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OpenAI News Aug 31 Score 0.9349699027777779

A milestone in expanding access to AI

ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 31 Score 0.8932921439814814

Introducing wrapture

Introducing wrapture New from Graham Dumpleton (of wrapt , mod_wsgi, and New Relic's Python agent fame), who describes Wrapture as taking the monkeypatching ideas from wrapt and extending them to apply to testing and tracing at the same time. Wrapture ( full d

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 31 Score 0.8906652921296295

Quoting Andrew Digby

325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species is possible with sustained effort. — Andrew Digb

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Foreign Policy Aug 31 Score 0.8866724282407407

U.S.-Iran Fighting Reignites

A U.S. attack on Larak Island paves the way for renewed heavy warfare.

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Schneier on Security Aug 31 Score 0.8838748592592591

Is Someone Hacking DoD Refrigerators?

It sure seems like it. The stores confirmed to be affected include Fort Irwin , Calif.; F.E. Warren Air Force Base , Wyo.; Fort Huachuca , Ariz.; Naval Station Newport , R.I.; Columbus Air Force Base , Miss.; and Travis Air Force Base , Calif., according to an

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Aug 31 Score 0.8441827064814814

The extraordinary rise of Miami’s economy

Thanks to a combination of capital and politics, the city is booming. Can its success be sustained?

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The Verge Aug 31 Score 0.8158824324074074

The Google TV Streamer now costs $50 more

Google raised the price of its 4K streaming box to $149, up $50 from its original $99 price. The new price is currently live at the Google Store and Best Buy, but Amazon appears to still be offering the original price. The price hike comes just a couple of wee

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The Verge Aug 31 Score 0.8149699324074074

JMGO’s very bright all-in-one projector looks ideal for gamers and sports

JMGO's 4K 120Hz Iris Ultra Max all-in-one Google TV projector is now available outside China. It gets its name from a new dual-iris system that lets it produce an impressive 10,000:1 native contrast, according to JMGO. It boosts the contrast - always an issue

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The Verge Aug 31 Score 0.8138157657407408

I went to the loneliest baseball game on Apple Vision Pro

This weekend, I strapped on an Apple Vision Pro to watch a baseball game in immersive virtual reality for the first time. It was technically impressive, visually pretty remarkable, and also didn't make that much sense. Apple and Major League Baseball chose a c

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BleepingComputer Aug 31 Score 0.8129669962962963

Cronos blockchain restarts after $74 million Tectonic exploit

The Cronos blockchain network has resumed trading activity after a price-manipulation attack on the Tectonic cryptocurrency lending platform allowed an attacker to borrow $74 million. [...]

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SANS Internet Storm Center Aug 31 Score 0.8116519231481483

The Coding-Agent Trap: When a "Free" LLM Endpoint Is the Adversary, (Mon, Aug 31st)

One of my internet-exposed inference honeypots was discovered, relabeled with sought-after model names, and incorporated into infrastructure apparently used to provide "free" LLM backends. It then received a real coding-agent session &&#x23

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Wired Aug 31 Score 0.8113152662037038

Asus ProArt 27 QD-OLED (PA279cdv) Review: HDR for All

I wouldn’t call it cheap, but this monitor from Asus brings proper HDR-capable video editing to creators who couldn’t previously afford an OLED display.

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The Verge Aug 31 Score 0.8108583583333334

Alienware’s budget-friendly QD-OLED is discounted for the first time

While memory and storage prices are still high, there are still good discounts on other gaming-related hardware. Take Alienware’s AW2726DM, for example. Dell is selling it for $319.99, a $30 break from the usual price of $349.99. The 27-inch gaming monitor fea

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BleepingComputer Aug 31 Score 0.809721625925926

Microsoft warns of TerminalFix attacks deploying reverse tunnels

A new ClickFix variant dubbed TerminalFix uses fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA prompts on compromised websites to trick victims into running malicious PowerShell commands in Windows Terminal. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Aug 31 Score 0.8083032162037038

The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox a

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BleepingComputer Aug 31 Score 0.8063818111111112

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT outage as users report errors

ChatGPT Work is experiencing a partial outage, and users across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks. [...]

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War on the Rocks Aug 31 Score 0.805966725462963

The Divine Calculus of the Ukraine War's End

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insigh

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BleepingComputer Aug 31 Score 0.8030822740740742

Chinese Fire Ant hackers turn Cisco routers into spying platforms

The researchers discovered Fire Ant's new tactic after finding an active GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) tunnel interface on a Cisco IOS XR router that could not be explained by a running configuration or commit history. [...]

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The Guardian — World Aug 31 Score 0.8012099050925927

South African airline defends dramatic low-level flyby before rugby union clash

Cape Town stunt sparks major debate over safety risks Airlink insists flyby conducted according to regulations A pre-game stunt involving two passenger jets flying dramatically low over a stadium in South Africa drew huge cheers from the estimated crowd of 56,

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 31 Score 0.7983029879629631

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-2026-81578 PaperCut NG/MF Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability  CVE-2026-82078 PaperCu

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 1 Score 0.7875000000000001

A Theory of International Official Lending -- by Qing Liu, Zanhui Liu, Vivian Zhanwei Yue

Official lending is large, senior, and countercyclical, continuing after sovereigns fall into arrears on private debt. We ask why sovereign finance exhibits this division of labor across creditors. In a production economy where a risk-averse sovereign privatel

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 1 Score 0.7875000000000001

Making Everyone’s Preferences Count: A Prospect Theory Approach to Valuing Health Improvements -- by Karen Mulligan, Drishti Baid, Jason N. Doctor, Darius N. Lakdawalla

Health technology assessment bodies and policymakers have grappled with the issue of whose preferences – the general healthy population or the patient population – should be incorporated into traditional cost-effectiveness analysis. This debate arises because

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 28 Score 0.7703041810185185

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he reports that security issues in OCaml projec

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Schneier on Security Aug 28 Score 0.7683790259259258

Friday Squid Blogging: Truckload of Squid Spills in Rhode Island

Ugh : A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local authorities have dubbed it the "Squidpocalypse of '26." That would be twenty tons of s

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NASA News Aug 31 Score 0.7386976208333333

NASA Welcomes Türkiye as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

During a ceremony hosted by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman at the agency’s headquarters in Washington on Monday, the Republic of Türkiye signed the Artemis Accords, joining the growing international coalition of like-minded nations dedicated to peaceful, tr

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NASA News Aug 31 Score 0.7360240097222223

September 2026 Satellite Puzzler

Here’s the August 2026 puzzler. Quick, where is this? And what makes this place interesting or unique?

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Econbrowser Aug 31 Score 0.7346257810185185

Yield Curve Pre- and Post-Buyback

How's it going? 10 year yields are up relative to Friday. Indeed, after initial progress in lowering long rates, pretty much the entire yield curve is now up. Figure 1: Yield curve as of 8/18 (blue), as of 8/19 (orange), as of 8/28 (green), all in %. Source: T

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Kubernetes Blog Aug 31 Score 0.7341360185185185

Kubernetes v1.37: Storage Version Migration Enabled by Default

I am excited that storage version migration (SVM) has graduated to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.37! After a number of releases of work and testing, the built-in StorageVersionMigration API ( storagemigration.k8s.io/v1 ) and control plane controll

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Econbrowser Aug 31 Score 0.7323808736111111

Seven Graphs for the Financial System

Apropos of nothing except current (financial system) events (Fall teaching), some pictures to elicit thoughts. Debt rising fast even at full employment Stock market near peak? Fed funds rate above Taylor rule implied levels. Fed credibility lower under Trump 2

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Eurogamer Aug 31 Score 0.7284635388888889

Onimusha: Way of the Sword review

Legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi considered himself more an artist than a fighter. A keen strategist and a self-proclaimed master of war, I think it's Musashi's art that hits more keenly than his katana: it's minimalist, monochromatic, a study of nature de

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New Scientist Aug 31 Score 0.7283029949074074

How our bodies adapt to extreme temperatures – until it gets too hot

No matter where you’re from, there are things you can do to cope better with extreme temperatures. But it takes work to stop our bodies’ adaptations from slipping backwards over winter, and there are limits to how far we can go

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Eurogamer Aug 31 Score 0.7283028907407407

The Blood of Dawnwalker review

CD Projekt Red alumni create a familiar dark fantasy adventure, but one with bold and provocative ideas of its own, that's mostly, enormously successful. Read more

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InfoQ Aug 31 Score 0.7274133587962963

DoorDash’s Flux Runs 130,000 Engineering Tasks Through Cloud-Based Agents

DoorDash has moved engineering agent workloads from developer laptops to its Flux cloud platform. The platform automated 130,000 engineering tasks in one month and supports more than 25,000 automated code reviews weekly. Flux uses isolated Firecracker microVMs

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NASA News Aug 31 Score 0.7269286393518518

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, transits the Sun during launch from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 30, 2026. Roman is named after the agency’s first chief astronomer. Roman will survey billio

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 31 Score 0.7267477685185185

Popular sweeteners may leave effects that last for generations

Two widely used zero-calorie sweeteners, sucralose and stevia, may have effects that linger far longer than the sweet taste itself. In mice, researchers found that both sweeteners altered the gut microbiome, reduced beneficial compounds produced by gut bacteri

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FRED Blog Aug 31 Score 0.7249692078703703

Is this a good time to rent?

The takeaway The most recent measure of the cost of owning a home (vs. renting a home) remains near historical peaks, suggesting renting today is a relatively better financial choice for housing. To own or not to own? Which is … Continue reading →

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 31 Score 0.7247959166666667

Scientists challenge a 70-year-old “lizard brain” myth

A long-standing picture of brain evolution as newer, rational layers stacked on top of an ancient “lizard brain” may be deeply misleading. Researchers found that evolution instead appears to balance two competing styles of brain wiring, expanding one while shr

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 31 Score 0.7243704537037037

Fossil feet may be misleading scientists about human evolution

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed. The discovery challenges a key assumption about what the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees looked like and how it moved.

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NASA News Aug 31 Score 0.7237721578703704

Roman Commissioning

Where is Roman? Roman is making its three-month journey from Earth to Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2, or L2. Along the way, Roman is undergoing a process called commissioning, where systems are turned on, adjusted, calibrated, and prepared for science operations.

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 1 Score 0.7124999999999999

Financially Motivated Threat Actor BREEZE COMET Targets Brazil

Introduction Beginning in 2024 Mandiant investigated a string of compromises affecting Brazilian financial services, retail, and eCommerce organizations. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracks this activity as BREEZE COMET (formerly UNC5669), a financi

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Nautilus Sep 1 Score 0.7058030435185184

Memory Decline Starts Earlier Than You Might Think

Middle-age memory slips are a bit strange The post Memory Decline Starts Earlier Than You Might Think appeared first on Nautilus .

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Google Cloud Blog Aug 31 Score 0.7041355967592592

BigQuery Graph is now GA: the knowledge foundation for the agentic era

Many of the questions that matter in enterprise data aren't just about individual rows — they're about how things connect: how two accounts are linked, what path a payment took, what context grounds an AI agent's answer. That’s what a graph is built to solve.

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Marginal Revolution Aug 31 Score 0.7006003592592591

Yerevan bleg

Any advice on this front is most welcome, thank you! The post Yerevan bleg appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .               Comments Geghard and Garni (both can be covered in one drive). Go out to ... by King Banaian Was

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Google Cloud Blog Aug 31 Score 0.6924689300925925

Cloud CISO Perspectives: Tips on securing the water sector in the AI era

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Sistrunk and Stephanie Kiel detail the critical issues facing the water sector, and actionable steps that OT operators can take to secure their infrastructure. As with all Cloud CISO P

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