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19th century Nature account of 1841 train delayed by geomagnetic storm got year wrong—due to a typo.

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-wrote-elizabeth-is-most-scathing-letters-new-research-suggests-the-tudor-queens-male-secretaries-revised-her-correspondence-to-emphasize-her-temper-180989565/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881692 Points: 36 # Comments: 20

Kimi Antonelli could not repeat his Monza magic after a crash in qualifying.

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-teen-portraits-that-captivated-sofia-coppola Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881606 Points: 68 # Comments: 35

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Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/openai-still-doesnt-seem-to-have-a-handle-on-all-of-its-rogue-ai-activity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881484 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents.

Apple released a variety of software updates today focused on bug fixes and security updates, including iOS 26.7.1 for iPhone. Here are the details. more…

GMKtec launches the Evo-X5 Pro, an agentic mini-PC with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495, 192GB of RAM, and a price tag up to $7,099.

Following two release candidates, Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.7.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.8.1, as well as macOS 27.0.1. Here are the details. more…

...with some small hiccups along the way.

This follows a lawsuit from this summer where ChatGPT was allegedly connected to a mass shooting.

Apple has just released iOS 27.0.1, a new iPhone software update with key bug fixes for issues introduced in iOS 27. Here’s what’s new. more…

Article URL: https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2026/09/28/how-pew-research-center-is-and-is-not-using-ai-in-our-work-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881135 Points: 9 # Comments: 2

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology ...

When the U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, it also meant that its chief prosecutor lost access to Microsoft services, forcing the Dutch government to make alternative plans.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from "giving ChatGPT false human attributes," a few months after Florida sued the AI company over safety concerns. According to Uthmeier, users are lulled into a false sense of security by the AI bot, as "ChatGPT's use...

In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too. OpenAI's latest attempt to repair fractu...

Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/driver-ticketed-for-no-insurance-despite-having-insurance-just-because-flock-said-she-didnt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880992 Points: 27 # Comments: 3

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