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Krebs on Security Oct 7 Score 0.9513238962962964

ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests

A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the suspect

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OpenAI News Oct 7 Score 0.9483032319444445

Helping teens learn, plan, and shape the future of AI

College Planner is coming to ChatGPT for Teens to help students manage college applications, alongside new flashcards, quizzes, and a teen AI council.

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OpenAI News Oct 7 Score 0.9399698986111112

Radisson Hotel Group brings hotel discovery into ChatGPT

Radisson partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT plugin using OpenAI technology, helping travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning their trips.

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OpenAI News Oct 7 Score 0.9283032319444445

GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

GPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 7 Score 0.8920523337962962

Quoting Ben Affleck

I've always been kind of into computers since I was young. And then when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. And the visual effects workflow for many years has included machine learning. So I can wri

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Foreign Policy Oct 7 Score 0.8893108337962962

Pakistan’s Opposition on the March

Simmering anger over former leader Imran Khan’s imprisonment drives protesters back to the streets—and toward Islamabad.

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Foreign Policy Oct 7 Score 0.8892566671296296

IMF Chief Issues Stark Economic Warning for 2027

Kristalina Georgieva urges world leaders to implement protective measures to help keep the lights on.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 7 Score 0.8882018708333332

Claude Haiku 5.5

As previously promised , here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 . The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year ago , and was priced at $1/million input and $5/million output - relatively e

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Quanta Magazine Oct 7 Score 0.8785465287037036

As AI Closed In on ‘Unique Games’ Proof, Researchers Raced to Beat the Machines

In the shadow of a rumored AI proof of one of the biggest problems in their field, three computer scientists rushed to publish their own milestone result. The post As AI Closed In on ‘Unique Games’ Proof, Researchers Raced to Beat the Machines first appeared o

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 7 Score 0.8781324263888888

Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging

Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch. Michael warns against "meandering intros", misjudging your reader's existing knowledge, assuming they'll read your previous posts, and excessive formality. He also warns again

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Foreign Policy Oct 7 Score 0.8741941671296295

Here’s What to Do About Trump’s War Crimes

Despite the obstacles, foreign governments and U.S. lawmakers can begin the process of holding the president accountable.

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Schneier on Security Oct 7 Score 0.871847386111111

Apple’s Verified Photography System

Apple just released a system called "Reference Image." It can verify the image is exactly as taken by an iPhone—new models only—without tying it to a specific iPhone or photographer. It can also verify that multiple images came from the same iPhone

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 7 Score 0.8613009449074073

Quoting Jake Boggan

I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over the next 24 years of my life, on and off as I worked in man

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Oct 7 Score 0.8471327435185184

Why shares are the new bricks and mortar

Household wealth is flowing from property to stocks

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BBC News — World Oct 8 Score 0.8244575925925927

Veteran Indian actor Nana Patekar dies at 75

Known for his intense performances, Patekar carved out a distinctive place in Indian cinema.

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BBC News — World Oct 8 Score 0.8243798148148149

France's school protests: what lies behind the anger

Students' blockades and marches spring from real grievances – and from France's habit of settling policy on the street.

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BleepingComputer Oct 7 Score 0.8167646527777779

Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments

The owner of ransomware remediation company MonsterCloud has been charged with allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying their attackers for decryptors while claiming to use proprietary technology to recover encrypted data. [...]

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The Verge Oct 7 Score 0.8149977092592593

BMW’s iX4 SUV is a 428-mile defensive weapon against China’s EV takeover

While much of the automotive world sits dumbfounded as China gobbles up all its customers, BMW continues to roll out extremely well-crafted, technologically advanced electric vehicles that impress in both drive quality and price. The latest is the BMW iX4, a c

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BleepingComputer Oct 7 Score 0.8141058564814816

FBI: Ongoing FortiBleed attacks lock out FortiGate VPN admins

The FBI is warning that FortiBleed attacks are still ongoing, targeting exposed Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and SSL VPN gateways and locking out legitimate administrators. [...]

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The Verge Oct 7 Score 0.8138560425925927

Teenage Engineering’s CEO says it’ll stop making synths

Teenage Engineering founder and CEO Jesper Kouthoofd told Highsnobiety that it plans to stop making synths. And yes, that includes the iconic OP-1, which put the company on the map. TE isn't just a music gear maker; it's also a sought-after design firm. It's c

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BleepingComputer Oct 7 Score 0.8130313194444445

Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries

Hackers obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains and hijacked domains in the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) for Ghana, American Samoa, and Sierra Leone after compromising third-party operators and modifying authoritative DNS

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The Verge Oct 7 Score 0.8124699310185186

We found some great October Prime Day deals under $50

Getting in on the Prime Day action doesn’t have to result in an empty wallet. Just as we found a couple handfuls of goodies that are under $25, there are plenty of deals during Amazon’s October sale that are $50 or less, many of which offer a lot of practical

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The Verge Oct 7 Score 0.8107379865740741

Roku’s OLED TVs are up to $400 off during Prime Day, starting at $700

Just over a week ago, we covered a deal at Amazon that knocked around 30 percent off Roku’s new (and first-ever) OLED TVs. The deal expired, but has returned for the final day of October Prime Day. The 55-inch Pro Series OLED is $699.99 at Amazon, which is 30

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The Guardian — World Oct 7 Score 0.8106223916666667

Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim jolt for climate campaigners

Inquest under way into why President Lula’s success in curbing Amazon deforestation has not led to success at polls More fire, more ash, more crime, more death. And a globally important ecosystem driven ever more rapidly towards a point of no return. That is t

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The Guardian — World Oct 7 Score 0.8099899842592593

Canada to indefinitely bar mental illness as sole reason for access to euthanasia

Legislation is an effort by ruling Liberals to address growing clash over who has access to doctor-assisted death Canada ’s federal government said on Wednesday it would advance legislation to prevent people whose sole health condition is mental illness from a

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BleepingComputer Oct 7 Score 0.8045354861111111

Microsoft Outlook to block MSIX attachments starting November

Microsoft announced that it will add .msix and .msixbundle attachments to the list of blocked attachments in Outlook Web and the new Outlook Windows client starting next month. [...]

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SANS Internet Storm Center Oct 7 Score 0.80329035

Scans for Atlassian vulnerablity (CVE-2026-21589), (Wed, Oct 7th)

On October 5th, Atlassian published patches for multiple products to fix an "Arbitrary File Access" vulnerability [CVE-2026-21589&&#x23&#x3

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MIT Technology Review Oct 7 Score 0.798581000925926

The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide batteries

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. Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help p

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Liberty Street Economics Oct 7 Score 0.7624692157407408

Firm Heterogeneity and the Response of Investment to Monetary Policy

It is well known that monetary policy affects firms’ investment decisions. But which firms are the most responsive to changes in interest rates? And does this responsiveness vary over time? The literature has given diverse answers to this question, focusing on

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MIT Technology Review Oct 6 Score 0.7559421120370371

Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch

As the team at MIT Technology Review set out to choose companies for this year’s edition of our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch, the challenge felt more daunting than any year since we started compiling the list in 2023.  This year is shapi

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Oct 7 Score 0.739977099074074

Evolution of Web3 in Cloud Supply Chain Attacks

Unit 42 details how threat actors leverage Web3 infrastructure and open-source supply chain attacks to breach enterprise cloud environments The post Evolution of Web3 in Cloud Supply Chain Attacks appeared first on Unit 42 .

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Dark Reading Oct 7 Score 0.7394949314814815

Australian Gov't Weighs Mandatory AI Incident Reporting

In the wake of an agentic attack against its own Medicare systems, Australia's government is feeling out what regulations might look like for frontier AI companies.

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Wired — Security Oct 7 Score 0.7391877245370371

Shaq Got Hacked. Now He’s Pitching for a VPN

At a recent event for security firm NordVPN, NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal revealed that he got hacked—and warned the public about the need to “have control of their own information.”

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NASA News Oct 7 Score 0.7387670837962963

NASA Sets Coverage for SpaceX 35th Station Resupply Launch, Arrival

NASA and SpaceX are targeting 6:33 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 13, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment, including the final set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays, to the space station. This is the 35th

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NASA News Oct 7 Score 0.7371161578703703

NASA’s SpaceX 35th Commercial Resupply Mission Overview

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Tuesday, Oct. 13 to launch scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.

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NASA News Oct 7 Score 0.7370758800925926

NASA’s PRIMA Spacecraft (Artist’s Concept)

Description This artist’s concept depicts the proposed design for NASA’s PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA), which was selected by the agency in September 2026. The PRIMA observatory is the first in a new class of NASA astrophysics missions, c

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GitHub Blog Oct 7 Score 0.7329019009259259

Secret protection must scale with software

Developers aren’t becoming more careless; they’re being outpaced. The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of protecting it. The post Secret protection must scale with software appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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NASA News Oct 7 Score 0.7316582875

NASA’s Curiosity Looks Back After Reaching Elevation Milestone

Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this view looking back at the floor of Gale Crater, with the crater’s rim visible in the distance, on Sept. 5, 2026, the 5,006th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Just nine days prior, on Aug. 26 (Sol 4,996),

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NASA News Oct 7 Score 0.7313541208333333

NASA’s Curiosity Captures Dawn Breaking on Wind-Carved Cliffs

Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of sunrise illuminating distant, wind-carved features called yardangs on Aug. 11, 2026, the 4,982nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Scientists are eager to learn more about how the yardang lay

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InfoQ Oct 7 Score 0.7274690430555556

Grab Redesigns Counter Service Storage for 50% Lower P99 Latency

Grab migrated its high-volume Counter Service from a wide column database to Aerospike using storage abstraction, shadow traffic, data parity validation, and gradual traffic migration. The redesigned data model consolidated time buckets into map-based records.

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InfoQ Oct 7 Score 0.7266357097222222

AI in Production: What Breaks, What Works, and Who Approves It? | InfoQ Webinar

On October 14, InfoQ hosts a free 60-minute panel with five practitioners on running AI in production. They'll discuss agent autonomy and human approval, how to verify AI-generated changes, sensitive-data exposure, and production RAG. Registrants can submit qu

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Oct 4 Score 0.7244470953703703

The world is facing an almighty LNG crunch

In time it could bring about an equally disruptive glut

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InfoQ Oct 7 Score 0.7216357097222222

Presentation: The Reinvention of the Dev Team

Hannah Foxwell shares how the surge of agentic coding forces engineering leaders to rethink team dynamics. She discusses three key anchors for navigating AI-driven velocity: building software worth building, prioritizing automated safety over speed, and preser

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CNCF Blog Oct 7 Score 0.7035479074074074

CiliumCon is back at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026

Mark your calendars. On Monday, November 9, CilliumCon kicks off at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Salt Lake City. It's the eighth time the event has run, and this year's agenda goes straight at the...

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Marginal Revolution Oct 7 Score 0.6952596569444444

Wednesday assorted links

1. Palo Alto Networks (cybersecurity firm, check out YTD). 2. OAI doing math again. Quasi-Riemann! And just one metric of import. 3. The AI agents pitching literary magazines. 4. Redux of my 2022 post on the effective altruists. 5. Rude AI video about Europe.

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Marginal Revolution Oct 7 Score 0.684651323611111

Against Laissez-Faire Democracy

In a new paper, Brennan and Freiman argue persuasively that: the arguments against laissez-faire capitalism apply in a rather straight way against laissez-faire democracy. This should be a rather startling result, considering that laissez-faire capitalism is w

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Marginal Revolution Oct 7 Score 0.6846050273148148

Texas-Canada Fact of the Day

Texas produces more than Canada with three quarters of the population. Rough numbers for 2025: Texas Canada Texas / Canada Population 31.7 million 41.7 million 0.76 GDP, nominal (US$) $2.9 trillion $2.3 trillion 1.27 GDP per capita, nominal $91,500 $55,700 1.6

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Marginal Revolution Oct 7 Score 0.6775786384259258

Why most stereotypes are negative

Stereotypes are a foundational construct in psychological science, often defined as beliefs concerning characteristic group attributes. We present a cognitive-ecological theory of social perception that predicts and explains why such characteristic attributes

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