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I’ve known about this for a couple of weeks, but now I can share: as of today, arXiv is rate-limiting submissions to two per month. And as a mod, I have to admit this is a necessary move (at least temporarily).
blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...
blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...
Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
blog.arxiv.org
October 1, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I’ve known about this for a couple of weeks, but now I can share: as of today, arXiv is rate-limiting submissions to two per month. And as a mod, I have to admit this is a necessary move (at least temporarily).
blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...
blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...
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Editorial: Eric Schmitt airballs with 'dirtbag' attack www.stltoday.com/opinion/edit...
Editorial: Eric Schmitt airballs with 'dirtbag' attack
Editorial: "What felt like an especially cringey episode of the HBO political comedy 'Veep' began when Schmitt went after former special counsel Jack Smith during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing....
www.stltoday.com
October 1, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Editorial: Eric Schmitt airballs with 'dirtbag' attack www.stltoday.com/opinion/edit...
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October 1, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online www.openculture.com/2026/09/the-...
The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online
The history of the printed word is full of bibliographic twists and turns, major historical moments, and the significant printing of books now so obscure no one has read them since their publication.
www.openculture.com
September 30, 2026 at 11:22 AM
The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online www.openculture.com/2026/09/the-...
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“The word super is the best word of all,” Trump says. www.theverge.com/policy/10024...
Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
“The word super is the best word of all,” Trump says.
www.theverge.com
September 29, 2026 at 10:28 PM
“The word super is the best word of all,” Trump says. www.theverge.com/policy/10024...
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Did space weather delay the 10.05 pm train from Exeter to Newton Abbot on 18 October 1841? 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/did-space-...
Did space weather delay a train in 1841? – Physics World
It would have been the earliest example of space weather impacting human technology, but an international team of researchers found a slight problem
physicsworld.com
September 29, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Did space weather delay the 10.05 pm train from Exeter to Newton Abbot on 18 October 1841? 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/did-space-...
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A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies. www.theverge.com/transportati...
Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think
“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said.
www.theverge.com
September 29, 2026 at 10:04 AM
A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies. www.theverge.com/transportati...
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Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Germany is building a digital Noah’s Ark for US climate data
Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands.
www.motherjones.com
September 28, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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World Labs’ co-founder and CEO will become AMD’s chief scientist. www.theverge.com/tech/1001749...
AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion
Another big AI acquisition.
www.theverge.com
September 28, 2026 at 9:34 PM
World Labs’ co-founder and CEO will become AMD’s chief scientist. www.theverge.com/tech/1001749...
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From Ansh Gupta: Black holes can launch jets that stretch for thousands of light-years. How can we find new formulas to describe them? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/09/26/black-hole-jets/
Black Holes Blow Magnetic Trumpets
Black holes can launch jets that stretch for thousands of light-years. How can we find new formulas to describe them?
astrobites.org
September 28, 2026 at 5:00 AM
From Ansh Gupta: Black holes can launch jets that stretch for thousands of light-years. How can we find new formulas to describe them? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/09/26/black-hole-jets/
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OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
www.404media.co/people-train...
www.404media.co/people-train...
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
www.404media.co
September 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
www.404media.co/people-train...
www.404media.co/people-train...
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In 2022, software engineer Shawn Ligocki discovered a six-rule Turing machine. Its runtime has more digits than the number of atoms in the universe. https://www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822/
September 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM
In 2022, software engineer Shawn Ligocki discovered a six-rule Turing machine. Its runtime has more digits than the number of atoms in the universe. https://www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822/
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I keep telling y'all, electric aviation is a dark horse.
The largest all-electric plane ever flew for 27 minutes, on $5 of electricity
Heart's X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes from a regional airport in upstate New York, running on battery power the entire time. The aircraft reached 1,100 feet...
www.techspot.com
September 27, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I keep telling y'all, electric aviation is a dark horse.
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From Annika Salmi: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just launched, but it started as a spy telescope. Turns out, there are many astronomy/defense connections… ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/09/25/astronomy-defense/
Astronomy’s Ties to Defense
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just launched, but it started as a spy telescope. Turns out, there are many astronomy/defense connections…
astrobites.org
September 27, 2026 at 9:06 AM
From Annika Salmi: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just launched, but it started as a spy telescope. Turns out, there are many astronomy/defense connections… ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/09/25/astronomy-defense/
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“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”
‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness
The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2026 at 6:07 PM
“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”
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“Our strategy is to create a competitive edge so steep, so insurmountable that no adversary or competitor can scale it. That’s why our goal is to make America the arsenal of AI in this century.”
Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Philippines
Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.
www.motherjones.com
September 26, 2026 at 6:00 AM
“Our strategy is to create a competitive edge so steep, so insurmountable that no adversary or competitor can scale it. That’s why our goal is to make America the arsenal of AI in this century.”
"Remarkably, reversing this process—asking the AI to write the paragraph from the context I provided, like describing how something works from the source code—was never valuable. Not once. It was consistently unpleasant to read, and often inaccurate."
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blog.colinbreck.com/i-dont-want-...
I Don’t Want to Read What You Didn’t Write
Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.
blog.colinbreck.com
September 26, 2026 at 12:51 AM
"Remarkably, reversing this process—asking the AI to write the paragraph from the context I provided, like describing how something works from the source code—was never valuable. Not once. It was consistently unpleasant to read, and often inaccurate."
blog.colinbreck.com/i-dont-want-...
blog.colinbreck.com/i-dont-want-...
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SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham.
I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com
I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com
Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
www.nature.com
September 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham.
I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com
I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com
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Experiments have confirmed the two foundational postulates of Richard Feynman’s path-integral approach to quantum mechanics for the first time 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/CfMu50ZRkZQ
Single photon measurements confirm Richard Feynman's vision of quantum mechanics – Physics World
Foundational postulates of the path-integral formulation observed in the lab
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September 25, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Experiments have confirmed the two foundational postulates of Richard Feynman’s path-integral approach to quantum mechanics for the first time 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/CfMu50ZRkZQ
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There’s a joke in the world of male contraceptives: They’ve been five years away for the past 50 years.
Is male birth control finally coming?
Inside the long-overdue push to develop more contraceptives for men.
www.motherjones.com
September 25, 2026 at 2:00 AM
There’s a joke in the world of male contraceptives: They’ve been five years away for the past 50 years.
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We see your Western Massachusetts lesbian KN-95 bar story. We raise you "bookseller tries to figure out if the company that posts close-ups of trout eggs that's trying to buy his entire inventory is actually AI scheming to slice up rare books to scan them" story.
A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
www.motherjones.com
September 25, 2026 at 3:00 AM
We see your Western Massachusetts lesbian KN-95 bar story. We raise you "bookseller tries to figure out if the company that posts close-ups of trout eggs that's trying to buy his entire inventory is actually AI scheming to slice up rare books to scan them" story.
"... but the problem is guardrails that specifically tell agents not to break into organisations have not been baked into the algorithms."
Just wondering, if what not to do has to be baked into the codes, what does it mean that AI thinks?
Just wondering, if what not to do has to be baked into the codes, what does it mean that AI thinks?
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
‘Our models took actions we did not intend,’ ChatGPT maker admits after latest outrage
trib.al
September 24, 2026 at 9:43 PM
"... but the problem is guardrails that specifically tell agents not to break into organisations have not been baked into the algorithms."
Just wondering, if what not to do has to be baked into the codes, what does it mean that AI thinks?
Just wondering, if what not to do has to be baked into the codes, what does it mean that AI thinks?
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We have to stop using "paper count" as a useful scientific metric. More writing output no longer means more knowledge gained
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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One professor’s AI-assisted output: 200 papers and 14 books this year
An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 23, 2026 at 1:39 PM
We have to stop using "paper count" as a useful scientific metric. More writing output no longer means more knowledge gained
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...