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Hacker News Sep 1 Score 0.9660936342592593

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on th

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 1 Score 0.8932326643518518

Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican

Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day . Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 "sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks". Their announcement spends a notable amount of time on scientific research, boasting of a 52.6% s

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Foreign Policy Sep 1 Score 0.889529161111111

Moscow’s Moment of Global Summitry

The war in Ukraine may rage on, but Russia remains far from an international pariah.

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Foreign Policy Sep 1 Score 0.8891347166666665

Trump’s Venezuela Oil Deal Is a Farce

There aren’t 65 billion barrels, they won’t be lowering gas prices, and they won’t refill the SPR.

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Foreign Policy Sep 1 Score 0.8875578648148147

Nepal Pays the Price for Climate Change

Melting glaciers and devastating floods are hitting the Himalayas.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 1 Score 0.885053497685185

Codex bundles LibreOffice

I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called codex-primary-runtime , including a full Python

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 1 Score 0.8834627569444443

GeoJSON Map Viewer

Tool: GeoJSON Map Viewer I was helping Natalie gather some maps of local political boundaries (for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council and found a need to display some GeoJSON files on a map and export that as a PNG. I as

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Schneier on Security Sep 1 Score 0.8826422370370369

What’s the Scam?

To subscribe to my monthly email newsletter, you have to enter your information on the webpage, and then reply to an automatically generated email. This is, of course, to prevent people from subscribing addresses other than their own. Starting last weekend, I

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 1 Score 0.8816692384259258

Quoting Tarn Adams

They took the letters from me! I have to talk about dwarf behavior now. I can't even talk about dwarf AI. It doesn't exist. It's dwarf behavior , and they misbehave sometimes — Tarn Adams , co-creator of Dwarf Fortress Tags: ai , game-design

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Schneier on Security Sep 1 Score 0.8807797370370369

Leaked Russian Cyber-Operations Training Materials

This is interesting: The records describe a force-generation mechanism for several General Staff components, including the GRU, Main Operational Directorate, and 8th Directorate, which is associated with protected communications, cryptography, and information

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Foreign Policy Sep 1 Score 0.8798759203703703

Cognitive Dissonance Dominates Hormuz

Ships can’t navigate a reality that exists only in Trump’s head.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 1 Score 0.8782835902777777

Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!

Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here! Hugo van Kemenade (release manager for Python 3.14 and 3.15) announces the final release candidate for Python 3.15, scheduled for release in October: Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are

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Wired Sep 1 Score 0.8166641166666667

The Range Rover Electric: Specs, Price, Availability

After long delays, JLR’s biggest gamble with its Range Rover brand is here with huge performance, range, and off-road EV skills. It’s mighty pricey, but the US gets a cheaper model.

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The Verge Sep 1 Score 0.8163720240740742

Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI

Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be

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The Verge Sep 1 Score 0.8139400796296297

Apple Maps follows Google in renaming Lake Ontario

Apple Maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The company joins Google in re-labeling the Great Lake following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the midst of a trade dispute w

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The Verge Sep 1 Score 0.8131400796296298

Lenovo's 2-in-1 Yoga 7i is a great Labor Day deal at $750

Best Buy is celebrating Labor Day all week long with big deals, including a deep discount on the Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1, taking its original $1,1199.99 price down to $749.99. It’s a capable configuration for the price, with a Core 7 Ultra 256V processor, 16GB o

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BleepingComputer Sep 1 Score 0.8131190962962964

Hackers abuse Faronics Deploy admin tool to install ScreenConnect

Phishing actors are abusing the legitimate Faronics Deploy endpoint-management platform to gain remote administrative control over victim computers and install the ScreenConnect remote support software. [...]

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The Verge Sep 1 Score 0.8129090611111112

OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unre

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MIT Technology Review Sep 1 Score 0.8102641101851853

How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri

A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029.  It’s a hugely ambitious mission—if all goes well, the spacecraft could take up to 80,000 year

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War on the Rocks Sep 1 Score 0.8095798430555556

The Atlantic Brief: U.S. and European Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence

Date: Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026Time: 12:00-1:00 PM ETThe second joint webinar by RUSI and War on the Rocks: Two leading defense publications from both sides of the Atlantic present their expert panel. OverviewFor this edition of The Atlantic Brief, the Ro

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BleepingComputer Sep 1 Score 0.8081464111111112

Critical Langflow flaw exploited to steal OpenAI and AWS keys

Threat actors are exploiting an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-0768) in Langflow, an open-source framework for building AI applications, to steal credentials, tokens, and keys. [...]

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BBC News — World Sep 1 Score 0.8058995300925926

Pistol in a lake gives hope for French cold case

Saad al-Hilli was shot dead with his wife and mother-in-law while holidaying in eastern France in September 2012.

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The Guardian — World Sep 1 Score 0.8046485731481482

Mark Carney tells US to ‘start being serious’ amid escalating trade war

Canadian PM is set to retaliate against tariffs levied by Donald Trump and criticized US officials over insults US politics live – latest updates Mark Carney has rebuked Donald Trump’s administration and urged officials in Washington to “start being serious” a

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BleepingComputer Sep 1 Score 0.8028890037037038

Hackers push malicious Virtualizor update in BGP hijacking attack

Hackers delivered malicious updates to the Virtualizor VPS management software after hijacking BGP routing for its update infrastructure and redirecting update requests to malicious servers. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 1 Score 0.8024325222222223

Novocure data breach affects more than 1,400 cancer patients

Healthtech company Novocure says the data of an undisclosed number of employees and more than 1,400 U.S. cancer patients has been exposed in a mid-August cyberattack. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Sep 1 Score 0.8016363324074075

Making the AI-powered case for legacy modernization

For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization feel like a disruption to manage instead

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MIT Technology Review Sep 1 Score 0.7985807768518519

The Download: engineered microbes for crops, and OpenAI’s culture problem

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. How engineered microbes could help feed the world’s crops Fertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but making it

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 1 Score 0.7983027805555556

Rockwell Automation Logix Platform

View CSAF Summary The following versions of Rockwell Automation Logix Platform are affected: ControlLogix 5580 CompactLogix 5380 GuardLogix 5580 Compact GuardLogix 5380 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 7.5 Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation Logix

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 1 Score 0.7983027805555556

Rockwell Automation Historian ME

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could crash the device being accessed; an out-of-bounds write condition may allow remote code execution. The following versions of Rockwell Automation Historian ME are affected: Series B 5.202

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 1 Score 0.7983027805555556

Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition on the affected product. The following versions of Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic are affected: RSLinx Classic CVSS Vendor Equ

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 1 Score 0.7680035726851853

The Big Picture: What you need to know about the ongoing games industry reset

The games industry is undergoing a reset. That was the message of Gamescom Dev's opening keynote, delivered by Amir Satvat, who until a few days ago was business development manager at Tencent, but is now general partner at 1Up Ventures . Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 1 Score 0.7651966282407409

Brian Ward steps down as Savvy Games Group CEO

Brian Ward is stepping down as CEO of Savvy Games Group, according to a staff note obtained by Bloomberg . Read more

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Liberty Street Economics Sep 1 Score 0.7591357189814816

Businesses Are Using AI to Transform Work, Not Cut Jobs

The ongoing advancement and adoption of artificial intelligence continues to raise concerns about widespread job losses. Over the past three years, our regional business surveys have asked firms about their AI adoption and its effects on their workforces. This

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New Scientist Sep 2 Score 0.7499692879629629

Can we really reverse global warming after overshooting 1.5°C?

A UN report says it’s possible to get global temperatures back down to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, but many researchers regard this scenario as highly unlikely

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Econbrowser Sep 2 Score 0.7445561759259259

Diesel Prices Remain Elevated

From the EIA: The last plotted Brent price (August 25) is below $90. November NYMEX futures is over $95 as of 7pm CT:

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TechCrunch Sep 1 Score 0.7433025569444445

Larry Page's flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO

The company told TechCrunch he is "pursuing new endeavors." Karklin will be replaced on an interim basis by Mike Ross, an aviation executive who joined Pivotal's board of directors in November 2025.

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Econbrowser Sep 1 Score 0.7430844166666667

Bloomberg: "Bessent’s Bond Gains Wiped Out as Treasury Yields Jump Again"

Today: The pressure is impacting long-dated bonds around the world, due to the same concerns about the oil-driven inflation shock and government spending. Germany’s 30-year yields touched the highest since 2011, and the equivalent UK rate rose to a level last

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NASA News Sep 1 Score 0.7385423041666667

NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider

NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract Tuesday to develop the agency’s Mars Telecommunications Network, a next-generation communications system that will enable reliable, high-bandwidth communications and navigation services for current and future Mars missions.

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Martin Fowler Sep 1 Score 0.7363577949074074

Fragments: September 1

Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of signs of AI writing . That page points ou

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NASA News Sep 1 Score 0.7353978597222223

What’s Up: September 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

Brilliant Venus and a Harvest Moon Use the Moon to find Antares and the Teapot, spot brilliant Venus, welcome the equinox, and see the Harvest Moon near Saturn and Neptune. Skywatching Highlights Transcript The Moon joins a tea party… Venus cranks up the brigh

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InfoQ Sep 1 Score 0.7346077268518518

OpenClaw 2.0 Releases with Simplified Setup and Collaborative Agents

OpenClaw has released OpenClaw 2.0, a major update to the open-source personal AI agent that changes its installation process, browser interface, memory, skills, automations, plugins, security, and collaboration features. By Daniel Dominguez

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Kubernetes Blog Sep 1 Score 0.7341358240740741

Kubernetes v1.37: etcd RangeStream Cuts Memory Use on Large List Reads

I am excited to announce that etcd RangeStream is graduating to beta in Kubernetes v1.37. Paired with etcd v3.7, it reduces the memory the API server and etcd need to read a large collection, and makes peak usage more predictable. The cost of large reads The A

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NASA News Sep 1 Score 0.7324858226851851

Historic Engines Take Their Place on Artemis III

On Aug. 24, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida began installing the four RS‑25 engines in the core stage of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will carry the Artemis III crew into low Earth orbit in 2027. Each RS‑25 engine ha

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Econbrowser Sep 1 Score 0.7323112685185185

Ten Year at 4.79%

On the run, at noon CT: Figure 1: Ten year constant maturity Treasury (blue), on the run at noon CT (red dot), both in %.

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New Scientist Sep 1 Score 0.7316359546296296

Are you made of real-world quarks or virtual-world qubits?

Is it possible we’re living in a virtual simulation? Professor Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, does the maths on whether anything is actually real

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New Scientist Sep 1 Score 0.7260641953703704

The UK just had its hottest summer ever

The average temperature in the UK in June, July and August 2026 has eclipsed the record set in summer 2025, and the record-breaking heat was made 130 times more likely by human-caused climate change

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 1 Score 0.7249327583333334

Mindfulness may lower blood pressure in just 8 weeks

Mindfulness, gratitude, and optimism training may improve blood pressure, inflammation, and other heart-health measures within just eight to 12 weeks. The strongest programs paired daily practice with regular reinforcement, suggesting that improving psychologi

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 1 Score 0.7243656287037037

Scientists discover why snake embryos twist into spirals

Snake embryos begin life curled into a distinctive right-handed spiral, and scientists may finally know why. Their bodies grow faster than their guts, creating a tether that forces the lengthening embryo to buckle and twist inside the egg. Researchers reached

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InfoQ Sep 1 Score 0.7233021712962963

HCP Terraform Positions Itself as the Control Plane for AI-Driven Infrastructure

HashiCorp is positioning HCP Terraform as the governance and control plane for a new generation of AI-driven infrastructure, arguing that the rapid adoption of coding agents is shifting the biggest infrastructure challenge from writing configuration to verifyi

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 1 Score 0.7211128509259259

A massive plume deep beneath Africa is pulling the continent apart

A vast plume rising from deep inside Earth may be responsible for mysterious movements along the East African Rift. The discovery reveals how forces deep in the mantle are working alongside shallower geological forces as the continent slowly pulls apart.

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Marginal Revolution Sep 1 Score 0.6966766027777777

Who values democracy?

This paper examines the conventional view that redistribution is central to the democratization process using data from stock markets. Consistent with this view, democratizations have a large, negative impact on asset valuations driven by a rise in redistribut

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Marginal Revolution Sep 1 Score 0.6929316953703702

Tuesday assorted links

1. The AI market is still growing rapidly. And “In less than 200 days after launch, ChatGPT Ads has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate.” 2. On Warsh. 3. Story competition, with prizes, refereed by Neal Stephenson, Gwern, and Matt Huang. 4. Jeffr

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 1 Score 0.6924685935185184

How Blackline simplifies perimeter policy intelligence with VPC Service Controls

Establishing network-level perimeters with VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) is a critical step that can help you protect your cloud environment against data exfiltration, compromised accounts, and insider threats. Today, Google Cloud is excited to share new polic

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 1 Score 0.6924685935185184

What Google Cloud announced in AI this month

Editor’s note : Want to keep up with the latest from Google Cloud? Check back here for a monthly recap of our latest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. This month, we focused on making AI highly practical for your busi

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 1 Score 0.6924685930555554

Introducing TabFM in BigQuery: Predictive analytics reimagined

Historically, enterprise predictive analytics tasks such as predicting churn, purchase intent, or fraud scoring have meant building custom models using libraries like XGBoost, Random Forest, or Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). While effective, the traditional trai

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