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Krebs on Security Nov 5 Score 0.974311038425926

Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House?

Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent, security experts warned today. One of the proxy services is a Russian company wh

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OpenAI News Nov 4 Score 0.9399699296296298

A thousand fewer paths to root

OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.

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Quanta Magazine Nov 4 Score 0.877549349074074

New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts

By injecting “thoughts” directly into large language models, researchers are trying to map out AI’s capacity for introspection. The post New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Simon Willison's Weblog Nov 4 Score 0.8773597578703702

datasette-llm 0.1a10

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a10 Fixes a bug that affected my agent.datasette.io demo site, where the set of available LLM models was not correctly restricted to just those in the configuration. Tags: datasette , llm

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Simon Willison's Weblog Nov 4 Score 0.8524588319444444

datasette-apps 0.3a0

Release: datasette-apps 0.3a0 Datasette Apps adds support for hosting and editing custom HTML applications inside of Datasette. These can be created by hand, but it's easier to create them using LLMs via Datasette Agent . This release improves that integration

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The Verge Nov 5 Score 0.8173366222222223

X says its updated web app is way faster

X is introducing a new version of its web app that it says is much faster than before, and it's now rolling out the updated app "one country at a time" for signed-in users. "Open a profile on X.com over a slow connection," principal engineer Yagiz Nizipli said

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The Verge Nov 4 Score 0.8144769000000001

Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink

With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line. During its Q4 2026 earnings call, the company laid out its plans to make a splash in the AI data center business, through pa

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BleepingComputer Nov 4 Score 0.8115897425925926

Zyxel fixes zero-day exploited to hack nearly 1,000 network switches

Zyxel has patched a zero-day vulnerability in its GS1900 series network switches that hackers exploited to compromise nearly 1,000 devices worldwide and steal configuration files and credentials. [...]

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The Guardian — World Nov 4 Score 0.8094913587962964

Mother and daughter killed in grizzly bear attack, Canadian authorities confirm

Conservation officers say more than one bear may have been involved in attack on women near their home Search teams in Canada have discovered the body of a 20-year-old woman and confirmed that both she and her mother were killed in an attack that conservation

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War on the Rocks Nov 4 Score 0.8074893787037037

Why Are Wars Increasingly Difficult to End?

The number of armed conflicts has increased in recent years, and researchers have warned that many wars are lasting longer and have become more difficult to end. We asked five experts if the 21st-century trend of more intractable wars is continuing, and if so,

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War on the Rocks Nov 4 Score 0.8072796564814816

The Army's Command-and-Control Reboot

How the Army makes decisions, communicates orders, coordinates forces, and keeps operations moving toward a common goal is undergoing a revolution. It's called Next Generation Command and Control. Two of its architects — Lt. Gen. Matthew W. McFarlane, co

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The Guardian — World Nov 4 Score 0.8071533958333335

British healthcare worker with Ebola evacuated from DR Congo to UK

Patient is ⁠in ​stable condition and will be transferred to a specialist ‘high consequence’ infectious disease unit A British healthcare worker with Ebola is being evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the UK for medical treatment, it has been

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SANS Internet Storm Center Nov 4 Score 0.7989755694444445

The Classics Return: Vulnerable E-Mail Scripts, (Wed, Nov 4th)

One of the early web application vulnerabilities I remember was CVE-2000-0411 [CVE]. This was a simple vulnerability in a CGI-bin script used to send e-mail. The vulnerability was pretty straightforward: Adding additional parameters to the URL leaked

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Nov 4 Score 0.7966362694444445

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its  Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-27834 Apple Multiple Products Improper Authentication Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent at

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Liberty Street Economics Nov 4 Score 0.7591359685185186

How Market Position Shapes Credit Card Interest Rates

Why is it that two borrowers who look much alike can be offered very different rates when applying for a credit card? In a recent paper , we address this question by examining how the rate offered changes when the lender’s funding cost falls. Data on 14 millio

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Politico Europe Nov 5 Score 0.749136262962963

Donald Trump: Von allmächtig zu ohnmächtig?

Die blaue Welle lässt Donald Trump politisch stark geschwächt aus den Midterms hervorgehen. Während bei den Republikanern die Loyalitätsfront bröckelt, stehen die siegreichen Demokraten vor weiteren Diskussionen um ihre künftige Ausrichtung. Die Vize-Chefredak

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Al Jazeera — World Nov 5 Score 0.7486413546296297

Brazilian airport torn apart by violent storm

Dramatic footage captured the moment a powerful tornado struck Chapecó Airport in Santa Catarina, Brazil

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Risky Bulletin Nov 5 Score 0.7483578731481482

Srsly Risky Biz: The ritual bitcoin sacrifices will continue until security improves

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about North Korea’s hack of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange. Binance’s founder CZ says it is a wake up call for real banks, but he’s wrong. Even though they are probably just as hackable as crypto exchanges, real banks coo

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NASA News Nov 5 Score 0.7445073740740741

NASA Announces X-70 Experimental Aircraft to Advance Flight Research

On Wednesday, NASA unveiled its newest experimental aircraft, the X-70 Fractal, during the UP.Summit at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This high-performance, highly adaptable research platform is designed to accelerate the development and testin

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CyberScoop Nov 4 Score 0.7401105069444445

What Democratic control of Congress means for cybersecurity

There’s a lame-duck session before Dems take over, but the leaders of the homeland security panels are already teeing up their agendas. The post What Democratic control of Congress means for cybersecurity appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Atlantic Council Nov 4 Score 0.739049186574074

Why this US midterm was unusually important for the Middle East

Midterm losses may reduce the immediate risk of renewed US strikes on Iran, but could drive Trump toward escalation in the months ahead. The post Why this US midterm was unusually important for the Middle East appeared first on Atlantic Council .

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Atlantic Council Nov 4 Score 0.7386690939814815

What the midterms will (and won’t) change for US foreign policy

Our experts explain where the power shift could change foreign policy—and where it won’t. The post What the midterms will (and won’t) change for US foreign policy appeared first on Atlantic Council .

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Dark Reading Nov 4 Score 0.7379780597222222

Critical Rails Bug Threatens to Derail Vulnerable Servers

An attacker could write arbitrary files and read sensitive files via images uploaded to the Rails Active Storage ImageMagick integration, possibly positioning a threat actor for lateral movement.

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NASA News Nov 4 Score 0.7367522814814815

NASA Shares Plans to Accelerate Artemis, Return to Moon

In an update on Oct. 23, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and other agency leaders shared the agency’s path to returning Americans to the lunar surface in 2028. Agency leadership provided updates on the previously announced acceleration plans for the Artemis

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Econbrowser Nov 4 Score 0.7365300189814815

Some Costs Facing Households, since 2024: Consumer Items, Housing, Health Premiums

Note that CPI growth accelerates post tariffs, but most profoundly, post-war. Health premiums under ACA have risen. Figure 1: CPI (blue), Cleveland Fed nowcast of 11/4 (blue), implied CPI from Michigan year ahead expectations (light blue square), AIER Everyday

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CyberScoop Nov 4 Score 0.7349683773148148

Officials extradite Canadian man to US for alleged cryptomining spree

Ryan Roach and his alleged co-conspirator, Mathiew Stubbings, are accused of compromising U.S. universities’ computers and taking over processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. The post Officials extradite Canadian man to US for alleged cryptomining spree a

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NASA News Nov 4 Score 0.7316374666666666

NASA Announces Ka-Band Satellite Relay Awards for Space Communications

NASA selected three companies on Wednesday to perform work to develop Ka-band space relay capability concepts that are compatible with current missions in space, ensuring service continuity for existing spacecraft without requiring modifications to their onboa

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The Hacker News Nov 4 Score 0.7299873324074074

SonicWall Won't Patch EoL GMS Flaws That Could Expose Files, Alter Database Records

SonicWall has warned of two vulnerabilities impacting end-of-life Global Management System (GMS) systems that it said will not be patched. Details of the security flaws, which affect SonicWall GMS 9.5.2 and earlier versions, are below - CVE-2026-109593 (CVSS s

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NASA News Nov 4 Score 0.7297675592592593

NASA Navigation Experiment Shows Promise for Planetary Landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)

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Dark Reading Nov 4 Score 0.7289734300925926

Google, Partners Disrupt 1.3 Million-Device-Strong XCPE Botnet

Google alleges that Android device manufacturer Videostrong ran the operation, which infected set-top boxes and IoT devices with a backdoor to create infrastructure for criminal activity.

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InfoQ Nov 4 Score 0.7259690810185185

Inkitt Builds a One-Shot PR Creator with Resumable Agent Orchestration

Inkitt built a one-shot pull request creator that automates small, low-risk code changes from task intake to draft PR creation. Its event-driven orchestrator persists workflow state, coordinates short-lived coding agent containers, bounds retries, and enforces

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Nov 4 Score 0.7239936541666666

Scientists may have finally explained why our brains and bodies are cross-wired

Scientists propose that the brain’s mysterious cross-wiring, which connects each hemisphere to the opposite side of the body, may have originated more than 500 million years ago in the visual systems of ancient fish. Rather than evolving for a specific advanta

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Nov 4 Score 0.7230473578703703

Permanent daylight saving time has a dark side, scientists warn

A new study warns that permanent daylight saving time could force American children to make at least 2 billion additional school commutes in darkness, potentially increasing safety risks and disrupting their biological clocks. Researchers found that fatal cras

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Nov 4 Score 0.7222918023148148

MIT scientists break a 20-year rule and unlock never-before-seen crystal structures

MIT scientists have challenged two decades of conventional thinking by discovering that flexible molecular connections, rather than rigid ones, can unlock entirely new ways to arrange nanoparticles. The breakthrough could lead to a new generation of designer m

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InfoQ Nov 4 Score 0.7199690810185185

Presentation: Panel: Who Builds the Frontend Now? (And What Breaks When They Do)

The panelists explain how AI tools and vibe coding reshape frontend and mobile engineering. They share insights on evolving junior developer roles, managing AI-generated code review fatigue, designing systems for autonomous agents, enforcing architectural guar

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Lobsters Nov 5 Score 0.7051122074074073

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Breaking Defense Nov 4 Score 0.7031186337962962

Navy unfairly evaluated Saildrone MUSV proposal, court finds

The court found that the Navy "engaged in disparate treatment" toward Saildrone's MUSV proposal, according to an opinion unsealed Wednesday.

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Defense One Nov 4 Score 0.7008027949074073

Dem lawmakers vow inquest into CISA cuts, intel policy

House Democrats will investigate the administration's cyberdefense cuts, while Senate Dems will control confirmation hearings for the officials who lead the nation’s security agencies.

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Marginal Revolution Nov 4 Score 0.6974310319444443

What Drives Censorship on College Campuses?

There has been widespread concern about self-censorship on university campuses, and especially that conservative voices are being stifled. Using survey data from a private elite college, we show that self-censorship is not simply about being conservative: it i

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Malwarebytes Labs Nov 4 Score 0.6955035314814814

The fake $750 Apple Cash reward that pays out nothing

A fake $750 Apple Cash offer uses scripted checks and fake countdowns. Affiliate marketers earn a commission; you get no reward.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Nov 4 Score 0.6933028884259258

Oblivion and Skyrim’s gap was bridged by forward-looking books about a murderous floating island, so why is The Elder Scrolls 6 stuck reanimating a world that’s stood still since 2011

Long waits between mainline entries in a series aren’t a new phenomenon, if perhaps a bit more common nowadays due to big games' ballooning development cycles. It took about 23 years for BioWare’s Baldur's Gate 2 to be followed up by Larian’s

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Google Cloud Blog Nov 4 Score 0.6924686273148147

Helping you build and defend at machine-speed in the agentic era

As both a frontier lab and the operator of the world's most comprehensive threat intelligence network, Google occupies a unique vantage point: We see exactly how Large Language Models are engineered, and how adversaries are targeting them in the wild. Passive

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Marginal Revolution Nov 4 Score 0.6921467726851851

Wednesday assorted links

1. Important people in the AI world. 2. Ted Nordhaus on Bill Nordhaus. 3. "That universities facilitate broader political mobilization can explain why governments often seek to restrict student activism." 4. NYT obituary for William Nordhaus. 5. A new (job mar

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SecurityWeek Nov 4 Score 0.688434399537037

Sysdig Adds Runtime Security and Governance for AI Agents

Sysdig’s platform uses runtime visibility to track AI agent actions and block risky behavior before it reaches production systems. The post Sysdig Adds Runtime Security and Governance for AI Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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SecurityWeek Nov 4 Score 0.6881612513888888

Barracuda ESG Authentication Bypass Flaw Opens Path to Root

An authentication bypass and a command injection flaw can be chained for root access on Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway appliances. The post Barracuda ESG Authentication Bypass Flaw Opens Path to Root appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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CNCF Blog Nov 4 Score 0.6841359527777777

OpenShell on Kubernetes: A guide for platform engineers

What OpenShell is AI agents do more than call APIs. They run shells, install packages, read files, and open network connections. Often they act on text they pulled from the internet a minute earlier. So every...

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Marginal Revolution Nov 4 Score 0.6769527912037037

The election

Procedurally it seems to have gone just fine, and the people predicting "the end of democracy in America" now look foolish. They have been suffering under fundamental misunderstandings of how this country works. During this election cycle, democracy never was

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Techmeme Nov 5 Score 0.674275087962963

Source: Meta has decided to stop using fruit for its AI model codenames, as they didn't suit its lofty AI ambitions; its latest model was named "Watermelon" (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)

Charles Rollet / Business Insider : Source: Meta has decided to stop using fruit for its AI model codenames, as they didn't suit its lofty AI ambitions; its latest model was named “Watermelon”   —  Meta is done with fruits.  &m

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Marginal Revolution Nov 4 Score 0.6739764023148147

Trade and the end of antiquity, or did Islam serve to deglobalize the world?

How did trade and economic activity evolve at the End of Antiquity, when political power shifts away from the Mediterranean towards the Middle East and northern Europe? No records of ancient production, consumption, and trade exist. Yet the composition of coin

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Techmeme Nov 5 Score 0.6737204583333334

Sources: China has told SoftBank it will not allow the $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics division to go ahead; China is the division's biggest market (David Keohane/Financial Times)

David Keohane / Financial Times : Sources: China has told SoftBank it will not allow the $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics division to go ahead; China is the division's biggest market   —  Swiss-Swedish company's unit is focused on Chinese ma

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Hackaday Nov 5 Score 0.6716435189814816

The First Business Computer Hits 75!

Many of us will have followed the early history of electronic computing, from the urgent necessities of war, to universities, and then on into the wider world. Most of the …read more

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Phys.org Nov 5 Score 0.6716390393518519

Why so many British pubs are closing down

British pubs are disappearing at an alarming rate. Last year, around eight closed down every week.

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Axios Nov 5 Score 0.6682278467592593

After midterm defeat, Trump faces mostly bad options in Iran

President Trump has conceded that the Iran war cost Republicans dearly in the midterms . Now he must decide whether to cut his losses and reach a deal — or double down and go back to bombing. Why it matters: All of Trump's options are problematic: The first is

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Axios Nov 5 Score 0.667944050462963

House Democrats face epic power struggle over their massive majority

House Democrats channeled anti-Trump fury into a landslide victory over Republicans. Now comes the hard part: Figuring out what to do with their huge majority . Why it matters: That question is already igniting a power struggle between Democrats' ideological f

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Graham Cluley Nov 5 Score 0.6670581351851852

Smashing Security podcast #491: How AI agents are spooking the banks

Bank of America has a message for its customers: please, for the love of God, stop handing your banking passwords to your AI assistant. And if your robot does something daft with your money? That's your problem, not theirs. Meanwhile, a company that promised t

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Hackaday Nov 5 Score 0.6666583333333334

Beautiful Laser Harp Hides Some Neat Tricks

Laser harps aren't quite a right of passage, in that not everyone builds them, but it's likely everyone at least contemplates building one at one time or another. We're lucky …read more

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The Next Web Nov 4 Score 0.6661656407407408

Stop teaching leadership. Start letting people practise it

Organizations are preparing a generation raised on digital technology and interactive games to lead in a world of complexity. Yet many still train managers through presentations and scripted workshops. This is a costly mistake. If we want leaders who can navig

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Hacker News Nov 4 Score 0.6659615893518519

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The Changelog Nov 4 Score 0.6616360217592593

We now have Kerr’s Law

Dave Kerr created hacker laws, and now he finds himself reviewing agent-written code for them. Back on the show after six years, Dave names what he sees limiting teams today: keeping everyone’s mental model in sync with what’s actually been built. Adam declare

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The Next Web Nov 4 Score 0.6611022148148149

Apple cuts engineers’ daily AI budgets as it reins in spending

Apple cut the daily AI spending cap for some engineers from $300 to $200 last month and plans further cuts, Bloomberg reports. It comes as CEO John Ternus pushes for a leaner Apple, while the company’s R&D costs rose 32% on AI and infrastructure. Apple has cut

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Naked Capitalism Nov 4 Score 0.658321575462963

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Wordsmiths of War

An influential network of think tanks, strategic analysts, and media commentators supplies the language and narratives that legitimize military power. The conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Iran illustrate how sophisticated strategic advocacy can per

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MIT News — AI Nov 2 Score 0.6548310574074074

Powering up for a pivotal moment

From a nuclear revival to qubits, the MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research conference tracked deployment of today’s technologies to discovery of tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

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Stack Overflow Blog Nov 4 Score 0.654253187037037

Your .NET parallel loop can become serial in a one-CPU container

CPU-based defaults can leave an I/O-heavy loop processing one record at a time. Raising the limit helps, but each downstream service still needs a concurrency budget it can handle.

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Wargamer Nov 4 Score 0.6521985837962964

D&D World of Warcraft classes: winners and losers

The new World of Warcraft book reimagines Dungeons and Dragons' core classes, but some get better treatment than others.

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Board Game Quest Nov 4 Score 0.6497752615740742

Football U Review

A lot of board gamers were the nerds in high school, the kids the jocks would stick in lockers for grins. As a result, there’s a decent amount of “I don’t like sportball” snobbery in the hobby, but despite that, there are a lot of board gamers who also like sp

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Committee to Protect Journalists Nov 4 Score 0.646972337962963

New DRC rebel coalition threatens radio station, to vet broadcasts

Kinshasa, November 4, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges the leaders of the new rebel movement, the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN), to ensure the safety of journalist Guillaume Munguakonkwa, stop censoring Kamole FM, and allow medi

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Naked Capitalism Nov 4 Score 0.646509075462963

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Naked Capitalism Nov 4 Score 0.6462257421296297

Hannah Arendt on the Power of Friendship in a Broken World

We have previously discussed Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) in Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin and the Tenor of Our Time. Agree with her or not, she is always a good teacher, and at all times we must choose our teachers carefully. I started reading her work shortly af

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Esports Insider Nov 4 Score 0.6404843250000001

Invictus Gaming beat Top Esports 3-1 to reach first Worlds semi-final since 2019

Invictus Gaming knocked out fellow LPL side Top Esports in the opening quarter-final of Worlds 2026 in Allen, Texas. The result guarantees China a semi-final place after the LPL's 0-4 start in the Swiss Stage. The post Invictus Gaming beat Top Esports 3-1 to r

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Quanta Magazine Oct 29 Score 0.6369683305555555

How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?

Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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MacRumors Nov 4 Score 0.6290921171296295

Apps Can Now Try to Stop You From Canceling Subscriptions

Apple today added a new subscription retention feature for developers, allowing them to show retention messages when a subscriber goes to cancel. Apple says retention messages will appear in the subscription cancellation flow and can include text, images, or a

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SRE Weekly Nov 2 Score 0.6286520189814815

SRE Weekly Issue #541

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, incident.io: Your agent is only as useful as the tools it can reach, and only as safe as the limits you set. Join incident.io’s engineering team for an Extensions showcase. We'll build a skill live, watch it ru

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Risky Bulletin Nov 2 Score 0.6252064842592593

FBI confirms North Korea behind Binance hack

The FBI links the Binance hack to North Korea, game developers are being extorted with game-cloning threats, the Belarusian CyberPartisans hack Russia’s statistics service and Apple sends new mercenary spyware notifications. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Game dev

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9to5Google Nov 4 Score 0.620618987037037

Meet the 20 first-place apps from RevenueCat’s Shipaton 2026

A cozy habit tracker, a smarter snippet library, and a rooster that wants you out of bed: this year’s Shipaton winners offer plenty of new apps to explore. RevenueCat’s annual app-building competition drew 3,985 project submissions in 2026, according to its wi

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GitHub Blog Nov 1 Score 0.6176361925925926

Game Off 2026: The theme is SHIFT

GitHub’s annual month-long game jam is back for its 14th year! This November, make a game inspired by the theme SHIFT. Change gears, swap perspectives, bend reality, or just press a certain key. The post Game Off 2026: The theme is SHIFT appeared first on The

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Sky & Telescope Nov 4 Score 0.6148694078703704

Sunlight Pulverizes Asteroids That Come Too Close

Asteroids that come too close to the Sun don't last long. Now astronomers think they might know why. The post Sunlight Pulverizes Asteroids That Come Too Close appeared first on Sky & Telescope .

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PLOS ONE Nov 4 Score 0.612469598611111

Integrative analysis reveals shared biomarkers and pathways in osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis using machine learning and single-cell sequencing

by Jin Zhao, Yixuan Chen, Fei Yang, Cheng Tian, Wenyan Luo, Zhou Su, Bohuan Yang, Wei Liu, Hongbo Yang Background Osteoporosis (OP) and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) are prevalent chronic diseases characterized by bone loss and immune dysregulation. Evidence sugge

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PLOS ONE Nov 4 Score 0.612469598611111

Structural characteristics and policy differences of digital health management policies in China: A quantitative analysis based on the PMC index model

by Tong Lyu Digital health governance increasingly relies on policy systems that coordinate data resources, information platforms, standards, service delivery, regulation, security, innovation, and implementation support. However, the structural composition an

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PLOS ONE Nov 4 Score 0.612469598611111

Nationwide trends in physical disability among rheumatoid arthritis patients in Korea (2010–2022): A retrospective cohort study based on national registry data

by Bo Young Kim, Ji-Won Kim, Hwajeong Lee, Jung-Yoon Choe, Sung-Hoon Park, Sang Gyu Kwak Background Whether the burden of legally certified disability among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has decreased in the modern treatment era is uncertain, particu

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International Crisis Group Oct 30 Score 0.6024444532407408

The View from Eritrea

The View from Eritrea hschaub Fri, 10/30/2026 - 16:29 Latest Updates Africa Asia-Pacific Europe Latin America & Caribbean Middle East & North Africa United States Global Issues & Institutions My Reading List Podcast / Africa 30 October 2026 1 minutes The View

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 30 Score 0.5984547833333334

From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence

Evaluating Microsoft Copilot at enterprise scale requires test data that captures the full complexity of real organizations, yet real enterprise data contains sensitive information that cannot be used for evaluation under any circumstances. The post From synth

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Schneier on Security Oct 28 Score 0.5901087162037035

Studying Fraudulent North Korean IT Workers

Researchers set up a fake start-up company to study fraudulent North Korean IT workers.

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Towards Data Science Nov 4 Score 0.5774699412037038

A Computational Analysis of Women’s Suffrage in Historical Newspapers

Using 600,546 digitized newspaper pages to measure how suffrage coverage changed from 1890 to 1920 The post A Computational Analysis of Women’s Suffrage in Historical Newspapers appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Docker Blog Nov 2 Score 0.5699694226851852

Where should your code live in a Docker Sandbox?

Docker Sandboxes support three ways to organize an agent’s code: shared mounts, Git worktrees, and clone mode. Here’s how to choose between them.

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Board Game Quest Nov 2 Score 0.5692122986111111

Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week – 11/2/26

Welcome to this week's batch of crowdfunding campaigns. We have a variety of offerings here, so we hope you will find something that catches your eye. Also, if you want to chat with the BGQ team, join our Discord Server where we talk about games, movies, sport

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Esports Insider Nov 2 Score 0.5599954356481482

TYLOO's Lisbon forfeit dents Singapore Major hopes as 100 Thieves edge out fnatic

TYLOO's withdrawal from a HyperX Retake Season 13 quarter-final in Lisbon has left their PGL Major Singapore invite in doubt on cutoff day. In Europe, fnatic are shut out of the last CS2 Major of 2026 after the final weekend's results went against them. The po

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Sky & Telescope Nov 2 Score 0.5308027412037036

Swift Observatory Ends Mission, Reenters Earth's Atmosphere

NASA’s Swift mission will soon meet a fiery end, after more than two decades of ground-breaking science. The post Swift Observatory Ends Mission, Reenters Earth's Atmosphere appeared first on Sky & Telescope .

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Sky & Telescope Nov 2 Score 0.5308027412037036

Astronomy Lessons in the Dark

A love of astronomy can be nurtured at any age. It’s never too late — or too early — to look up. The post Astronomy Lessons in the Dark appeared first on Sky & Telescope .

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Bellingcat Oct 29 Score 0.49874710648148146

EU Satellite Imagery Delayed Over Gaza and Parts of West Bank by 24-hours

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. Imagery captured by the European Space Agency’s freely available Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 satellites appears to be d

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Martin Fowler Oct 29 Score 0.4846913310185185

Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?

TL;DR Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production. I’ve been surprised by how many excellent developers have been hesitant to go all in on coding agents. These are people who usually

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Rest of World Oct 29 Score 0.4783032273148148

Why Africa needs its own AI off switch

Africa must develop AI systems with local control to protect critical infrastructure such as mobile money networks from growing AI-powered cyberthreats.

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Oct 28 Score 0.4516410398148148

Unwrapping Retail Peak Season Cyber Threats

Unit 42 explores key peak shopping season retail cyber threats, from ransomware to AI attacks, and shares how to defend operations and customer trust. The post Unwrapping Retail Peak Season Cyber Threats appeared first on Unit 42 .

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Kubernetes Blog Oct 27 Score 0.3891360601851852

Announcing the Workload Conformance Working Group

We are excited to announce that the Kubernetes community now has a Workload Conformance Working Group . The working group is writing a shared standard for how workloads behave at runtime on Kubernetes. To get it right, we need input from the people who build t

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Oct 9 Score 0.26249999999999996

Federal Reserve Board releases results of the 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, which provides the public and policymakers with detailed insights into the economic condition of American families

Federal Reserve Board releases results of the 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, which provides the public and policymakers with detailed insights into the economic condition of American families

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Video Game History Foundation Sep 24 Score 0.15000000000000002

VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next.

We've passed a big milestone for our digital archive. Let's talk about where our magazine collection is going next... The post VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next. appeared first on Video Game History Foundation .

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Chip Huyen Jan 7 Score 0.15000000000000002

Agents

Intelligent agents are considered by many to be the ultimate goal of AI. The classic book by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall, 1995), defines the field of AI research as “ the study and design of ration

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The Gradient Jun 4 Score 0.15000000000000002

AGI Is Not Multimodal

"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While thes

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Lilian Weng's Blog Jun 24 Score 0.15000000000000002

Scaling Laws, Carefully

Scaling laws are one of the most critical empirical findings in deep learning. The observation is simple in form: the training loss $L$ decreases predictably as we scale up model size $N$, dataset size $D$, and compute $C$, following a power-law curve, which a

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BAIR Blog Jul 26 Score 0.15000000000000002

Teaching LLMs to Update Beliefs for Efficient Long-Horizon Interaction

Overview of ABBEL compared to traditional recursive summarization. Beliefs replace the full interaction history as the agent’s working context, and belief grading improves performance by supervising the contents of each belief state.. As task horizons grow, LL

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One Useful Thing Oct 1 Score 0.15000000000000002

The Dot and the Swarm

Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson

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Benedict Evans Jul 9 Score 0.15000000000000002

Ways to think about token pricing

AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will supply, demand, price, capacity and capex get back into equilibrium? Today, model labs can name their price, but why won’t they end up as low-margin commodity infrastru

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AI Snake Oil Oct 14 Score 0.15000000000000002

Steering AI Beyond Automation

A Research Agenda and Plan for Action

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Video Game History Foundation Oct 8 Score 0.15000000000000002

Episode 165: VGHF Q3 Update

It’s time for another quarterly update seeing as how we’re now well into October. In this episode, we share some of our latest accomplishments: hitting a milestone of over 5,000 magazines digitized, completing our donor-data cleanup, new project-specific givin

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FRED Blog Oct 19 Score 0.15000000000000002

Which businesses are using AI technology?

More than half of all businesses paid for an artificial intelligence (AI) product or service. Adoption rates jumped after ChatGPT's public launch in late 2022 and have risen steadily since.

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Shut Up & Sit Down Apr 24 Score 0.11249999999999993

SU&SD, Tariffs, and Sponsored Content

Hello! Basically every single year I’ve worked for Shut Up & Sit Down, I’ve typed out the words: “it’s been a weird year” …and 2025 is proving to be absolutely no exception! We’ve just put out a sponsored video onto the channel, and that feels weird . I’ve

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Embrace The Red Sep 30 Score 0.11249999999999993

From SELECT to SYSADMIN with SQL Copilot (CVE-2026-65669)

Two weeks back I presented at BlueHat Asia 2026 about my research on Microsoft’s Copilot in SSMS, the SQL Server Management Studio. This post is a write up about the talk, which covered CVE-2026-65669 , a SQL Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabi

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Calculated Risk Jan 10 Score 0.11249999999999993

Schedule for Week of January 11, 2026

The key reports this week are December CPI, Existing Home Sales and November Retail Sales. Also, New Home Sales for September and October will be released. For manufacturing, the December Industrial Production report and the January New York and Philly Fed man

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Shut Up & Sit Down Aug 18 Score 0.11249999999999993

Board Games Direct – ALL The Shorts

Don't miss the AWESOME Shorts Dani Standring did for Board Games Direct:

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Exploit Database Oct 21 Score 0.07500000000000007

[webapps] pizzafy-1.0 - SQLi

pizzafy-1.0 - SQLi

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