How Jim Herbert helped the Basic Fund raise a quarter-billion dollars

Since leaving First Republic, Jim Herbert has made the Basic Fund an increasing focus of his philanthropic work, and is now ...
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OpenAI models make huge gains in modernizing decades-old software with 97.9% accuracy

OpenAI has significantly improved its models’ ability to write software in older programming languages ...
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GPT-6 cracks COBOL: 97.9% migration accuracy shifts AI bottleneck from code to enterprise

GPT-6 COBOL migration hits 97.9% behavioral fidelity in OpenAI's latest benchmark, a 16-fold improvement over prior models, but enterprise IT teams should understand the gap between benchmark accuracy ...

Why PHP Vulnerabilities Have Such Widespread Impact: The Background of Supporting the Web and the Challenges of Patch Deployment

This article is based on information published as of October 23, 2026.1. What happened with the series of service suspensions ...

Can AI Safely Migrate Old Code? Thinking About "Behavior-Preserving" Modernization Based on Two OpenAI Evaluations

Programming languages that have been used for a long time still remain in the systems that support our lives, such as banking, government, and weather forecasting.However, the task of rewriting old ...
The Epoch Times

Social Security COLA for 2027

I always dread mentioning COLAs in this column because every single time I do, I am flooded with emails from readers.
mezha

OpenAI has trained an AI to rewrite outdated programs with 97.9% accuracy

OpenAI announced significant performance improvements in its models for programming languages with relatively little code and ...
The Security Ledger

AI Security Gaps Widen as Attackers Exploit Shrinking Windows of Opportunity

Reports from Rapid7, ServiceNow, Securonix and IANS suggest that while AI is transforming cybersecurity operations, familiar ...
Mezha

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol is dramatically better at migrating legacy code

OpenAI reports gains in both a 20-language coding benchmark and tests of COBOL migration, while noting that production ...
cyberpress

Meta Shuts Down Muse AI Chat Sharing After Sensitive Company Documents Are Exposed

Meta suspended Muse AI conversation sharing on October 20, 2026, after researchers found that discoverable links exposed ...

Google’s AI Agents Finally Beat Minecraft. It Took 27 Hours and 605 Deaths

Four Google DeepMind AI agents defeated Minecraft's Ender Dragon after 27 hours and 605 deaths, revealing both the promise and limitations of autonomous AI.
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Switch 2 Jailbroken Without a Modchip: ns2jb Runs Code in System Module fs

A breakdown of the Switch 2 jailbreak ns2jb, comparing the researcher's technical write-up with the released README. It ...