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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 31 Score 0.8903970453703702

How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts

How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts Parameter Labs describe an exploit they found against ChatGPT's implementation of the artifacts pattern (OpenAI used to call this "Canvas" but it looks like the latest revision is called HTML previews ), where interactive cust

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 31 Score 0.8885817675925926

datasette-llm 0.1a9

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9 I have some big upgrades to Datasette Agent in the pipeline, but in the meantime here's a tiny user experience improvement to the underlying datasette-llm plugin. It now picks up the default model used by LLM , which means you can

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The Verge Oct 31 Score 0.8118303990740742

Get in the spirit with these horrors from YouTube

Rather than recommend a single horror film or an unsettling album for our final installment of spooky season recs, I present you with a small selection of creepy, disturbing, and just plain weird videos from YouTube. There's a little something for everyone her

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The Verge Oct 31 Score 0.8091368805555557

Keyboards of The Verge

What is a keyboard if not the original brain-computer interface? You can tap on a touchscreen or talk to the computer, but if your work involves getting information out of your head and into the computer, you're probably spending a lot of time using a keyboard

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The Verge Oct 31 Score 0.8077628064814816

Binance CEO says 90 percent of stolen assets have been ‘replenished’

After hackers stole a shocking $6.3 billion from Binance customers in a record-breaking crypto heist, the company's CEO says that 90 percent of the funds have been replaced, and the company plans to cover the remaining 10 percent as well. Binance is covering t

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BleepingComputer Oct 31 Score 0.8066700833333335

Northflank security breach leads to abuse of customers' AI API keys

Cloud application hosting platform Northflank is warning customers to rotate all credentials and secrets stored on its platform after a security breach led to unauthorized use of customers' AI API keys. [...]

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The Verge Oct 31 Score 0.8063646583333334

Happy Pikmin Day Eve

This morning, Nintendo announced that tomorrow, November 1st, would be the first annual Pikmin Day. As part of the short Pikmin Day Direct, Shigeru Miyamoto shared new info about Pikmin 4 for the Switch 2, as well as an update for the mobile app Pikmin Bloom,

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The Verge Oct 31 Score 0.8034424361111112

I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face - and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your jolly AI helper around like a Tamagotchi. But I won't be buying one, because we have Muse

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BleepingComputer Oct 31 Score 0.8026140648148149

New Android SMS of Death exploit can remotely crash unpatched phones

A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Android vulnerability, dubbed "SMS of Death" and tracked as CVE-2026-58882, that lets attackers remotely disrupt cellular service or crash phones by sending a specially crafte

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BleepingComputer Oct 31 Score 0.8001159166666667

Reddit to lock content behind logins to fight scrapers

Reddit announced in a post by co-founder Steve Huffman that the site will gradually become a "logged-in service," offering limited access to visitors without accounts. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 31 Score 0.7985899907407408

From Beginner to Bug Hunter: Learning Cybersecurity in the AI Era.

AI-generated vulnerability reports are overwhelming some bug bounty programs, making it harder for aspiring security researchers to know where to start. TryHackMe explains how beginners can build practical cybersecurity skills, use AI responsibly, and produce

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BleepingComputer Oct 31 Score 0.7980298055555556

Chainalysis discloses data breach from "offensive agentic techniques"

Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis disclosed a data breach after attackers used "offensive agentic techniques" to access internal systems and tools, exposing customer names, email addresses, user IDs, and organizational roles. [...]

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Wired — Security Oct 31 Score 0.7966368486111112

Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims

Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.

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SANS Internet Storm Center Oct 31 Score 0.7947721226851853

Wireshark 5.0.0rc1 Release, (Sat, Oct 31st)

Wireshark Release Candidate 5.0.0 was published: soon we can expect a new major version of Wireshark.

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SANS Internet Storm Center Oct 31 Score 0.7946443449074074

YARA-X 1.22.1 Release, (Sat, Oct 31st)

YARA-X's 1.22.1 is a bugfix version, it brings 2 bugfixes.

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SANS Internet Storm Center Oct 31 Score 0.7945716597222223

YARA-X 1.22.0 Release, (Sun, Oct 25th)

YARA-X's 1.22.0 release brings 11 improvements and 9 bugfixes.

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Wired Oct 31 Score 0.7942201819444445

Backup by Biolite Review: A Cool Idea

Backup by BioLite is designed to power your fridge when the grid goes down. It works, but protecting your ice cream doesn’t come cheap.

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NBER New Working Papers Nov 1 Score 0.7875000000000001

College Success: Understanding the Roles of Financial Aid, Loans, Preparation, and Incentives -- by Douglas N. Harris, Christopher R. Taber, Alan Yang

Over the past four decades, the earnings gap between college graduates and non-graduates has widened substantially, prompting interest in policies aimed at promoting higher education among low-income students. A key challenge for these policies is the high col

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NBER New Working Papers Nov 1 Score 0.7875000000000001

Strategic Monetary Policy in Open Economies -- by Louphou Coulibaly, Charles Engel

We examine optimal non-cooperative monetary policy in a two-country New Keynesian setting with complete financial markets and pricing to market for goods. In contrast to the case in which the law of one price holds for goods, currency misalignments are an impo

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NBER New Working Papers Nov 1 Score 0.7875000000000001

HouseholdBench: Evaluating Large Language Models as Predictors of Household Economic Behavior -- by Jin Huang, Diego Ferreras Garrucho, Yutong Xie, Walter M. Yuan, Qiaozhu Mei, Chen Lian, Jonathon Hazell

Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to meet a key goal in economics: a quantitative model of household decision making, across a variety of settings. Yet existing evaluations cover few surveys and outcomes, and do not study how households adjust to

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NBER New Working Papers Nov 1 Score 0.7875000000000001

Beliefs Over Contracts -- by Francis Annan, Collin B. Raymond

We study how firms choose among incentive contracts and how accurately managers predict their effects. Using a survey of managerial beliefs and a large-scale field experiment, we randomly assign agents at the market level to several widely used, expenditure-eq

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Quanta Magazine Oct 28 Score 0.758422736111111

How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material

By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a strong, flexible fiber. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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The Guardian — World Oct 30 Score 0.7535050064814816

Severe rainfall and flood warnings issued for central Greece and western Turkey

Turkey has been hit by powerful thunderstorms and a fatal tornado this week with more heavy rain expected Heavy rain and strong winds will continue to affect parts of south-eastern Europe and Turkey over the next few days, as an area of low pressure in the reg

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Schneier on Security Oct 28 Score 0.7501089601851851

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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Foreign Affairs Oct 30 Score 0.7499697912037038

North Korea’s Enemies Within

How long will elites stay loyal to Kim Jong Un?

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Foreign Affairs Oct 30 Score 0.7499697912037038

Can the Nordic Model Save NATO?

A new way to deter Russia.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Nov 1 Score 0.7492364939814815

Scientists say a forgotten particle may explain why the universe exists

A mysterious particle overlooked for decades may hold the key to why matter survived the Big Bang, allowing stars, planets, and life to exist. Scientists believe this forgotten neutrino reshaped the early universe and may have left detectable gravitational wav

Science scienceresearchdiscoveries
NASA News Nov 1 Score 0.7484423560185185

APOD: 2026 November 1 – Colors of the Moon

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 November 1 –… 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 feature

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Nov 1 Score 0.7462050125

Scientists discover the hidden “muscles” trees use to straighten themselves

Scientists have discovered that trees can sense their own shape and straighten their trunks using specialized wood that acts like opposing muscles. This remarkable ability helps trees maintain their posture and could lead to stronger forests, better timber, an

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TechCrunch Nov 1 Score 0.7455859416666667

Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn

At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and data centers.

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Eurogamer Oct 31 Score 0.7273484921296296

The Mortuary Assistant dev on laying his cancelled Paranormal Activity game to rest, resurrecting it as a Halloween freebie, and a potential return to his biggest game

Halloween feels like an especially appropriate time for Playable Archive's arrival. It's a genuinely spooky found-footage affair for one - a cleverly orchestrated 30-or-so minutes of scares from the developer of horror hit The Mortuary Assistant, released this

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Oct 28 Score 0.7241345541666666

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 31 Score 0.7235758458333333

A mysterious 4,000-year-old wall is rewriting North Africa’s history

A remarkable 4,000-year-old defensive structure discovered in Morocco is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about ancient North African civilizations. The massive fortifications reveal unexpectedly sophisticated prehistoric societies and suggest that

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 31 Score 0.7229138087962963

Scientists discover metals that defy the deep freeze at -424°F

Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism that allows certain metals to resist cracking at temperatures as low as -253°C (-424°F), when similar materials typically become dangerously brittle. Instead of breaking, two experimental alloys reorganize thei

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The Hacker News Oct 31 Score 0.7157399

Attackers Chain Three Ivanti Connect Secure Flaws to Gain Unauthenticated Root Access

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities are l

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InfoQ Oct 31 Score 0.7154692680555556

Kubernetes Confidential Containers Get Fortanix Attestation and Key Management

Fortanix's CoCo integration connects workload attestation to decryption-key release for Kubernetes AI workloads. GPU-verification settings affect protection, while upstream Trustee and Azure Secure Key Release offer alternative routes to attestation-based key

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Marginal Revolution Nov 1 Score 0.7112793

Are LLMs good or bad Bayesians?

Bryan Caplan: It seems like you and other AIs are bad Bayesians. When presented with counterevidence, you should move toward or against the presenter with roughly equal probability. It depends on whether the argument was better or worse than expected. In fact,

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The Hacker News Oct 31 Score 0.7109056407407407

A Shared ChatGPT Link Could Run Attacker Code in Your Session and Read Private Chats

A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it, allowing them to read their private conversations, researchers at the security firm Parameter showed. The researchers reported the flaw thro

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 31 Score 0.7052374199074074

Scientists smash oxygen nuclei to recreate matter from the Big Bang

Scientists have recreated a primordial state of matter from the dawn of the universe by colliding oxygen nuclei at nearly the speed of light. The surprising results show that this exotic substance can form in smaller, lower-energy collisions than previously de

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Lobsters Oct 31 Score 0.6983362152777777

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Stratechery Oct 30 Score 0.6899701185185185

2026.44: At Long Last…

The best Stratechery content from the week of October 26, 2026 including Anthropic numbers, the end of the Internet as we know it, and autocracies then and now.

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New Scientist Oct 30 Score 0.6774698347222222

In Dark Eden, I imagined how life might exist on a sunless planet

Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, takes place on a rogue planet outside the Milky Way. Award-winning author Chris Beckett explains how he thought through the science behind this night world

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