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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 19 Score 0.8766897976851851

datasette-auth-github 1.0

Release: datasette-auth-github 1.0 I run this GitHub login plugin on the agent.datasette.io demo site and I noticed that my authenticated sessions weren't lasting very long. It turned out that the plugin was setting cookies without a Max-Age parameter, so they

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 19 Score 0.8721925754629629

California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant

California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, US I only noticed this after I had taken the photo: Morris the Northern Gannet is peeking out from behind the base of the sign. Tags: wildlife

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Krebs on Security Sep 16 Score 0.8289770046296296

Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight

The consumer data broker Radaris.com has long had a reputation for ignoring requests to remove personal information from its vast empire of people-search services online. That reputation caught up with the company recently in a lawsuit alleging Radaris violate

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OpenAI News Sep 16 Score 0.8269111458333334

Our framework for reporting model misalignment

OpenAI shares a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.

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OpenAI News Sep 16 Score 0.8252444791666668

Helping older adults use AI in everyday life

OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to build practical AI skills safely.

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Wired Sep 20 Score 0.8246333050925927

How to Avoid Scams and Sketchy Products on Amazon (2026)

Amazon is a murky mess of ads, unknown sellers, misleading sales, and specious information. Stay safe while shopping on Prime Big Deal Days and beyond with these tips and tricks.

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The Verge Sep 19 Score 0.803151762962963

Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think

Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to describe itself. Jason At

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The Verge Sep 19 Score 0.7971985222222223

Trump treads further on free speech with new journalist bans

On Friday, the president threatened to ban CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House. It could have just been another one of his Truth Social fever dreams, but it turns out it's very real. All three publications were turned away from the White House this

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The Verge Sep 19 Score 0.7942735222222223

Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it

In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party I

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The Verge Sep 19 Score 0.7935776888888889

The colorful, unique Hyte X50 PC case is $50 off

The Hyte X50 is a PC case that really stands out from the typical black box design, and it’s $50 off at the company’s site until September 21st, 2026, bringing the price down to $99.99. This attractive case supports motherboards from ITX all the way up to the

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The Verge Sep 19 Score 0.7935776888888889

Anamanaguchi has ‘too goddamn many’ browser tabs open right now

Anamanaguchi, the band consisting of Peter Berkman, James DeVito, Luke Silas, and Ary Warnaar, are most known for their chiptune music. Like me, you might have first heard them in game soundtracks like 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game or know of th

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BleepingComputer Sep 19 Score 0.7934811564814815

BragJack attacks hijack AI browser agents through malicious extensions

BragJack, a proof-of-concept attack from Forever Security's Gal Weizman, hijacks the AI assistants in Chrome, Edge, Opera Neon, Perplexity Comet, and Claude in Chrome using one malicious extension. The Prompt Forcing technique earned over $20,000 in bounties a

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BleepingComputer Sep 19 Score 0.7920570824074075

North Korean WaterPlum hackers infected 30,000 devices worldwide

A joint law enforcement advisory warns that the North Korean hacking group WaterPlum compromised at least 30,000 devices worldwide from December 2025 through July 2026 and transferred more than $10.7 million in stolen cryptocurrency to North Korea. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 19 Score 0.7915927305555557

ShinyHunters hacks Clop leak site, threatens to extort ransomware gang

The ShinyHunters extortion gang breached the Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware operation's data leak site, defacing the Tor site and allegedly stealing server data and the private keys for its onion service. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 19 Score 0.787976063888889

Viral AI actress' hotline face-scans every caller, watches their mood

AI actress Tilly Norwood went viral after glitching into Chinese on Piers Morgan Uncensored last night. Her "Talking Tilly" video call service face-scans every caller for an 18+ age check, senses callers' moods during calls, and shuts down permanently on Septe

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 20 Score 0.7875000000000001

Measuring Racial Disparities in Police Stops: Evidence from Telemetric Mobility Data -- by Xiaofeng Gong, Yuling Han, Susan T. Parker, Matthew B. Ross, Stephen Ross

We establish a reliable counterfactual for evaluating racial disparities in traffic stops using telemetric data to estimate the racial composition of motorists. We measure of motorist racial composition using telemetric mobility data and a novel two-stage corr

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The Guardian — World Sep 18 Score 0.7576795800925926

Survivors recount panic and struggle to breathe in Nigerian prison cell where 37 died

Police fire teargas as protests break out in city of Minna after deaths of suspected illegal goldminers, many of whom were children Survivors from a prison cell in Nigeria where 37 suspected illegal goldminers died while in the custody of a paramilitary group

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The Guardian — World Sep 18 Score 0.7572064319444445

Brazil’s Lula announces higher welfare payments and free weight-loss jabs ahead of election

Critics say moves from leftwing incumbent president are electorally motivated two weeks before Brazil’s elections Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced a 15% increase in the country’s main cash-transfer programme for poor families, as we

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Quanta Magazine Sep 16 Score 0.7501461847222222

Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works. The post Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Al Jazeera — World Sep 20 Score 0.7478212074074074

Echoicide: Who decides which truths survive in Gaza?

From Gaza to the digital age, visibility has become one of the central political struggles of modern conflicts.

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The Guardian — World Sep 18 Score 0.7475115245370371

British woman who was kidnapped in Malawi rescued by police after shootout

Four of Nurat Osman’s alleged abductors were killed during rescue after she was taken from outside her home last week A British woman kidnapped in Malawi last week has been rescued by police after a shootout in which four of her alleged abductors were killed.

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Meduza — English Sep 20 Score 0.747253574537037

On the third day of Russia’s parliamentary elections, Moscow came under what its mayor called the largest Ukrainian drone attack on the capital. Officials reported two deaths.

Russian air defenses repelled the heaviest drone attack Ukraine has ever launched on Moscow, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said. Since yesterday, he said, “more than 1,600” drones have been “repelled across all defensive lines,” including 450 shot down as they approac

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Schneier on Security Sep 16 Score 0.7426177624999999

Fake CAPTCHA Scams

New variant of an old scam: Use the framing of a CAPTCHA to get an unsuspecting user to download and run a malicious program.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 20 Score 0.7410610560185186

Hurricane Hunters reveal 4 warning signs that a storm is about to strengthen

Nearly three decades of Hurricane Hunter data reveal four features that can help a tilted tropical cyclone straighten its circulation and become capable of intensifying. The findings could give forecasters an earlier warning that a seemingly disorganized storm

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NASA News Sep 20 Score 0.7403837810185185

APOD: 2026 September 20 – Analemma over the Callanish Stones

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 20 –… 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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The Hacker News Sep 19 Score 0.7246023796296296

Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws

Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a bug in t

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Bellingcat Sep 19 Score 0.7232098287037036

Christy Kinahan's UAE Residence Visa Cancelled

This article is the result of a collaboration with The Sunday Times. You can find their corresponding piece here. Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. Christy Kinahan, the Irish founder of the Kina

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TechCrunch Sep 19 Score 0.7219110666666667

The US Navy just told us what's on its tech wish list for the next several years

Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building next.

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TechCrunch — AI Sep 19 Score 0.7185777333333333

Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes

Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Sep 16 Score 0.7160776523148147

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

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The Hacker News Sep 19 Score 0.7160445092592592

Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar

A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitati

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The Hacker News Sep 19 Score 0.7160412685185185

Identity Visibility in 2026: The Foundation of Identity Security

Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This ar

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 19 Score 0.7143892967592592

New chemical wipes out 95% of termites without harming humans

A chemical that stops drywood termites from building new exoskeletons killed about 95% of colonies in testing, offering a potentially safer alternative to traditional fumigation. Because termites eventually have no choice but to molt, the treatment turns a nor

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 19 Score 0.7139305004629629

A giant crater may reveal the origin of Mars’ doomed moon

A massive crater on Mars’ moon Phobos may hide a dense region of compressed material that could reveal whether the moon is a captured asteroid or debris from an ancient impact on Mars. Japan’s upcoming MMX sample return mission could provide the measurements a

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 19 Score 0.7132934634259259

This deep-sea enzyme survives heat that destroys most proteins

A deep-sea microbe uses an exceptionally heat-resistant enzyme to turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia at temperatures that would destroy most proteins. Its unusual structure and a newly observed reaction state may reveal an ancient, shared mechanism behind

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 19 Score 0.7130050375

This tiny organism can shrink to one quarter its size in milliseconds

A single-celled organism can shrink to one-quarter of its length in milliseconds using a remarkable calcium-powered protein “fishnet.” Scientists hope its unusual machinery could inspire artificial muscles capable of moving far faster than today’s designs.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Sep 20 Score 0.7110779773148147

The Sunday Papers

Sundays - well, very early Sunday mornings - are for watching a whole queue of hungry wild animals pass your kitchen window, because a neighbour has decided to leave a bollard-sized catfood dispenser outside the block entrance while they're away on holiday. I'

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Polygon Gaming Sep 20 Score 0.7102511009259258

The GTA Timeline Is Completely Irrelevant

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto games are loosely connected, but they all stand alone for a reason

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The Hacker News Sep 19 Score 0.7094468240740741

SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

SolarWinds has released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Access Rights Manager (ARM) that, if successfully exploited, could lead to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28326, is rate

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 17 Score 0.708577838425926

Schneider Electric PowerChute Serial Shutdown

View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of vulnerabilities in its PowerChute Serial Shutdown product. The PowerChute Serial Shutdown product is a UPS management software enabling graceful system shutdown and energy management capabilities for desktops, s

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Polygon Gaming Sep 20 Score 0.7082348972222221

Persona is Coming to TV with a New Netflix Series

Atlus role-playing game series Persona is getting a live-action streaming series on Netflix thanks to Sonic the Hedgehog and Stranger Things producers

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Marginal Revolution Sep 20 Score 0.7071604055555555

Empathy gaps

I observed, for example, that when I got an invitation to travel to give a talk in a different time zone, it mattered what time zone I was in when I got the invitation. if well rested, in my home time zone, I would think, No big deal, about making a long trip

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Marginal Revolution Sep 20 Score 0.704216887037037

UK productivity higher than we had thought

UK productivity rose at almost twice the pace previously estimated in the decade after the 2008 global financial crisis, according to new official figures that make Britain look much less of an international outlier. Output per hour worked, the main measure of

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Marginal Revolution Sep 20 Score 0.6996830907407406

The polity that is Singapore

…this month, Singapore launched a scheme promising actual cash to citizens as a reward for logging reading time on a government website. It’s unlikely to make you megabucks – you have to rack up 50 reading sessions of at least 15 minutes to earn one Sing

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One Useful Thing Sep 18 Score 0.6834258134259259

The Overhang

Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency

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Stratechery Sep 18 Score 0.6819109023148148

2026.38: Doomforce

The best Stratechery content from the week of September 14, 2026, including the view from anywhere but San Francisco, the limited potential for a pacing deal, and the Salesforce zag.

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MIT News — AI Sep 18 Score 0.6810778449074074

A new chapter for MIT Reads

A new focus on fiction and memoir aims to help the MIT community celebrate the power of storytelling and strengthen social connection.

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Nautilus Sep 19 Score 0.6760781814814814

This Dolphin Steals from Fish for Its Meals

Putting a dent in dolphins’ reputation as the “good guys of the sea” The post This Dolphin Steals from Fish for Its Meals appeared first on Nautilus .

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New Scientist Sep 18 Score 0.6719110819444445

Fishapod fossil shows early elbows came in a variety of forms

The fish that preceded the first four-legged land animals came in a wider variety of forms than we had thought, and fossils show that one had an elbow joint that moved in an oddly restrictive way

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Hacker News Sep 20 Score 0.662454275462963

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TechCrunch — AI Sep 19 Score 0.6435777569444445

AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.

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