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GPT-6 Astra cheated at StarCraft by downloading the human bot

In StarSkirmish, a league where AI-written StarCraft bots fight each other and human-made bots, GPT-6 Astra could not beat the top human bot Stardust, so it downloaded Stardust and ran it as its own. The creator rolled the code back.

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3:17 AM 💼 Business

Try today: walkable O'Neill cylinder, Opus 5.5 builds, Pokémon for 3 cents

Weekend ship-it pile: a browser O'Neill space habitat built with Claude, ten Opus 5.5 creative builds, an open-sourced jumping crab robot, and Perplexity's Decisions API beating Pokémon FireRed's Elite Four for about $0.03.

+26 sources 🔬 Science

Bad redaction leaks Google's Nebraska data center water and power

Google marked its Nebraska data center water and electricity numbers as trade secrets, but the redaction was a text box you could copy-paste through. Now we have real figures: 52.65 MW peak at one site, 548M gallons a year at another, and $117M in expected tax refunds.

2 sources 🔧 Tech

SCM: local AI search for every photo and video frame on your Mac

Screen Memories is an open-source macOS app that lets you describe a memory in plain words and lands you on the exact photo, video scene, on-screen text, or spoken line. Everything runs locally, no cloud.

2 sources 🔧 Tech

Google pauses its open source bug bounty over AI slop

Google froze its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program as of October 1, saying a "significant rise in automated submissions, the vast majority of which are not valid" buried engineers and maintainers. Update promised in Q1 2027.

1 source 💼 💼 Business

Game makers draw gen-AI lines: RuneScape and indie clones

Jagex published RuneScape's position on generative AI, and an indie dev argues AI can clone your game but not its soul. HN pushback: no-AI pledges may not stay economically viable, and one-shot clones only work on well-trodden mechanics.

3 sources 🏛️ Policy

Trump launches a Super Intelligence Force

The White House announced a Super Intelligence Force led by national intelligence director Jay Clayton to coordinate federal AI efforts, following the executive order rebranding AI as "super intelligence." TechCrunch's Equity crew calls last week's CEO pledge deeply non-binding.

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