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Techmeme surfaced WIRED’s September 10 report, “OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal”. People close to OpenAI told WIRED that the company has recently asked members of Congress for guidance on whether frontier AI labs could coordinate an industry-wide slowdown without violating antitrust law.

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DOL suspends all Cognizant PERM applications (Blind)

• crazzak (Microsoft): Do Microsoft and Amazon next. Tired of these layoffs impacting Americans when the company is still sponsoring more H-1Bs.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): This is huge. Dol suspending perm for an employer means the employer really really messed up.
• CbzP51 (Google): Now time to revoke all previous green cards from this company.

How fare are you from FIRE / Retirement? (Blind)

• SЕV0 (Meta): I reached fat fire years ago but somehow still grinding with the current trayectory it feels low 8 figures won’t be enough
• nqpO26 (Petrobras): If you’re more than 3 years from FIRE, you’ll be fired by AGI, clock is ticking
• LuciferO07 (Google): Already reached , 10M in stocks .

Why is Everyone in Tech So Sad (Blind)

• k7me7: Humans weren’t meant to stare at a screen for 9 hours a day. It’s not just bad backs and tech neck that it causes either, psychologically we were never meant to do this as a species. It’s not that complicated.
• rhydon1x (Capital One): People in tech are sad because losers who thought the YouTube losers posting about only working 2 hours a day was real and they forced their way into the field only to drag everyone else down with them
• ed5e6cfb (Pinterest): I don’t get this, honestly. The only time I’m sad is when my work is not recognize. These dreams of quitting and going off grid is great if you have the money stashed away, but that’s not the case for all of us. I’m gonna be on this treadmill till the day I die, for better or worse. It’s easier to just accept this and work within those constraints.

Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation (r/technology)

• ha-hahnoo: A surveillance company upset about being filmed in public. The jokes write themselves.
• TheWoodser: Something, something….pot….kettle
• adorkablegiant: What do a surveillance company and a predator during a hunt have in common? They both like watching their prey but hate being watched themselves.

An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are ‘gambling with our lives’ (r/technology)

• Proud-Ninja5049: This thread might legit be bots fighting bots.
• Atrium41: “AGI! Soon, guys!”
• Labrontus: So we are going full into the Terminator timeline?

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Replacing a cryptographic algorithm is rarely just a cryptography project. In DNSSEC, a stronger signature changes packet sizes, transport behavior, compatibility rules, and the meaning of a successful validation. Cloudflare’s first production step toward post-quantum DNSSEC is therefore less about dropping a new primitive into a library than about making the surrounding protocol migration safe enough to observe at Internet scale.

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s September 10 report, “Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026”. The report is a casebook drawn from operations Anthropic says it detected and disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026. It spans cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, scams, weapons development, biological research, and attempts by rival labs to extract Claude’s capabilities.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced the September 9 episode, an interview with Codex co-creator and OpenAI product leader Tibo Sottiaux about how the coding agent was built and how it is changing software work inside the company. The conversation’s strongest idea is that a useful coding agent is not merely a language model in a terminal. Its performance comes from a coupled system: the model, the harness around it, a reproducible execution environment, access to organizational context, and the tests and review practices that turn generated code into trusted changes.

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Anthropic just asked me the craziest questions during my interview on Friday (Blind)

• kaizen (Meta): This is obviously satire but at this point a small part of me still doubts it
• GceB52 (Millennium Management): Testing fable safeguards live
• WNfP16 (Wiz): If we decided to murder you, would you still work for us?

I fear for the future of tech. This new generation of engineers is genuinely cooked (Blind)

• ㄗㄗ (ex-Google): Did you really think Amazon is hiring good engineers?
• Iknwyuan (ex-Bank of America): 10 years of onboarding and your process still lets people ship code they can’t explain?
• hiou (Silver Lake): This exact post existed in 2005 about copy-pasting from Stack Overflow. And in 1995 about IDEs. And in 1985 about compilers. The kids were fine every time.

Good Paying Remote Are So Hard To Get (Blind)

• yHoDjk9 (LinkedIn): You can’t retain tier 1 location salary and move to tier 2 or 3 for better COL. They’ll just adjust you down
• whysosrs (Coinbase): Coinbase is fully remote and pays well (400k+ fully remote as IC5), but the culture is highly team dependent. Company and industry is very volatile as well
• ygdfg (fuboTV): Google has offices all over the country. Why not move to another office (and a new team)?

A data center in Denmark gives away heat that data centers often waste. It runs water from the city’s heating network through its cooling units and into heat pumps that raise it enough to fill the radiators of 11,000 homes (r/technology)

• National_World944: This works because Denmark already has district heating pipes under most of its cities. The data center just plugged in. The real engineering happened decades ago.
• Additional-Staff-326: This is good tech. This only works if the local area is already built for it or going to build for it. Cant retrofit most cities to do something like this.
• sirhackenslash: Yeah, but in america helping others is woke, so it’s global warming and you’ll like it

Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms (r/technology)

• kiwiboyus: This is a good approach and hopefully others will follow
• SnotRight: Queue some kind of “freedom of speech” bot campaign.
• Exciting_Turn_9559: Opaque algorithms should be illegal. It’s a matter of national security.

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Techmeme surfaced OpenAI’s original September 8 publication claiming a result that, if it survives expert review, would close one of mathematics’ six remaining Millennium Prize problems. The announcement is remarkable for two reasons at once: a large AI-agent system appears to have produced a new proof at the frontier of mathematics, and the race to publish it has already raised difficult questions about priority, private model interactions, and how credit should work when human ideas and industrial-scale computation converge.

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Anthropic TC expectation (Blind)

• MasalaPi (Google): Why not ask for 30M+?
• DumbPM (Amazon): Of course you can. But you may not. Congrats and FU!
• beepboop32 (Google): They have fixed comp for each level/roles, no negotiation. Strong L6 RS is 2-3M.

Are Microsoft titles severely inflated? (Blind)

• failmode (Microsoft): I was going to say the other way around. We import dipshits from places like Meta and give them a partner title (or higher) and they just don’t understand what it means to build a platform.
• Yaamraj (Microsoft): I jumped from L62 to E5 so meta isn’t any better wrt title inflation. I jumped back from E5 to L65 in 2 years and now am a L66. I will try for E7 and above now on It’s a funny game
• 他强让他强 (Microsoft): You wish. Partner is the new senior, principal is the new sde2. Yes, in many orgs, giving higher title is deliberate, in exchange for stagnated tc increase.

My wife hasn’t slept with me since she was laid off from Meta (Blind)

• MrWolf 🐺 (Stripe): Man up buddy. Don’t expect anything right now. Give her warmth, safety and comfort. Go out of your way, to cheer her up… whether it involves flowers, date dinner, some gift … anything!!!
• minokotok: About 2-3 month layoff shock is normal. People differ - some instantly get into the maniac phase : grooming like crazy, interviewing, happy and energetic. Others feel down and absolutely devastated. Obviously, maniac version is more fun. All will pass.
• worstever (Microsoft): When my husband laid off last year, he was slowly losing his mind in the whirlwind of interviews and rejections. We actually started doing a thing we called “Small Town Saturdays” where we would go to a new small town we hadn’t been to before, grab breakfast at a local diner, and then roam whatever thrift stores, antique stores, and book stores we could find. Basically, we found that getting him out of the house and routine of constant interviews and rejections for at least 1 day a week was KEY. But he also opened up more about what he was feeling during those trips, which helped us connect better emotionally.

LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices (r/technology)

• Worth_Championship30: Isn’t that considered wire tapping?
• No_Hedgehog1864: lg tv is always the highest count on my adguard blocked dns request
• Knff: I wonder if these findings are true for European models as well. The EU doesnt fuck around when it comes to privacy laws.

Former Capcom Employee Says Western Studios Spend Too Much Time On Jira (r/technology)

• eloAbuse: Every developer on earth just read that headline and felt seen.
• Anelissa-Boden: Jira catching strays from every industry at this point
• crusoe: Half the time is wasted because it’s so goddamn slow

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The usual way to improve a coding agent is to give every task a stronger model. That raises quality, but it also spends frontier-model compute on routine work and still leaves the model without an independent reviewer when the task would benefit from one. Project HydraFusion takes a systems approach instead: decide at runtime not only which model should work, but which small workflow of models is worth paying for.

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Techmeme surfaced OpenAI’s September 6 report, “Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI.” The company says it has reached an “automated research intern” milestone: its coding agents can now carry out some well-defined research tasks that would take a skilled person several days, provided a human chooses the task and supervises the work.