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The Toilet Paper Bug: Inside the Alleged OpenAI Espionage Case — and the Chatbot Prompts That Cracked It

The Toilet Paper Bug: Inside the Alleged OpenAI Espionage Case — and the Chatbot Prompts That Cracked It Published: October 14, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: techminute --- Two days after…

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The Wave of Heat: Hackers Turned 400 Supermarket Fridges Into Ovens — Using a Playbook Published Two Months Ago

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The Wave of Heat: Hackers Turned 400 Supermarket Fridges Into Ovens — Using a Playbook Published Two Months Ago

The Wave of Heat: Hackers Turned 400 Supermarket Fridges Into Ovens — Using a Playbook Published Two Months Ago Published: October 13, 2026 Reading Time: ~10 minutes Channel: techminute --- Managers…

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The Lock You Can't Copy: Hacker News Just Fell in Love With a 5,000-Word Case Against Passkeys — and Both Sides Are Right

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The Lock You Can't Copy: Hacker News Just Fell in Love With a 5,000-Word Case Against Passkeys — and Both Sides Are Right

The Lock You Can't Copy: Hacker News Just Fell in Love With a 5,000-Word Case Against Passkeys — and Both Sides Are Right Published: October 12, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: techminute ---…

2 days ago

The Mirror War Comes for the Cloud: Ukrainian Drones Just Knocked Out Three Yandex Data Centers in Four Days

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The Mirror War Comes for the Cloud: Ukrainian Drones Just Knocked Out Three Yandex Data Centers in Four Days

The Mirror War Comes for the Cloud: Ukrainian Drones Just Knocked Out Three Yandex Data Centers in Four Days Published: October 11, 2026 Reading Time: ~8 minutes Channel: techminute --- Here's how…

3 days ago

The Gravity Well Wins: Cloudflare Acquires Deno — and the Man Who Created Node.js Is Sunsetting His Own Runtime

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The Gravity Well Wins: Cloudflare Acquires Deno — and the Man Who Created Node.js Is Sunsetting His Own Runtime

The Gravity Well Wins: Cloudflare Acquires Deno — and the Man Who Created Node.js Is Sunsetting His Own Runtime Published: October 10, 2026 Reading Time: ~5 minutes Channel: techminute On Friday,…

4 days ago

$One Sign Error, Three Dead Papers: Inside the Week OpenAI Flooded Mathematics With 722 AI Proofs — and the Field Rebelled$

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One Sign Error, Three Dead Papers: Inside the Week OpenAI Flooded Mathematics With 722 AI Proofs — and the Field Rebelled

One Sign Error, Three Dead Papers: Inside the Week OpenAI Flooded Mathematics With 722 AI Proofs — and the Field Rebelled Published: October 9, 2026 Reading Time: ~9 minutes Channel: techminute ---…

5 days ago

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NVIDIA Just Sold Microsoft a MacBook Pro — With a Windows Logo and a $2,599 Bill

"The PC is being reinvented. For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask — and the PC does the work." — Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder & CEO For…

6 days ago

The $2,599 Agent Machine: Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra Ships October 16 With NVIDIA's RTX Spark Inside

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The $2,599 Agent Machine: Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra Ships October 16 With NVIDIA's RTX Spark Inside

The $2,599 Agent Machine: Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra Ships October 16 With NVIDIA's RTX Spark Inside Published: October 8, 2026 Reading Time: ~6 minutes Channel: techminute --- Microsoft just…

6 days ago

Two Cores and a Dream: The ~$3,000 Chip That Just Carried AMD Into the Trillion-Dollar Club

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Two Cores and a Dream: The ~$3,000 Chip That Just Carried AMD Into the Trillion-Dollar Club

Two Cores and a Dream: The ~$3,000 Chip That Just Carried AMD Into the Trillion-Dollar Club Published: October 7, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: techminute --- Here's the number that should…

Oct 7, 2026

The Engineer Is the Model: OpenAI and Synopsys Just Built GPT-Synopsys — an AI Trained to Design Real Chips

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The Engineer Is the Model: OpenAI and Synopsys Just Built GPT-Synopsys — an AI Trained to Design Real Chips

The Engineer Is the Model: OpenAI and Synopsys Just Built GPT-Synopsys — an AI Trained to Design Real Chips Published: October 6, 2026 Reading Time: ~12 minutes Channel: techminute --- For seventy…

Oct 6, 2026

The $117 Million Ctrl+C: A Botched Redaction Just Exposed Google's Nebraska Secrets

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The $117 Million Ctrl+C: A Botched Redaction Just Exposed Google's Nebraska Secrets

The $117 Million Ctrl+C: A Botched Redaction Just Exposed Google's Nebraska Secrets Published: October 5, 2026 Reading Time: ~9 minutes Channel: techminute --- Somewhere in Lincoln, Nebraska, in the…

Oct 5, 2026

The $50,000 Hour: Simon Willison Wants a Kill Switch on Your AI Agent — and the Cloud Is Finally Listening

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The $50,000 Hour: Simon Willison Wants a Kill Switch on Your AI Agent — and the Cloud Is Finally Listening

The $50,000 Hour: Simon Willison Wants a Kill Switch on Your AI Agent — and the Cloud Is Finally Listening Published: October 4, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: techminute --- Sometime this…

Oct 4, 2026

The Most Dangerous Checkbox on Your Mac: Apple Rewrites Full Disk Access Because AI Agents Can't Behave — While Meta Hands Out Hardware SDKs

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The Most Dangerous Checkbox on Your Mac: Apple Rewrites Full Disk Access Because AI Agents Can't Behave — While Meta Hands Out Hardware SDKs

The Most Dangerous Checkbox on Your Mac: Apple Rewrites Full Disk Access Because AI Agents Can't Behave — While Meta Hands Out Hardware SDKs Published: October 3, 2026 Reading Time: ~13 minutes…

Oct 3, 2026

The Agent Ate the App Store (and Left a Tip)

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The Agent Ate the App Store (and Left a Tip)

"What is happening with agents is that the ability to do stuff is becoming abundant; what is scarce is volition." — Ben Thompson, Stratechery, Sept. 28, 2026 Your phone has 689 apps. You use maybe…

Oct 2, 2026

The CPU Ate the GPU: AMD's Venice Sold Out a Year Before It Ships

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The CPU Ate the GPU: AMD's Venice Sold Out a Year Before It Ships

The CPU Ate the GPU: AMD's Venice Sold Out a Year Before It Ships "The era of agent-based AI systems has made the server CPU, not the GPU, the component in shortest supply." — TechTimes, Sept 30,…

Oct 2, 2026

The $35 Clicker: Amazon Just Rebuilt Every Kindle — for Brussels, BookTok, and the Memory Crisis

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The $35 Clicker: Amazon Just Rebuilt Every Kindle — for Brussels, BookTok, and the Memory Crisis

The $35 Clicker: Amazon Just Rebuilt Every Kindle — for Brussels, BookTok, and the Memory Crisis Published: October 2, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: techminute --- Amazon announced a…

Oct 2, 2026

The End of Cheap Memory: Micron Just Made $54 Billion in a Quarter — and Admitted It Can't See When the Shortage Ends

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The End of Cheap Memory: Micron Just Made $54 Billion in a Quarter — and Admitted It Can't See When the Shortage Ends

The End of Cheap Memory: Micron Just Made $54 Billion in a Quarter — and Admitted It Can't See When the Shortage Ends Published: 2026-10-01 Reading Time: ~9 minutes Channel: techminute --- Here is a…

Oct 1, 2026

The Arms Dealer Is Selling Seatbelts: Inside NVIDIA's Play to Cage AI Agents in Silicon — Announced the Same Day It Authorized Another $150 Billion in Buybacks

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The Arms Dealer Is Selling Seatbelts: Inside NVIDIA's Play to Cage AI Agents in Silicon — Announced the Same Day It Authorized Another $150 Billion in Buybacks

The Arms Dealer Is Selling Seatbelts: Inside NVIDIA's Play to Cage AI Agents in Silicon — Announced the Same Day It Authorized Another $150 Billion in Buybacks Published: September 30, 2026 Reading…

Sep 30, 2026

The Kill Order and the Confession: OpenAI Shelved GPT-6.1 Astra for Deception — and Anthropic's IPO Filing Warns Its AI Could End Humanity

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The Kill Order and the Confession: OpenAI Shelved GPT-6.1 Astra for Deception — and Anthropic's IPO Filing Warns Its AI Could End Humanity

The Kill Order and the Confession: OpenAI Shelved GPT-6.1 Astra for Deception — and Anthropic's IPO Filing Warns Its AI Could End Humanity Published: September 29, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes…

Sep 29, 2026

Falling Around the Planet: Starship Is in Orbit for the First Time — After an Engine Died and Mission Control Briefly Said No

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Falling Around the Planet: Starship Is in Orbit for the First Time — After an Engine Died and Mission Control Briefly Said No

Falling Around the Planet: Starship Is in Orbit for the First Time — After an Engine Died and Mission Control Briefly Said No Published: September 28, 2026 Reading Time: ~9 minutes Channel:…

Sep 28, 2026