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Krebs on Security Oct 13 Score 0.9673276550925927

Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws

Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today's epic patch batch dwarfs September's record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was already about ten times the normal monthly p

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OpenAI News Oct 13 Score 0.9483032166666667

Higgsfield takes AI video from 1 minute to over 10

Higgsfield brings creators longer videos with GPT-6 Astra, precise visuals with GPT-Image-2.5, and a path to voice filmmaking with GPT-Live.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 13 Score 0.8916393541666666

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

Redesigning source control at Anthropic Interesting piece from Anthropic describing why and how they built their own custom alternative to Git, based on the dramatic increase in rate of changes to their code after the past six months. In May 2026, Anthropic av

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 13 Score 0.8907726874999999

llm-gemini 0.35

Release: llm-gemini 0.35 I added support to llm-gemini for the new Gemini 4 Argon model, made available today via the Gemini API and for customers of their $100/month subscription plan. Here are the low, medium and high pelicans . As expected, they are all exc

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Foreign Policy Oct 13 Score 0.8892122388888888

India’s Growing Cockroach Problem

Prime Minister Narendra Modi defends his country as a “mother of democracy” amid widespread protests.

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Google DeepMind Blog Oct 13 Score 0.8800245013888888

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

Latest item from Google DeepMind Blog.

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Foreign Policy Oct 13 Score 0.8798566833333332

Mapping Global Impunity

Press freedom setbacks are largely driving deteriorating scores around the world.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 13 Score 0.875858798611111

Quoting Geoffrey Huntley

If the agent isn't using my diagnostics library, I could introspect and update AGENTS.md, but there's still a delta, and it'll drift. Instead, I write a pre-commit hook that checks the git diff for direct calls to observability modules that bypass my diagnosti

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 13 Score 0.8560833356481481

web-edit 0.1a1

Release: web-edit 0.1a1 Includes performance optimizations written by Claude Opus 5.5 after I fed it this Python 3.15 profiling report generated by GPT-6 Astra. Tags: profiling , projects

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 12 Score 0.8532689837962962

llm-meta-ai 0.2

Release: llm-meta-ai 0.2 Meta AI release Muse Wonder (and Muse Wonder Full), their new "most capable models". These look like they may be Meta's first Fable class models - Artificial Analysis scores Muse Wonder (Max) as equivalent to GPT-6.1 Sol. I updated my

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Oct 13 Score 0.8441698379629629

How to lose money betting against Europe

In a sovereign-debt crisis, even understanding politics may not be enough

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BleepingComputer Oct 13 Score 0.8158873768518519

OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting spy device in office

A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices to secretly record sensitive conversations. [...]

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The Verge Oct 13 Score 0.8152476912037038

Apple’s HomeView ad is confusing to everyone except parents

Apple's ad introducing its new HomeView smart display is a little unusual. It's fast-paced and unruly, depicting a family of five as they rush through the morning routine. There's yelling and mess, misplaced keys and discarded eggshells. Apple's typical vibe i

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BleepingComputer Oct 13 Score 0.8142318212962963

Ghostscript flaw lets hackers hijack servers via PDF uploads

A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-39919) in the Ghostscript interpreter and rendering engine could allow remote code execution through specially crafted PDF files. [...]

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The Guardian — World Oct 13 Score 0.8141122222222222

Intense waves and floods batter California waterfront homes and boardwalks

Boardwalk destroyed in Long Beach and homes damaged, while Baja California in Mexico and Las Vegas also affected Southern California coastal communities are picking up the pieces after a weekend of extreme weather brought flooding that overtook city streets an

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BleepingComputer Oct 13 Score 0.8137633027777779

Anthropic warns self-replicating AI could spread to your smart devices

Anthropic is warning that small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate across consumer IoT devices, from Android TV boxes to smart ovens, creating distributed botnets capable of running AI workloads without relying on data centers. [...]

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The Verge Oct 13 Score 0.8128981541666668

OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room

An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national. Alfozan is charged with using or endeavoring

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The Verge Oct 13 Score 0.8117763949074075

It looks like Apple Music is getting a new icon

Apple Music's iconic red app icon has reportedly been replaced with a black-and-white version in the latest iOS 27.2 beta, 9to5Mac reports. The eighth note on the icon also appears to have a slightly sharper angle than the original. A new Apple Music logo was

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BleepingComputer Oct 13 Score 0.8115295064814816

Microsoft October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 1,411 flaws, 3 zero-days

Today is Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,411 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 13 Score 0.8112892287037038

Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5126657 extended security update

Microsoft released the Windows 10 KB5126657 extended security update, which includes this month's record-breaking October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes and a few bug fixes and changes. [...]

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The Verge Oct 13 Score 0.8111560245370371

Shopify opens its catalog up to more AI agents

More AI agents will soon be able to browse and purchase from Shopify listings, marking an expansion of the company's agentic commerce ambitions. Shopify announced Tuesday it will let shoppers configure their AI agents to purchase products on their behalf, givi

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Wired Oct 13 Score 0.8109555263888889

OpenAI and Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us

AI leaders joined whistleblowers and security leaders at a sweeping parliamentary session, while a few hundred meters away Britain’s spy chief warned AI could be used to create new bioweapons.

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The Verge Oct 13 Score 0.8099921356481482

Xbox is officially embracing the chaos of AI-powered game ports

Retro gaming is going through a wild time at the moment, thanks to decompilations and recompilations that are letting gamers port classic titles to new devices, or merge code from two different games into a single new experience. Microsoft has witnessed skateb

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War on the Rocks Oct 13 Score 0.8083055226851853

Doubts Grow Over the Terms of Ukraine's European Union Accession

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each week, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Uk

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MIT Technology Review Oct 13 Score 0.7983031810185186

The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise

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. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a powerful n

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 13 Score 0.7983029916666667

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-2026-96951 Microsoft Windows Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2026-104935 Ivanti Connect Secure Authentication Bypass

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 13 Score 0.7983029916666667

CISA Urges Patching Newly Exploited Vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure

CISA is aware of Ivanti’s disclosure of a newly exploited vulnerability, CVE-2026-104935 , affecting Ivanti Connect Secure versions 25.1.1.1 and prior, 25.1.2.2 and prior, and 22.8R2.4 and prior. CISA is aware of cyber threat actors exploiting this zero-day au

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 13 Score 0.7983029916666667

Inductive Automation Ignition Software

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated low-level user to escalate their privileges to a higher level. The following versions of Inductive Automation Ignition Software are affected: Ignition >=8.1.0| Ignitio

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 13 Score 0.7983029916666667

Swann Communications SWIFI-SE2KIC

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to view video information without authentication. The following versions of Swann Communications SWIFI-SE2KIC are affected: SWIFI-SE2KIC firmware CVSS Vendor Equipment v

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MIT Technology Review Oct 13 Score 0.7949698476851852

Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model G

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MIT Technology Review Oct 13 Score 0.7933031810185186

AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models

When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 13 Score 0.7724695601851853

Xbox announces Xbox Labs, a new initiative to trial emerging ideas and "new technology"

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has announced the creation of Xbox Labs , a new team within the organisation to "turn emerging ideas into things our players and developers can experience." The unit is a "a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists," drawn from

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 13 Score 0.7598482638888889

A guide to six regulatory risks shaping games in 2026

Dr Simon Hembt is counsel at Bird & Bird in Frankfurt, Germany. He advises games companies on IP, AI/tech, and media regulation. He co-edited Bird & Bird's Game Plan 2026 report. Read more

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Risky Bulletin Oct 14 Score 0.7478134652777778

Risky Bulletin: Spyware chip found in Ledger crypto-wallets

Spyware chips found inside Ledger crypto-wallets, a cyberattack defrosts supermarket freezers across France, Dutch-owned supermarkets go offline in multiple countries following a cyberattack, and the EU wants smart glasses to beep loudly when they’re recording

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New Scientist Oct 13 Score 0.7416640861111111

Dogs are susceptible to the bouba-kiki effect

Just like humans, dogs seem to associate the nonsense word “bouba” with a rounded shape and “kiki” with a spiky shape, suggesting the connection stems from brain mechanisms that are shared between species

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NASA News Oct 13 Score 0.7377804837962963

NASA Names Astronaut Christina Koch Acting Deputy Chief Engineer

NASA engineer and astronaut Christina Koch will serve as the agency’s acting deputy chief engineer beginning on Sunday, Nov. 1, following the retirement of Katherine Van Hooser, who will conclude more than 35 years of distinguished service to the agency on Wed

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Econbrowser Oct 13 Score 0.7367082787037037

Steve Kamin: Tales from the Dollar-Yield Curve Nexus

From Steve Kamin: Until early in President Donald Trump’s second term, the sensitivity of the dollar to the difference between the slope in the U.S. yield curve and foreign yield curves was mainly positive, as expected. Increases in U.S. 10-year yields relativ

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GitHub Blog Oct 13 Score 0.733207024537037

GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise

GitHub’s context-aware secret classifier improves detection quality, raises weighted acceptance by 11.5%, and reduces median scan execution time by 86%. The post GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise appeared first on The Gi

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NASA News Oct 13 Score 0.7331957615740741

Comparing Off-World Rover Driving Distances

Description This infographic illustrates the distances driven by various rovers on the surface of Earth’s Moon and Mars. Of the vehicles shown, the NASA Mars rovers Perseverance and Curiosity are still operational and moving across the surface; the figures sho

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NASA News Oct 13 Score 0.7329911319444444

NASA’s Record-Setting Perseverance Rover Team

Description Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars mission team gather in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California with a certificate from Guinness World Records marking the rover distance record on the Red Planet. Positioned

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NASA News Oct 13 Score 0.7328267800925926

Perseverance Navcam Image Marks Record Drive

Description Rover tracks and a rocky Martian landscape are shown in this image captured by one of the navigation cameras (navcams) aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on Oct. 11, 2026, the 2,006th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. During that sol’s drive,

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NASA News Oct 13 Score 0.7327091875

Transporter-18 SmallSats Encapsulation

Three NASA-supported small spacecraft, along with many commercial payloads, are shown before being encapsulated in a SpaceX Falcon 9 ahead of launch on Oct. 1, 2026. The ASCENT Propulsion Dual Mode CubeSat, the Supernova Remnants and Proxies for ReIonization T

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New Scientist Oct 13 Score 0.7316363083333334

Brain training shows promise for short-term depression relief

Training that encourages people to alter their brain's activity seems to reduce negative emotions among people with depression, but not in the way researchers expected

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InfoQ Oct 13 Score 0.731635763425926

Backstage 1.55 Adds Scaffolder Task Recovery and Removes Deprecated Catalog APIs

Backstage 1.55 adds opt-in recovery for Software Template tasks, resuming crashed or timed-out runs from the last completed step. The release also carries breaking changes to the catalog, search and TechDocs, so teams should review their configuration before u

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Eurogamer Oct 13 Score 0.7273848495370371

Sifu, the singular kung fu action game, is out now on Android and iOS

Sifu , Sloclap's 2022 martial arts action game, can now be played on smartphones. The French developer released the game today on Android and iOS , following an announcement earlier in the month. Read more

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Martin Fowler Oct 13 Score 0.7268024712962963

The Craft of Practitioner Voice

A couple of months ago Jim Highsmith explained how practitioners writing for each other forms a distinct style of writing. He now adds a section to the article with more detail on the craft of how we write in this style. How the writer shows up in the prose, i

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Martin Fowler Oct 13 Score 0.7259413601851852

Are Harnesses Worth the Cost?

Naresh Jain compares coding agents building the same API service with and without a behavioral harness. A frontier model, GPT-6 Sol, passed every external evaluation either way. But a cost-optimized model, GPT-6 Luna, succeeded in only 3 of 10 unharnessed runs

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InfoQ Oct 13 Score 0.7233024300925925

Production Patterns for Agents, Evals, and LLM Costs: QCon AI New York 2026

Once AI is in production, code arrives faster than it can be reviewed, token costs rise, evals have to be good enough to act on, and agents need permissions and guardrails. QCon AI New York 2026 (December 15-16) has confirmed sessions from engineers sharing ho

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InfoQ Oct 13 Score 0.721635763425926

Presentation: How Eve Online Leverages Head Based Sampling to Observe "Fun"

Nicholas Herring shares how EVE Online tackles distributed tracing and observability across a 20-year-old MMO architecture. He discusses leveraging head-based, dynamic exponential moving average (EMA), and deterministic sampling techniques to maintain high sys

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 13 Score 0.7212019231481481

This tiny jurassic predator helped pave the way for the human brain

A 165-million-year-old fossil has revealed an extraordinary Jurassic predator that may help explain how mammals developed one of their most important evolutionary advantages. Although only 20 inches long, Megacauda sungei was a heavyweight among early mammal r

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Marginal Revolution Oct 13 Score 0.7005597175925925

Perry Mehrling, RIP

He and I were in the same Harvard class together, and spent a good deal of time talking economics together. We also were (briefly) bridge partners in a few games. I was a big fan of his book on Fischer Black. I am very sorry to see him gone. The post Perry Meh

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Marginal Revolution Oct 13 Score 0.6930935138888888

Tuesday assorted links

1. Jon Hartley on Bob Hall. And Chad Jones on Bob Hall. 2. Nicholas Decker on who might have won the prize. 3. Koyama tribute to Wickam. 4. A parallel AI adjudication track? 5. Kevin Kelly on swarm intelligence. 6. What each country read on Wikipedia yesterday

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Google Cloud Blog Oct 13 Score 0.6924687592592592

Cross-cloud conversational analytics made simple with open standards

The reality for most organizations is that data lives everywhere. As engineering teams expand and adopt specialized platforms for their workloads, enterprise data naturally disperses across multiple clouds and operational systems. When analytical and AI initia

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Marginal Revolution Oct 13 Score 0.6846490694444444

Is Your Agent a Double Agent?

In the Manchurian Candidate a sleeper agent who has been brain-trained appears normal until a secret phrase–"Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?"–triggers a state of hypnosis and control by the attackers. Connor Tabarrok, now

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Marginal Revolution Oct 13 Score 0.6782560138888888

*Lost Worlds*

The author is Patrick Wyman, and the subtitle is How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World. An excellent book, it is a survey of (mostly) pre-Sumerian times, what we know about them, and how we have learned a lot lately. It is easy to read, yet

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Marginal Revolution Oct 13 Score 0.6736504583333333

"I have no mouth and I must scream"

Worth a reread, here is a new report from the front: Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices, like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes. A replicator like this

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