‘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 ...
MIT Technology Review

This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs

Goodfire claims Silico is the first off-the-shelf tool of its kind that can help developers debug all stages of the ...
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 ...
The Hacker News

ThreatsDay Bulletin: SMS Blaster Busts, OpenEMR Flaws, 600K Roblox Hacks and 25 More Stories

SMS blasters, npm supply chain hits, and unpatched Windows flaws. Stay ahead of new phishing kits and exposed servers.
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

Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file

The entire source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code command line interface application (not the models themselves) has been leaked and disseminated, apparently due ...
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Your first steps into Python coding made easy

Starting your Python journey can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. From installing Python to writing your first program, the process is straightforward with the right guidance. Here’s how ...
ZDNet

How I used Gemini to replace YouTube's missing comment alerts - in under an hour

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
GitHub

SubprocessCLITransport.close() hangs indefinitely if subprocess shutdown handler blocks

SubprocessCLITransport.close() in the Python claude-agent-sdk sends SIGTERM to the Claude Code subprocess, then calls await self._process.wait() with no timeout. If the Claude Code Node.js process ...
Phys.org

Python scales host microstructures that block bacterial biofilms—revealing potential for antimicrobial materials

Materials inspired by nature, or biomimetic materials, are nothing new. Scientists have designed water-resistant materials inspired by lotus leaves and rose petals, unsinkable metals based on the ...
Ars Technica

OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...