Perplexity is allowing OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to write communications, modify production software, monitor live systems, and create tests with substantially fewer human check-ins than earlier models. The shift moves Astra beyond code assistance toward supervised, end-to-end operation of the company’s search and answer platform.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that frontier AI development should proceed at a more measured pace so safety research can keep up with rapidly advancing capabilities. He says pacing would not halt training or technical progress, but would create time to improve alignment, operational security, interpretability, testing, and independent evaluation.

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Debian 13.7 “Trixie” is now available with 107 security updates, 106 bug fixes, and a new installer kernel. The seventh point release gives administrators a particularly important reason to patch: QEMU receives fixes for more than 20 secure-boot bypass vulnerabilities, while glibc updates trigger rebuilds of core utilities including Bash and BusyBox.

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The Dutch NCSC now expects attackers to target two critical Check Point VPN flaws soon, despite no public proof-of-concept exploit. The warning raises the urgency around Check Point’s disclosure of two CVSS 9.8 Quantum VPN certificate RCEs, which can be triggered during certificate processing before authentication.

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Google has completed a talent acquisition from AI coding startup Mechanize, bringing co-founder Tamay Besiroglu and more than a dozen employees into Google DeepMind. The team is expected to focus on mid-training, a model-development stage aimed at improving coding and chatbot performance as Google works to close the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI.

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Google Workspace’s native migration tool is now generally available for small businesses and educational institutions moving from Microsoft 365. It can copy users, email, OneDrive files, calendars, contacts, and tasks into a new Google Workspace tenant, but the initial rollout is limited to 10 users and specific subscription plans.

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Microsoft is moving Administrator Protection into the Windows 11 26H2 rollout after disabling the feature during the previous release cycle. It appeared in the Release Preview build KB5124006 and is now being distributed more broadly through the September 2026 update, KB5124008.

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Salesforce is expanding Agentforce with a lineup of specialized AI agents that can pursue work beyond a single conversation, from finding B2B leads to processing returns and answering employee help-desk questions. Most agents are generally available now, while remaining capabilities are scheduled to arrive by the end of 2026.

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RubyGems is Ruby’s package manager: it lets developers package, publish, find, install, update, and manage reusable Ruby code called gems. A newly disclosed campaign used OpenAI agents to upload about 2,000 malicious RubyGems packages, exploit a RubyDoc.info build-server flaw, and probe for developer API keys. RubyGems halted new account registrations for four days while investigating the May attack, but there is no conclusive evidence that the credentials were successfully stolen or misused.

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HVCI, or Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity, is a Windows 11 security feature also called Memory Integrity. It uses Virtualization-Based Security (VBS)—which uses the Windows hypervisor and CPU virtualization to create an isolated, protected memory area—to check kernel code and drivers before they run. This blocks untrusted or modified drivers and helps prevent rootkits and kernel-level malware, although older drivers may be incompatible. Microsoft is testing broader automatic Memory Integrity protection in Windows 11 Insider Experimental build 26340.9482, extending the rollout beyond the devices identified in the planned October HVCI rollout. On compatible PCs, updates may now enable HVCI while still honoring user settings and enterprise policies.

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KB5124008, Microsoft’s September 2026 Windows 11 security update, can leave Hyper-V-based Linux VMs running while silently breaking their access to folders shared from the Windows host. The regression affects WSL, Claude Cowork, and other applications that depend on Plan9 or 9P host-folder mounts, and Microsoft is preparing a fix.

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Google Research has released TimesFM-3, a 330-million-parameter AI forecasting model that combines sales history with related products, foot traffic, weather forecasts, and scheduled promotions. Unlike earlier TimesFM versions, it can model multiple time series together and fill an entire forecast horizon in one pass.

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Microsoft has confirmed a new Windows 11 Patch Tuesday problem that disables USB Audio Class 1.0 devices with Device Manager’s Code 10 error. The failure affects client systems running Windows 11 26H1, 25H2, and 24H2, while Windows Server installations are not impacted; Microsoft has not yet provided a fix date.

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Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner defended continued AI development during an interview with Scott, arguing that recent warnings about self-improving systems have overstated the danger while ignoring safeguards already being built by technology companies and governments. Gerstner said the debate should focus on both AI’s risks and its potential benefits, rather than treating development as a reckless race.

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash combines open weights, extremely low pricing, and output speeds that Matthew Berman estimates at roughly 200 tokens per second. Its efficiency is impressive enough to reduce memory requirements dramatically, but hands-on coding tests revealed serious weaknesses in simulations and visual applications.

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Microsoft has extended AD FS-based Modern Authentication in on-premises Exchange Server to Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android. Modern Authentication (also called OAuth 2.0) lets mail clients obtain short-lived access tokens from Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) instead of repeatedly sending usernames and passwords. This closes a client gap for organizations that already use AD FS Modern Authentication on desktop Outlook and the native Mail apps on Apple devices. Hybrid Exchange deployments are not in scope; Microsoft still expects those environments to use Hybrid Modern Authentication with Microsoft Entra ID. This article explains what changed, who it affects, and what you need on the server and client side.

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1.6T Ethernet is moving beyond specifications and into hardware interoperability testing, as the Ethernet Alliance prepares to demonstrate switches, optical modules, and cables from more than a dozen vendors at ECOC. In parallel, the Optical Internetworking Forum’s 1600ZR standard will carry a complete 1.6T Ethernet connection over one coherent wavelength for data-center interconnects spanning up to 120 kilometers.

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Matt Mullenweg says he is back in control of Automattic, just days after the company’s board placed him on leave and named CFO Mark Davies interim CEO. The apparent leadership reversal remains unconfirmed by Automattic, while changes to internal Slack access suggest the dispute may have moved from a boardroom fight into an operational incident.

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Microsoft’s Windows 11 Insider Experimental (Future Platforms) build 29667.1000 fixes an Arm64 upgrade failure that could roll systems back with error 0xc1900101, following build 29661’s update-failure fixes. The preview also adds Emoji 17.0 and repairs problems affecting Remote Desktop, Wi-Fi, the taskbar, touchpad gestures, and the modern Run dialog.

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