Mustafa Suleyman says "Seemingly Conscious AI" is coming but is something to avoid, and that developers must build AI for people, not to be a digital person (Mustafa Suleyman)
https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-conscious-ai-is-coming
MACTAS: Self-Attention-Based Module for Inter-Agent Communication in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Maciej Wojtala, Bogusz Stefa\'nczyk, Dominik Bogucki, {\L}ukasz Lepak, Jakub Strykowski, Pawe{\l} Wawrzy\'nski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13661
Persistent and Partitioned MPI for Stencil Communication
Gerald Collom, Jason Burmark, Olga Pearce, Amanda Bienz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13370 https://a…
Trevon Diggs sent home from Cowboys facility after coming to see medical staff https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/trevon-diggs-sent-home-dallas-cowboys-facility-after-coming-to-see-medical-staff
Eagles legend Brandon Graham coming out of retirement to boost Philly's struggling pass rush
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-
Google unveils the Pixel Watch 4 in 41mm and 45mm sizes, with an Actua 360 curved display and emergency satellite communication, starting at $349 from October 9 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/goog…
ATESH partisans disrupt Russian communications and command systems near Bryansk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/19/atesh-partisans-disrupt-russian-communications.html
Aha!!! This is one of the pieces I was trying and failing to think of upthread, from the always excellent @… (and I’m embarrassed that I couldn’t bring it to mind earlier, sorry Jennifer, it’s so good and so important):
https://jenniferplusplus.com/the-free-software-commons/
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DraftKings acquires predictions platform Railbird as it prepares to launch its mobile platform DraftKings Predictions in the coming months (Contessa Brewer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/draftkings-railbird-predictions-platform-acquisition.htm…
Google announces Gemini for Home, a new voice assistant for Google Home, with support for Gemini Live, coming later this year and replacing Google Assistant (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/762370/googl