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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 12 Score 0.8826545171296295

Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work

Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at . Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data. It worked for 27 minutes and produced exactly what I'd asked for, as both an embedded

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 12 Score 0.8781947949074074

California Brown Pelican

California Brown Pelican, in San Mateo County, CA, US The Pacifica Pier shut down at the start of June after a crack in the concrete walkway made access to the pier unsafe. It has since been entirely taken over by pelicans! Tags: wildlife

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 12 Score 0.8727559060185184

Quoting Paul Ford

For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. How could we fight against tireless robots? But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work togeth

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Wired Sep 13 Score 0.8245517120370371

Coway Airmega Halo Review: Is Your Air Really Clean?

Coway’s new Airmega Halo runs quietly and clears visible smoke quickly, but its air-quality readings weren’t always reassuring.

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Wired Sep 13 Score 0.8244128231481482

AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power

Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it's driving the data center buildout.

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The Verge Sep 12 Score 0.8039017078703704

OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May

In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal

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The Verge Sep 12 Score 0.8032035597222222

Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the p

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The Verge Sep 12 Score 0.801305874537037

StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter

Blizzard originally tried to bring the StarCraft universe to the world of 3D shooters way back in 2002 with StarCraft: Ghost. It sat in development hell for years until Blizzard president Mike Morhaime confirmed that it had been canceled in 2014. Now Blizzard

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The Verge Sep 12 Score 0.7953850412037038

Sylvan Esso think you should splurge on good-quality yogurt

Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, better known as Sylvan Esso, have been bringing their low-key electro-pop to the masses since 2014, bursting onto the scene with their self-titled debut album and the single "Hey Mami." Over the years, they've put out a number of

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The Verge Sep 12 Score 0.7950702263888889

Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-st

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The Guardian — World Sep 12 Score 0.7929989217592593

Burial of King Oyo takes place in Uganda as news anchor prepares for throne

Royal guards carry casket through streets of Fort Portal amid row over appointment of Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma Uganda’s King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, long the world’s youngest monarch, has been buried among the tombs of his royal forebears as ⁠his

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BleepingComputer Sep 12 Score 0.7914833601851853

Dutch NCSC: Critical Check Point VPN flaws exploitation is imminent

The Dutch Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) is warning of imminent exploitation of two critical flaws in Check Point VPN tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103. [...]

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The Guardian — World Sep 12 Score 0.7912396625000001

Six Nigerians extradited to US over $6m online romance scam

Alleged members of Black Axe criminal network that swindled US women out of $6m flown from South Africa Six Nigerian nationals linked to an organized criminal network that allegedly swindled American women out of more than $6m through online romance scams were

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 13 Score 0.7875000000000001

Comparisons -- by Thomas Graeber, Benjamin Enke

Economic decisions are often shaped by comparison points such as reference points, goals, expectations and peers. A long-standing puzzle is that decisions sometimes increase in these comparators (assimilation) and sometimes decrease in them (contrast). We deve

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 13 Score 0.7875000000000001

Health Insurance Underwriting and the Heterogeneous Effects of the Affordable Care Act -- by Pietro Tebaldi, Andrea Scalenghe, Joseph Orsini

The Affordable Care Act, the largest US welfare reform since 1965, banned health insurance underwriting and rejections based on pre-existing conditions and introduced large premium subsidies for low- to middle-income individuals. Yet how many people the ban ma

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The Hacker News Sep 13 Score 0.7497407407407407

Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data

Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. The first campaign, p

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Schneier on Security Sep 9 Score 0.7495518837962962

Driver’s License Data for Sale

A database of 153 million drivers licenses is for sale on the dark web. Brian Krebs has more detail .

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Politico Europe Sep 13 Score 0.7490155532407408

Russian drone hits passenger train headed from Kyiv to Warsaw

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha responded to the attack by stating that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces are “knocking directly on the doors of the EU and NATO.”

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Quanta Magazine Sep 9 Score 0.7473080319444443

What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About?

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean. The post What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About? first appeared on Qu

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NASA News Sep 13 Score 0.7395521712962962

APOD: 2026 September 13 – Comet NEOWISE Rising over the Adriatic Sea

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 13 –… 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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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 13 Score 0.7389730037037037

Venus’s pale yellow clouds may hide something surprisingly dark

A century-old mystery in Venus’s clouds just became more intriguing, as scientists calculated how strongly the unidentified material behind its dark ultraviolet patterns must absorb light. The results sharply narrow the possibilities and could help future spac

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 13 Score 0.7381443

Scientists find water was fueling volcanoes 3 billion years ago

Ancient rocks from Western Australia suggest water was reaching deep inside Earth more than three billion years ago, long before modern plate tectonics may have fully developed. Researchers propose that water-rich pieces of crust periodically sank into the man

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 13 Score 0.7356378185185185

Scientists discover a hidden switch that shuts down inflammation

Scientists have uncovered a natural braking system that helps the immune system switch off inflammation and prevent harmful immune cells from building up. Boosting this pathway in people reduced inflammation-related immune changes and sped up pain relief, poin

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TechCrunch — AI Sep 12 Score 0.7253776337962963

Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like?

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Econbrowser Sep 12 Score 0.7214395060185185

Prospects for Oil Prices: Supply Shocks vs. "Demand Destruction"

The Houthis expand control of the Red Sea side of Yemen, threatening remaining Saudi oil exports — and yet prices fall. Source: Bloomberg. One explanation might be news regarding demand destruction, as reported by the International Energy Agency. From Bl

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InfoQ Sep 12 Score 0.7194131379629629

Open-Source Project Brings Full iOS 27 Virtualization to Apple Silicon

The open-Source project vphone-cli enables a full iOS 27 system to run as a virtual machine on Apple Silicon. Built on Apple's own Virtualization.framework rather than traditional emulation, the project opens up new possibilities for security research, reverse

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The Hacker News Sep 12 Score 0.7192671296296296

CISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security flaws impacting JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active explo

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 12 Score 0.7178605037037037

CERN finds gluons behaving strangely deep inside atomic nuclei

Physicists at CERN have found a new way to peer deep inside atomic nuclei and distinguish between two competing explanations for how gluons behave. Using the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, researchers measured particle production at unprecedent

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 12 Score 0.7158808740740741

Scientists find Ozempic may slow aging itself

Semaglutide helped older healthy mice live longer while improving memory, muscle function, blood sugar control, and several biological signs of aging. Its effects went beyond those seen with calorie restriction, raising the possibility that GLP-1 drugs could t

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Eurogamer Sep 12 Score 0.7122455254629629

Everything announced in the BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony

UPDATE 13TH SEPTEMBER: Below you'll find a blow-by-blow account of everything announced during yesterday's BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony. It was a big show, revealing a new StarCraft shooter for 2030, the surprise reveal of Diablo 5 for 2029, and World of War

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Rock Paper Shotgun Sep 13 Score 0.7119131018518517

The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for realising that after playing The Blood of Dawnwalker , you've developed a craving for blackcurrant juice. There's none in the cupboard, so you venture out to get some, floating across the rooftops as a trail of mist as you go. You arrive at the

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Wired — Security Sep 12 Score 0.710246274074074

From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere

Plus: The US disrupts the internet’s biggest black market, a Conti ransomware hacker gets prison time, Meta fails to stop AI-generated videos of child abuse.

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The Hacker News Sep 12 Score 0.7101

When the Whole Company Adopts AI: What It Does to Your SOC

Over the past year, we watched a new class of alert appear in enterprise security operations centers and grow faster than anything else in the stream: alerts that were triggered by AI tools and agents. Not attacks against AI, but the ordinary, everyday footpri

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InfoQ Sep 12 Score 0.709663137962963

Lambda SnapStart Comes to Container Images, Ending a Packaging Tradeoff

AWS has extended Lambda SnapStart to container image functions, which hold up to 10 GB against 250 MB for zip archives. Teams previously chose between dependency headroom and sub-second startup. A Reddit thread from a month earlier shows what that cost: stripp

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The Hacker News Sep 12 Score 0.7079666666666666

OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers

The "major malicious attack" that targeted RubyGems in May 2026 was the work of a swarm of OpenAI agents, according to a new report published by researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx. On May 12, Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager fo

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Marginal Revolution Sep 13 Score 0.7039060509259258

A simple model of AI-aided economic growth

The Solow model has its uses, but it fails when it comes to major changes stemming from AI. Consider instead an economy with (at least) two factors of production: 1. Intelligence. Yes, formal smarts. Playing chess, proving math theorems, and doing well on eval

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CyberScoop Sep 12 Score 0.6958157555555555

Researchers say OpenAI agents were behind May hacking campaign targeting RubyGems

OpenAI confirmed their agents were behind a campaign in May that researchers say flooded the popular online code repository with malicious software packages. The post Researchers say OpenAI agents were behind May hacking campaign targeting RubyGems appeared fi

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CyberScoop Sep 11 Score 0.6884791814814815

Cyberattack causes a flight delay? Airlines won’t owe you a hotel or meal

A Department of Transportation rule published last week says that airlines complying with cybersecurity regulations will have reduced customer obligations in the event of an attack. The post Cyberattack causes a flight delay? Airlines won’t owe you a hotel or

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CyberScoop Sep 11 Score 0.6839092740740741

GitLab's critical flaw is already drawing internet-wide probes

One flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to read files from the server. GitLab urged operators of self-managed installations to upgrade immediately. The post GitLab's critical flaw is already drawing internet-wide probes appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Marginal Revolution Sep 12 Score 0.6832731800925925

The mathematicians rebel against AI

Here is the statement, signed by Terry Tao among many other math notables, most of you probably have read it by now. I do not accept the most cynical interpretations of this proclamation. Some of you for instance may recall that I made and indeed stressed a si

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Marginal Revolution Sep 12 Score 0.6814893837962962

Dario Calls for a Pause

My second concern is the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident (OAI-HF), in which a swarm of agents essentially acted as a fanatically devoted collective, conducting cybersecurity attacks on targets they were not asked to attack and that were unrelated to the task at h

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NASA News Sep 11 Score 0.6776470787037037

NASA Boosts Open Science, Data Sharing with Artemis Accords

The science from every Moon rock sample, lunar dataset, and discovery produced through NASA’s Artemis program will be shared by the agency with the global scientific community. That commitment is upheld by all 71 countries that have signed the Artemis Accords,

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Nautilus Sep 12 Score 0.6752466023148147

Rope, Twine and Thread: Invisible Technologies of the Stone Age

Missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations like string played a huge role in the daily lives of our ancestors. Researchers are working to weave together new insights from the traces they left behind The post Rope, Twine and Thread: Invisible Tec

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Google AI Blog Sep 9 Score 0.6744128333333334

Recreating a 70-year love story frame by frame

Discover how filmmakers and Google DeepMind used AI to recreate a couple's unrecorded past in the short film "Love, Rendered."

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Hacker News Sep 13 Score 0.6729682421296297

Norton Neo Browser

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Hacker News Sep 13 Score 0.6707955569444445

JetKVM Mini

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Interconnects Sep 9 Score 0.6661179407407408

When will average people feel AI’s impact?

We're <5 years into a compounding revolution which could take a century, and how the AI industry should manage this.

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