‘The Goblins Came Back to Haunt Us’: OpenAI Explains How ChatGPT’s ‘Nerdy’ Personality Got Out of Control

For at least a year, some ChatGPT users have noticed the LLM’s quirky habit of bringing up goblins, gremlins, trolls, and other creatures in its answers. The weird tic apparently became more common as ...

OpenAI explains its goblin and gremlin infestation

OpenAI included a line in Codex's instructions restricting references to goblins, gremlins, trolls, and ogres. It also ...
OSTechNix

Copy Fail: The 732-Byte Script That Roots Every Major Linux Systems

Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a severe logic flaw in the Linux kernel affecting every distribution since 2017. Patch your ...
IEEE

Experimental Demonstration of OFDM-Alamouti Space-Time Block Code for Millimeter-Wave Wireless Transmission

Abstract: With the increasing demand for high data rates and high-reliability wireless communication, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication has become an important technological direction for ...
Below Market Value

Selling freehold of small block of flats?

I own the freehold of a small block of flats. I also owned all of the leasehold flats (jointly with another), which we sold in the last couple of years. I now intend to dispose of the freehold and ...
kmph

Gas leak prompts evacuation and closure of 10 blocks in Gustine

"F*** Trump": Expletive-filled email day after third Trump assassination to donors Just a day after the third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, Katie Porter's campaign sent "F*** Trump" ...
abc6onyourside

Victim shot walking in 700 block of South Napoleon Avenue

Southside neighbors are getting their first look at what could be built at McCoy Park after the city approved bringing a new National Women’s Soccer League team 'A weight has been lifted,' Athens ...
Wired

Security News This Week: Hackers Are Posting the Claude Code Leak With Bonus Malware

A WIRED investigation based on Department of Homeland Security records this week revealed the identities of paramilitary Border Patrol agents who frequently used force against civilians during ...
IEEE

Transformer Models for Code Review Comment Generation: A Performance Comparison on GitHub Data

Abstract: Automated code review is an essential aspect of modern software development, enhancing code quality and maintainability. In this study, the performance of four pre-trained transformer based ...
GitHub

fast-copy — High-Speed File Copier with Deduplication & SSH Streaming

Local → Remote Files are streamed as chunked tar batches over SSH. Remote runs tar xf - to extract on the fly Remote → Local Remote runs tar cf -, local extracts with streaming extraction — files ...
The Boston Globe

Businessman Ken Block will run for R.I. governor again, this time as an independent

The Barrington businessman and Watchdog RI founder has run for governor twice before, as a Republican and as a member of the Moderate party PROVIDENCE — Ken Block, the Barrington businessman who ran ...
Ars Technica

Here’s what that Claude Code source leak reveals about Anthropic’s plans

Yesterday’s surprise leak of the source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code revealed a lot about the vibe-coding scaffolding the company has built around its proprietary Claude model. But observers ...