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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 26 Score 0.881761411574074

Kākāpō Party

Tool: Kākāpō Party I presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday. As a STAR moment I decided to weave in references to the record breaking kākāpō breeding season we had in 2026. For my closing slide I wanted to ce

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BBC News — World Sep 27 Score 0.8240252736111112

Two mass shootings in South Africa leave 27 dead

The two attacks hours apart come as the country struggles to stop high levels of gang-related armed violence.

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OpenAI News Sep 23 Score 0.8240086087962963

Two years of OpenAI Academy

Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.

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Wired Sep 27 Score 0.8231753555555557

Nicotine Is Mounting a Comeback in the Wellness Movement

Improving mood and increasing longevity are just some of the unfounded claims about this substance circling around the “natural” medicine corners of the internet.

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The Guardian — World Sep 27 Score 0.8212141356481483

At least 27 dead after two mass shootings in South Africa, police say

Seventeen people killed at bar near Johannesburg and 10 killed in separate incident at barbecue venue near Cape Town Two separate mass shootings near South Africa’s two biggest cities killed at least 27 people, police have said. The South African police servic

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BBC News — World Sep 27 Score 0.8118743476851853

Four killed in helicopter crash near Montreal

The victims of the crash have not yet been identified, Quebec provincial police told the BBC.

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The Verge Sep 26 Score 0.8031758324074074

Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents

Haptics tech company Taction sued Apple in 2021, alleging it infringed two of its patents. Now a federal jury in San Diego has awarded Taction over $5.7 billion in damages. According to CNBC, "The lawsuit centered around U.S. Patent Nos. 10,659,885 and 10,820,

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The Verge Sep 26 Score 0.7998420361111112

Decap is the man behind the drums behind your favorite song

I don't think I'm going to hurt anyone's feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn't have the name recognition of Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, or Charli XCX. But his fingerprints are all over tracks from them, as well as many other artists, including Freddi

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BleepingComputer Sep 26 Score 0.7991073143518519

ShinyHunters uses WAF bypass trick in Oracle PeopleSoft attacks

The ShinyHunters extortion gang is using a URL-encoding trick to bypass web application firewall rules that mitigate the Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 flaw, allowing the threat actors to resume widespread exploitation of a flaw on vulnerable servers. [...]

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The Verge Sep 26 Score 0.7965804620370371

Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat

Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR's Wild Card into an impromptu group chat. In a new episode of This American Life, host Ira Glass digs into how the kids

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The Verge Sep 26 Score 0.7949804620370371

OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’

As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox

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BleepingComputer Sep 26 Score 0.7937480550925926

Microsoft pauses KB5002907 update after Office license deactivations

Microsoft has paused the rollout of the KB5002907 Microsoft 365 update after users report that it deactivated, or in some cases completely removed, perpetual Office 2016 and Office 2019 installations. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 26 Score 0.7912239810185185

GitHub Actions re-enabled with Mini Shai-Hulud payload still active

Two third-party GitHub Actions previously compromised in a Mini Shai-Hulud campaign were re-enabled by their maintainer and remained accessible for more than a week despite still pointing to malicious code. [...]

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The Verge Sep 26 Score 0.7906753694444445

Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?

Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the int

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 27 Score 0.7875000000000001

Digital (Killer?) Acquisitions -- by Florian Ederer, Regina Seibel, Timothy Simcoe

This paper examines innovation outcomes before and after 1,200 startup acquisitions by eight major technology firms. Linking patent and workforce data to these deals, we document four main findings. First, most acquired startups hold no patents, but those with

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 27 Score 0.7875000000000001

Responses to Extreme Price Changes: Evidence from the Residential Demand for Natural Gas -- by Anna Alberini, Levan Bezhanishvili, Milan Ščasný, Roberton C. Williams III

We examine the response of residential customers to an extreme price change – namely that imposed by the government in the Republic of Georgia during the pandemic lockdown in the winter of 2020 and early 2021. As of November 2020, the government paid the gas b

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Wired — Security Sep 26 Score 0.7873420222222223

Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead

In an era of increasingly sophisticated AI-fueled scams, a retro threat may be lurking in your mailbox.

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Al Jazeera — World Sep 27 Score 0.7485641310185185

Plane carrying DR Congo military delegation crashes

A plane carrying a Congolese military delegation crashed in DR Congo, killing 17 people, including four civilians.

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Quanta Magazine Sep 23 Score 0.7461442273148147

Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike

Scientists have a history of trying — and failing — to link biology and quantum mechanics. The real connection between them may be in the math. The post Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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The Hacker News Sep 27 Score 0.7453400055555556

Warning: Two Unpatched Citrix NetScaler RCE Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation

Two new unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances that allow remote code execution are being actively exploited in the wild, security firm watchTowr said on September 26. Citrix has not confirmed the flaws or p

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 24 Score 0.7410672143518517

How the Fed should measure inflation

Pinning down the underlying rate may be harder than Kevin Warsh thinks

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 24 Score 0.7410426773148148

Israel’s war economy is thriving

But conflict is worsening its industrial divide

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 24 Score 0.740963973611111

Turkey’s investment-fund fiasco

The country could lose its status as an emerging market

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Schneier on Security Sep 23 Score 0.7407749143518518

Research on Models Engaging in Genie-Like Behavior

New paper: " Self-Jailbreaking: Language Models Can Reason Themselves Out of Safety Alignment After Benign Reasoning Training ." Abstract: We discover a novel and surprising phenomenon of unintentional misalignment in reasoning language models (RLMs), which we

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NASA News Sep 27 Score 0.7391470189814815

APOD: 2026 September 27 – Andromeda Before and After Photoshop

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 27 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featu

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TechCrunch Sep 27 Score 0.7351336763888889

PNOE's new face mask wants to make lab-grade breath testing a self-serve affair

PNOĒ, the Malden, Mass.-based startup whose breath-analyzing mask used to bear an unfortunate resemblance to Bane's, is launching a sleeker self-serve version on October 1 that lets gym-goers measure their VO₂ max and other metabolic markers in eight minutes w

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New Scientist Sep 26 Score 0.7290354361111111

Blood test could gauge if a baby has a dangerous infection in 15 minutes

Feverish babies in hospital are often assumed to have a serious bacterial infection and are treated with antibiotics. But a test that gauges whether the infection is bacterial or viral, which tend to be milder, could prevent unnecessary drug use

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TechCrunch Sep 26 Score 0.7263628430555555

TikTok agrees to pay at least $100M in Alabama settlement

TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to allegations that the short-form video platform misled users about safety and was designed to addict children.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 26 Score 0.7167312962962963

Scientists may have misread a 2-billion-year-old clue about Earth

Scientists have found that a famous 2-billion-year-old chemical signature, once thought to record a massive global change in Earth’s carbon cycle, may instead have been produced by local magma, hydrocarbons, and methane-eating microbes. The discovery raises ne

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 26 Score 0.7158118518518518

Scientists burned their own scrolls to unlock a 2,000-year-old mystery

Scientists discovered that tiny amounts of lead in ancient ink can make writing inside burned papyrus scrolls stand out dramatically in X-ray scans. The technique could help unlock lost Greek and Roman texts preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 26 Score 0.7153312962962963

Quantum computer simulates matter “popping into existence”

Scientists recreated a particle-forming process linked to the extreme physics of the early universe using a 13-ion quantum simulator. The breakthrough suggests quantum computers could eventually help researchers investigate how matter formed and evolved after

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 26 Score 0.7146183333333334

Two astronauts who flew farther than anyone before are taking new NASA roles

Artemis II astronauts Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman are transitioning to emeritus status at NASA after their historic journey around the Moon earlier this year. The pair will continue advising and mentoring NASA teams as preparations accelerate for Artemis II

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 26 Score 0.7132058333333333

Zepbound and Mounjaro may turn on the body’s calorie-burning brown fat

Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, activated calorie-burning brown fat in obese mice, revealing a potential metabolic effect beyond appetite suppression. If confirmed in humans, the finding could help explain the drug’s powerful benefits and inspire m

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The Hacker News Sep 26 Score 0.7119710240740741

Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells

Google is warning of renewed mass exploitation of a known security vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft as part of a campaign targeting multiple sectors globally. The ShinyHunters-linked activity involves the weaponization of CVE-2026-35273 (CVSS score: 9.8), a

Security securityhackingvulnerabilities
SecurityWeek Sep 27 Score 0.710484399074074

Microsoft SharePoint Flaw CVE-2026-65660 Now Exploited in Attacks

CISA added CVE-2026-65660 to its KEV catalog, giving federal agencies a patching deadline of September 28. The post Microsoft SharePoint Flaw CVE-2026-65660 Now Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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The Hacker News Sep 26 Score 0.7098413944444445

Zero Trust for AI Agents Starts With Fixing Zero Visibility

The way we talk about AI agents is shifting, and the way we implement them requires an even more fundamental shift. While earlier discourse focused on how quickly organizations could stand up agents and how much productivity they could promise, a string of rec

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Eurogamer Sep 26 Score 0.7095351935185186

US court orders Redditor to pay Nintendo £3.4m over Switch piracy

A US District Judge has granted Nintendo a £3.4 million ($4.5m) default judgment against James Williams, the former Reddit moderator known online as "Archbox", after he failed to respond to a lawsuit over alleged Nintendo Switch piracy. Read more

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The Hacker News Sep 26 Score 0.7088793574074074

Elementor CSRF Flaw Lets Attackers Take Over Sites After Admin Clicks Crafted Link

Details have emerged about a high-severity security flaw in the Elementor Website Builder WordPress plugin that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to create rogue administrator accounts and take control of a site. The cross-site request forgery

Security securityhackingvulnerabilities
Marginal Revolution Sep 27 Score 0.7064230638888888

Earth fact of the day, #2

The shortages have gone on for so long that they are aggressively driving down how much carbon is being released into the atmosphere, a Washington Post analysis of data from the International Energy Agency shows. People worldwide are using significantly less o

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Lobsters Sep 27 Score 0.7054623527777777

One month without AI

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Marginal Revolution Sep 27 Score 0.7022605638888888

The Federal Lands: An Economic Property Rights Perspective

The US federal government owns and administers 472,892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower 48 states, the country’s largest landowner. The resource is held and managed as a collective resource, the Federal Lands, through political and bureaucratic i

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Lobsters Sep 26 Score 0.6871174453703702

AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop

Abstract: AI agents pose significant risks as they are granted increasing autonomy. A commonly proposed solution is human oversight and keeping a ''human in the loop'', but this is not a simple solution: Not only do current approaches to AI agent design impede

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Nautilus Sep 26 Score 0.6781747388888888

A Striking New Fish Species Discovered in Amazon

And it’s already endangered The post A Striking New Fish Species Discovered in Amazon appeared first on Nautilus .

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HashiCorp Blog Sep 29 Score 0.675

Secure AI agents with HashiCorp Boundary

Enable AI agents to securely access your resources while operating within enterprise identity, access, and audit controls.

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Microsoft Research Blog Sep 23 Score 0.6740514115740741

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Offlo

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