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Krebs on Security Sep 8 Score 0.964535526851852

Microsoft Plugs Nearly 1,000 Security Holes

Microsoft Corp. today issued updates to plug at least 974 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, by far its biggest single patch batch ever. Microsoft says artificial intelligence is helping to speed the discovery of vulnerabilitie

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OpenAI News Sep 8 Score 0.9499698935185186

The Work Now Within Reach

Explore how more capable, affordable AI can expand the work people and businesses can accomplish—and make growth more economical.

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OpenAI News Sep 8 Score 0.9474698935185186

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

ChatGPT Images 2.5 helps turn your ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more personalized, polished images that better reflect your ideas.

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OpenAI News Sep 8 Score 0.9449698935185186

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 9 Score 0.8938666749999999

Quoting Terence Tao

I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. [...] We have now seen that even the rumor of someone working on a pro

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 8 Score 0.8931699157407407

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem Impressive result from OpenAI, who used an unreleased model to produce a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem , one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems that have been subject to a $1,

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 8 Score 0.8912629712962962

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 OpenAI's image generation models are apparently used "more than 3 billion images across ChatGPT Images and the GPT‑Image models in the API". This latest release improves their instruction-following ability across multiple turns,

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Foreign Policy Sep 8 Score 0.8878270504629628

Berlin Is Shedding Light on the Gray Zone

Are European countries finally ready to publicly call out Russian sabotage?

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Schneier on Security Sep 8 Score 0.8819891421296295

AIs as Modern Genies

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in Lawfare . In April, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent conducting a routine task at a company hit a snag, tried to solve it, and soon ended up deleting the company’s database along with

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Foreign Policy Sep 8 Score 0.8801474208333332

Can Trump Make Americans Mine Again?

The United States lacks the people to power its critical mineral ambitions.

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Schneier on Security Sep 8 Score 0.8705271050925925

Stealing AI Reasoning Traces

Interesting research: " Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs ": Abstract: Leading large language model providers now conceal their models' step-by-step reasoning, or chain-of-thought, to protect intellectual property and limit information leakag

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Quanta Magazine Sep 8 Score 0.8678548481481481

AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. The post AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems first appear

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MIT Technology Review Sep 9 Score 0.8235846722222223

What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math

OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances,

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The Verge Sep 8 Score 0.8147537185185186

Sony isn’t phasing out discs quite as quickly as we thought

Sony isn't backing away from its decision to kill the video game disc in January 2028. But Sony isn't shutting down production as quickly as we thought, either. Two months after reports that Sony's last discmaking plant was already being repurposed, the compan

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The Verge Sep 8 Score 0.8131328851851852

Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone

OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it discovered a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem

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The Verge Sep 8 Score 0.8129402925925927

Rivian spinout Also apologizes for delays in shipping futuristic e-bikes

Rivian's futuristic e-bike is delayed, and customers are not happy. Last year, Rivian's micromobility spinoff Also unveiled a new, software-controlled electric bike called the TM-B that immediately set the e-bike world ablaze. With USB-C chargeable battery, re

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The Verge Sep 8 Score 0.8127426074074074

Razer’s ANC-equipped gaming headset for PS5 and Xbox is almost $100 off

It’s rare to find high-end features like active noise cancellation in a gaming headset under $200, so we’re thrilled that the Razer BlackShark V3 Pro on sale at Woot for $164.99. There are specific models marketed to Xbox and PlayStation, but the Xbox version

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BleepingComputer Sep 8 Score 0.8123105231481482

The EU CRA's Real Question: What Shipped, and When Did You Know?

The EU Cyber Resilience Act's vulnerability reporting requirements take effect September 11, giving software vendors as little as 24 hours to report actively exploited flaws. ActiveState explains why knowing exactly what shipped and when vulnerabilities were d

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The Verge Sep 8 Score 0.8120852000000001

ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new feature called Sketch, you can just draw something right inside ChatGPT and then tell ChatGPT how you w

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BleepingComputer Sep 8 Score 0.8118841342592593

Hackers breach F5 BIG-IP APM devices to deploy Linux rootkit

A Linux rootkit targeting devices in F5 BIG-IP APM environments can intercept PHP file loading and inject a fileless web shell directly into memory, avoiding the need to write malicious code to disk. [...]

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War on the Rocks Sep 8 Score 0.8113606949074075

The Two Questions Ukraine Asks Before Every Decision

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 Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insigh

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SANS Internet Storm Center Sep 8 Score 0.8105389620370371

September 2026 Microsoft Patch Tuesday, (Tue, Sep 8th)

This month, Microsoft released patches for a record-breaking 973 vulnerabilities, including 113 rated critical. It is by far the largest Patch Tuesday to date, well ahead of the previous high of 664 set in July 2026. Two vulnerabilities are listed as exploited

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BleepingComputer Sep 8 Score 0.8096730231481483

Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5122878 extended security update

Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5122878 extended security update, which includes this month's record-breaking September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes, along with a few bug fixes. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Sep 8 Score 0.7985809685185186

The Download: our 35 Innovators Under 35 this year

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. Introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2026 What will the next generation of science and technology look like? Ou

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 8 Score 0.7983029787037038

CareCam Pro IP Cameras

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to take full control of the device. The following versions of CareCam Pro IP Cameras are affected: ANJIA AJL33PC0801 Firmware linux_linux_202008261138_svn13796_/_Bootloader

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MIT Technology Review Sep 8 Score 0.7959698574074074

This founder is teaching chips how to recycle (their energy)

Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an inevitable cost of a calculation. Hannah Earley, however, thinks it’s a design choice. Earley, 31, is cofounder and chief technology officer of Vaire Computing, a startup buil

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MIT Technology Review Sep 8 Score 0.795914301851852

This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected

Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of furniture.

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 8 Score 0.7670885125000001

Why the world needs a Club Penguin successor – that isn't Roblox

Club Penguin – the Disney-owned, Flash-based MMO, which ran from 2005 to 2017 – was a formative experience for a generation of children. Stephen MacDonald, who was a senior manager at Disney from 2012 to 2015, says that Club Penguin had over 300 mi

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TechCrunch — AI Sep 8 Score 0.7385935046296296

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.

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Econbrowser Sep 8 Score 0.7378286199074074

Interesting Word of the Day: Carousel

For the first couple of months of my stint on the CEA staff back in 2000, I had to cover trade issues (my designated area was international finance). One of the first words I learned walking into the EEOB/OEOB– that I hadn't heard of in my grad school cl

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NASA News Sep 8 Score 0.7374693814814814

From the Corps to the Cosmos, featuring Jaden Caradine

Jaden Caradine knew he wanted to be an engineer at eight years old. He just took a winding road to get there. Before he enrolled at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, before he discovered the field that would become his focus, and before he landed a Pathway

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Econbrowser Sep 8 Score 0.7373776939814815

Wisconsin Dairy Hit With Retaliatory Tariffs:

From Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association: On August 25, Canada announced a broad set of retaliatory tariffs, hitting U.S. dairy hard. Our northern neighbor announced that as of September 8, U.S. cheese entering Canada will face a 25 percent tariff, while milk

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NASA News Sep 8 Score 0.737088362962963

NASA Calls for Proposals to Accelerate Lunar Surface Technologies

NASA is seeking proposals to advance the technology and infrastructure needed to explore the Moon and establish a Moon Base in the lunar South Pole region. Announced on Tuesday, Sept. 8, the solicitation targets capability gaps, including power generation, oxy

Science sciencenasaspace
Kubernetes Blog Sep 8 Score 0.7341360726851852

Kubernetes v1.37: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling

AI/ML and complex batch workloads continue to push the boundaries of Kubernetes scheduling. Following the foundational workload-centric enhancements introduced in previous releases, Kubernetes v1.37 delivers the next major milestone in the Workload-Aware Sched

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Econbrowser Sep 8 Score 0.7333855643518519

The Marginal Efficiency of Investment Equation Interpreted in 2024-26

In the IS-LM equation, we have the investment function:   Where I use the Blanchard modification that lets investment rise with income, kind of an accelerator. How can we reconcile the higher nonresidential fixed investment with higher interest rates, asi

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New Scientist Sep 8 Score 0.7332724194444444

OpenAI has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium problem using $15m of AI effort

One of the trickiest problems in mathematics has now fallen to AI after just days of work. The groundbreaking result was announced amid rumour after similar, but less complete work, also created with AI, was announced just hours before

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Econbrowser Sep 8 Score 0.7317184347222222

Policy Uncertainty: Economic and Trade

Through yesterday: Figure 1: EPU (blue, left scale), 7 day centered moving average (red, left scale), EPU-trade policy (green, right scale), 7 day centered moving average (black, right scale), Source: policyuncertainty.com.

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New Scientist Sep 8 Score 0.7316363083333334

Why growing seaweed isn't a climate solution

Some have claimed cultivating seaweed could remove hundreds of millions of tonnes of CO2. But as warming waters kill off kelp, we need to refocus on preserving what we have, a study argues

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NASA News Sep 8 Score 0.7313379

Superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a photogenic nebula, N44, in the Large Magellanic Cloud in this Sept. 3, 2026, image. N44 is dominated by two features: a vast central void and a shell of dense, dusty gas. The central void is a ‘superbubble’ spanning rou

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Martin Fowler Sep 8 Score 0.7289135638888888

Fragments: September 8

Christian Catalini says we’re in a situation where we are vastly reducing the cost of generating things, but not the cost of verifying them: . This explains why the first major AI products appeared in chat, image generation, and code assistance. Not because th

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InfoQ Sep 8 Score 0.7266357412037037

Presentation: Platform Engineering in the Age of AI

The panelists explain how platform teams adapt to support AI-assisted engineering, highlighting which capabilities belong in the platform. They discuss trade-offs between standardization and developer autonomy, while sharing strategies to manage AI tooling, se

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 8 Score 0.7264954625

Scientists discover a powerful new antivenom hidden in rattlesnake blood

Researchers discovered that combinations of toxin-blocking proteins naturally found in rattlesnake blood can powerfully neutralize venom from several dangerous snake species. In lab tests, the mixtures were about 10 times more potent than a current commercial

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Martin Fowler Sep 8 Score 0.7261357861111111

Do you even need a presentation?

Like me, Sumeet Gayathri Moghe is tired of poor presentations with bad slide decks. He's started to write a series of posts on how to avoid these calamities, beginning with a post that questions whether a presentation is needed at all. more…

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InfoQ Sep 8 Score 0.7233024078703704

GitLab Warns That AI Agent Sandboxes Are Only as Secure as Their Network Access

GitLab warns that isolating an AI coding agent in a sandbox does not necessarily make the agent safe. In a new security analysis, the company describes an internal evaluation in which an AI agent escaped its sandbox by exploiting a vulnerable package proxy tha

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 8 Score 0.6924689458333333

Power agent hubs or custom harnesses with the Antigravity SDK in one toolkit

Enterprise agent adoption isn’t one-size-fits-all. While many teams will opt for managed commercial platforms, such as Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for turnkey agent deployment and governance, developers with bespoke workflows or custom execution engines o

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 8 Score 0.6924689453703703

How KDDI built Buffmee, a faster, reliable consumer RAG app

When building consumer-facing generative AI applications, balancing high generation quality with fast response times across diverse media types, can be challenging. KDDI, a major telecommunications carrier in Japan, tackled this challenge head-on when they dev

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 8 Score 0.6924689453703703

Agentic analytics with the Data Agent Kit

Imagine your director sends you a chat message Monday morning: Our average order value dropped 7% in January, but total revenue stayed flat. Why? If you’re a data practitioner, you know why these types of questions can be tough. They’re totally open ended. The

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Marginal Revolution Sep 8 Score 0.6923480777777777

Tuesday assorted links

1. The Carob Prize, for scholars who tell the truth (WSJ). 2. Observations from watching Iranian social media. 3. The Emma McAleavy feminist vision. 4. Is the inflation picture shifting? 5. The labor market is doing fine. 6. If LLMs had the personalities of TV

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