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Simon Willison's Weblog Nov 5 Score 0.8809151037037036

Quoting Paul Ford

The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day . — Paul Ford , The Web Is More Than Enough Tags: browsers , paul-ford , web-development

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Krebs on Security Nov 3 Score 0.8506501472222223

Tech Firms Dismantle Botnet That Turned 1.3M TV Boxes Into Proxies

Google said today it worked with industry partners to dismantle a botnet made up of more than 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes that ship with malicious software which secretly rents the user's Internet connection out to strangers and conducts advertising f

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The Guardian — World Nov 6 Score 0.8189361652777778

Peru airport officials discover 3,000 tarantulas smuggled inside dirty socks

Three suitcases’ worth of the spiders were on their way to Germany, where they could fetch an estimated €1.5m More than 3,000 tarantulas were seized at an airport in Lima on their way to Germany, Peruvian authorities said. The spiders were hidden inside dirty

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BleepingComputer Nov 6 Score 0.8182117657407408

FBI, CISA warn of cyberattacks targeting refrigeration systems

The FBI and CISA warn that hackers are actively targeting industrial refrigeration and cold-chain monitoring systems worldwide, potentially causing food spoilage, equipment damage, and fire hazards. [...]

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The Verge Nov 6 Score 0.8176896592592593

OpenAI is stepping back from NDAs for data center projects

Following this week's midterms where voters resoundingly voiced their opposition to data center expansion, OpenAI today announced new commitments to communities where it is working on data center projects, including that it won't use non-disclosure agreements

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The Verge Nov 6 Score 0.8168081777777778

Airbnb is working on an AI travel agent

Airbnb plans to roll out an AI agent in the first half of 2027 that will help users plan and book travel, the company said in its Q3 2026 earnings shareholder letter released today. "Today's AI agents are good at simple, routine tasks, like making a restaurant

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BleepingComputer Nov 5 Score 0.8124830620370371

Fake OpenAI, SpaceX events used to steal Microsoft, Google accounts

Hackers are using fake OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic event invitations to lure employees into phishing attacks, using two different phishing-as-a-service platforms to steal Microsoft and Google account credentials and authentication sessions. [...]

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Simon Willison's Weblog Nov 3 Score 0.8103512148148148

datasette-agent 0.5a0

Release: datasette-agent 0.5a0 This is a significant release of Datasette Agent . The most notable new feature is called the panel - it lets the agent chat open and then sit next to pages from Datasette, for example a table or query page. When combined with da

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The Guardian — World Nov 5 Score 0.8079722763888889

Paraguay’s president quits after millions of people’s savings frozen in bank crisis

Santiago Peña’s rightwing administration had authorised Ueno Bank to drastically expand operations before collapse Paraguay’s rightwing president, Santiago Peña, resigned on Thursday after a political and financial crisis collapsed the South American country’s

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 5 Score 0.8033020675925927

Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit

AI agents can generate code at a scale that’s hard for humans to review line-by-line. PDD Kit helps ensure the code is doing what the developer intended by creating formal specifications and testing against them. It converts developer intent into a Verus speci

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SANS Internet Storm Center Nov 5 Score 0.8024450217592594

Vulnerability Scans for Older Cisco IOS Vulnerability / Opt-Out Headers, (Thu, Nov 5th)

This morning, I was browsing our honeypot data for any new and existing PHP exploit attempts. Instead, I first ran into some GeoServer exploits, but found them to be too boring to write up. This Cisco IOS exploit attempt was a bit more interesting. Still nothi

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Nov 5 Score 0.7966357148148149

Post-Quantum Questions to Ask Your Vendors

CISA, the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) and the National Security Agency (NSA) released joint guidance and an accompanying quick-reference list to help organizations assess vendor readiness for transitioning to

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War on the Rocks Nov 5 Score 0.7916368777777778

The Golden Dome Proposal is Destabilizing and Dangerous

Editor's Note: This is the second article in a two-part series exploring the Golden Dome for America proposal. Please also read the first, "Golden Dome Is Technologically and Financially Infeasible."Golden Dome is an ambitious proposal for a comprehensive, lay

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War on the Rocks Nov 5 Score 0.7908040074074074

Who Repairs the Internet in Wartime?

In spring 2026, Britain, Norway, and the United States tracked and disrupted a covert Arctic exercise off the coast of Norway involving Russian deep-sea submersibles simulating the deployment of a weapon designed to disable the two 1,400-kilometer submarine ca

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NBER New Working Papers Nov 6 Score 0.7875000000000001

Unraveling the Cobweb of Global Imbalances: Drivers, Vulnerabilities and Adjustment Scenarios -- by Stefan Avdjiev, Kristin Forbes, Tsvetelina Nenova, Marjorie Santos

This paper analyses the evolution and drivers of the stock of global imbalances in order to assess associated vulnerabilities and potential adjustment scenarios. These imbalances have recently increased sharply, with a deterioration in the US net international

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NBER New Working Papers Nov 6 Score 0.7875000000000001

The Effects of Monetary Policy on Macroeconomic Expectations: High-Frequency Evidence from Prediction Markets -- by Eric T. Swanson, Wang Renxuan, Yanbin Wu

When the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, standard macroeconomic models and VARs predict that output, employment, and inflation should fall over the next several quarters. However, monthly-frequency professional macroeconomic forecast revisions are somet

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NBER New Working Papers Nov 6 Score 0.7875000000000001

Public R&D and the Automation of Manufacturing: Evidence from the Space Race -- by Apoorva Babbar, Shawn Kantor, Alexander Whalley, Jingyuan Zeng

This paper examines how public research and development shaped the direction of technological change during the Cold War–era Space Race and its consequences for US manufacturing. While prior research has documented the effects of public R&D on innovation and e

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Game Developer Nov 5 Score 0.768606188888889

Nintendo confident in memory supply in new financial report

As part of the company's quarterly financial report, company president Shuntaro Furukawa affirmed that Nintendo is not suffering due to the ongoing memory crisis, and is confident it has enough supply.

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Liberty Street Economics Nov 5 Score 0.7591353680555556

The U.S. Oil Sector's Role in Restraining Prices

The start of the Middle East conflict in early 2026 caused an unprecedented drop in global petroleum supply. In response, oil prices jumped—but not to unprecedentedly high levels. The U.S. oil sector was a key factor in moderating the shock. For one, its stead

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Quanta Magazine Nov 2 Score 0.7579955249999999

Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion?

Dig a little deeper and you’ll find a thriving research program with exotic atoms that won’t solve the energy crisis but stretches the boundaries of physics. The post Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Nov 2 Score 0.7517071208333332

AI Vulnerability Finding

A comment : 3% of 'critical' software security bugs, in all of recorded history, have been found in the last month. This is on pace to find another ~100,000 bugs this year alone, adding ~26% more vulnerabilities to the all time total Do you realize how fucking

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Politico Europe Nov 6 Score 0.7493926402777777

Drei Probleme für Friedrich Merz

Ein unruhiges Wochenende für Friedrich Merz: Der CDU-Chef muss gleich drei drängende Probleme abräumen. Neben dem Streit um die Zuckersteuer und der Nachfolge von EZB-Chefin Christine Lagarde geht es vor allem um die Kandidatur für das Bundespräsidialamt. Rasm

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Politico Europe Nov 6 Score 0.7483023625

Trump's final two years: Is the UK ready?

After a Democratic wave in the U.S. midterms, Westminster is wondering whether Trump's domestic setbacks could make him more unpredictable on the world stage — and how Britain should handle the final two years of his presidency. Patrick Baker speaks to Simon M

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Risky Bulletin Nov 6 Score 0.7475392458333333

OpenSSH auth bypass bug hits Alpine Linux, OperWRT

An OpenSSH authentication bypass bug hits Alpine Linux and OpenWRT, hackers attempt to raise fridge temperatures at French blood banks, a French bank gets hacked for $133 million, and the Thai opposition has been targeted with spyware. Show notes Risky Bulleti

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Atlantic Council Nov 5 Score 0.7382528185185185

Putin suffers Balkan setbacks as Russia struggles to retain influence

Russia’s recent setbacks in the Balkans are a reminder of the foreign policy challenges facing the Kremlin as the full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches a sixth year with no end in sight, writes Michael Getto. The post Putin suffers Balkan setbacks as Russi

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Atlantic Council Nov 5 Score 0.7369662444444445

Last week's brief Ukraine ceasefire did not stop Russian attacks on civilians

A recent humanitarian ceasefire around the southern Ukrainian city of Oleshky made it possible to evacuate hundreds of residents, but Russian attacks on civilians elsewhere in Ukraine continue, writes Kristina Hook. The post Last week's brief Ukraine ceasefire

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Dark Reading Nov 5 Score 0.7366574472222223

What We Missed: Knicks Phishing Test Goes Out of Bounds

In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from an ill-conceived phishing simulation to a hacktivist attack on a US government agency.

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GitHub Blog Nov 5 Score 0.7356175458333334

Inside GitHub's new Git storage architecture

GitHub's new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once. Here's how it works. The post Inside GitHub's new Git storage architecture appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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CyberScoop Nov 5 Score 0.7339260782407407

Air Force cyber official: need to invest in digital forensics

Wanda Jones-Heath said it’s key to keeping pace with incidents and threats, speaking at a Datadog event Thursday. The post Air Force cyber official: need to invest in digital forensics appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Video Game History Foundation Nov 5 Score 0.7333018842592592

Episode 167: PRGE & Gail Tilden’s Pokémon Work

This two-part episode features both a post mortem of PRGE 2026 (Portland Retro Gaming Expo) and a recording of our panel chat with Gail Tilden, formerly of Nintendo of America (NOA), about launching Pokémon in the U.S. Part One: Guests Steve Lin, founding boar

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CyberScoop Nov 5 Score 0.7299691337962962

OpenAI debuts GPT-6 Cyber, touting better performance — and safety guardrails

After a summer of sandbox escaping hacks, OpenAI said their new model was trained to be more cautious around user intent and less sensitive to “reward hacking” behaviors. The post OpenAI debuts GPT-6 Cyber, touting better performance — and safety guardrails ap

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The Hacker News Nov 5 Score 0.729483875462963

Researchers Bypass ChatGPT Lockdown Mode to Exfiltrate Chats Without User Interaction

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability that could be exploited to bypass Lockdown Mode protections in OpenAI ChatGPT. Lockdown Mode was introduced by the artificial intelligence (AI) company in June 2026 as an optional

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The Diplomat Nov 5 Score 0.7287190263888889

Asia’s Debt Handoff: Who Finances the Post-BRI Era?

As Belt and Road repayments come due and multilateral lenders step in, Asian borrowers must decide whether the new creditor landscape becomes a source of leverage or simply a new form of dependence.

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GitHub Blog Nov 5 Score 0.7283022680555555

Accessibility statements now have a home on GitHub

GitHub now highlights ACCESSIBILITY.md files and helps maintainers document accessibility goals, known barriers, supported environments, contributor expectations, and reporting processes. The post Accessibility statements now have a home on GitHub appeared fir

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InfoQ Nov 5 Score 0.7281907162037037

Leapwork Play Reaches GA with Governance for Playwright Tests

Leapwork Play adds requirement traceability and approval workflows around portable Playwright tests. Full governance and audit capabilities require an enterprise package. By Mark Silvester

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NASA News Nov 5 Score 0.7271169083333333

Midwestern City Lights

City lights from the Midwestern United States to the East Coast sparkle across the landscape a couple of hours before sunrise on Oct. 18, 2026. Major urban areas visible in the photograph include Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and the New York metropoli

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NASA News Nov 5 Score 0.7269530194444445

NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Florida Students

Students in Florida will hear from NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 10:40 a.m. EST Tuesday, Nov. 10, and will str

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Eurogamer Nov 5 Score 0.7266217675925926

Nintendo says it isn't planning any more Switch 2 price hikes

Nintendo, which unveiled the results of the first half of its fiscal year 2027 earlier today , has now said it has access to enough quantities of memory to manufacture more Switch 2 consoles. Read more

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Eurogamer Nov 5 Score 0.7265754712962963

World of Warcraft: Forever's seemingly stellar launch continues as it soars to the top of Twitch's most viewed games, beating out the likes of League of Legends and Zelda

World of Warcraft: Forever launched last night after a hugely successful beta, and it's not just players getting in on the fun. Blizzard's MMO is also proving quite the attraction for spectators, soaring all the way up to the top of Twitch 's most viewed games

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Martin Fowler Nov 5 Score 0.7252740694444444

The Data Product Platform Navigator

Many organizations adopting data mesh and data products face a common challenge. They may be tasked with building a self-service platform for data products and data mesh from scratch, or they may have an existing platform that suffers from low adoption, preven

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Nov 5 Score 0.725083250462963

Scientists discover that a clogged filter could revolutionize oil refining

Scientists have developed a remarkable new membrane that separates crude oil at room temperature, using the oil itself to create microscopic filtration channels. The breakthrough could cut refining energy consumption by nearly 32%, carbon emissions by almost 3

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NASA News Nov 5 Score 0.7232011675925926

Hubble Learns Galactic History From Stars

This Hubble image features the sparkling collection of stars named Messier 30 (M30), also called NGC 7099.

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Bellingcat Nov 5 Score 0.7179219018518519

How Online Maps Lay Bare the US Military Bases Targeted by Iran

Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. Become a member and support our work here. In September, CBS News obtained new images of the aftermath of attacks on US bases in the Middle East from active ser

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Latent Space Nov 5 Score 0.7123067111111111

[AINews] It's Swapping Season

November 4, 2026 — OpenAI’s Linux kernel security work, Kimi K3.1 Pro’s open weights, and Ricursive’s Ripple-65B.

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Econbrowser Nov 5 Score 0.7103947060185185

A List of Cost of Living Reduction Measures

It would be hard to reduce the relevant price level and financing costs, but one could drop the price below the current policy trajectory (based upon this post). Ignoring political feasibility, it's still useful to know what economic theory and empirics would

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MIT News — AI Nov 5 Score 0.7099692824074074

Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory

A new system identifies and corrects unreliable object descriptions stored in a robot’s memory, improving the robot’s ability to interact with its environment.

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SecurityWeek Nov 6 Score 0.7092324722222222

3 Charged in Scheme to Use AI to Impersonate CEOs and Attorneys to Steal $129 Million

The trio, who have nicknames that include “Rocky Balboa,” “Superman Cash” and “Fat Boy,” often targeted the companies’ accounting departments. The post 3 Charged in Scheme to Use AI to Impersonate CEOs and Attorneys to Steal $129 Million appeared first on Secu

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Lobsters Nov 6 Score 0.7045826773148147

X-87 - DOS 256 bytes

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Marginal Revolution Nov 5 Score 0.6973354861111111

Love at first photo?

Romantic interest on swipe-based dating apps (SBDAs) is highly concentrated. This can frustrate both popular users who feel overwhelmed by a glut of attention, and less popular users who feel dejected by a lack of it. Is the concentration of interest exacerbat

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SecurityWeek Nov 5 Score 0.6933750648148147

AI Agents Got Root on Linux via 948 Kernel Flaws in OpenAI Research

An unreleased OpenAI cyber model found and exploited 948 distinct Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs for about $1.2 million. The post AI Agents Got Root on Linux via 948 Kernel Flaws in OpenAI Research appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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Marginal Revolution Nov 5 Score 0.6931840972222222

Thursday assorted links

1. Economics job market site. 2. Data on the flattening of consumer culture (NYT). One-sided, but still of interest. 3. A new and better measure of how much of educational value is signaling. 4. Inside joke concerning the Pope that only some Beatles fans will

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Google Cloud Blog Nov 5 Score 0.6924683180555554

Semantic aggregation over millions of rows in BigQuery with AI.AGG

For more than a decade, BigQuery has helped set standards for structured data aggregation, calculating financial sums, counting active users, and computing historical averages at a petabyte scale in seconds. But as modern enterprises become inundated with unst

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Marginal Revolution Nov 5 Score 0.684610023148148

Pollution as Growth Killer

India's Outlook Business has an excellent issue focusing on pollution not just as a people killer but as a growth killer (as I have emphasized pollution reduces wealth and health, see especially this video). I am interviewed; here is one bit: Q. Doesn’t the de

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CNCF Blog Nov 5 Score 0.6841354060185184

kpt v1.0.0 is released

After many years and much development, the kpt community has released v1.0.0 of the kpt toolchain. This is a big step in maturing the kpt project after having it in pre-release status for several years. In...

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Nov 4 Score 0.6805952875

NASA is racing against time to save the Hubble Space Telescope

NASA is exploring a daring plan to save the legendary Hubble Space Telescope from its eventual fiery plunge into Earth's atmosphere. After more than 35 years of groundbreaking discoveries, Hubble is slowly losing altitude, and without intervention, it cou

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Marginal Revolution Nov 5 Score 0.6796669675925925

Social media and political radicalization

For a while now, we have been hearing claims that social media radicalize the American electorate, and that social media damage teen mental health. Well, we just held a major set of elections that produced resoundingly moderate results, repudiations of both Tr

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Nov 4 Score 0.6795170467592593

SLAC scientists find conclusive proof of a mysterious third type of magnetism

For nearly 90 years, scientists believed magnetism fell into just two categories, but researchers have now confirmed a remarkable third type called altermagnetism. Using specialized X-rays, they uncovered a unique magnetic signature that proves these materials

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Marginal Revolution Nov 5 Score 0.6739072453703703

My very good Conversation with Richard Hanania

Here is the video, audio, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: The first half of the conversation stays close to the text [Conrad's Nostromo], covering the novel’s political backdrop, its deliberately scrambled timeline, the near-total absence

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Techmeme Nov 6 Score 0.6734450819444445

Google rolls out Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, which creates clips up to 15 seconds, vs. 10 seconds with Omni 1.1, has better reference adherence, and costs 30% less (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Google rolls out Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, which creates clips up to 15 seconds, vs. 10 seconds with Omni 1.1, has better reference adherence, and costs 30% less   —  Ask about this article...  Google says Gem

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Phys.org Nov 6 Score 0.6733032675925926

Adaptation isn't keeping up with global warming, UN warns

With global warming set to exceed 1.5°C, adaptation finance falls far short of needs, implementation is constrained by institutional barriers, and losses and damages are mounting, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Axios Nov 6 Score 0.6727596949074075

Trump's arch gets final approval — but it could still face legal trouble

President Trump's much-contested " triumphal arch " has received its final planning approval, but a federal judge could still block construction. Why it matters: The Trump administration has said that work on the 250-foot arch could start immediately, even as

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Phys.org Nov 6 Score 0.6727477120370371

New species of sawfly described

Yale College junior Leah Mock did fieldwork in a remote quarry in western Colorado that exposes the 50-million-year-old Green River Formation.

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Hacker News Nov 6 Score 0.6723915569444445

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Techmeme Nov 6 Score 0.672052026388889

Perplexity rolls out Teammates, an always-on AI agent system that integrates with Computer to handle multiple roles and execute large-scale tasks simultaneously (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge : Perplexity rolls out Teammates, an always-on AI agent system that integrates with Computer to handle multiple roles and execute large-scale tasks simultaneously   —  Like OpenAI's Dots and Claude Duet, Perplexity's Teamm

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Hackaday Nov 6 Score 0.6716409930555556

Translating An Old Display To A New One

A quick search through AliExpress will find PCBs that take HDMI or VGA and translate them to DSI lanes for TFT panels, and even boards that translate DSI to HDMI …read more

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Axios Nov 6 Score 0.6681249726851852

Nvidia CEO called in by lawmakers over ties to alleged Chinese spy

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been asked by three House Republican committee chairs to brief Congress behind closed doors about his reported ties to a woman accused of spying for China. Why it matters: The request escalates the scrutiny of the Nvidia CEO over hi

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Hackaday Nov 6 Score 0.6666446967592593

Reviving Google Cardboard, Without Google or Cardboard

Remember Google Cardboard? The late, unlamented practice of strapping a phone to your face so you could get motion sickness in a virtual environment? [brenpoly] wants you to reconsider, because …read more

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The Next Web Nov 5 Score 0.6631932620370371

Instagram launches free Edits video editor for Mac with 4K exports

Instagram announced on Thursday that it is bringing Edits, its short-form video editing app, to desktop on Mac.The app is free to download, but it works only on Macs with Apple Silicon chips, from the M1 onwards, and users need an Instagram account to sign in.

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Committee to Protect Journalists Nov 5 Score 0.6626143657407408

120th Congress must protect the First Amendment right to a free press

New York, November 5, 2026—The newly elected U.S. Congress should restore press freedom protections at home and abroad by immediately strengthening oversight of federal agencies, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Thursday.  “The incoming

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The Next Web Nov 5 Score 0.6619849287037037

Meta adds real-time voice chat and animated avatars to its Muse app

Meta has added live voice conversations to Muse, its personal AI agent, so users can talk to it instead of typing. The update also gives Muse an animated avatar that reacts as the conversation goes on. The feature is available now in the Muse app on phones, th

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Wargamer Nov 5 Score 0.6556934888888889

The biggest chase cards in MTG Star Trek

If you're about to open some MTG Star Trek packs, you first need to know what you're hoping to pull.

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Wargamer Nov 5 Score 0.6550073777777778

The rarest and most expensive Lorcana cards of 2026

The most valuable Lorcana cards often come with gorgeous art, shiny foil, and high prices - here are the most expensive in packs right now.

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Naked Capitalism Nov 5 Score 0.6515941162037038

Easy Money Does Not Win Elections

Why politicians' complaints that central banks are hurting them by not lowering the cost of money are nearly always wrong.

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Board Game Quest Nov 5 Score 0.6491007717592593

Not Alone: Remastered Edition Review

At Gen Con this year, I had a chance to play the new version of Not Alone—actually titled Not Alone: Remastered Edition—at the Luma Games booth. Apparently, the original version came out in 2016, but this one had evaded my radar. Not Alone is a One vs Many gam

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Naked Capitalism Nov 5 Score 0.6465001347222222

Links 11/5/2026

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Naked Capitalism Nov 5 Score 0.6393626347222223

Satyajit Das: Golden Mythologies

Why gold does not necessarily glitter as an investment.

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Liberty Street Economics Nov 2 Score 0.6391353680555556

How Do Banking Supervisors Deal with Failing Banks?

In this post, we discuss insights from a recent staff report on the role of banking supervision in identifying and disciplining failing banks. We show that bank failures typically result from supervisory closure decisions based on hard information about book e

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Esports Insider Nov 5 Score 0.6386717273148148

Gen.G sweep LYON to end North America's Worlds 2026 run and set up iG semi-final

Gen.G beat LYON 3-0 in Allen, Texas, removing North America's last team from Worlds 2026. The LCK top seed are now one series from a first Worlds final, with a revived Invictus Gaming in the way. The post Gen.G sweep LYON to end North America's Worlds 2026 run

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Quanta Magazine Oct 30 Score 0.6364158953703702

A New Map of 'Empty' Space Challenges a Tranquil Picture of the Galaxy

For decades, astronomers treated the interstellar medium as a static backdrop to the goings-on of the universe. Now, a wave of 3D mapping is bringing the interstellar medium’s dynamic nature into focus. The post A New Map of 'Empty' Space Challenges a Tranquil

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9to5Mac Nov 6 Score 0.6327502560185184

‘Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook’ premieres on Apple TV

Apple TV subscribers can now stream the first two episodes of the platform’s new unscripted food series, ‘ Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook .’ Watch the trailer below. more…

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9to5Mac Nov 6 Score 0.6321553486111111

Apple explains how to turn off the new MacBook Pro’s glowing logo

While the illuminated Apple logo on the new MacBook Pro drew one of the biggest cheers during last week’s announcement, Apple knows that not everyone will want to keep it on. Here’s the company’s official guide to turning it off. more…

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MacRumors Nov 6 Score 0.6297710851851851

Apple Surveys iPhone Duo Buyers About Crease and Camera

Apple is sending email surveys to some iPhone Duo buyers to get feedback on display size, crease, under-display camera, and other features. The first question asks why the buyer chose the ‌iPhone Duo‌ now, with answers like "I wanted to try Apple's f

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Econbrowser Nov 3 Score 0.6259900763888889

On the Eve of Escalation

New strikes on Iran tonight, from WSJ: The assault follows comments by Trump playing down the possibility of a return to war with Iran after Tuesday’s midterm elections. “We had a war with Iran. We won,” Trump told reporters Monday. “I don’t know if you even c

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Sky & Telescope Nov 5 Score 0.624461799537037

NASA Moves Ahead with Ultraviolet Space Telescope

A new ultraviolet space telescope will fill a gap in the spectrum, bearing witness to cosmic cataclysms and probing the evolution of the early universe. The post NASA Moves Ahead with Ultraviolet Space Telescope appeared first on Sky & Telescope .

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Nov 2 Score 0.6199899393518519

Unit 42 Threat Intelligence Highlights - Nov. 2, 2026

Unit 42 details recent threat intelligence, highlighting cyberespionage, financial extortion, and the rapid adoption of AI across offensive workflows. The post Unit 42 Threat Intelligence Highlights - Nov. 2, 2026 appeared first on Unit 42 .

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PLOS ONE Nov 5 Score 0.6124690407407407

Crafting of physical exhibits by undergraduate medical students: A mixed method study to assess the acquisition of higher-order cognitive skills and student perceptions

by Rajesh Kathrotia, Swapnil Paralikar, Vinay Chitturi, Pradip Barde, Gaurav Sharma, Naresh Parmar, Vivek Kumar Sharma, Chinmay Shah Active learning engages students in some activity that induces them to reflect upon ideas and how they are using these ideas. I

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Sky & Telescope Nov 5 Score 0.6108020773148147

Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Engineer (1936 – 2026)

Hamilton’s code sent humans to the Moon with a “defensive programming” mindset. The post Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Engineer (1936 – 2026) appeared first on Sky & Telescope .

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Towards Data Science Nov 5 Score 0.5791359347222224

How to Report for 100+ Clients With One Semantic Model

Configuration-driven reporting: one semantic model, one metric catalog, and a few lines of configuration per audience The post How to Report for 100+ Clients With One Semantic Model appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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DigitalOcean Community Tutorials Nov 5 Score 0.5726075356481483

The True Cost of LLM Inference: GPUs vs. Token Pricing

What does LLM inference really cost? Break down GPU hourly rates, utilization, and cost per million tokens to decide when to self-host.

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International Crisis Group Oct 30 Score 0.5601994615740742

October Trends and November Alerts 2026

October Trends and November Alerts 2026 oolofsson Fri, 10/30/2026 - 15:08 CrisisWatch Tracking Conflict Worldwide Loading Map Early Warning Resolution Opportunity Risk Alert Trends Improved Situation Deteriorated Situation Unchanged Situation Standby monitorin

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Chip Huyen Jul 25 Score 0.15000000000000002

Building A Generative AI Platform

After studying how companies deploy generative AI applications, I noticed many similarities in their platforms. This post outlines the common components of a generative AI platform, what they do, and how they are implemented. I try my best to keep the architec

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Kubernetes Blog Oct 14 Score 0.15000000000000002

Why Is My Kubernetes Job Still Pending? Tracing Kueue Admission with Headlamp

You submit a Kubernetes Job and wait for its Pods to appear. A minute passes. Then another. The Job is still suspended, there are no application logs, and there may not even be a Pod to inspect. In a cluster managed by Kueue , this can be completely normal. Ku

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Lilian Weng's Blog May 1 Score 0.15000000000000002

Why We Think

Special thanks to John Schulman for a lot of super valuable feedback and direct edits on this post. Test time compute ( Graves et al. 2016 , Ling, et al. 2017 , Cobbe et al. 2021 ) and Chain-of-thought (CoT) ( Wei et al. 2022 , Nye et al. 2021 ), have led to s

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SRE Weekly Oct 19 Score 0.15000000000000002

SRE Weekly Issue #539

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Incident.io: AI made shipping code faster. Now reliability is the bottleneck. Hear how Netflix and OpenAI handle that challenge at SEV0, the reliability conference in SF and London. Free for SREWeekly readers w

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BAIR Blog Jul 7 Score 0.15000000000000002

Intelligence is Free, Now What? Data Systems for, of, and by Agents

... government of the people, by the people, for the people ...     — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the

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Benedict Evans May 24 Score 0.15000000000000002

Predicting AI job exposure

Many people would like to analyse which jobs, companies and industries are most exposed to AI, and assign scores, build charts, and map that against the progress of LLMs. I think this is mostly impossible: you don’t know how the jobs will change, you don’t kno

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One Useful Thing Sep 18 Score 0.15000000000000002

The Overhang

Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency

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Embrace The Red Aug 27 Score 0.11249999999999993

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

In this post, we explore how a simple website summary request hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode and achieves code execution with 60-80% attack success rate using a small sample size. This is interesting because a third-party evaluation commis

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Shut Up & Sit Down Nov 27 Score 0.11249999999999993

“Shut Up & Sit Down Presents” Incredible New Games with Play to Z

Shut Up & Sit Down is delighted to announce a partnership with Play to Z to hunt down the board game treasures that we think belong in every collection. " SU&SD Presents " is a brand new line of titles that places a spotlight on some of the very best t

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The Changelog Oct 22 Score 0.09330205092592592

Building what's next

This week I'm talking with Zeno Rocha, CEO of Resend, about scaling "boring" email to 3 million users, the secret Go rewrite behind it, and building for agents. We cover pricing.md, MCP, spam gangs, and why Resend keeps what's next for email.

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