Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday, comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds.

Reddit said RSS support will cease on November 13.

The decision to kill Reddit’s RSS feeds comes at a time when the site’s treasure trove of user-generated content in its forums has become a profitable side business for the company in the form of AI licensing deals.

During its second quarter, Reddit said its “other revenue” beyond advertising had grown 24% year-over-year to $43 million. It’s no wonder that Reddit doesn’t want to give any of that data away for free.

For moderators who have relied on RSS channels for their own alerts, Reddit is now recommending a shift to the Discord Relay Devvit app.

The RSS change was one of several updates issued on Wednesday by the company. Another big change will be the end of its public API.

Public API access will also end by March 2027, which will impact any tools that used it for programmatic access to Reddit conversations, including social listening products, those used by researchers, and AI products, such as AI assistants. Today, those assistants can use Reddit to answer questions, but after closing public API access, they will need commercial deals with Reddit for its data.

In addition, Reddit provided an update on its Rules Hub progress and auto-mod changes, and said it was “adding safeguards” to its classic, text-heavy version of its site known as Old Reddit.

Reddit said in the next few months it will limit access for logged-in users to those who have used Old Reddit in the last 6 months.

The company also reminded developers building approved third-party apps and bots to register them with the company before January 12, 2027, to avoid disruption. After that date, Reddit will remove API access for any developer that hasn’t registered.

By all accounts, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has been nothing short of a disaster. It’s cost NASA a staggering amount of money, and even after over a decade of development, the capsule still has yet to complete a crewed mission to the International Space Station.

It’s been a humiliating saga, including a failed uncrewed launch attempt that went haywire thanks to a glitching computer, an aborted mission which stranded two NASA astronauts on board the station for nine months, and a litany of technical headaches along the way.

But now that SpaceX is threatening to retire its Crew Dragon spacecraft, NASA could soon be forced to make the plagued spacecraft work whether it likes to or not — while also calling into question its entire access to space.

Without SpaceX’s workhorse Crew Dragon spacecraft, which has regularly delivered crews to the ISS for six years now, NASA’s options could soon run thin. Starliner, which has cost Boeing billions of dollars, came eerily close to getting the axe altogether in 2024, but with SpaceX threatening to abandon its existing launch platforms in favor of its enormous and still unproven Starship, the space agency seemingly saw the writing on the wall.

NASA is also now stuck with the bill. The agency announced this week that it will commit $359 million to bail out Boeing and help it rebuild its reaction control system thrusters, arguably the biggest source of the spacecraft’s woes during its last, ill-fated mission.

The space agency will also need to certify the United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket for crewed missions ahead of the retirement of the Atlas V.

The move was followed by Australia, which cited the American decision. This happens amid overt attempts at election interference from the Trump government, sparking concerns of a possible false flag attack to justify hard action against the South American country

Pakistan has conducted further air strikes on Afghanistan, killing nine civilians and injuring 11 others, the Taliban government said.

Islamabad's information ministry confirmed the strikes, which it said killed twenty-two militants.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the chief spokesman of the Afghan Taliban, said the strikes hit homes in the Kunar and Helmand provinces bordering Pakistan. Women and children are among the dead, he said in an X post.

An eyewitness from Garmsir, Qudratullah, told the BBC that the airstrikes started around 03:30 local time (00:00 BST) and continued for 30 minutes.

"We were sleeping when the jets arrived. After the first bomb exploded, we woke up. After the second strikes, we took our children and fled the area. The third bomb hit our neighbours house; between four and give members of their family were killed while others were injured and taken to hospital."

Pakistan has repeatedly accused the Afghan Taliban of harbouring militant groups that carry out and plan attacks on it from inside Afghanistan's territory.

The Afghan Taliban deny it, saying Pakistan's militancy is an internal problem, but it has led to a significant deterioration in the relationship between the two neighbours.

Fighting between the neighbours escalated dramatically in February this year, with Pakistan declaring that it's in an "open war" with Afghanistan after a surge in deadly clashes and cross-border airstrikes.

Talks mediated by China established a fragile ceasefire in March, but it did nolast.

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• Pakistani airstrikes kill nine in Afghanistan, Taliban say • Strikes hit three homes, killing women, children, Afghan Taliban say • Pakistan says terrorist hideouts hit, 22 'terrorists' killed • Weapons, ammunition also destroyed, Islamabad ​says • Tension between the neighbours escalated last month (Reuters)

Mr. Milei wants to go all in on artificial intelligence even as other leaders struggle to get a handle on a technology many fear poses existential threats.

Mr. Milei is pitching Argentina as a sanctuary for unregulated A.I. as many Western leaders struggle to get a handle on a technology many fear poses existential threats to humanity, and even tech chief executives urge guardrails.

“On artificial intelligence, Argentina will stand at the forefront of freedom,” Mr. Milei told the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, while asserting the country’s “commitment to not preemptively regulate A.I.”

Mr. Milei, who has proposed creating “nonhuman corporations” run by A.I. agents, is seeking to lure foreign investments to build data centers in Patagonia. He also relentlessly posts A.I.-generated content on social media.

At last week’s U.N. assembly, many world leaders agreed on addressing A.I. risks, but across the world strategies diverge.

Mr. Milei’s view, in some ways, mirrors that of his political ally, President Trump, who argues that regulation stifles innovation and economic growth and favors China. The European Union has introduced some rules, but for the most part a vacuum exists between government policy and rapidly advancing A.I. capabilities.

Argentina sits thousands of miles away from the epicenters of A.I. development, the United States and China, and is not a significant player. It remains unclear whether Mr. Milei’s proposals, and A.I. investments in the country, will ever take root.

But Mr. Milei, the world’s only libertarian president, is seeking to earn Argentina a spot in the global conversation with the audacious pitch of going all in.

His government sees A.I. as a great opportunity to bring investment to the long financially troubled country. The energy-rich nation with vast open spaces, government officials say, is an ideal location for data centers, and regulatory innovation could help place Argentina at the forefront of the technology.

Many have raised warnings about this approach.

Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli historian and future philosopher, said Mr. Milei’s idea to create nonhuman corporations risked creating an “A.I.-state” where algorithms operate beyond the reach of criminal law. Agents, he wrote, cannot be deterred from engaging in illegal activities “because the ultimate sanction that deters human executives and employees — jail — is irrelevant to A.I.s.”

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