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OpenAI News Oct 28 Score 0.9433033870370371

The future of the firm

How AI might enter the org chart—beneath, beside, and between us.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 28 Score 0.8906181685185184

Quoting Ted Sanders

In general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes. Despite that complexity, much of the variation in performance is explained by just

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Foreign Policy Oct 28 Score 0.8876228976851851

Flávio Bolsonaro Becomes a Florida Man

Just like his father, the far-right senator fled Brazil following his presidential election loss.

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Foreign Policy Oct 28 Score 0.8835506754629628

Has Russia’s Influence in Africa Peaked?

Moscow’s role across the continent has become increasingly controversial.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 28 Score 0.8795635388888888

GitHub Octoverse 2026

GitHub Octoverse 2026 I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in particular: This is a pretty stark representati

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Quanta Magazine Oct 28 Score 0.8784226027777777

How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material

By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a tough, flexible thread. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 28 Score 0.8748376129629629

The October inflection point for vibe game development

I've written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents - the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents became reliable daily drivers for software engineers. I think we've r

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Schneier on Security Oct 28 Score 0.8701087620370369

Studying Fraudulent North Korean IT Workers

Researchers set up a fake start-up company to study fraudulent North Korean IT workers.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 28 Score 0.8685561314814814

Quoting Terk Terkowitz

If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can explain where AI does not yet help their wor

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Oct 28 Score 0.8441360555555555

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

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Wired — Security Oct 29 Score 0.8226024481481482

Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records

Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization.

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The Verge Oct 29 Score 0.8206024907407408

Anduril now says its BlueChip laptop will meet Buy American standards at launch

On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States, starting with a single model in 2027. They also announced a "long-term goal" of pushing the computer industry to create "a ful

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BBC News — World Oct 29 Score 0.8186923305555556

Flávio Bolsonaro denies fleeing Brazil after landing in Miami

The defeated Brazilian candidate claims to be the victim of a coup d’état and political persecution, recycling unsubstantiated allegations of “electoral fraud”.

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The Verge Oct 28 Score 0.8151270277777778

Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’

Asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies, Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged in an interview that a lot of people really don't like AI, and it's not just young people and creatives. Appearing on the Colin

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The Guardian — World Oct 28 Score 0.8134909495370372

Flávio Bolsonaro calls himself the ‘leader of Brazil’ after fleeing to Miami

Far-right senator and family land in US after crossing from Brazil into Argentina and then flying via Ecuador Flávio Bolsonaro declared himself the “true president” of Brazil after losing last Sunday’s presidential election and fleeing to the United States. Af

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The Verge Oct 28 Score 0.8132409166666668

A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records

A hacker stole a trove of personal information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The breach exposes the names, job titles, phone numbers, email addresses, and office locations of more than 41,000 employees, including those in US Immigration and C

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BBC News — World Oct 28 Score 0.8127168675925927

High-speed train crash kills at least 68 people in Spain

The crash, between a moving train and another that was stopped further up the track, was caused by an "inexplicable" error, the transport minister said.

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The Verge Oct 28 Score 0.8125830462962964

Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC

The MPC Sample Key isn't even formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is cooking up through vibe coding. Akai has decided to embrace the explosion of hackers and custom firmware developers by giving them early access

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The Guardian — World Oct 28 Score 0.8124015976851853

EU backs away from offer to Canada to start ‘associate member’ talks

Watered-down version of statement to be issued at end of Montreal summit instead offers ‘ever closer association’ The EU has backed away from its offer to Canada to start talks on becoming an “associate member” after disagreements between members states just a

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The Verge Oct 28 Score 0.8120895277777779

Readwise is taking on Kindle and Kobo for ebook supremacy

For the last several years, Readwise has been building tools for power readers. There's the eponymous product, Readwise, which stores and categorizes your Kindle highlights to help you remember what you've read. There's Readwise Reader, an app for reading news

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Wired Oct 28 Score 0.8116367074074075

This Is What the GOP’s Final Midterms Push Looks Like

Republicans are spending their time and money on Senate races in historically red states—a sign they’re more nervous than ever as Election Day looms.

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MIT Technology Review Oct 28 Score 0.8108598532407408

Creating AI value with enterprise context

Across a business, any number of AI platforms, systems, and tools may be at work simultaneously—for example, AI-powered customer platforms, conversational assistants, and workflow and process automation tools. Each one is sophisticated, advanced, and quick to

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BleepingComputer Oct 28 Score 0.8078662078703704

Discord to let search engines index public server messages

Discord will allow search engines to index discussions in Discoverable Servers and make them accessible on the web to users outside the platform without an account or invitation. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 28 Score 0.8033032449074075

Volt Typhoon hides zero-day attacks using 'Silent Train' framework

Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Volt Typhoon has been using a framework that relies on rotating chains of connected devices compromised on demand, including for zero-day attacks targeting high-value systems. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 28 Score 0.8013180597222223

Microsoft urges Entra ID admins to migrate users to passkeys

Microsoft again asked Entra ID administrators to migrate users to phishing-resistant methods to avoid sign-in disruptions before it retires SMS and voice authentication in February 2027. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Oct 28 Score 0.7969144828703705

The Download: dead startups fueling AI and interspecies communication

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. AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 28 Score 0.7966363458333334

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-2026-41709 Broadcom VMWare ESX Insufficient Logging Vulnerability CVE-2026-46300 Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 29 Score 0.7875000000000001

College Success: Understanding the Roles of Financial Aid, Loans, Preparation, and Incentives -- by Douglas N. Harris, Christopher R. Taber, Alan Yang

Over the past four decades, the earnings gap between college graduates and non-graduates has widened substantially, prompting interest in policies aimed at promoting higher education among low-income students. A key challenge for these policies is the high col

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 29 Score 0.7875000000000001

Strategic Monetary Policy in Open Economies -- by Louphou Coulibaly, Charles Engel

We examine optimal non-cooperative monetary policy in a two-country New Keynesian setting with complete financial markets and pricing to market for goods. In contrast to the case in which the law of one price holds for goods, currency misalignments are an impo

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 29 Score 0.7875000000000001

HouseholdBench: Evaluating Large Language Models as Predictors of Household Economic Behavior -- by Jin Huang, Diego Ferreras Garrucho, Yutong Xie, Walter M. Yuan, Qiaozhu Mei, Chen Lian, Jonathon Hazell

Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to meet a key goal in economics: a quantitative model of household decision making, across a variety of settings. Yet existing evaluations cover few surveys and outcomes, and do not study how households adjust to

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 29 Score 0.7875000000000001

Beliefs Over Contracts -- by Francis Annan, Collin B. Raymond

We study how firms choose among incentive contracts and how accurately managers predict their effects. Using a survey of managerial beliefs and a large-scale field experiment, we randomly assign agents at the market level to several widely used, expenditure-eq

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 28 Score 0.7641362527777779

How to run an indie game studio: Part 5, Better meetings

If you've made it this far in the series, you now have the building blocks of a functioning studio operating system: a clear purpose , long and short-term goals , a system for catching and solving issues , and a quarterly rhythm that keeps your team focused an

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Game Developer Oct 28 Score 0.7636455870370371

Valve weighs in on Next Fest AI cloning phenomenon

The worrying trend of games on Steam getting quick clones for the same storefront has been acknowledged by store owner Valve — and the onus placed on developers to prevent it themselves.

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NASA News Oct 29 Score 0.7484422046296296

APOD: 29 October 2026 – The Horns of Venus

APOD Science APOD APOD: 29 October 2026 – The… 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 fea

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NASA News Oct 29 Score 0.7483310935185186

Arnab Strikes India

The first named storm of the North Indian Ocean’s cyclone season made landfall along the coast of Andhra Pradesh.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 29 Score 0.7481534703703704

Your blood pressure could be dangerous even when your numbers look normal

Researchers have discovered a small group of brain cells that prevents dangerous blood pressure swings, even when average readings appear normal. The finding reveals a hidden source of cardiovascular risk and could open the door to new treatments that protect

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 29 Score 0.7477321740740741

Scientists just broke a textbook rule of physics

Scientists have defied a long-standing rule of laser physics by generating X-rays with much higher energies than conventional theory predicts. The surprising discovery reveals how two electrons working together can overcome a previously accepted limit, opening

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 29 Score 0.7468219888888888

Meteors don't just burn up. What really happens is far more violent

Scientists have uncovered seven surprising stages that space rocks go through as they hurtle toward Earth, revealing that melting and violent fragmentation, rather than simple evaporation, determine their fate. The discovery could help explain why meteorites s

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NASA News Oct 29 Score 0.7463584083333333

Caltech Names Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman as NASA JPL Deputy

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman has been named Caltech associate vice president and deputy director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The emeritus astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain begins his new role at NASA’s center of excel

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Risky Bulletin Oct 29 Score 0.7458032986111112

Srsly Risky Biz: Chinese AI can learn to love the West

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about new research that shows that Chinese open-weight AI models can be reeducated to remove pro-CCP bias. Good news for American businesses that want cheap AI, but we suspect that many knives will still be out for Chinese ope

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 29 Score 0.7436664333333334

Scientists discover a hidden oxygen reservoir deep inside Earth

Scientists have discovered that magma deep inside Earth can store surprising amounts of extra oxygen, potentially revealing a hidden contributor to our planet's oxygen-rich atmosphere. The findings suggest that ancient volcanic eruptions may have helped t

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Econbrowser Oct 29 Score 0.7424336263888889

Guest Contribution: "Europe, the US, and China: Comparing Geoeconomic Size"

Today, we present a guest post written by Jeffrey Frankel, Harpel Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and formerly a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. A shorter version was published in Project Syndicate. Thanks are due S

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NASA News Oct 28 Score 0.738026000925926

NASA Welcomes Vietnam as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam became the 78th nation to sign the Artemis Accords, joining a growing coalition of like-minded nations committed to the peaceful, transparent, and responsible exploration of space.   “Vietnam is joining at an importa

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TechCrunch — AI Oct 28 Score 0.7375950643518518

Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.

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Econbrowser Oct 28 Score 0.7334734412037037

The Taylor Rule and Today's Dissents

Two voting members of the FOMC dissented in favor of raising rates. Some context for why that stance might make sense, from Jason Furman's EconVitals Taylor rule utility. Source: EconVitals, accessed 10/28/2026. The implication that current rates are too low v

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NASA News Oct 28 Score 0.7332959083333334

Artemis III SLS Core Stage Joins Boosters at Kennedy

NASA’s Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is integrated alongside the twin solid rocket boosters on Oct. 28 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building’s High Bay 3 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.   Technicians lifted the 212-foot rocket

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Econbrowser Oct 28 Score 0.7329026078703704

On the Eve of the 2026Q3 Advance GDP Release

GDP growth nowcasted as solid; nowcasted "core GDP" goes gangbusters. Advance release to be discussed by Jim tomorrow… Figure 1: GDP (bold black), GDPNow of 10/38 (light blue square), NY Fed nowcast of 10/23 (inverted red triangle), EconVitals nowcast of

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GitHub Blog Oct 28 Score 0.7285658560185185

GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack

Today, we laid out our vision for GitHub as the most comprehensive, end-to-end software delivery system in the world. The post GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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InfoQ Oct 28 Score 0.7247746625

Airbnb Cuts Recommendation Staleness from 2 Days to Seconds with Chronon

Airbnb extended its Chronon feature platform with Push Mode and Near Real-Time Model Transform to update sequence-based recommendation embeddings within seconds. The architecture reduced embedding staleness from nearly two days to under a minute and improved o

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Martin Fowler Oct 28 Score 0.7231636032407407

Fragments: October 28

Andrej Karpathy sees a widening gap in how people see LLM capabilities. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And a small sl

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InfoQ Oct 28 Score 0.7199691069444445

Presentation: Wrangling Telemetry at Scale: A Guide to Self-Hosted Observability

Colin Douch shares battle-tested strategies for building and scaling self-hosted observability stacks. He explains how to effectively correlate metrics, structured logs, and distributed traces using open-source tooling like Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Jae

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InfoQ Oct 28 Score 0.7166357736111111

Article: Building an Offline-First AI Coding Tutor for Low-End Android Phones

This article is about engineering an offline-first app for low-end devices based on our experience in Nigeria and India. The interesting problems in this space are storage, quota, cold start, and failure-path design. Our approach applies to any product whose u

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Lobsters Oct 28 Score 0.7040578245370369

EMACS turns 50

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Lobsters Oct 28 Score 0.6921124541666666

Hoot 0.10.0 released

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