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Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift

Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more After pleading guilty, a 54-year-old North Carolina man, Michael Smith, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using artificial intelligence to generate songs for a scheme that stole millions from music streaming platforms. In a press release Tuesday, the US Department of Justice said that Smith is the first American criminally charged with AI-assisted streaming fraud.

Amazon Apple
Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)
DeveloperTools HardwareLaunch

langchain-huggingface==1.2.3

langchain-huggingface==1.2.3 Changes since langchain-huggingface==1.2.2 fix(huggingface): use a supported Scaleway model in streaming test (#41095) chore(deps): bump langgraph-sdk from 0.4.4 to 0.4.6 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#41098) chore(deps): bump langgraph-sdk from 0.4.2 to 0.4.4 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#41076) chore(deps): bump fsspec from 2026.6.0 to 2026.9.0 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#41092) chore(deps): bump fsspec from 2025.9.0 to 2026.6.0 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#41077) chore(huggingface): update lockfile (#41088) release(huggingface): 1.2.3 (#41058) fix(huggingface): hide `huggingfacehub_api_token` from `repr` (#41047) chore(deps): bump sentence-transformers from 5.2.3 to 5.6.0 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#40959) chore(deps): bump urllib3 from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#40957) chore(deps): bump tornado from 6.5.8 to 6.5.9 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#40958) chore(model-profiles): refresh model profile data (#40747) chore(model-profiles): refresh model p

Hugging Face OpenAI
Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)
DeveloperTools PolicyChange

AI Development on Windows: From PyTorch and Llama.cpp to Windows ML

AI Development on Windows: From PyTorch and Llama.cpp to Windows ML Today we are highlighting improvements across a few key open-source projects many of you already use, as well as updates to Windows ML. To empower developers, we must support the broad range of tools for experimentation and exploration across inference and training, in addition to our production grade native inference stack.

GitHub Hugging Face llama qwen Large Language Models Open Source
Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)
DeveloperTools Other

New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup

New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup (Image credit: Clamp image by WilliPuschel from Pixabay ) Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 2 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Subscribe to our newsletter A new compression model, called CRAM, offers a different path to compression that avoids swap entirely by keeping the compressed data in memory, and it offers up to 452x the performance of ZRAM. I was a kid in the 1990s when the idea seemed so simple to me: I can use PKZIP to compress my files, so why can't we do that with RAM?

Google Meta
Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)
Hardware PriceChange

Surface Laptop Ultra has a release date – and a starting price of $2,599

Surface Laptop Ultra has a release date – and a starting price of $2,599 Tech Updated Today, Oct 7, 2026, 7:05 PM UTC Everything announced at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra event by Jay Peters Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra , its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip.

Microsoft Apple AI Agents
Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)
CloudInfrastructure PriceChange

Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 on AWS

Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 on AWS Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Haiku 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS . According to Anthropic, Claude Haiku 5.5 is the fastest and most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-volume, cost-sensitive work.

Anthropic Intel claude Claude 5.5 AI Agents Large Language Models
Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 9 source(s)
ArtificialIntelligence ProductUpdate

Rethinking access control for RAG with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock

Rethinking access control for RAG with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock Enterprise organizations are adopting Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to unlock insights from company knowledge sources like Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, and Atlassian Confluence. However, these knowledge sources contain sensitive information governed by complex permission structures.

Amazon Web Services Amazon Large Language Models Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)
DeveloperTools ProductLaunch

Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder for $5,999

Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder for $5,999 Microsoft’s high-end AI mini PC for developers starts shipping in November. Microsoft’s high-end AI mini PC for developers starts shipping in November. by Stevie Bonifield Oct 7, 2026, 5:46 PM UTC Image: Microsoft Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.

GitHub Microsoft AI Agents
Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)
Hardware PriceChange

The Surface Laptop Ultra coming on Oct 16 – and a starting price of $2,599

The Surface Laptop Ultra coming on Oct 16 – and a starting price of $2,599 The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599 Microsoft’s most powerful Surface arrives on October 16th, alongside other RTX Spark devices. Microsoft’s most powerful Surface arrives on October 16th, alongside other RTX Spark devices.

Microsoft Apple
Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)
DeveloperTools Funding

Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?

Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants? Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more As a flight director during NASA’s Apollo missions, Gerry Griffin led several lunar landings. He helped bring the crew of Apollo 13 safely back to Earth.

Microsoft Intel
Updated Oct 7, 2026 · source date Oct 6, 2026 · 1 source(s)
DeveloperTools PolicyChange

Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development

Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development Brian Celenza · @bcelenza October 6, 2026 | 9 minutes Every day on GitHub, millions of developers build the products their customers rely on, contribute to open source, and pursue personal projects. GitHub’s architecture has changed steadily over the years to support that work and the growing demands of the developers and organizations who depend on it.

GitHub Open Source AI Agents
Updated Oct 7, 2026 · source date Oct 6, 2026 · 1 source(s)
DeveloperTools Other

Jiwo 0.8B – Pushing the sub 1B decision models leaderboard

Jiwo 0.8B – Pushing the sub 1B decision models leaderboard I love you"}],"safetensors":{"parameters":{"BF16":752393024},"total":752393024,"sharded":false,"totalFileSize":1504820888},"hasBlockedOids":false,"region":"us","isQuantized":false,"licenseFilePath":"LICENSE"},"discussionsStats":{"closed":0,"open":0,"total":0},"query":{},"inferenceContextData":{"billableEntities":[],"entityName2Providers":{}},"hasQuantizations":false,"copyToBucketNamespaces":[]}"> jiwo-0.8b The highest Decision Index score of all models under 1B parameters (28.00) : 1st of 33 on the live board and in open submissions, and ahead of every other Qwen3.5-0.8B fine-tune. jiwo-0.8b is a decision model.

GitHub NVIDIA qwen CUDA Synthetic Data
Updated Oct 7, 2026 · source date Oct 6, 2026 · 1 source(s)
DeveloperTools PriceChange

OpenAI Decisions API is in public beta

OpenAI Decisions API is in public beta The Decisions API evaluates text, images, or both and returns typed answers about 10x faster than the Responses API. Get the probability that a condition is true, a choice from a fixed set, or a score against a rubric.

OpenAI gpt-6 GPT
Updated Oct 7, 2026 · source date Oct 6, 2026 · 1 source(s)
DeveloperTools ProductLaunch

Bringing Native AOT to the Aspire Dashboard

Bringing Native AOT to the Aspire Dashboard Developers love the Aspire dashboard for viewing real-time telemetry and state of their apps. It’s easy to use and automatically collects telemetry from Aspire apps.

GitHub Microsoft
Updated Oct 7, 2026 · source date Oct 6, 2026 · 1 source(s)
DeveloperTools SecurityIncident

A faster, lighter C# Dev Kit

A faster, lighter C# Dev Kit We developers know just how fast computers can be, and we want to feel that speed in our tools. Waiting for language support to load, builds to complete and tests to run is time we could better spend in other ways.

GitHub Microsoft
Updated Oct 7, 2026 · source date Oct 6, 2026 · 1 source(s)
DeveloperTools ProductLaunch

Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Attackers hijacked three top-level domains and used their control to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large organizations, Google said Tuesday. The attackers launched a series of attacks on the .gh, .sl, and .as country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and then modified the DNS records for selected domains the registries issued.

Google
Updated Oct 7, 2026 · source date Oct 6, 2026 · 1 source(s)
Research Other

New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"

New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice" Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Egyptologists have long debated whether the earliest pharaohs of the First Dynasty were buried with various servants and officials to serve them in the afterlife—a form of human sacrifice . But there is very little archaeological evidence available, given that many of the earliest Egyptian tombs were plundered and/or hastily excavated.

Intel
Updated Oct 7, 2026 · source date Oct 6, 2026 · 1 source(s)
ArtificialIntelligence ProductUpdate

Who owns 'brain rot'?: inside the international legal drama over a beloved meme

Who owns 'brain rot'?: inside the international legal drama over a beloved meme Viral internet character Tung Tung Tung Sahur was created in 2025 by an Indonesian teen who goes by the username Noxa, using OpenAI’s image-generation tool. Illustration: Guardian Design Viral internet character Tung Tung Tung Sahur was created in 2025 by an Indonesian teen who goes by the username Noxa, using OpenAI’s image-generation tool.

Intel OpenAI Generative AI
Updated Oct 7, 2026 · source date Oct 6, 2026 · 1 source(s)