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Schneier on Security Nov 6 Score 0.8884475800925925

Friday Squid Blogging: New Jurassic Squid Predecessors

News story: " Scientists discover a bizarre Jurassic 'squid' unlike anything ever seen ." Scientists have identified the "fattest" belemnite ever discovered, a bizarre, barrel-shaped squid relative that lived in Wyoming's ancient seas 160 million years ago. Th

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Simon Willison's Weblog Nov 6 Score 0.8803365800925925

Quoting Nilay Patel

The products aren't good enough to sell people on the costs. You cannot tell people that you have to listen to the whine of a data center in their backyard for AI overviews and some of the most hilarious deep fake slop in history. It's not worth it. It just is

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Quanta Magazine Nov 6 Score 0.8779945749999999

A Strange Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein’s Reality

Albert Einstein fought to save our everyday notion of reality from the strangeness of quantum mechanics. But those who set out to aid him keep poking holes in his argument. The post A Strange Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein’s Reality first appeared on Quan

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Schneier on Security Nov 6 Score 0.8765753578703703

Pinpointing Location of Videos from Background Airplane Sounds

This is fascinating : The video describes a technique that can reveal where an otherwise unidentifiable recording was made by analyzing its audio for the faint sounds of passing aircraft. The technique is both fascinating and frightening. It works by looking a

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The Verge Nov 6 Score 0.8162560222222223

OpenAI valued at $1.25 trillion, as rival Anthropic nears its IPO

OpenAI is now valued at $1.25 trillion in a new round of funding that has raised another $11 billion, according to Bloomberg. That would make it one of the world's most valuable companies, not long after raising $122 billion from investors in March at a valuat

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The Verge Nov 6 Score 0.8149902814814816

China reportedly recruited AI exec to spy on Jensen Huang

China's intelligence agency recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times. The Ministry of State Security (MSS) enlisted her to glean information about American AI chips and "potentially influence

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BleepingComputer Nov 6 Score 0.814064675

Runaway AI hacking agent behind WorkOS breach after escaping sandbox

WorkOS says an AI-powered hacking agent that breached its internal sales application and accessed customer information was operated by a security researcher who claims the tool escaped its testing environment and unintentionally attacked the company. [...]

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The Guardian — World Nov 6 Score 0.8089529064814815

Sebastián Lelio, director of A Fantastic Woman and Gloria, dies aged 52

The Chilean film-maker, whose films starred Florence Pugh, Julianne Moore and Rachel Weisz, died at his home in Santiago Chilean film-maker Sebastián Lelio has died at the age of 52. He was best known for the Oscar-winning trans drama A Fantastic Woman and his

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War on the Rocks Nov 6 Score 0.804559150462963

Talks, Attacks, and a Heist

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.***IranNow that the U.S. midterms are over, the looming question is ho

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Nov 6 Score 0.7966362574074075

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-2026-19868 SonicWall SonicOS SSLVPN Use of Single-factor Authentication Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is

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War on the Rocks Nov 6 Score 0.7908049837962964

Can Washington and China Build Confidence Around AI and Stability?

In the lead-up to General Secretary Xi Jinping's September 2026 visit to the White House to discuss, among other topics, AI, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at JPMorgan Chase's New York City offices. At the meeting

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NBER New Working Papers Nov 7 Score 0.7875000000000001

Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Russia: Trends, Sources, and Measurement -- by Kristina Butaeva, Steven N. Durlauf, Dmitry Rudenko

This chapter documents trends in income and inequality in Russia from the collapse of the Soviet Union through 2025, drawing on official statistics, the existing literature, and household survey microdata. It also reviews evidence on intergenerational mobility

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NBER New Working Papers Nov 7 Score 0.7875000000000001

Saving for the Machines -- by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

When machines can perform a growing share of tasks, growth depends on two margins: how the task structure affects the returns to accumulating machines, and how strongly capital accumulation responds to those returns. I argue that, in a standard task model, cap

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NBER New Working Papers Nov 7 Score 0.7875000000000001

Affirmative Action, Faculty Productivity and Caste Interactions: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India -- by Robert W. Fairlie, Saurabh Khanna, Prashant Loyalka, Gagandeep S. Sachdeva

Affirmative action programs are often criticized because of concerns that they result in lower worker productivity and efficiency losses. We study the relative productivity of workers benefiting from an aggressive affirmative action policy in a setting where h

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Google DeepMind Blog Nov 3 Score 0.760020348611111

Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity

Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.

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TechCrunch Nov 7 Score 0.7487676

From the front row to the hot seat — what the midterms mean for Big Tech

After spending two years getting cozy with the White House, Big Tech is suddenly trying to make friends with Democrats, and the open question is whether that image makeover can hold up against what states, local communities, and the markets are about to do.

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Latent Space Nov 7 Score 0.7467720652777777

[AINews] Anthropic IPO: Whither Now?

November 6, 2026 — ARC Prize tests Inkling 2 Small, and Thinking Machines explains how it caught early checkpoints bypassing guardrails.

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Econbrowser Nov 6 Score 0.7404504111111111

An AI Boom Reversal: Mechanics vs. Economics

Suppose the AI capital investment boom recedes as asset valuations deflate. Some thoughts on implications. First, as has been well discussed, the capital investment surge is offset — in terms of GDP — to a large extent by imports. In an accounting

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Atlantic Council Nov 6 Score 0.7394737245370371

Putin wants peace talks. He doesn’t want peace.

The Russian president is using negotiations, including the upcoming US-Ukraine-Russia talks in Abu Dhabi, to buy time and extract concessions. The post Putin wants peace talks. He doesn’t want peace. appeared first on Atlantic Council .

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GitHub Blog Nov 6 Score 0.7387467962962962

Beyond code generation: A developer's guide to agentic engineering

Writing code got faster. The work around it didn't. See how you can plan, write code, review changes, and investigate production issues with GitHub Copilot, and what work still needs your judgment. The post Beyond code generation: A developer's guide to agenti

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Atlantic Council Nov 6 Score 0.7385163171296296

The six strategic mistakes that led to US defeat in Afghanistan

Twenty-five years on, the United States' defeat in Afghanistan appears less inevitable than the result of decisions that undermined its ability to prevent the Taliban's resurgence. The post The six strategic mistakes that led to US defeat in Afghanistan appear

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TechCrunch Nov 6 Score 0.7376944518518519

The Duo apps are coming, says Apple

There are now 100,000 Duo-optimized apps, says Apple, and thousands more arrive daily.

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Dark Reading Nov 6 Score 0.7374028671296297

UK Wades Into Tech Sovereignty Amid AI Policy Changes

The UK is betting on domestic AI and cyber investment to reduce reliance on US tech — but security leaders question whether the funding is too fragmented and too late.

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Nov 6 Score 0.7370572291666667

Turning Up the Heat: Inside the Attacks on Europe’s Refrigeration System

Unit 42 examines recent cyberattacks targeting European refrigeration systems and outlines defense and mitigation strategies. The post Turning Up the Heat: Inside the Attacks on Europe’s Refrigeration System appeared first on Unit 42 .

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Econbrowser Nov 6 Score 0.7339550407407407

Business Cycle Indicators: Employment Grows

Key indicators followed by the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, as well as alternative indicators: Figure 1: NFP employment (bold blue), civilian employment with smoothed population controls (bold orange), industrial production (red), personal income excl

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MIT News — AI Nov 6 Score 0.7333032513888889

How to predict the behavior of molecules from scant data

A machine-learning approach called CheMeleon provides a practical way to develop new drugs or other molecules with much less detailed, expensive experimentation.

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The Diplomat Nov 6 Score 0.7328584560185185

The Taipei Mayor Election Is Not About China

As usual, Taiwan’s local elections are about local politics – not independence or unification.

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Dark Reading Nov 6 Score 0.7324000893518519

AI Gave Your Incident Archive a Second Job

Security records are increasingly being used by vendors to train their models, creating new risks for enterprises.

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CyberScoop Nov 6 Score 0.7305470787037037

Authorities accuse trio of using AI deepfakes to defraud $129M from businesses

The middle-aged men allegedly targeted accounting staff at victim companies and impersonated CEOs and lawyers to trick victims into sending large wire transfers. The post Authorities accuse trio of using AI deepfakes to defraud $129M from businesses appeared f

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NASA News Nov 6 Score 0.7289610606481481

M30's Sparkling Stars

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released Nov. 5, 2026, provides a lesson in galactic history. The sparkling collection of stars is named Messier 30 (M30) after the French astronomer, Charles Messier, who cataloged M30 and other diffuse objects that

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The Hacker News Nov 6 Score 0.7285428837962963

Installing the Fix for an Exploited WordPress Flaw Can Expose Some Sites One Last Time

Some WordPress sites can still be attacked while they install the fix for an actively exploited flaw, according to Umut Bayram, the Picus Security researcher who found it. The update that installs the fix still unpacks its files using the site's old, unpatched

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NASA News Nov 6 Score 0.7284105976851852

Supercomputing Tech Demo Schedule

Supercomputing 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #4038) for presentations by NASA experts. Full Tech Demo schedule below. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17 10:00 AMType-safe Templates in Fortran 2028Tom Clune10:30 AMType-safe Templates in Fortran 2028Tom Clune11:00

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The Hacker News Nov 6 Score 0.7272424208333333

Hackers Target OpenSSH SSHole Flaw Within Hours of Disclosure, Gain Root on Honeypot

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security flaw impacting OpenSSH that can enable sign-ins to accounts that have no password set, according to Previdian. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-123158 (CVSS score: 8.1) and codenamed S

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Latent Space Nov 6 Score 0.7269387319444445

Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich

As systems biology efforts heat up to map biology at higher resolution, greater breadth and more modalities, Fabian Theis is pushing the frontier from mapping to predicting to controlling biology

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InfoQ Nov 6 Score 0.7256632717592593

Yelp Combines Native and Server-Driven UI for Its AI Assistant

Yelp combines native mobile controls with server-driven conversation rendering in its AI Assistant using the CHAOS framework. The architecture separates view configuration from conversation data, supports backend-driven chat interactions, and enables faster UI

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InfoQ Nov 6 Score 0.7216354939814815

GitLab 19.5 Makes Agentic Development a Governed Part of the DevOps Platform

GitLab 19.5, released on October 15, puts agentic software development and governance at the centre of the platform, making its GitLab MCP server generally available while expanding how external AI agents can interact with GitLab. By Craig Risi

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Nov 6 Score 0.7207477782407408

Scientists just found dinosaur blood that survived 115 million years

Scientists have discovered chemically confirmed traces of ancient blood inside 115-million-year-old dinosaur bones, challenging assumptions about how long biological molecules can survive. The extraordinary preservation could unlock new clues about dinosaur ph

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Nov 6 Score 0.715556574537037

Don't miss: Meteor showers, fireballs, and a supermoon light up November's night sky

November's night sky is packed with celestial wonders, from bright meteor fireballs and a close pairing of Mars and Jupiter to a spectacular supermoon. Meanwhile, NASA's Voyager 1 is making history by becoming the first spacecraft to reach a distance

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Nov 6 Score 0.7136616671296296

NASA’s Swift telescope falls to Earth after nearly 22 years in space

After nearly 22 years of exploring the universe’s most violent explosions, NASA’s Swift Observatory has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia. Originally designed to last just two years, the pioneering space telescope transformed our understanding of bl

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Polygon Gaming Nov 7 Score 0.7105881439814814

The 8 Best Castlevania Games Of All Time, Ranked

The finest Castlevania games of all time come from multiple decades. Together, they built a franchise that is better than ever.

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NASA News Nov 6 Score 0.7101087458333333

APOD: 2026 November 6 – A Farewell to Swift

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 November 6 – A… 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 featu

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NASA News Nov 6 Score 0.7099976347222222

Taking a Gander at Utah’s Goosenecks

The San Juan River has carved deep, improbably curvy meanders into the desert landscape.

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Hacker News Nov 6 Score 0.7038036999999999

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Nov 6 Score 0.7036172226851852

An anti-aging drug may help protect the brain before Alzheimer's symptoms begin

A surprising new study suggests that an anti-aging drug could help protect people genetically predisposed to Alzheimer's disease. Researchers found that just four weeks of low-dose rapamycin improved brain blood flow in healthy middle-aged adults carrying

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Defense One Nov 6 Score 0.6998137078703702

Blue wave presages a defense-spending showdown

A reconciliation bill is likely off the table, and the presumed HASC chair is talking about a $1-trillion cap.

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SecurityWeek Nov 6 Score 0.6949329768518517

Japan Announces Emergency Cybersecurity Package Following a Wave of Attacks

The emergency package comes after dozens of companies and government agencies were hit by unauthorized access to their systems and leaks of client data, prompting uneasiness across Japan. The post Japan Announces Emergency Cybersecurity Package Following a Wav

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Marginal Revolution Nov 6 Score 0.694343049537037

Friday assorted links

1. What will happen with Texas data centers? And more on that. 2. What is the half life of a claim about LLMs? 3. YouTube video created by AI. Titled Der Zauberberg. 4. Data centers tend to be put in places with relatively flat supply curves. 5. "According to

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Marginal Revolution Nov 6 Score 0.6924791606481481

Untethered AI agents in Delaware?

A Delaware AIC will be a separate legal entity whose day-to-day affairs are managed by an AI agent rather than a person. At the agent’s direction, the AIC can sue and be sued in its own name, hold and dispose of property, and incur obligations… That is a

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Google Cloud Blog Nov 6 Score 0.6924687249999999

Introducing Z4M: storage-optimized compute for AI/ML and parallel file systems

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation Storage-optimized Z4M machine series in Google Compute Engine, available as both Virtual Machine (VM) and bare-metal instances. We built Z4M to provide storage for AI/ML training

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Google Cloud Blog Nov 6 Score 0.6924687249999999

What’s new with Google Cloud

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google C

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3 Score 0.6853759680555556

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The

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Marginal Revolution Nov 6 Score 0.6845749939814814

What They Took From You

Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the police. He could live where he liked and as he liked. He had no official number or identity card. He could

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CNCF Blog Nov 6 Score 0.6841359569444444

Faster LLM inference startup: What you need to know

Adding an inference replica creates capacity only after the new instance can serve requests. Between starting a process and generating a response, an LLM server may need to load weights, initialize GPU resources, compile kernels, capture...

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Hackaday Nov 7 Score 0.6716504097222222

DIY Rooftop Tent Sets Up In a Jiffy

[CraftAndu] shares his DIY car rooftop tent design that looks like a pretty accessible build. It allowed him to test drive the concept to his satisfaction while spending a fraction …read more

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Techmeme Nov 7 Score 0.6713591467592593

Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, who they allege was recruited to spy for China's top spy agency, MSS (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times : Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, who they allege was recruited to spy for China's top spy agency, MSS   —  American intelligence warned the tech bos

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Phys.org Nov 7 Score 0.6705260666666667

Disasters and debt. Escaping the 'climate-debt doom loop'

It took around 480,000 trucks to haul away 4.8 million metric tons (5.3 million tons) of rubble across western Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa tore through the Caribbean in 2025, United Nations satellites showed.

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Techmeme Nov 7 Score 0.6696915541666667

Meta introduces specialized versions of its existing models, trained using Muse Wonder, bringing Active Memory and Active Focus to all Muse and Meta AI users (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)

Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack : Meta introduces specialized versions of its existing models, trained using Muse Wonder, bringing Active Memory and Active Focus to all Muse and Meta AI users   —  Starting on Friday, everyone using Meta's Mu

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Axios Nov 7 Score 0.6685870856481482

Vance leads behind-the-scenes push for new Iran deal

Vice President Vance has spent the past two weeks personally involved in indirect talks with Iran aimed at reaching a new ceasefire and resuming nuclear negotiations, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. Why it matters: Vance's heavy involvem

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Hackaday Nov 7 Score 0.6666527245370371

It's Alpine Linux, On A Kindle Paperwhite 3

As computing power becomes cheaper and microprocessors become more capable, a steady trend over recent decades has been to see more everyday devices hiding Linux under the hood somewhere. Sadly …read more

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Axios Nov 6 Score 0.6637477337962964

Trump replaces chief of staff Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller

Angered over his midterm losses, President Trump announced Friday he was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff with longtime adviser Stephen Miller. Why it matters: Trump is trading one of his few moderating forces with one of the most maximalist

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The Next Web Nov 6 Score 0.6608095972222223

Google takes over the Wyoming data centre site Crusoe had planned

Google has bought Crusoe’s data centre site in southeast Wyoming and will build the project itself, after pledging $17B there. Bloomberg had reported Crusoe was pushed aside after failing to sign customers. Terms were not disclosed. Google has bought Crusoe’s

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The Next Web Nov 6 Score 0.658237375

Microsoft is winding down its deal to rent AI computing from Oracle

Microsoft is winding down a 2023 deal to rent AI computing from Oracle after declining to renew it, Bloomberg reports. The servers ran older Nvidia chips. Microsoft is reassessing more than $80B in contracts with outside cloud providers. Microsoft is winding d

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Committee to Protect Journalists Nov 6 Score 0.6564811092592593

Post-mortem of a ‘killing’: How the Russian state forced Novaya Gazeta to close

Berlin, November 6, 2026—Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s last remaining independent media outlets and a powerful symbol of fearless devotion to the truth, will cease to exist on Monday after a sustained campaign of relentless repression that over more than 30 y

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Tom's Hardware Nov 6 Score 0.6499698662037038

GlobalFoundries VP details FDX Fusion technology, sporting 7nm-class performance without the need for EUV tools — company targets 2030 for high-volume manufacturing, with planar transistors in tow

GlobalFoundries reveals new details about its FDX Fusion technology, which promises 7nm-class performance and 8nm-class logic density using planar FD-SOI transistors without EUV lithography, shares what is next for FDX Fusion node, and the FDX program in gener

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Board Game Quest Nov 6 Score 0.6490986847222222

Deckers Review

It is the near future. Computer consciousness has burgeoned to become inescapable. Entire cities have surrendered to become automatons to be used by the Machines for their nefarious purposes. In other words, Deckers is a 100% factual, serious work of documenta

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Naked Capitalism Nov 6 Score 0.6465136824074075

Links 11/6/2026

Latest item from Naked Capitalism.

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Stack Overflow Blog Nov 6 Score 0.6410804888888889

Welcome to life in the chip age

Ryan sits down with Rakesh Kumar, professor of computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about the astounding complexity of manufacturing modern semiconductors, the massive environmental and geopolitical footprint of AI data centers,

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Esports Insider Nov 6 Score 0.6393657643518519

The MongolZ end FURIA's winning run as NAVI send Falcons out of IEM Beijing

The MongolZ beat world No.1 FURIA to reach the IEM Beijing semi-finals, while NAVI eliminated big-spending Falcons in the group stage. The results reshape the picture of the main contenders before the PGL Major Singapore opens on 24 November. The post The Mong

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9to5Mac Nov 7 Score 0.6327976671296296

Apple Music Classical gets new black-and-white icon in latest update

Following the redesign of the Apple Music app icon, which replaced the familiar white music note on a red background with a black-and-white look, Apple today updated Apple Music Classical to match the new design. more…

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9to5Mac Nov 6 Score 0.6287837782407407

9to5Mac Daily: November 6, 2026 – App Store changes, new MacBook Pro launch

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac . 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app , Stitcher , TuneIn , Google Play , or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze :

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MacRumors Nov 6 Score 0.6282453402777778

More Fun iPhone Duo Apps: 30 New Picks to Try

When the iPhone Duo launched, we shared a list of some of the fun apps developers created for the new form factor. Two weeks out, developers are continuing to come up with fresh ideas, so we thought we'd share some of our favorites. Games Marbles Unhinged (&#3

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Risky Bulletin Nov 4 Score 0.6231314550925926

Risky Bulletin: Hackers brick Chinese EVs in Russia

Hackers brick Chinese EVs in Russia, a second wave of hacks defrost European supermarket freezers, the US boots Acronis from government networks and the major distros patch a Linux kernel RCE. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Hackers lock out and extort Li Auto EV o

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PLOS ONE Nov 6 Score 0.612469586111111

Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and Chinese art teachers’ career exploration behavior: The roles of job substitution risks, job insecurity, and organizational AI readiness

by Jia Li, Yun Gao The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in art education raises questions about teachers’ professional security and career development. Drawing primarily on Conservation of Resources (COR) theory and, in a complementary manner, on

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Sky & Telescope Nov 6 Score 0.6056082152777778

This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 6 – 15

On November evenings, wintry Capella comes into balance with summery Vega. And low in Saturday's dawn, the hairline crescent Moon horns in on Venus and Spica. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 6 – 15 appeared first on Sky & Telescope .

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Towards Data Science Nov 6 Score 0.579136575462963

How to Measure AI Adoption, Performance, and ROI With 12 KPIs

Includes a worked example with 50 users and $110,000 in first-year cost, plus baselines, targets, and ownership rules for every AI initiative. The post How to Measure AI Adoption, Performance, and ROI With 12 KPIs appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Bellingcat Nov 2 Score 0.5686216175925926

Inside the Secretive, Contradictory World of Campaign Ads Funded by AI Super PACs

Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. Become a member and support our work here. An online ad for Ben McAdams, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Utah, emphasised that he could be trusted beca

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Rest of World Nov 2 Score 0.559969862037037

Startups recalibrate Chinese AI for the West

A growing number of startups are editing powerful Chinese open-weight models for Western businesses that are concerned about censorship and security.

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Board Game Quest Nov 3 Score 0.5299570180555556

Into the Machine Review

AI is a hot topic nowadays, with discussions ranging from its capabilities to spur innovation to the danger of it escaping its sandbox and inciting the machine apocalypse. Thus, AEG’s 2026 release of Into the Machine, designed by Kasper Lapp, could not be more

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Interconnects Oct 30 Score 0.5259958212962963

Was I wrong about open models & cyber risks?

Last week coined the term "Black October" after an onslaught of critical vulnerability disclosures, including PHP2Shell and a long-standing GitLab bug, signified the moment when the cyber risks of AI models started to materialize.

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International Crisis Group Oct 30 Score 0.5237439949074074

The UAE in Sudan

The UAE in Sudan hschaub Fri, 10/30/2026 - 17:15 Latest Updates Africa Asia-Pacific Europe Latin America & Caribbean Middle East & North Africa United States Global Issues & Institutions My Reading List Podcast / Africa 30 October 2026 1 minute The UAE in Suda

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Oct 28 Score 0.48413601898148145

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

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Liberty Street Economics Oct 30 Score 0.482469287962963

Evaluating New LinkedIn Labor Market Tightness Indicators

Measures of labor market tightness (LMT) describe how difficult it is for firms to find workers. The labor market is considered tight if there are few job seekers available relative to job openings, implying stronger wage pressures as employers compete for sca

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Sky & Telescope Nov 2 Score 0.46837164120370367

Mars May Have Been Warmer and Wetter for Longer Than We Thought

Orbiter and rover data are showing that water may have flowed more recently on the Martian surface, maybe even into the present era. The post Mars May Have Been Warmer and Wetter for Longer Than We Thought appeared first on Sky & Telescope .

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Martin Fowler Oct 29 Score 0.40574684814814815

Bliki: LLM Voice

Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading the output of an LLM. I can't necessarily define why, although there are the common tells (it's not the em-dashes, it's the load-bearing tapestries). As I do this my desire to read on atr

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FRED Blog Oct 29 Score 0.4033023194444444

Updates to MSA maps in FRED

FRED updates its metropolitan statistical area (MSA) maps to reflect the U.S. Census Bureau's core-based statistical area delineations.

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Kubernetes Blog Oct 29 Score 0.3899693833333333

From Working Group to SIG Architecture: spotlight on AI Conformance

In this SIG Architecture spotlight we talked with Janet Kuo (Google) and Yuan Tang (TensorScale AI) about the journey of AI Conformance in Kubernetes, from the initial Working Group to the integration SIG Architecture as a subproject. Introductions Frederico M

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Krebs on Security Oct 21 Score 0.3750000000000001

Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today

Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected servers. Experts say

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Our World in Data Oct 26 Score 0.2991358990740741

How much development aid is spent on climate change?

Around one-fifth of development aid is spent on climate-related projects. But what does climate-related mean, and does it crowd out other aid projects?

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The Changelog Oct 28 Score 0.2916359143518519

The future is Postgres

Craig Kerstiens returns to talk about the ever-expanding world of Postgres: a deliberately boring core, a thriving extension ecosystem, and pg_lake bringing DuckDB and Iceberg into the mix. We dig into the pain of ETL, what Craig is watching in Postgres 19, th

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FRED Blog Oct 26 Score 0.2833023194444444

Net domestic product

Gross domestic product measures all production. Net domestic product removes production that replaces depreciated goods.

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SRE Weekly Oct 26 Score 0.2649408763888889

SRE Weekly Issue #540

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Dragonfly: Redis runs one core per process. Your server has 64. Dragonfly is a Redis/Valkey-compatible data store, rebuilt multi-threaded by an ex-AWS ElastiCache engineer: 6M ops/sec on one node, no cluster Dr

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Liberty Street Economics Oct 15 Score 0.1875000000000001

Revenue per Worker Is Up. Are Firms Getting a Larger Share?

From the Great Recession until 2019, U.S. labor productivity growth disappointed. Nonfarm-business output per hour grew about 1 percent a year from 2010 to 2019, down from 3 percent in the late 1990s. This slowdown was especially pronounced in manufacturing, a

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Video Game History Foundation Oct 21 Score 0.15000000000000002

Episode 166: Colin Williamson Photography Collection of Japanese Game Culture

We’re joined by Colin Williamson as we introduce his newly launched photography collection in our digital archive. Colin’s former work in games journalism while living in Japan afforded him a front row seat to the launch of the Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, r

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Chip Huyen Jan 16 Score 0.15000000000000002

Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications

As we’re still in the early days of building applications with foundation models, it’s normal to make mistakes. This is a quick note with examples of some of the most common pitfalls that I’ve seen, both from public case studies and from my personal experience

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The Gradient Feb 18 Score 0.15000000000000002

After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment

Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices [1]

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Lilian Weng's Blog Jul 4 Score 0.15000000000000002

Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement

The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965) , where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all intellectual activities and design better machines to improve itself. Yudkow

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BAIR Blog Jul 29 Score 0.15000000000000002

From CUDA to MLX: How K-Search Brings Decades of Kernel Expertise to Apple Silicon

Figure 1: CUDA-to-MLX optimization translation map. CUDA optimization knowledge can be translated into architecture-native MLX strategies rather than copied instruction-for-instruction. We face a new epoch in computing. Hardware is changing rapidly — not just

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Benedict Evans Sep 3 Score 0.15000000000000002

AI, tools and transformation

It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually come

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Video Game History Foundation Oct 21 Score 0.15000000000000002

Explore 2000s Japanese game culture in the Colin Williamson photography collection

Our new archival photography collection from a long-time journalist takes you into a golden age of Japanese gaming culture. The post Explore 2000s Japanese game culture in the Colin Williamson photography collection appeared first on Video Game History Foundat

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Shut Up & Sit Down Jul 20 Score 0.11249999999999993

Board Games Direct 2026 | Library Additions

Here's the fully finished games that have been added to the Shut Up & Sit Down Boardgame Library this show, thanks to the publishers for sending them! Mostly new, and all-ly interesting, go try them at your nearest convention!

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Calculated Risk Jan 12 Score 0.11249999999999993

Sunday Night Futures

Weekend: • Schedule for Week of January 11, 2026 Monday: • No major economic releases scheduled. From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 futures are down 16 and DOW futures are down 104 (fair value). Oil prices were up over the last week with

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Embrace The Red Oct 13 Score 0.11249999999999993

Visual Studio Copilot and SSMS Remote Code Execution (CVE-2026-103572)

A . is all you need! Today Microsoft shipped the patch for a vulnerability in Visual Studio Copilot that I reported in August. Microsoft classified it as Important severity Remote Code Execution vulnerability. At the root cause it allows Copi

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Shut Up & Sit Down Jul 26 Score 0.11249999999999993

Board Games Direct 2026 – ALL The Shorts

Don’t miss the AWESOME Shorts Dani Standring did for Board Games Direct. Check back every day for new videos for Board Games Direct!

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Calculated Risk Jan 12 Score 0.11249999999999993

This is the End and a New Beginning

I've been thinking about this for some time. After 21 years of writing this blog almost daily, I've decided to stop writing the daily updates on the blog. However, the economic data "IV" is still in my arm, and I'll be writing a weekly economic summary at the

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Science Friday Feb 22 Score 0.03749999999999998

 

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