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Hacker News Aug 30 Score 0.8932969305555555

Understanding ChatGPT Work

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far. ChatGPT Work is actually two products The more interestin

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OpenAI News Aug 28 Score 0.8516362643518519

Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups

OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.

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The Verge Aug 30 Score 0.8138302773148148

Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mid-aughts in NYC where it seemed

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The Verge Aug 30 Score 0.8103622217592593

Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets

Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don't know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled Half-Li

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The Guardian — World Aug 30 Score 0.8098961212962964

Canada erects giant ‘Lake Ontario’ sign as spat with Trump over name escalates

Meanwhile, Trump posts video of himself kicking over a Lake Ontario sign and replacing it with Lake America sign Donald Trump and Canada continued a verbal duel on Saturday over the US government’s administrative renaming of Lake Ontario, with the Ontario prem

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The Verge Aug 30 Score 0.8059876847222223

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) beyond the Moon. From this vantag

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The Verge Aug 30 Score 0.8042798143518519

Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras

As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras.

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The Guardian — World Aug 30 Score 0.8035401027777779

Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez defends ‘endless’ benefits of her oil deal with Trump

Deal that will reportedly see US take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil has provoked outrage in her country Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has defended her government’s highly controversial energy deal with Donald Trump, insisting the

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BleepingComputer Aug 30 Score 0.8033124953703704

FulcrumSec claims Manchester Airports hack, theft of 86 GB of data

FulcrumSec claims it stole 86 GB of data from Manchester Airports Group. BleepingComputer validated one traveller's record, while samples revealed detailed customer, booking, and travel information beyond what MAG initially disclosed. [...]

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BleepingComputer Aug 30 Score 0.8021286990740741

Chrome Web Store extensions caught stealing crypto, browser data

Multiple extensions for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge delivered a malware framework that deployed modules to steal cryptocurrency, sensitive data, and browser history, as well as inject ClickFix lures. [...]

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The Verge Aug 30 Score 0.7999696291666667

Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning even more classic games

Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it's going beyond its domain name. The biggest name in online chess quietly launched its first companion site in beta back in May: Gambit, a free online poker website where pla

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Wired Aug 30 Score 0.7966362407407408

Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems (2026): I Tested Them All

Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested, multi-room mesh Wi-Fi systems will keep your whole house online.

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Quanta Magazine Aug 28 Score 0.7958185060185184

Does Computer Science Need Computers?

The theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them. The post Does Computer Science Need Computers? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Wired Aug 30 Score 0.7958029074074074

Why the Hottest New Wearables Want to Be Ignored

Burnt out on wrist buzzes and notification overload? A new crop of minimalist wearables promises to collect your health data without demanding your attention.

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Schneier on Security Aug 28 Score 0.7917018407407407

AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Mathematics—at Least Not Yet

This essay was written with Kasra Rafi, and originally appeared in The Guardian. Earlier this month, about 40 top mathematicians gathered at OpenAI's offices to discuss the future of their profession. The meeting was off-the-record, but if recent articles by m

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NBER New Working Papers Aug 31 Score 0.7875000000000001

Political Entrepreneurs -- by Aaron Chatterji, Jorge Guzman, Joyce Ma, Ryan C. McDevitt

Firms shape public policy not only from the outside through lobbying and campaign contributions, but also from the inside when business owners hold public office. We study this channel using a novel dataset that links state legislators’ personal financial disc

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NBER New Working Papers Aug 31 Score 0.7875000000000001

Rate Risk and Rate Insurance -- by Olivier Wang

I decompose stock returns into a duration-matched Treasury component, identified from monetary policy surprises, and a payoff component. Risk and returns rise much less with duration for stocks than for their matched Treasuries. Stock volatility is dampened by

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 27 Score 0.7713700787037037

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently made that the default and have made bold claims about its effec

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InfoQ Aug 31 Score 0.7496352523148148

FlexGanttFX is Open Source

Dirk Lemmerman has released FlexGanttFX as an open-source resource-scheduling framework under the AGPL license. This JavaFX library enables Gantt chart creation for various industries, optimizing performance with a Canvas rendering method. The framework includ

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Risky Bulletin Aug 31 Score 0.7488617134259259

Risky Bulletin: New powers for Dutch intelligence services

Dutch intelligence services will get new powers, a security expert has been arrested in Israel for hacking, the BTS hacker gets a 20 year sentence in South Korea, and an AfD politician in Germany has been linked to a Russian cybercrime hosting service. Show no

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Politico Europe Aug 31 Score 0.7485706680555556

Zeitenwende 2.0: Wie Merz Russland zahlen lassen will

Kanzler Friedrich Merz bereitet nach dem gescheiterten Drohnenanschlag auf den Flughafen Leipzig/Halle eine beispiellos harte Antwort gegen Russland vor. Unter dem Motto einer womöglich weiteren „Zeitenwende“ stehen mutmaßlich neue massive EU-Sanktionen und de

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Al Jazeera — World Aug 31 Score 0.7484952203703704

Iran targets Jordan after first US attack in a month

The US has launched its first strikes on Iran in a month, hitting sites on Larak Island. Iran hit back targeting bases h

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Politico Europe Aug 31 Score 0.7483026125

Les think tanks musclent leur jeu en vue de 2027

À l’approche de l’élection présidentielle, les think tanks passent comme tous les 5 ans à la vitesse supérieure. Et s’interrogent plus que jamais sur le ton à adopter, dans un paysage politique fragmenté et polarisé.

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SRE Weekly Aug 31 Score 0.7469581449074074

SRE Weekly Issue #532

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Planetscale: PlanetScale Metal runs Postgres and Vitess on dedicated NVMe inside AWS and GCP. Get data center speed next to your app, with unlimited IOPS and no throttling. Teams routinely see a 70% drop in p99

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One Useful Thing Aug 31 Score 0.7439857138888889

Agency and Agents

From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories

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Risky Bulletin Aug 30 Score 0.7366654171296296

Sponsored: Attackers need to be right more than once

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, James Wilson chats with Dropzone AI’s founder and CEO Edward Wu to debunk the adage, “an attacker only has to be right once”. Modern intruders need to be successful across multiple steps before actually reaching an o

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TechCrunch — AI Aug 30 Score 0.7314811712962963

Musk's faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others

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TechCrunch Aug 30 Score 0.7300529305555555

TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 30 Score 0.7287775342592593

1.4-million-year-old footprints reveal a surprisingly large human relative

Ancient footprints in Kenya reveal that eight Paranthropus boisei may have traveled together 1.4 million years ago, with some individuals reaching surprisingly large, human-like body sizes. The tracks offer a rare glimpse of their social behavior and suggest t

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 30 Score 0.7284455898148148

This strange “spacetime crystal” can suddenly become a black hole

Physicists have mathematically captured a bizarre “spacetime crystal” that can either dissolve or collapse into a microscopic black hole after only a tiny change in energy. Their breakthrough came from an unusual trick involving infinitely many dimensions, pot

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NASA News Aug 30 Score 0.7282468138888889

Ribbon-Cutting Event for NASA Deep Space Network’s Deep Space Station 23

Description Leadership from NASA Headquarters, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Deep Space Network (DSN) stand in front of the recently completed Deep Space Station 23 antenna at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex near Barstow, California, on Aug

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NASA News Aug 30 Score 0.7281120916666667

NASA Deep Space Network’s New Goldstone Antenna Goes Online

Description Long shadows are cast by the recently completed Deep Space Station 23 at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex near Barstow, California, in August 2026. A 34-meter (114-foot) multifrequency beam-waveguide antenna, DSS-23 will boost the DSN’s c

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NASA News Aug 30 Score 0.7279472768518519

Panorama Showcasing the 34-Meter Antennas of the DSN’s Goldstone Complex

Description Five antennas soak in the summer sun at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex near Barstow, California, in August 2026. The recently completed Deep Space Station 23, a 34-meter (114-foot) beam-waveguide antenna, can be seen to the right of the

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 30 Score 0.7259108675925926

HEPA air purifiers may boost brain function after just one month

Adults aged 40 and older performed about 12% faster on a test of executive function after using a HEPA air purifier at home for one month. The findings suggest that cleaner indoor air could offer a simple way to help protect the brain from the effects of traff

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NASA News Aug 30 Score 0.7254722768518519

NASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches

Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 30 Score 0.7251715157407408

Hundreds of hidden earthquakes found at Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier

Hundreds of previously overlooked seismic events have been detected beneath Antarctica, including 245 near the marine edge of the Thwaites Glacier. Many appear to be glacial earthquakes caused when huge icebergs break off, capsize, and collide with the glacier

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Eurogamer Aug 30 Score 0.7227113444444444

Multiple developers report equipment stolen from their Gamescom booths

Multiple exhibitors at Gamescom have reported thefts of laptops and other equipment from their booths in Cologne, with one indie developer saying the loss has effectively ended his show early. Read more

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 30 Score 0.7121104046296296

Researchers unveil sustainable spirulina solution to vitamin B12 deficiency

Researchers have produced a form of Spirulina containing biologically active vitamin B12 at levels comparable to beef. By carefully controlling the light used to grow the algae, they overcame a major problem with conventional Spirulina, which mainly contains a

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Marginal Revolution Aug 30 Score 0.6976500893518518

Russia markets in everything

While Western export bans have severed Russia from much of the auto market, they have not tempered the demand for brand-name SUVs and trucks. That has given rise to a sophisticated network of criminals that steals cars, hides them in shipping containers and se

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Marginal Revolution Aug 30 Score 0.6921704597222221

Sunday assorted links

1. NYT covers Maria Edgeworth. 2. A calmer look at the Hugging Face incident. And from Ciaran Martin in The Economist. And Elie. And Jacob Bruggeman. 3. Chandhana visits Egypt. 4. New quantum claims. 5. How youth football is evolving due to CTE concerns. 6. Pi

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Lobsters Aug 30 Score 0.691188499537037

Interview with oofoe about REBOL, Forth, Decker, Janet and the VFx Industry

Oofoe ( sourcehut ) is a REBOL-refugee comes from animation and now works on precision instrument software. He makes puzzles in Decker and games in Janet (using his Janet->JavaScript transpiler) and Racket and Racket and, again, Racket and Racket and even visu

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 27 Score 0.6783026425925927

CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2023-49105 ownCloud Improper Authentication Vulnerability CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Vulnerability CVE-20

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 27 Score 0.6783026425925927

Mitsubishi Electric CNC Series (Update A)

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause an out-of-bounds read, resulting in a denial-of-service condition in the affected products. The following versions of Mitsubishi Electric CNC Series (Update

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 27 Score 0.6783026425925927

Xiiaozet LK100W

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to take control over the device. The following versions of Xiiaozet LK100W are affected: LK100W CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 9.8 Xiiaozet Xiiaozet LK100W Imp

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Phys.org Aug 31 Score 0.6691373430555556

Using data to help wheat growers adapt to unpredictable weather

For generations, wheat planting has followed predictable seasonal patterns. But this year, unseasonably warm weather in March and April accelerated wheat growth, pushing the crop into a vulnerable growth stage when widespread freezing temperatures hit.

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Dark Reading Aug 28 Score 0.6466359476851852

You Need Cyber Deception for OT

The frustrating reality after an OT cyberattack: no data, no trail, and no history.

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Naked Capitalism Aug 30 Score 0.6464998861111112

Links 8/30/2026

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SecurityWeek Aug 29 Score 0.6456635652777777

Hasbro Data Breach Exposed Employee Personal Information

A cyberattack caused disruptions at the toy and game giant earlier this year and the company is now disclosing a data breach. The post Hasbro Data Breach Exposed Employee Personal Information appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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MIT News — AI Aug 27 Score 0.6155251634259259

Looking beyond natural sequences

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

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Towards Data Science Aug 30 Score 0.5816371824074075

8 Tips for Writing Effective Agent Instructions

Quick and simple tips to help you write better agent instructions The post 8 Tips for Writing Effective Agent Instructions appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Towards Data Science Aug 30 Score 0.5783038490740742

Context Engineering Is Changing. Here’s What It Means for Data Scientists

How to apply the latest context engineering guidelines to your day-to-day data science work The post Context Engineering Is Changing. Here’s What It Means for Data Scientists appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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