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March 13, 2026
Facebook Bolsters Tools vs AI Spam
Facebook is upgrading creator protection tools to combat AI-generated spam and impersonation accounts. Meta is enhancing detection and handling of fake accounts while updating guidelines to define original content clearly.
Musk: xAI Requires Full Rebuild
Elon Musk states xAI was built incorrectly and needs a complete rebuild from the ground up. Co-founders continue to depart amid challenges. This follows the recent SpaceX-xAI merger valued at $1.25T, with SpaceX IPO approaching.
AIs Struggle with Math-Intuition Games
Researchers investigate why AI systems get confused by certain games. Success in these games relies on intuiting mathematical functions, where AIs significantly underperform. This highlights key limitations in AI reasoning.
Spotify Tests Direct Taste Profile Edits
Spotify is testing a personalization feature for Premium users in New Zealand, allowing them to view and directly customize their Taste Profile. This profile reveals frequent artists and listening trends, enabling users to tweak algorithm recommendations, like reducing Bieber exposure. Beta access is via profile icon and sidebar menu.
Nyne Raises $5.3M for AI Agent Context
Nyne is a data infrastructure startup founded by a father-son duo that provides the human context missing in AI agents. It recently raised $5.3 million in seed funding led by Wischoff Ventures and South Park Commons.
Meta AI Integrates Global News Publishers
Meta has struck deals with international publishers like Le Figaro, Prisa, SΓΌddeutsche Zeitung, and News Corp to improve Meta AI's access to timely world news. These partnerships enable linking to original articles for better accuracy on current events. This move addresses past issues with AI's unreliable news surfacing.
Fix Qwen 3.5 Instruct Prompt Reprocessing
Provides a custom Jinja chat template to fix prompt reprocessing in Qwen 3.5 instruct mode (thinking disabled) on llama.cpp. Issue stems from empty think blocks being stripped from history, causing full reprocessing. Template now preserves empty tags while removing content-filled ones.
Old Servers Mine Rare Earths
Enterprises can turn retired data center servers into revenue by extracting rare earths, as Western Digital tests with Microsoft gear and Korea Zinc negotiates with US tech firms. This follows China's export controls on key rare earths vital for IT hardware. Analysts see a shift from disposal to resource recovery amid rising e-waste.
March Patches Fix 83 Vulns
Microsoft's March Patch Tuesday addresses 83 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, Azure, and .NET, including two public zero-days in SQL Server and .NET. It introduces CLFS hardening with signature checks impacting log handling. No major known issues post-update, but ongoing WSUS and WUSA problems persist.
Google Fiber sale and Astound merger
Alphabet is selling its majority stake in GFiber to private equity firm Stonepeak. GFiber will merge with cable operator Astound.
Copilot AI Launches on Xbox Consoles
Microsoft's Gaming Copilot AI assistant will launch on current-gen Xbox consoles this year. Revealed at GDC by Xbox's product manager, it's already in beta on Xbox mobile app, Windows 11, and Xbox Ally handhelds. The voice-activated helper aids players stuck in games and will expand to more services.
Digg Beta Shuts Over AI Bot Spam
Digg's open beta, relaunched as community-driven link-sharing, shuts after two months due to AI bot spam. Founders hoped AI would ease moderation, but it overwhelmed the platform, leading to a hard reset and team downsizing. CEO blames bots in shutdown note.
2000 TPS Qwen 3.5 27B on RTX 5090
A user achieved 2000 tokens per second processing markdown documents with Qwen 3.5 27B on RTX-5090 using llama.cpp. Key optimizations included no vision loading, 128k context, batch size 8, and specific quantization. This setup processed over 1.2M input tokens efficiently.
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict
Meta has paused its major internet cable expansion efforts in Africa due to the Iran conflict, impacting AI investments in the Middle East. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen will resign amid skepticism over the company's AI competitiveness. S&P Dow Jones Indices considers rule changes to fast-track SpaceX's index entry post-IPO.
Nothing's Essential Space Adds Semantic Search, Events
Nothing updated its AI app Essential Space with semantic search for meaning-based queries and event recognition from screenshots/photos. Events appear as cards with date, time, location, featured on a new For You page. Available now on 2025-2026 Nothing/CMF phones.
Invisible Unicode hits GitHub repos
A supply-chain attack injected invisible Unicode code into GitHub and other repositories. The technique, once abandoned, evades human visual detection.
NVIDIA NeMo Retriever Agentic Retrieval Launch
NVIDIA introduces NeMo Retriever, a generalizable agentic retrieval pipeline that surpasses traditional semantic similarity methods. Hosted on Hugging Face, it enables more advanced and adaptable retrieval for AI systems. This innovation aims to enhance RAG and agentic workflows.
Google Patches Two Exploited Chrome Zero-Days
Google has issued emergency patches for two actively exploited high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome: CVE-2026-3909 and CVE-2026-3910. Affected browsers are versions before 146.0.7680.75, impacting Chrome and Chromium-based browsers like Edge. Experts urge immediate patching to prevent sandbox escapes and memory corruption attacks.
Infostealers Hit macOS via ClickFix
macOS offers no significant safety edge over Windows as infostealers target Apple computers. ClickFix malware spreads without exploits, relying on user trust to copy a command and hit Enter. This social engineering tactic makes Macs vulnerable.
ColQwen3.5-v2 4.5B Tops Retrieval Leaderboard
ColQwen3.5-v2 4.5B is a new visual document retrieval model based on Qwen3.5-4B, achieving top scores on ViDoRe V3 nDCG@10 at 0.6177. It uses a simplified 2-phase training recipe with hard negatives and domain data integration. Released under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face.