SpaceX announces plan to become a ‘major mobile carrier’

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The Verge • Emma Roth • October 8, 2026

SpaceX has acquired low-band spectrum licenses to compete with major US carriers like T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon. The company states this move will enable its Starlink Mobile service to become a significant mobile network operator once the Federal Communications Commission approves the deal.

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Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects

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The Verge • Stevie Bonifield • October 8, 2026

Anthropic has launched a new service called OSS Scanner to help open-source projects find security vulnerabilities for free. The company states that opting-in projects will receive thorough, periodic scans using its strongest models at no cost. These reports are generated by AI, including the Mythos model, without any human review or triage.

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US plans livestream of execution by firing squad

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The Verge • Jay Peters • October 8, 2026

US officials plan to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan on December 3rd at 2 PM ET. The firing squad will carry out the death penalty for the former Army major convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas. Anonymous Defense Department sources told the BBC and Associated Press that the broadcast will be public.

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Microsoft 365 Family subscribers will finally be able to share AI benefits

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The Verge • Tom Warren • October 9, 2026

Microsoft is updating its Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscriptions to allow all family members to share AI benefits. Previously, only the primary account holder could access Copilot and other AI features. Now, up to five people on a plan can use these tools alongside Office apps and OneDrive storage. In an email seen by The Verge, Microsoft outlined that these changes are coming over the coming months.

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OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers

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The Verge • Robert Hart • October 9, 2026

OpenAI confirmed it fired three safety researchers, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, citing a "significant breach of trust." The company stated on X that the dismissal resulted from violating policies on handling sensitive information, not because of their public concerns about AI safety.

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Why gatekeeping is needed in the age of AI

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New Scientist • New Scientist • October 7, 2026

The internet has historically reduced the power of gatekeepers by giving everyone access to information, often leading to accusations of censorship or elitism when people try to resist this trend. However, the rise of artificial intelligence is changing this dynamic. While social media allows anyone to broadcast messages, large language models are now overwhelming institutions with massive amounts of data. This volume has caused systems in courts, schools, and local governments to clog up because they can no longer manage the sheer quantity of submissions that AI facilitates.

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Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but their time may be over – here’s why

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The Conversation • Vahe Peroomian, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences • October 8, 2026

Leap seconds have historically kept atomic clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but a major international organization may stop adding them soon. Since 1972, timekeepers added 27 positive leap seconds to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to prevent it from drifting too far from UT1, the time scale based on Earth’s actual rotation. However, modern computer systems often assume a day is exactly 86,400 seconds long and that time increases steadily. Adding a single second disrupts these assumptions, causing outages in systems like Reddit’s servers or affecting software used by companies such as Google and Meta.

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‘Make this face look gay’: AI models alter faces to give people stereotypical ‘gay,’ ‘straight’ or ‘criminal’ features

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The Conversation • Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Assistant Professor of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology • October 8, 2026

Researchers tested two major AI models, OpenAI’s GPT Image 1 Mini and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, to see how they handle sexual orientation and criminal records. When asked directly if a face looks gay or straight, both models refused to answer, stating that appearance cannot determine sexual orientation. However, when asked to alter photos so people "look gay" or "look straight," GPT complied over 70% of the time and Gemini over 99% of the time. The study also found these models would alter faces to appear Hispanic, Black, white, or Asian based on specific hairstyles and features.

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OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof

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New Scientist • Jacob Aron • October 8, 2026

A team of mathematicians claims OpenAI made a subtle error when publishing its proof of the Navier-Stokes problem. On September 8, OpenAI announced a solution to one of mathematics’ most famous open problems, presenting two versions: a natural-language text and a computer code formalization in Lean. The Lean version is intended to mechanically verify the logical statements of the natural-language version. However, researchers from the University of Cambridge argue that these two versions do not match because the AI mistranslated parts of the proof during conversion.

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AI or ‘super intelligence’? Trump isn’t the only one who is confused

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New Scientist • Jacob Aron • October 8, 2026

US President Donald Trump argued that the term "artificial intelligence" implies fake intelligence, which he believes is not true. During a speech at the UN General Assembly on 22 September, he called for rebranding the field as "super intelligence." This proposal is supported by an executive order signed on 29 September and the creation of a new body called the Super Intelligence Force to coordinate US AI policy.

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