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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 18 Score 0.893246124074074

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench ! The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run by the company Irregular, which was also involved in similar

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Schneier on Security Sep 18 Score 0.8884696106481481

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Egg Sacs

Short essay about squid egg sacs. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 18 Score 0.8855678833333333

Note on 18th September 2026

Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park. Tags: llms , ai , generative-ai

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 18 Score 0.8852322351851851

Quoting Thariq Shihipar

We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. AGENTS.md support is built off of Claude Code mods, our upcoming way to customize the Claude Co

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Foreign Policy Sep 18 Score 0.8849769199074073

Will Russia Ever Be ‘Normal’?

Empires inevitably decline, and Putin’s project will be no exception.

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Foreign Policy Sep 18 Score 0.8848241421296296

What in the World?

Test yourself on the week of Sept. 12: Modi and Xi meet, the Houthis fire on Saudi Arabia, and EU leaders gather in Finland.

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Foreign Policy Sep 18 Score 0.8844195125

In War, Trump and Putin Are Much Alike

Washington is emulating Moscow’s ways of fighting wars—and helping it in the process.

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Foreign Policy Sep 18 Score 0.8838667347222221

Chinese Literature Is Undergoing a Vibe Shift

Beijing long promoted novels about working-class travails. What happens when authors point fingers at the state?

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 18 Score 0.8776553833333333

The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit

The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit I love Who Framed Roger Rabbit , the 1988 movie by Robert Zemeckis. I haven't watched it in quite a few years, and Cypress Frankenfeld just pointed out this sequence from early in the movie: It's a pelican riding

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Quanta Magazine Sep 18 Score 0.8765204212962963

Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich

The proof of a decades-old conjecture has given researchers a new way to understand complex networks. The post Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Sep 18 Score 0.8717992402777777

Are AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs?

Anthropic's recent security-incident document contains a bit about how CAPTCHAs are still frustrating Claude. In the transcript, the Claude model that is so powerful that Anthropic is gatekeeping access to it appeared to slam its virtual head against the wall

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Sep 18 Score 0.8408025513888888

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Northstar Bank, former employee of American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and former employee of Regions Bank

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Northstar Bank, former employee of American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and former employee of Regions Bank

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Wired — Security Sep 19 Score 0.8222724833333334

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.

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The Guardian — World Sep 18 Score 0.8168810458333334

Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say

Group trapped at Hotel Bamy after US removal as rights groups sound alarm over poor conditions and violence Two men that the Trump administration expelled to Equatorial Guinea were bound, fitted with bags over their heads, beaten and pushed down a flight of st

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The Verge Sep 18 Score 0.8135086268518519

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its

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War on the Rocks Sep 18 Score 0.8091531421296297

Pressure Points

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we'll provide you with expert analysis on America's greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranSenior officials from Iran, Oman, and neighboring Gulf states w

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The Verge Sep 18 Score 0.8091164972222223

Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Ex

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The Verge Sep 18 Score 0.8090549231481482

Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO

You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the

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The Verge Sep 18 Score 0.806820200925926

The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro's camera

It's one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wider for better low light shots and make the aperture smaller

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The Verge Sep 18 Score 0.8067711268518519

Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the state to convene a group of

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BleepingComputer Sep 18 Score 0.8049872115740742

Gyazo server flaw exploited to steal 23.6 million user records

The Gyazo image-sharing platform has confirmed it suffered a data breach after hackers exploited a server vulnerability that allowed them to steal 23.6 million user records. [...]

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Wired Sep 18 Score 0.8033067425925926

AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race

The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.

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BleepingComputer Sep 18 Score 0.8016409152777778

Secure enterprise sharing with access reviews for Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 makes sharing files easy, but access can remain long after its original purpose has ended, leaving organizations with little visibility into who can still reach sensitive data. tenfold Software explains how centralized access governance and owner

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Google AI Blog Sep 18 Score 0.8016363120370371

New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team

We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.

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BleepingComputer Sep 18 Score 0.8015992486111112

Microsoft Teams will let admins block custom file extensions

Microsoft Teams will soon let administrators tweak the list of file extensions commonly associated with security threats to meet their company's security requirements. [...]

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Ars Technica — Security Sep 18 Score 0.8008080925925927

Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI

Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.

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BleepingComputer Sep 18 Score 0.8002561930555556

Webinar: Which Google Workspace security controls actually matter?

Fast-growing companies face countless recommendations for securing Google Workspace, but not every control provides the same value. This webinar examines real-world breaches to explore which security controls matter most, which may be overrated, and where lean

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Google AI Blog Sep 18 Score 0.7999696453703704

Co-creating the future of fashion with Google

Google worked side-by-side with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools to prep for NYFW.

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MIT Technology Review Sep 18 Score 0.7985808087962963

The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 18 Score 0.7983028495370371

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-39682 Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 18 Score 0.7983028495370371

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-39964 Linux Kernel Race Condition Vulnerability CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability These

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MIT Technology Review Sep 18 Score 0.7974521050925927

Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.

On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the 30 minute session.

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 18 Score 0.767902738425926

Control Resonant | Critical Consensus

Seven years after launching Control, Remedy returns to a paranatural Manhattan with Control Resonant. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 18 Score 0.7637249606481482

Pulling focus: Must AAA pander to the distracted? | Opinion

There's been a lot of talk in recent years about the effect that the inflation of development budgets has had on the industry. As budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars have become common, cracks have emerged in the foundations of the entire model for

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Liberty Street Economics Sep 18 Score 0.762469188425926

The New York Fed DSGE Model Forecast—September 2026

This post presents an update of the economic forecasts generated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model. We describe very briefly our forecast and its change since June 2026 . The New York Fed DSGE model e

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 17 Score 0.7583028495370371

ABB Ability Edgenius

View CSAF Summary ABB is aware of public reports of a vulnerability CVE‑2026‑31431 (Copy Fail) in the product versions listed as affected in the advisory. An update is available that resolves a publicly reported vulnerability. CVE‑2026‑31431 (Copy Fail) is a L

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NASA News Sep 18 Score 0.7365289217592592

NASA Invites Media to Albania Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony

The Republic of Albania will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 12 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 21, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 73rd country signatory. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Albania’s Minister for Europe

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NASA News Sep 18 Score 0.7333830884259259

NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’

Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant star’s outflow, called a stellar wind, being captured by its compact companion and providing the power source for strong X-ray

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Econbrowser Sep 18 Score 0.7332002925925926

Business Cycle Indicators: Industrial, Manufacturing Production under Consensus

IP flat, below +0.3% m/m Bloomberg consensus, manufacturing -0.3% below +0.3%. Capacity utilization drops. Adding in monthly GDP, early benchmark NFP as well. Figure 1: NFP employment (bold blue), civilian employment with smoothed population controls (bold ora

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One Useful Thing Sep 18 Score 0.7331512101851851

The Overhang

Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency

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Econbrowser Sep 18 Score 0.7306586259259259

NYT: "The World Economy Is Becoming Wary of the U.S."

From NYT: “Geopolitical factors and U.S. weaponization of the dollar through financial sanctions are causing central banks and other official investors to attempt to diversify away from dollar assets,” said Eswar Prasad, the former head of the International Mo

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NASA News Sep 18 Score 0.7300395699074074

NASA Awards SpaceX Three Crew Flights to Space Station

To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three additional missions through a contract modification.

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NASA News Sep 18 Score 0.7295543847222222

COSI Telescope Comes Together

UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) detector assembly is slowly raised from a table in this July 8, 2026, image. The four pieces of silver material on the top of the detector box cover the flex circuits, which

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GitHub Blog Sep 18 Score 0.7283026916666666

Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?

We dive into these questions and other AI hot takes on the latest episode of the GitHub Podcast. The post Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP? appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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New Scientist Sep 18 Score 0.7266361273148149

SpaceX's Starship will orbit Earth for first time during next flight

Starship's next test flight will be its first orbital mission. The craft will also release working Starlink V3 satellites for the first time, making the flight the first commercially useful Starship mission

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InfoQ Sep 18 Score 0.7263578037037037

DoorDash Uses Multi Agent LLMs to Clean up 60,000 Feature Flags

DoorDash built a multi-agent LLM system to automate stale feature flag cleanup across more than 60,000 flags and 623 repositories. The workflow combines live experimentation data through MCP, engineer approval, isolated Git worktrees, parallel agents, and auto

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NASA News Sep 18 Score 0.7260307736111111

NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy

Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It’s one of over a thousand galaxies

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 18 Score 0.7241560291666667

Scientists discover cells that cheat death and rebuild damaged tissue

Scientists discovered a population of cells that can start the process of programmed cell death, survive it, and then help rapidly rebuild damaged tissue. Their descendants become far more resistant to future damage, revealing a mechanism that could improve he

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 18 Score 0.7234986217592593

Scientists just named a new snake after Guns N’ Roses legend Slash

A newly discovered snake from New Guinea has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, who has loved reptiles since childhood. Genetic testing and physical differences confirmed that the reddish-brown groundsnake, Lielaphis slashi, is a species scientist

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InfoQ Sep 18 Score 0.7233022481481481

WSO2 Releases Agent Manager as Enterprises Look to Control Growing AI Agent Sprawl

WSO2 has announced the general availability of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open-source platform designed to provide centralized governance, identity management, security controls, and operational oversight for AI agents running across different models, frameworks,

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 18 Score 0.7225231587962962

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could last more than twice as long as planned

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope may now have enough fuel for at least 22 years of science, more than double its original 10 year design life. An extremely precise course correction, extra fuel at launch, and additional expected savings could keep the powerful obs

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InfoQ Sep 18 Score 0.7216355814814814

Presentation: Complexity and Creativity in Software Engineering

Phillip Mortimer discusses the shift toward write-only software driven by AI code generation. He explains why traditional pull requests are broken and shares how engineering leaders can manage complexity by decoupling intent from implementation, automating cod

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Marginal Revolution Sep 18 Score 0.6961054300925925

Scott Beaulier interviews me, in part about Wyoming

The post Scott Beaulier interviews me, in part about Wyoming appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .               Comments In reply to Wayfaring Stranger. First we wiped out the blue ... by Diogenes I've only visited the Tet

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 18 Score 0.6932977078703703

Announcing Native BM25 Ranking in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL

Vector search is a critical component of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and data agent architectures, but sometimes vector search alone isn't enough. While vector embeddings are incredible at understanding conceptual meaning, they stumble

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 18 Score 0.6924643745370369

Accelerating the borderless Lakehouse: Announcing preview of cross-cloud caching

Today, we are excited to announce enhancements to the borderless Lakehouse , our answer to how data engineers, data scientists, and increasingly, AI agents, can query governed data directly where it lives. To reason accurately and automate complex enterprise w

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 18 Score 0.6924643745370369

How to upskill enterprise AI builders by using daily micro habits

As enterprises invest in generative AI, tech leaders keep seeing the same pattern: Developers test AI tools for a week, hit setup problems, and then drift back to the backlog. Nothing ships. The real gap is enablement. In this landmark Harvard Business Review

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 18 Score 0.6924643745370369

The DevFest Community Workshop Experience: Building Real Agents Together

This week we kicked off the DevFest season in North America at Google Hudson Square in New York City with 80 engineers packed into the room. Typical technical workshops hand you a finished repo, tell you to blindly paste blocks of code into your terminal, and

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 18 Score 0.6924643745370369

Reimagining service delivery in the agentic era with Google Public Sector

State and local governments are driven by a shared mission to provide responsive, equitable, and accessible services. However, achieving this goal is often hindered by legacy technical debt, disconnected data, and heavy administrative burdens that slow down mi

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Marginal Revolution Sep 18 Score 0.6918961708333332

Friday assorted links

1. Gender differences in financial information processing. 2. Urban harassment of women in India. 3. The making of Roger Scruton? 4. Astra vs. Enigma. 5. Coetzee on genocide. 6. Dan Ariely update. And running for office in Israel. 7. A more sober look at the H

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