AI
AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
Rich Hickey’s October 11, 2026 essay, “'AI' is Not a Tool,” has drawn a detailed rebuttal over how to classify large language models.
AI
Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
Anthropic’s Claude AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia Police Department, the company and the department confirmed on Friday.
Prism
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 Starlink mission for 1st time in more than 3 weeks
SpaceX launched 27 Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit on Oct. It was the first Falcon 9 Starlink mission since Sept.
Crypto
Bitcoin rebounds above $83,000 as it decouples from tumbling Korean stocks and Nasdaq futures
Bitcoin rebounded above $83,000 after briefly falling below $81,000, decoupling from tumbling Korean chip stocks and weak Nasdaq futures.
Crypto
Bitcoin whale that sat through the March 2020 crash moves $378 million
A long-dormant Bitcoin wallet that survived the March 2020 Covid crash moved about 4,582 BTC, worth $377.6 million, on Monday.
AI
David Pocock concerned senior Albanese adviser ‘vetted’ bipartisan AI letter that was sent to PM
A bipartisan parliamentary committee letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on artificial intelligence policy was reviewed and edited by a senior adviser in his office before it was sent, according to notes seen by Guardian Australia.
AI
GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle
An unused 10th-generation Kindle Basic has been transformed into a Wi-Fi-controlled photo frame after a coding experiment using GPT-6 Astra.
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SpaceX launching 6,300 pounds of cargo to the ISS on Oct. 13: Watch it live
SpaceX launching 6,300 pounds of cargo to the ISS on Oct.
HotCrypto
Tokenized SanDisk bets saw more liquidations than XRP as Asia’s chip rout wipes out $800 million
Crypto exchanges liquidated roughly $803 million in leveraged positions over a 24-hour period as a selloff in Asian semiconductor stocks spilled into digital-asset markets.
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Blur is shutting down its website, so why are NFT collectors cheering?
Blur, the nonfungible token marketplace that once overtook OpenSea as the largest NFT trading venue by volume, has announced it will shut down its website on Nov.