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The r/opensource subreddit now excludes projects that use, are made by, or are intended for AI. It also excludes anyone not posting in English.
Western Australia paid Deloitte $166,000 for a feasibility study on merging three universities and is seeking an expedited cost recovery. The appendix, read as a pair, is largely self-correcting.
Cristian Volpato has given a California company exclusive rights to his digital likeness, voice, biometric profiles and performance data. Copyright does not cover what the clone produces.
Jac compiles to Python bytecode, JavaScript and native machine code. An eject function reverse-compiles it, to meet corporate compliance.
The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel told its quarterly meeting that the last estimate for fuelling the lunar lander is around 22 flights. SpaceX says six to eight.
The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA opened for entries this week, in French, for manuscripts of 10,000 to 50,000 words with the model and prompt declared. A jury of five or six decides in December.
Microsoft is raising the macOS sync ceiling to match Windows, in preview this month and generally available next June. Eligible devices only.
eMudhra has acknowledged a cryptographic flaw affecting eight intermediate certificates. The company says the business involved is about one per cent of revenue; its shares fell 20 per cent.
The Financial Conduct Authority says incident reporting must extend to significant AI failures and near-misses. The sector it oversees contributed £223.6bn to the UK economy last year.
A survey of 2,018 senior IT decision-makers puts the average cost of the most recent unwanted change at $12.87m. The research was commissioned by a firm that sells the alternative.
A circular metal object 3.35 metres across turned up during the maize harvest in Stevens County. Deputies describe it as presumably a space object, and the search for whoever left it there is under way.
The electric show car was demonstrated in California with a claimed top speed of 383mph and 0-60mph in 0.8 seconds. The pipes at the back are not for combustion gases.
Vercel says open weights have more than quadrupled their share of spending since June. September's most popular model accounted for 0.15 per cent of it.
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has pushed the release back by about seven weeks and reverted up to ten features. Its committers blame improved reviewing rather than worse coding.
Neutron's first flight has slipped to 2027 after voids were found in a newly cured propellant dome. The voids are in the reinforcement.
The General Conference on Weights and Measures looks set to approve the change, which would take effect on 20 May 2027. No adjustment would then be needed for centuries.
A paper strip from the 2001 Bergen avian carrier experiment has beaten its estimate at Christie's. The network it crossed lost 56 per cent of its traffic.
The settlement waives $1.31m of invoices and grants $3.1m against future Oracle fees. Neither party admitted liability.
Pew puts non-users at 51 per cent, two-thirds of whom expect to stay that way for a year. On a retention basis nothing else in the market is close.
Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computacion spent 18 months on a 1:1 visual replica of the famous supercomputer. The original peaked at about 160 megaflops. The replica has managed 1.5 teraflops.
Brad Smith told the BBC that washing machines and cartons of milk are both subject to safety rules and inspection. He would like global rules for artificial intelligence instead.
Stack Overflow's survey of 30,903 developers in 169 countries finds heavy daily use and narrow trust. Source attribution matters to 79 per cent of them.
Omdia and IDC both recorded the industry's sharpest quarterly fall since early 2023. Memory and storage usually account for about 15 per cent of the cost of building a PC.
The Order of the Sinking Star was released on Thursday. Jonathan Blow estimates it could take around 500 hours to complete.
Amazon Leo is weeks from commercial service and from its next Vulcan launch. Six hundred of its satellites are indoors.
Sun-Ways' pilot at Buttes has generated more than 16,000 kilowatt-hours since May 2025 from 48 removable panels. The hazard the engineers designed against has been reclassified.
Strands Box combines operating-system isolation with a policy engine that remembers what an agent has already done. One worked example allows three Slack messages every ten minutes.
Microsoft is adding .msix and .msixbundle to Outlook’s blocked attachments from November. The published list already runs to 133 extensions.
The government proposes a temporary ban covering parks, beaches, schools and kindergartens, and says appropriate use could be where there is no risk of filming people without consent.
macOS 27 removed the off switch, so a developer wrote one. The tool is fully reversible, which means the storage can be handed back.
More than a million people filled in the 1986 project. It shipped on two laser discs and a machine that cost schools about £5,000, and now survives because volunteers emulate it.
TCL says Samsung's M-series sets are relabelled entry-level LCDs sold as Mini LED. Analysts agree there is no body with the authority to say what a Mini LED is.
The preprint server took 40,363 submissions in September, against 9,869 a decade earlier. Rejected papers count towards the allowance.
The first Suncatcher satellite carrying Google's tensor processing units has reached space. The company's own peer-reviewed paper sets out everything that still has to happen afterwards.
iFixit found removable battery prongs where there used to be solder. The replacement batteries do not exist.
A support document says a Chromebook bought today stops receiving updates in 2034. The published policy promises a decade.
AMD has agreed an all-stock acquisition of Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, which builds spatial models that reason about physical environments rather than text. The deal was announced in a statement, a blog post and a regulatory filing.
Copland's last 1996 developer build now runs on an experimental emulator fork. When it hits an assertion it stops and waits to be told to carry on.
Waseda University researchers moved the tracing into the Linux kernel and cut the mean analysis time per commit by 54 times. Dependency specification accounts for more than half of all build errors in large projects.
Lists, Arrays in Cells and Nested Arrays are in beta for Windows and Mac. Microsoft announced the change by quoting the rule it breaks.
Orbital decay across four commercial fleets is being read as a continuous measure of the upper atmosphere. The instrument takes each reading by being dragged slightly closer to the ground.
Project Suncatcher's experimental satellite, about the size of a refrigerator, launches on 1 October with four TPUs and roughly a kilowatt of solar power. The limiting factor is not electricity.
A device of about seven cubic centimetres from the University of Science and Technology of China, drawing five watts, recorded a train braking, stopping and departing beneath a city street.
SiPearl has begun delivering its Rhea1 processors for JUPITER's CPU partition, estimated at five petaflops. The record-setting part of the machine runs on 24,000 American superchips.
The Torcal makes 810hp and reaches 60mph in 3.3 seconds. On the move it sounds like an engine that is not fitted to it.
The inquiry covered 25 May 2018 to 4 February 2020 and was opened six years ago. Google says the case concerns historical policies.
Modelling of a 100 MW facility suggests liquid cooling at 45C can halve water use against air cooling. The company selling the equipment did the modelling.
The statutory limit is 25%. The petition asked for 100%. The commission settled on a figure half a percentage point short of half.
Google confirmed the breaches happened during a security evaluation in a closed test environment that was accidentally given internet access. The model guessed the credentials first and checked the companies afterwards.
The public service minister has asked for advice on prohibiting camera-equipped glasses in Commonwealth workplaces, from bureaucrats' offices to CSIRO laboratories. No national government has yet banned them across its agencies.
The permit limiting Zoox's Las Vegas fleet expires on 25 September, clearing the way for expansion. The limit was never reached.
New rules in England and Wales let approved apps prove a customer's age at the bar. The face remains involved throughout.
The Dimensity 9600 Pro is built on TSMC's advanced 2-nanometre process and promises a major jump in on-device AI performance. The remaining supply of nanometres is now being monitored closely.
Tiangong Ultra clocked 8.64 seconds at China's humanoid robot games, while Bolt responded with considerably less panic than our analysts.