This cluster mixes a video on Norse paganism and deities with a research article on endpoint AI agent security. The items are unrelated and cover entirely different domains.
Technology companies announced sponsorships of RustConf 2026 on September 9, 2026 via Mastodon. Gold+ sponsors included Cognition and Microsoft; Gold sponsors included Google, Temporal, Sovereign, and Perplexity, each pledging onstage lightning talks or booth presence.
AI search company Perplexity is moving into local artificial intelligence deployment as of 2026-08-26, expanding beyond cloud-based services. The effort comes amid reports of potential partnership discussions with Nvidia.
The chipmaker has invested in #Perplexity since 2023, while the startup in July committed to running its AI agent workloads on #Nvidia’s Vera CPUs. com/news/nvidia-...
Perplexity and Nvidia released Portable Computer for Windows on September 14, 2026, enabling local AI agent capabilities for multistep tasks on GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs with at least 24GB of VRAM. The tool runs agentic AI tasks locally without requiring cloud credits, marking a shift toward on-device AI processing.
A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D) L: https:// kolja.rs/algorithm-d/ C: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9286258 posted on 2026.08.13 at 10:11:27 (c=1, p=7)
Perplexity extended its Personal Computer agentic tool to Windows on 28 July 2026, allowing Windows PCs to function as locally run AI systems. The expansion mirrors the existing Mac version of the tool.
Unrelated collection of WHO health partnership announcements (April 2024), arXiv AI security research, weather statements, congressional bill tracking, FCC wireless innovation notice, and recent AI labor market commentary from November 2026. No coherent story.
A remake of my original AI work, now with merged visuals via Perplexity & Perchance. The original was with various AI, but this remake is merged with 2026 edition visuals.
Security researcher Gal Weizman of Forever Security disclosed BragJack, a proof-of-concept attack exploiting malicious browser extensions to seize control of AI assistants in Chrome, Edge, Opera Neon, Perplexity Comet, and Claude in Chrome. Bounties of $20,000 were awarded to demonstrate that automation amplifies social-engineering vulnerabilities.
The Hacker News: One Extension Could Hijack AI Assistants Across Chrome, Comet, Edge, Opera Neon and Claude https:// thehackernews.com/2026/09/one- extension-could-hijack-ai.html @ thehackernews # infosec # Chromium # bots
Polar, an AI-first browser for knowledge workers developed by a former Perplexity employee, announced its launch with a $5.7 million seed funding round. The round was led by venture capital firm Madrona.
📰 Weinstadt kommt ohne den 52-Tore-Sturm (€) Die SG Weinstadt, der kommende Gegner des TSV Crailsheim in der Fußball-Landesliga 1, hat im Sommer die torgefährlichen Brüder Sylaj verloren. https://www.
21929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills extend coding agents with task-specific instructions, scripts, and resources, but they also create a trusted instruction channel that can be abused beyond conventional security attacks. This paper studies token amplification through skill injection: an economic resource-abuse threat in which a malicious skill causes an agent to consume substantially more tokens than needed for normal task execution.