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ChatGPT now offers shared pages inside a Space on eligible Pro, Business and Enterprise accounts. A page can be made from a conversation, edited by people and ChatGPT, and organized under other pages. Access to a page can come from the page itself, its parent or the containing Space. That inheritance makes collaboration easier, but it also means a direct invitation is only one place to check when reviewing access. Linked source files keep their own permissions, while information copied from them onto a shared page can be read by page viewers.

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DeepSeek now offers an open-source agent harness in public preview with a web interface launched from code and official desktop downloads for Apple silicon Macs and 64-bit Windows. Its plugin system can combine model access, tools and other agent capabilities. For someone evaluating an agent on files, the useful change is that they can bring a small local workspace and choose a model provider rather than starting with a company repository or live business data. The preview labels and safety notice still govern that experiment: the agent can run commands and access files, credentials and the network available to its process. A selected workspace and an approval prompt do not guarantee isolation.

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The OSS VRP previously accepted qualifying product vulnerability reports for eligible Google open-source projects, subject to project tier and evidence requirements. Since October 1, its new-product-report path is paused. Its supply chain path still accepts findings that could compromise source code or distributed builds, and already filed product reports remain in process. Researchers must now establish the finding's type and product impact before choosing a report form. Google's rules, rather than a repository's Google ownership alone, decide whether another program is available.

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What changed: HackerRank has moved Chakra from a roughly six-month beta to general availability for its customers, according to TechCrunch's October 5 report.

Why it matters: A hiring team can review the candidate's work and conversation alongside competency scores, giving it more to examine than a finished code submission.

What remains open: HackerRank's interview counts, candidate ratings and fairness claims are company statements. The available sources do not establish that Chakra's scores predict job performance or work equally well across candidate groups.

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What changed: AI can put a family's interpretation of a deceased person's beliefs into a moving likeness that appears to speak for him. This Arizona ruling identifies a limit when that representation becomes unreliable information used in sentencing.

Why it matters: Families retain the right to describe their loss. For courts, the difficulty is keeping the source of each statement clear: a relative's belief about the victim carries a different basis from words the victim actually said or wrote.

What to watch: The ordered resentencing must address the error found here. The ruling permits the real footage embedded in this video, giving courts and families a concrete distinction between a record of someone's life and a generated account of his thoughts.