s cuDNN Graph API: Fusion, Autotuning, and Plan Reuse with cuDNN Frontend (www.marktechpost.com)

After months of water restrictions, Raleigh considers changes to drought responses (www.cbs17.com)

Abbott orders penalties for data centers that fail to report water use - MyHighPlains.com (www.myhighplains.com)

GBrain (www.producthunt.com)

German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol (rheinmetall.github.io)

Abbott issues another directive on data centers | Texas - TheCenterSquare.com (www.thecentersquare.com)

Jean-Pierre Serre is 100 years old today (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)

Iran war has cost on average $246M per day in its first five months (www.cnbc.com)

My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it (jakeasmith.com)

Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for Production Grade Voice Agents (www.marktechpost.com)

Microsoft announces Windows and Surface event for October 7th (www.theverge.com)

flat.social (www.producthunt.com)

Malcious Admin Menu Editor Pro plugin backdoors 1,500 WordPress sites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

“Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft Issues Emergency Fixes After Massive Patch Tuesday (www.darkreading.com)

What if social media isn’t hurting kids? (www.theverge.com)

Statable Analytics (www.producthunt.com)

How much oil-market buffer is left? (www.depletion.org)

Poke Battle Announcer (www.producthunt.com)

What’s next for CISA’s CDM program that gives cybersecurity tools to federal agencies (cyberscoop.com)

Teachoo (www.producthunt.com)

Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month (codyho.dev)

WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages (github.com)

Black Hat USA 2026 | The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident (www.darkreading.com)

Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster (typesafe.ai)

Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (www.danvk.org)

Leader Occitanie on X: "France 2030 : 28 nouveaux projets d'IA pour transformer l'#industrie ... (x.com)

Tracking the slide into authoritarianism wihin the United States of America (protectdemocracy.org)

The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World (patrickwyman.substack.com)

Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up (mnoukhov.github.io)

Scientists Discover Mysterious New X-Ray Objects 'Unlike Any They Have Seen Before' (science.slashdot.org)

18-year-old dies of measles in PA from severe neurological complication (arstechnica.com)

KREMLIN Banking Malware Hijacks Chrome and Edge to Steal Credentials and Session Tokens (thehackernews.com)

SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week (arstechnica.com)

Chop Up Your Books (attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com)

Wyden, Merkley Introduce Bill to Protect Agricultural Water Access Amid Worsening Drought ... (www.merkley.senate.gov)

Wyden, Merkley Introduce Bill to Protect Agricultural Water Access Amid Worsening Drought ... (www.wyden.senate.gov)

Kia’s electric van lineup is getting more interesting with reveal of PV7 (www.theverge.com)

Oregon Senators Wyden, Merkley introduce bill to protect water amid worsening drought (ktvz.com)

Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers (arstechnica.com)

Inside Meta's custom AI chips slashing energy bills in data centers - Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com)

Kubernetes v1.37: Pod-Level Resource Managers graduated to Beta (kubernetes.io)

Gemini 3.8 & 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (www.producthunt.com)

How AI tool calling works (40 lines of vanilla JavaScript) (buttercup.sh)