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To prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information
OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines
The feature rollback follows reports of ChatGPT conversations being discoverable in search results,
an option recently extended to ChatGPT users.
Dane Stuckey, CISO of OpenAI, announced the change in a social media post.
He described it as a short-lived experiment to help people discover useful conversations.

OpenAI removes ChatGPT self-doxing option
: Checkbox to make chatbot conversations appear in search engines deemed a footgun

Reddit removes visible subscriber counts from subreddit pages, replacing it with seven-day active visitors or contributions, to better reflect user activity (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775524/reddit-subreddit-member-count…

Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits
Reddit users can no longer see how many people are subscribed to their favorite subreddit communities

Reddit removes visible subscriber counts from subreddit pages, replacing it with seven-day active visitors or contributions, to better reflect user activity (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775524/reddit-subreddit-member-count…

Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits
Reddit users can no longer see how many people are subscribed to their favorite subreddit communities

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ramps-up-his-trump-feud-with-order-to-american-bishops/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p1#a251009p1

"Eco-friendly technology removes toxic PFAS from water"
#PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Technology

Eco-friendly technology removes toxic PFAS from water
Rice University researchers, in collaboration with international partners, have developed the first eco-friendly technology to rapidly capture and destroy toxic "forever chemicals" (PFAS) in water. The findings, recently published in Advanced Materials, mark a major step toward addressing one of the world's most persistent environmental threats.

Billy Long removed as IRS commissioner, will serve as Iceland ambassador
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2025/08/trump-removes-billy-long-as-irs-commisioner-less-than-2-months-after-his-confirmation/

GE Vernova plans to sell its Proficy industrial software unit to PE firm TPG for $600M and reinvest the proceeds in grid software (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/ge-vernova-sell-proficy-tpg-600-million-s…

A rightwing influencer accompanied officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in Chicago on Sunday
as the agency ramps up arrests in the city. Ice agents arrested four people on the city’s south-west side.
Ben Bergquam, the rightwing internet personality, was with agents,
filming and making content as well as getting into altercations with local residents along the way

Continents have lost so much water to the ocean since 2002 that they have surpassed ice sheets as the biggest contributor to global sea level rise, a new study reveals.
Almost 70% of this loss is due to unchecked groundwater extraction,
which removes water from deep aquifers and eventually transfers it to the ocean, researchers found.
Together with rising rates of evaporation due to climate change, this has caused rapidly drying "hotspots" to merge into four &quo…

'Like a creeping mold that's spreading across the landscape': Separate dry areas around the world are merging into 'mega-drying' regions at an alarming rate, study finds
Unchecked groundwater extraction and climate change have dried continents significantly over the past 22 years, with 101 countries now losing fresh water to the ocean, research reveals.

OpenAI announces API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in preview, and gpt-realtime-mini, a voice model that is 70% cheaper than gpt-realtime (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/openai-ramps-up-developer-push…

OpenAI ramps up developer push with more powerful models in its API  | TechCrunch
The updates were part of a series of announcements geared towards wooing developers to OpenAI’s ecosystem, including the launch of an agent-building tool and the ability to build apps in ChatGPT.