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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 8 Score 0.890971287037037

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode , to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th. Th

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 8 Score 0.8768222129629629

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News. I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bulletin point: May 7: OpenAI starts a new training run for an ex

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The Verge Aug 8 Score 0.8137254601851852

X replaces its revenue-sharing program with ‘Original Content Rewards’

X is ending its controversial revenue-sharing program for content creators, which has seen numerous revisions under Elon Musk's reign. In its place, it's launching a new Original Content Rewards program on September 8th. To be eligible, creators must have at l

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The Verge Aug 8 Score 0.8081245342592593

An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country

To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times. The new gas-burning plant in Pecos County, T

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BBC News — World Aug 8 Score 0.8049589342592594

Watch: Moment opposition MP throws eggs at Kosovo's acting PM

Lawmakers and police officers had to intervene after Alliance party MP Time Kadrijaj hurled at least four eggs towards Kosovo's acting prime minister Albin Kurti.

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The Verge Aug 8 Score 0.8046226819444445

Buc-ee’s dodges John Oliver to sue another small business

Buc-ee's became something of a viral sensation during the World Cup, but it has a troubling history of suing small gas stations and convenience stores. On a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver literally begged the company to sue him for selling me

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BleepingComputer Aug 8 Score 0.8020915208333333

Hackers breach TrueConf to trojanize client installers with backdoors

The Head Mare hacktivist group has been exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched TrueConf video conferencing servers to replace client installers with malicious versions that deliver backdoors. [...]

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The Verge Aug 8 Score 0.7983032375000001

Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That's what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance startin

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NBER New Working Papers Aug 9 Score 0.7875000000000001

Winners and Losers: Competition, Creative Destruction, and Labor Income Risk -- by Brice C. Green, Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Lawrence D.W. Schmidt

Using U.S. administrative data, we find that technology-driven creative destruction in the product market passes through to worker earnings. The passthrough to incumbent worker earnings is both asymmetric and concentrated: profit drops from rival innovations l

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NBER New Working Papers Aug 9 Score 0.7875000000000001

Financial Interdependence and Currency Internationalization -- by Zhengyang Jiang

Does financial opening necessarily lead to currency internationalization? To study the competition between incumbent and rising powers under financial interdependence, we develop a model of asset demand with microfounded network effects. Search frictions with

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NBER New Working Papers Aug 9 Score 0.7875000000000001

Predictive Risk Scores in the Public Sector: Experimental Evidence from Child-Protection Investigations -- by E. Jason Baron, Arkadev Ghosh, Richard Lombardo

Many public-sector decisions require allocating scarce attention under uncertainty. We examine whether algorithmic risk assessments improve child-protection decisions, where supervisors decide which cases need closer scrutiny. In a randomized evaluation of 4,7

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NBER New Working Papers Aug 9 Score 0.7875000000000001

Cognitive Limitations and Long-Term Care Use in the Netherlands: Evidence from the Lifelines Cohort Study -- by Gaia Bagnasco, Pieter Bakx, Stijn Coremans, Bram Wouterse

We analyze the association between cognitive impairments and long-term care use in the 65+ population in the Netherlands. For this, we use data from the Lifelines Cohort Study that are linked to administrative records available through Statistics Netherlands.

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The Guardian — World Aug 7 Score 0.7730084722222222

US police officer accused of killing three people in Mexico arrested at border

Chad Eberle of Texas charged over deadly shooting in Saltillo that officials say stemmed from custody dispute A Texas police officer has been arrested in Mexico after authorities there accused him of killing three people and critically injuring the mother of h

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The Guardian — World Aug 7 Score 0.7692631023148149

Judge approves Trump effort to end South Sudan TPS protections

Decision follows supreme court ruling that allowed US government to strip protections for Haitians and Syrians Temporary protected status (TPS) for hundreds of South Sudanese nationals in the United States is set to end after a federal judge ruled that the Tru

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Quanta Magazine Aug 5 Score 0.7594330699074073

Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot

New research is helping biologists understand how an overlooked aspect of coral physiology may affect their fate under climate change. The post Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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War on the Rocks Aug 7 Score 0.7508082189814815

Warlords of Greece: Warfare in Homer’s World

The Iliad and Odyssey have shaped Western ideas of heroism for nearly three millennia. Yet despite centuries of debate over whether they reflect historical reality or poetic fantasy, the Homeric world remains an internally consistent universe worth studying on

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War on the Rocks Aug 7 Score 0.7499947930555556

How Can U.S. Special Operations Forces Help Defeat China on Taiwan?

It is conceivable that in one blistering campaign, the People's Republic of China could invade, occupy, and forcibly annex Taiwan. One question would dominate the post-occupation debate: "What more could have been done?" The obvious answers will be better inte

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Schneier on Security Aug 5 Score 0.7494896620370369

Vulnerabilities in Car Anti-Theft Device

This is disturbing: …a team of security researchers at UC San Diego, who found that a model of aftermarket car alarm known as the KARR Security System, installed in more than 2 million vehicles across the US by their estimate, can let any hacker within B

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Foreign Affairs Aug 7 Score 0.7449695527777779

China’s Legal Weapon

Beijing’s quest to challenge America’s legal hegemony.

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Econbrowser Aug 8 Score 0.7395170430555555

Estimates of Nonfarm Payroll Employment

CES estimates are for lackluster growth, while the trend in CPS measure is … somewhat worrying.  

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TechCrunch Aug 8 Score 0.728303212962963

Google's top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames

Google recently changed how it refers and assigns names to hacking groups. TechCrunch spoke with one of the world’s foremost experts on tracking hackers to understand why companies give hackers codenames.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 8 Score 0.7282723138888889

Meteorite that smashed through a New Jersey roof reveals clues to life’s origins

A rare meteorite that crashed through a New Jersey roof contains evidence of ancient salty fluids, organic compounds, and amino acids from a primitive asteroid. Its pristine chemistry could offer new clues about how space rocks helped supply early Earth with s

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 8 Score 0.7250764805555555

The sun is covered in tiny whirlpools we’ve never seen before

Scientists have discovered incredibly tiny plasma whirlpools swirling across the Sun’s surface, some just 20 kilometers wide. These previously invisible vortices may twist magnetic fields and help build up the energy released in small solar eruptions called na

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Wired — Security Aug 8 Score 0.7208030041666666

Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed

Plus: A judge rules cell tower dumps unconstitutional, water utility hacks spread to a dozen states, a phishing email opens a missile-parts supplier’s inbox, and a ransomware boss gets 16 years.

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InfoQ Aug 8 Score 0.7183022481481481

Presentation: Keeping ChatGPT Fast as AI Development Accelerates

Martin Spier explains how agentic workflows dramatically increase code change volume at OpenAI. He discusses the hidden systemic performance costs of rapid shipping beyond GPUs, and shares how deploying always-on AI agents automates profiling, regression detec

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The Hacker News Aug 8 Score 0.7181594662037037

Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers

Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian's Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of tho

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The Hacker News Aug 8 Score 0.7167460402777778

New CSS Attacks Can Break Webmail Defenses to Steal Passwords and Tokens

New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over

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InfoQ Aug 8 Score 0.7162189148148148

GitHub Hardens npm and Actions Defaults, Drawing Debate over Delays versus Signing

GitHub consolidated the npm and Actions changes it shipped from March to July 2026 against supply chain attacks, several of which alter defaults rather than add options. Hacker News discussion focused less on the individual controls than on whether waiting per

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The Hacker News Aug 8 Score 0.7149284476851852

Metabase Zero-Day Exploited in Wild Allows Admin Access Without Authentication

Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The vulnerability (CVSS score: 10.0), which does not carry a CVE identifier, all

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The Hacker News Aug 8 Score 0.714906225462963

N-able Issues N-central Hotfix 2 as Attackers Reach Managed Systems and Persist

N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product. "We are proactively expanding protections in respons

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The Hacker News Aug 8 Score 0.7147548365740741

Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Hits CISA KEV After 792 Reported Exploit Attempts

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical-severity security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. Th

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Hacker News Aug 9 Score 0.7099218949074073

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 8 Score 0.7096760175925926

Sunlight creates quantum entanglement once thought to require lasers

Scientists have generated quantum entanglement directly from sunlight, potentially offering a lower-energy alternative to the lasers normally used in quantum technology. Their outdoor experiment produced entangled photons with about 94% similarity to an ideal

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 8 Score 0.7056755546296296

Teen cannabis use linked to slower memory and thinking growth

Teens who start using cannabis may experience slower growth in memory, attention, language, and processing speed. Their abilities often developed normally at first, then began leveling off while nonusers continued improving. THC appeared to be the most likely

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Marginal Revolution Aug 8 Score 0.6969379027777777

The future of warfare? (from my email)

As weapon systems increase in effectiveness, they will generally target one another rather than humans. Lower loss of life will ease conflict entry and hinder exit. Warfare will veer further from industrial competition into techno-industrial; the current appea

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CyberScoop Aug 7 Score 0.6919321958333333

More than half of AI-generated patches are broken

Research finds your AI generated security patch is more likely to fail than fully fix a vulnerability. It might even introduce brand new flaws to exploit along the way. The post More than half of AI-generated patches are broken appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Lobsters Aug 8 Score 0.6888191171296295

some software talks i like

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Nautilus Aug 8 Score 0.6858030486111111

Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird

Cranial scans reveal a brain with clever sensory adaptations The post Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird appeared first on Nautilus .

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NASA News Aug 7 Score 0.674010087037037

NASA’s Lunar Development and Test Facility Prepares Artemis Hardware for Moon

Before astronauts return to the Moon’s surface through NASA’s Artemis program, the hardware they depend on must first prove it can survive the unforgiving lunar environment. At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers at the Lunar

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NASA News Aug 7 Score 0.6701086981481481

APOD: 2026 August 7 – Rubin’s Cosmos Field

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 7 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured,

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Phys.org Aug 8 Score 0.6610820787037037

'Flying focus' laser overcomes key limitation in plasma-based particle accelerators

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers accelerated electrons to more than twice the energy predicted by the traditional dephasing limit for laser-plasma accelerators operating over the same distance. This was made possible by a specially engineered laser p

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Google AI Blog Aug 3 Score 0.6033031523148149

Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course

Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a no-cost course to build and deploy the next frontier of AI.

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Towards Data Science Aug 8 Score 0.5783032125

Before Q, K, and V: Reconstructing the Transformer

Many Transformer explainers start with the finished architecture. We ask why it looks the way it does. The post Before Q, K, and V: Reconstructing the Transformer appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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AI News Aug 7 Score 0.5759433759259259

Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli

Stanford researchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo 2 generative AI model. Laboratory testing narrowed the group to 16 phages that showed particularly strong E. coli-killing activity. The work centres on bacteriophage

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AI News Aug 7 Score 0.575080412962963

How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch

Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every ‘Explore’ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With over three billion people using it, that’s not a small detail; it's the whole algorithm. But here’s the point: the more AI con

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Towards Data Science Aug 8 Score 0.5749698791666668

Building a Streamlit UI for My LangGraph AI Agent

Building a production-ready web interface for a stateful LangGraph agent The post Building a Streamlit UI for My LangGraph AI Agent appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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