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Nvidia’s AVO agent harness scored a perfect 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark using the same Claude Opus 5 model that scores just 30% on its own, without changing a single model weight.
The 2022 Rockstar hack has a number attached to it: $5 million. The CyberLeek leaks have a much bigger one: $2.83 billion in market value gone in three days. Only one of those is money the company actually spent.
In 1960, three researchers fitted every population estimate from year 1 to 1958 into one equation and it blew up on Friday, November 13, 2026. The math was sound, the date was a private joke, and the curve broke two years after the paper ran.
After the FBI and NSA disrupted a Russian GRU network of hijacked home routers, everyone was told to reboot. A restart genuinely helps, but the specific attack in that advisory is one a reboot does not touch. Here is the difference.
Pew Research Center sampled roughly 490,000 web pages to put dead internet theory to the test. Ten percent of the live web shows signs of AI authorship. Among pages published since ChatGPT launched, it is 35 percent.
Mattel’s UNO Championship Series ends in a Twitch streamed final in Los Angeles on November 11 with $50,000 on the line, and the qualifying route that costs nothing runs through the free mobile app. Here are the dates, the routes and the official rules most players get wrong.
Three Phosphatine branded Game & Watch handhelds are heading to auction at Ewbank’s with a combined estimate of around $12,200. Fewer than ten are verified worldwide, and the reason they exist at all is a French cereal promotion.
A passenger’s laptop went into thermal runaway on approach to Dallas Fort Worth, the crew put it in a containment bag, and the FAA opened an investigation. Here is what actually happens inside a failing battery, and the rules almost nobody reads before flying.
A developer chasing a Bluetooth headphone glitch found AliExpress running silent audio through the Web Audio API to fingerprint visitors. No microphone involved, no way to see it happening, and no setting that turns it off.
Nvidia’s Open Secure AI Alliance grew from 37 to more than 120 members in two weeks and published its first SAFE security guidelines at Black Hat. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google still are not in it.