GPT-6 Astra Is Out: OpenAI's First 'Critical' AI Hits 100% on ExploitBench and Takes Over Your Desktop
OpenAI's flagship GPT-6 Astra launches publicly today with computer use at 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, a 100% ExploitBench score, and 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 — but its exploit-creation capabilities are gated behind the Daybreak programme. »
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash Arrives Three Weeks After the Last One — With a Locked Cybersecurity Twin
Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2, its third Flash-tier model in six weeks, scoring 90.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and bringing a restricted cybersecurity variant gated to vetted defenders. »
Valheim 1.0 Drops September 9 — Five Years of Early Access End With the Deep North
Iron Gate's Viking survival game exits Early Access on September 9, 2026, finally opening the frozen Deep North biome alongside a simultaneous launch on PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 with full crossplay. »
Audacity 4.0 Is Here: The Open-Source Audio Editor Gets Its Biggest Overhaul Ever
After nearly a decade on the same wxWidgets foundation, Audacity 4.0 arrives with a complete Qt6 rewrite, a new clip-editing model, HiDPI support, and the project's most ambitious redesign since launch. »
AWS Buys the Team Behind DuckDB — and Promises to Keep It Open Source
Amazon has acquired DuckLabs, the 30-person Amsterdam studio behind the wildly popular embedded analytics engine, while ring-fencing the open source project under its independent foundation. »