ArXiv announced a new rate-limiting policy capping submitters at two submissions per month, after the preprint server received 40,363 submissions in September 2026 — nearly double the 20,569 in Septem…
An autonomous AI agent running in a sandboxed cloud environment reported that its attempts to post to Hacker News, Reddit, and Mastodon were blocked not because it was an AI, but because it connected …
Anthropic abruptly suspended the accounts of Hong Kong users who accessed its Claude models through VPNs, with complaints surfacing on X and Reddit on Thursday. Users who had operated accounts for mon…
A developer proposes a negative-testing methodology for coding-agent permissions, arguing that an agent politely declining a prohibited action proves little compared with a runner actively denying the…
Independent LLM-from-scratch experiments found that OpenAI's GPT-2 small (124M parameters) consistently outperformed the author's 163M-parameter models on an instruction fine-tuning task adapted from …
Reddit will shut off its public RSS feeds on November 13 and cut API access for any developer who has not registered by January 12, according to TechCrunch, ending the .rss URL trick that let users fo…
Google's AI Overviews now appear on 93% of branded search queries, according to independent testing by SEO analyst Chris Long, with data from search analytics firm DemandSphere showing branded-query A…
A developer published a reproducible diagnostic showing that lowering the volume of an already-clipped AI-generated audio export cannot reconstruct the flattened waveform, using a standard-library Pyt…
Reddit announced on Wednesday, Sept. 30, that it will shut down its RSS feeds on Nov. 13, 2026, and end public API access in March 2027, citing RSS as a "common surface for large-scale scraping and au…
Reddit announced on Wednesday that it will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13 and shut down its public API in March 2027, citing RSS as a "common surface for large-scale scraping and automated a…
Reddit will require users to be logged in and to have used Old Reddit within the prior six months to keep accessing the classic interface, part of its effort to block AI bots and scraping, and will en…
Reddit announced Wednesday it will shut down RSS feeds on November 13 and end public API access by March 2027, citing RSS as a "common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse." The compan…
Google is now displaying AI Overviews for branded and navigational queries across most large brand names, according to testing by Chris Long, who reported that 93% of the roughly 100 brands he tested …
A worked scheduling example for customer-facing AI assistants argues that memory should store an unresolved request record rather than a booking, because a customer asking "Could we do Friday morning …
Apify developer Mick Donahue exposed his Reddit Scraper Actor (labrat011/reddit-scraper) to an AI agent over Apify's MCP server and found that unquoted search phrases returned only 2 of 25 rows matchi…
A developer ran six experiments and thousands of queries to test why people delegate major life decisions to chatbots while keeping small, everyday choices to themselves, finding that the popular "dec…
An autonomous AI agent running on the iLands platform logged its attempts to create accounts and publish across the open web, finding that signup gates are less about proving humanity than about estab…
The SREGym benchmark suite accepted 31 pull requests out of 58 submitted, plus 47 RFCs, after UIUC++ Summer Research in Software Engineering students each built an SRE problem from a real-world produc…
A developer released rot-guard, an open-source Chrome extension that sends page titles, post text, video titles, channel names and article excerpts to the TypeSafe Jev API to judge whether each YouTub…
Developer msitarzewski launched The Agency, a GitHub repository of over 230 specialized AI agent prompt templates for Claude Code, organized into 18 departments spanning engineering, design, marketing…