Trump gave aide Natalie Harp a $45,000 holiday cash gift, disclosure shows
Federal employees are generally barred from receiving compensation beyond their government salaries.
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Spain’s spy agency warned of mass crossings into Ceuta before border crisis
Declassified documents show Madrid and Morocco were warned of plans by migrants to breach the Ceuta border.
Visual Studio Code 1.138 (Insiders)
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Fetterman, already at odds with his party, makes surprise video for GOP convention
The Pennsylvania Democrat has already had a strained relationship with many inside his party. In the video, he spoke about working with Trump but did not outright praise him.
Quoting Calif Research
Today, we're releasing a demo of WeWorm, the first zero-click worm to spread through WeChat calls across iOS and Android. [...] The victim does not need to answer the call, or interact with their phone at all. Even if they do answer, they hear nothing, and the exploit still succeeds. [...] Working with AI, our team found the bug and wrote the first remote code execution (RCE) exploit in about two days. Building the worm took one more week. A worm at this scale used to be the kind of thing that took a larger team months. AI can already do most of the work here. Our team provided the judgment about what to target and how to test it safely. — Calif Research , WeWorm Tags: ai-security-research , ai , llms , security , generative-ai
US states sue Trump over weakening of endangered species protections
Attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, DC, say the US government illegally rolled back landmark protections.
UK needs new laws for AI in healthcare, says watchdog
The technology will soon be routinely used within the NHS, MHRA chief Lawrence Tallon tells the BBC.
Republicans divided over Trump’s economy as RNC begins
Republican strategist Adolfo Franco and GOP adviser Rina Shah clash over Trump’s handling of the economy.
Finland: Google announces €13 billion AI, energy investment
Google has announced a plan to expand AI data centers and buy massive amounts of nuclear energy. Finland's security services have warned of there are risks, but the right-wing government says the deal will bring jobs.
Norway's PM: Zelenskyy's plane almost hit by drone
A drone nearly struck a plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Moldova to Oslo, according to Norway's prime minister. However, a Ukrainian source said the threat may have been overstated.
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow
Hugging Face Blog published: Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow
Iran war live: Iran media say ‘enemy’ projectiles hit Sirik areas
Tehran says ready for dialogue with nations in the region to 'foster mutual trust' and 'achieve sustainable security'.
.blend URL Viewer
Tool: .blend URL Viewer I'm continuing to have a lot of fun with GPT-6 Astra and Blender (see my TIL ). As a big fan of the Imperial Fabergé Easter eggs , I've always thought it would be fun to make some new ones that celebrate popular culture. Yesterday I decided to try out the new ChatGPT Images 2.5 by running this prompt : Generate a photo of a faberge egg that's themed after the TV show Pluribus - research first It gave me this - honestly not bad for a first attempt! Then, just to see what would happen, I pasted that image into Codex running GPT-6 Astra (high) and prompted: Use your blender local skill to create a blender model of this faverge egg (Here's the skill file , which I created like this .) It churned away for 17m51s and built me several .blend files . I already had this vibe-coded Blender viewing experiment lying around, so I added that to my tools collection and now you can use it to see my Pluribus blender model in your browser : Tags: 3d , javascript , tools , ai , generative-ai , llms , blender , coding-agents , codex , gpt-6-astra
v0.34.0
Use Ollama models in ChatGPT Desktop Ollama models can now be used directly in ChatGPT Desktop, so you can keep your existing workflow while running open models. Setup is available from the Ollama app on MacOS. This release also improves structured output performance on Apple Silicon, adds support for OpenAI-compatible client tool search and response compaction. Full Changelog : v0.33.3...v0.34.0
v16.4.0-canary.25
Core Changes bundle-analyzer: record historical snapshots on each analyze run: #93520 Misc Changes test: restore deployment exclusion for shared Cache Components tests: #98464 Resolve metadata independently across parallel routes: #97345 docs: preserve route behavior during Cache Components adoption: #98275 Add a fast-path to 'get_relative_path_to' for a potential common case when 'from' is empty: #98440 docs: document React browser API: #97621 Enable React browser bailout by default: #98439 [evals] Cover focused Cache Components and Partial Prefetching cases: #97813 Deflake gc_interrupt_is_self_healing: #98445 Adds this.target for webpack loaders: #98436 test(evals): validate delegated error boundary components: #98387 test: stabilize deferred entries HMR assertions: #98418 Credits Huge thanks to @gnoff , @aurorascharff , @bgw , @devjiwonchoi , @wbinnssmith , @lukesandberg , @jimmyhmiller , @gaojude , and @sokra for helping!
US announces $45m in security funding, additional naval vessels for Ecuador
Secretary of State Rubio has hailed Ecuador as the US's 'most involved and aggressive partner' in the anti-drug fight.
Trump says the US-Iran war will end right after midterms
Seven months after launching the war on Iran, US President Donald Trump says it will end immediately after midterms.
The one thing you need to do to succeed - according to top bosses
What makes someone stand out in a crowded workplace? Six business leaders tell us what they look for.
Chancellor urged to fix £100k childcare ‘cliff edge’ that prompts parents to cut work
Threshold pushes some to reduce hours or stop working to avoid losing entitlement, report warns John Healey has been urged to fix the £100,000 childcare “cliff edge”, that means some higher-paid employees cut back on work to avoid losing their entitlement. Since the latest expansion of taxpayer-funded childcare in 2024, families with young children in which both parents earn less than £100,000 a year can be entitled to 30 hours a week of care - or none at all, if one of them cross that threshold. Continue reading...
There aren’t AirPods with cameras yet and I hope it stays that way
September Apple events are always a swirl of information and new, exciting products, and today's was no different. Apple announced its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max; active noise cancellation (ANC) is now on the cheapest AirPods model, the AirPods 5; and a Siri Recap feature comes to […]
The black iPhone Pro returns
Apple has seen reason: It has a black model in the iPhone Pro lineup again. Last year, Apple went bold with its colors for the iPhone 17 Pro, offering a flashy orange, a shiny silver, and a dark blue. Don't get me wrong, they looked nice. But there was no black (or dark gray) for […]
$100 oil isn't turning Cramer bearish on stocks. Here are 3 reasons why
CNBC's Jim Cramer said he’s not ready to turn bearish despite mounting pressure from $100 oil and signs that higher gasoline prices are weighing on consumers.
OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.