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  • October 8, 2026 · github.com

    OpenScholar brings code, models and 45 million papers

    On November 19, 2024, the OpenScholar repository presented code, model checkpoints, a collection of more than 45 million papers through October 2024, and the ScholarQABench benchmark.

  • October 8, 2026 · therecord.media

    Paragon plans to go public by year-end

    A September 29, 2026 article by The Record says Paragon plans to complete a deal near year-end and begin trading on Nasdaq under the REDLattice name.

  • October 8, 2026 · x.com

    Research as configurable code: NVIDIA’s approach

    On September 7, 2025, a NVIDIA post described a system that turns natural-language research strategies into executable functions, using search, interchangeable language models, and sandboxed execution.

  • October 8, 2026 · therecord.media

    Data privacy: jury cites nearly 44 million violations

    According to a September 28, 2026 article by The Record, a New Mexico jury found that Facebook misled consumers about its data privacy practices and violated the law nearly 44 million times.

  • October 8, 2026 · x.com

    Multi-hop RAG with a graph planned for each query

    A post published on August 12, 2025 describes a method that plans dependencies among subproblems for each query and reports outperforming GraphRAG systems on three multi-hop question-answering datasets.

  • October 8, 2026 · x.com

    REFRAG speeds up RAG with reusable embeddings

    A paper published on September 15, 2025 presents REFRAG, a method that replaces most retrieved tokens with precomputed chunk embeddings. It reports 30× higher speed and support for 16× longer contexts without loss of accuracy.

  • October 8, 2026 · isc.sans.edu

    TTY logs help correlate attackers’ commands

    In an article published by SANS ISC on October 5, 2026, an experiment sends command logs to the DShield SIEM daily after attackers or bots gain access to a sensor.

  • October 8, 2026 · research.checkpoint.com

    October 5 report highlights data, cloud and AI risks

    Check Point Research’s report, published on October 5, 2026, covers data breaches, ransomware, exploited vulnerabilities and AI-agent activity. The cases point to practical steps for protecting data, backups and cloud environments.

  • October 8, 2026 · github.com

    Fast response to compromised crypto wallets

    Published on October 16, 2024, the text describes an open-source Bash script for attempting to recover funds from compromised wallets before bots move them.

  • October 8, 2026 · github.com

    A Python RLM implementation for long contexts

    Published on October 17, 2025, this repository presents an open-source Recursive Language Models implementation that keeps long inputs in a Python environment for analysis.

  • October 8, 2026 · x.com

    RLMs: an approach to very long prompts

    Published on October 15, 2025, the publication describes language models that interact recursively with long prompts through a REPL and reports evaluations on the OOLONG and BrowseComp-Plus benchmarks.

  • October 8, 2026 · arxiv.org

    RLPT uses pretraining data for reinforcement learning

    Published on September 25, 2025, the paper presents a way to apply reinforcement learning to pretraining data without new human annotations, and reports benchmark gains for Qwen3-4B-Base.

  • October 8, 2026 · lwn.net

    Rust 1.99.0 stabilizes APIs and expands C support

    Released on October 1, 2026, Rust 1.99.0 adds support for variadic extern “C” functions, functions to query raw-pointer size and alignment, and several stabilized APIs.

  • October 8, 2026 · lwn.net

    Rust as a native GPU compilation target

    In an article published on September 29, 2026, LWN reports on a proposal to compile conventional Rust code for GPUs without special libraries. A prototype is in preparation, but the approach is not fully implemented.

  • October 8, 2026 · therecord.media

    Sanctions over ATM malware scheme

    On September 30, 2026, OFAC sanctioned 10 people and companies linked to laundering money stolen from dozens of ATMs in a scheme associated with Tren de Aragua.

  • October 8, 2026 · isc.sans.edu

    ScreenConnect: monitor abuse of existing tools

    A SANS Internet Storm Center post published on October 1, 2026, warns that attackers can abuse ScreenConnect Client and existing applications without sophisticated techniques or complex malware.

  • October 8, 2026 · x.com

    SWE-Swiss: a training recipe for software engineering

    On August 12, 2025, researchers from Peking University, ByteDance Seed, and HKU presented a training recipe for software engineering tasks. The researchers report that SWE-Swiss-32B scored 60.2% on SWE-bench Verified.

  • October 8, 2026 · x.com

    ToolUniverse and research-tool integration

    A post published on September 30, 2025 describes a shared interface for discovering and running more than 600 local and remote research tools that use MCP.

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