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OpenAI News Sep 14 Score 0.9283028907407408

Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems

Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 14 Score 0.8888089259259259

The contagion of fear

The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade". Bryan shares a story of his own youthful mistakes causing un

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 14 Score 0.8872417962962962

What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?

My comment on What blog posts influenced your thinking the most? — Lobste.rs. An early Joel Spolsky one for me was The Law of Leaky Abstractions . I read that near the start of my career and it's encouraged me to always be looking for improved understand

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Foreign Policy Sep 14 Score 0.8852762912037037

Why My Kyiv Visit Worried Me So Much

FP’s editor in chief on the mood in Ukraine—and what it means for the future of war.

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Schneier on Security Sep 14 Score 0.8850458162037036

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking online (via Zoom) at a League of Women Voters event on Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 5 PM ET. I’m speaking at CanSecWest 2026 in Vancouver, Canada. The conference runs September 30

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Schneier on Security Sep 14 Score 0.8801851680555555

Using AI for Weapons Development

Last week, Anthropic released a long and detailed document describing current misuses of their Claude models. I'm still reading it, but I wanted to flag this: We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen running three weapons development progr

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 14 Score 0.8775941111111111

Quoting Laurie Voss

The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually want, defining it precisely, and making it pleasant to use.

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Schneier on Security Sep 14 Score 0.8717314643518518

Microsoft’s Patching

Once a month, Microsoft pushes a security update to all Windows users. Tomorrow's is a new record : Microsoft's patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity thresho

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BBC News — World Sep 15 Score 0.824016100925926

China tightens travel restrictions for citizens

Observers say the new rules will further tighten the Chinese government's control over its citizens.

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The Guardian — World Sep 15 Score 0.8228387490740742

Panama canal traffic to be cut again as drought from El Niño worsens

Latest daily reductions will further choke one of the world’s most important shipping lanes The Panama canal plans to again cut maritime traffic due to worsening drought caused by the El Niño climate phenomenon, further choking up one of the world’s most impor

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BBC News — World Sep 15 Score 0.8222503601851853

Nato jets down drone that entered Lithuanian airspace

The origin of the drone is currently unknown, but authorities say it likely entered Lithuania from neighbouring Belarus, an ally of Russia.

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The Verge Sep 15 Score 0.8186857805555556

Valve is still figuring out ‘how and when’ to do Steam Deck 2

Now that Valve has finally launched its entire 2026 hardware lineup - the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and today's Steam Frame - are we any closer to a next-gen Steam Deck handheld? Valve isn't saying so yet. The company is figuring out "how and when w

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The Verge Sep 14 Score 0.8166274472222222

Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared

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The Verge Sep 14 Score 0.8157714287037038

Apple Home’s new security camera features cost as much as $60 a month

With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of Apple Intelligence - but you'll have to pay more for it. Apple Intelligence for Home brings AI-powered video summaries to HomeKit Secure Video, so you can get short text descr

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The Verge Sep 14 Score 0.813905687962963

What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development

Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of

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BleepingComputer Sep 14 Score 0.8130888879629631

Microsoft releases emergency Windows updates to fix RDS failures

Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band Windows updates to fix Remote Desktop Services failures caused by this month's security updates, along with Hyper-V and USB audio problems on some Windows versions. [...]

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The Verge Sep 14 Score 0.8128862435185186

Trump throws out power plant climate pollution rules

The Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans today to kill any remaining standards on how much greenhouse gas pollution power plants are allowed to emit in the US. The move will only make electricity dirtier as AI, electric vehicles, and a revival o

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BleepingComputer Sep 14 Score 0.8113879620370371

Homebrew 7.0.0 gets built-in GUI, better security controls

Homebrew package manager version 7.0.0 has been released with a built-in vulnerability scanner, stronger security controls, and the full release of its native BrewUI graphical interface. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 14 Score 0.810076387962963

Twitch extension with 30K installs exposes users’ OAuth tokens

A browser extension called Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot, available in the official Chrome and Firefox stores, sends users' Twitch OAuth session tokens to a commercial bot service. [...]

Security securitymalwarevulnerabilities
War on the Rocks Sep 14 Score 0.809437239351852

Reading the Kremlin's Mind: Ukrainian Writers Attempt to Understand Putin

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insigh

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BleepingComputer Sep 14 Score 0.8092546287037038

Hackers hijack HBO Max Reddit account to push malware in ClickFix ads

Hackers compromised HBO Max's official Reddit account and used it to push malicious ads that launched ClickFix attacks to infect Windows and macOS devices with information-stealing malware. [...]

Security securitymalwarevulnerabilities
SANS Internet Storm Center Sep 14 Score 0.8092395527777778

Apple Updates Everything, (Mon, Sep 14th)

Today, Apple released its annual update across all its operating systems. With that, Apple not only released new features but also patched 261 different vulnerabilities. This is the most vulnerabilities Apple has ever patched, but the increase is not as signif

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MIT Technology Review Sep 14 Score 0.8081463782407408

The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites th

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The Guardian — World Sep 14 Score 0.8067493972222223

‘A coin flip’: on the campaign trail as Brazil’s far right edges back to power

Neck-and-neck with Lula in polls, Flávio Bolsonaro fires up his base in the bellwether state of Minas Gerais – starting at the scene of his father’s stabbing A giant banner of Brazil’s incarcerated former president Jair Bolsonaro fluttered in the morning breez

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Wired — Security Sep 14 Score 0.8063584412037038

New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites

In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.

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MIT Technology Review Sep 14 Score 0.805294526388889

Donated livers can be made biologically younger

Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking. Surgeons usually flush the organ with a preservative solution, bag it, and put it on ice—where it immediately starts to degrade. The team has a matter of hours to get it into a recipient’s

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MIT Technology Review Sep 14 Score 0.804969526388889

AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues

A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications f

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Google AI Blog Sep 14 Score 0.8049694736111112

DevFest is back

DevFest 2026 is back and here’s how you can connect with one of the more than 800 global events to build, secure, and scale in the agentic AI era.

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MIT Technology Review Sep 14 Score 0.7985806375000001

The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Roundtables: could AI really kill us all? Employees at the world's leading AI labs are saying there's a real possibility t

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 14 Score 0.7983026703703704

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-2026-76461 Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL Injection Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector f

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 14 Score 0.7744312430555557

Level-5 CEO admits using generative AI in recent showcase

Level-5 president and CEO Akihiro Hino has apologized after confirming that generative AI was used in the studio's recent digital showcase. Read more

Gaming gamingindustrybusinessdevelopment
Schneier on Security Sep 11 Score 0.7683985939814814

Friday Squid Blogging: Rotting Squid on a Beached California Boat

Smells awful : But an estimated 30 to 50 tons of dead squid remain inside the boat's catch tank, where they have been decomposing for days. "That is nasty. I wouldn't want to do that," said commercial fisherman Dick Ogg of the Bodega Bay Fishermen's Marketing

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 14 Score 0.7680840208333334

Rockstar and IWGB outline arguments at start of tribunal

Rockstar and the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain have set out their arguments at an ongoing employment tribunal expected to run until October 16. Read more

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Game Developer Sep 14 Score 0.7628815606481483

Moss developer Polyarc has shut down

The Seattle-based VR specialist has closed its doors after over a decade.

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Quanta Magazine Sep 11 Score 0.7570433898148148

Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia?

The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet. The post Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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InfoQ Sep 15 Score 0.7494130912037037

Amazon Linux 2027 Enters Public Preview with SELinux Enforcing by Default

AWS has released Amazon Linux 2027 in public preview, built on the AL2023 baseline with kernel 7.1 and SELinux in enforcing mode by default. Applications that pass on AL2023's permissive mode may fail under enforcing. The announcement gives no AL2023 end-of-su

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 15 Score 0.748156662037037

Plague was killing entire families thousands of years before the Black Death

Ancient DNA reveals that plague was already killing hunter-gatherers in Siberia 5,500 years ago, long before cities and flea-driven epidemics. The prehistoric strains may have been especially dangerous because they carried a genetic factor capable of provoking

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NASA News Sep 14 Score 0.7384157939814815

Webinar 9/23: NASA CSDA Program Update 2026

This webinar will provide an overview of the CSDA program’s goals and activities, including the new Cal/Val initiative, and more.

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NASA News Sep 14 Score 0.7349694976851852

New Crops, Health Research Proposals to Help NASA Advance Exploration

NASA has selected 12 new investigations to help support human explorers in space. Six will help advance the ability to produce food off-planet, while another six advance the understanding of how unique conditions associated with space exploration can impact th

Science sciencenasaspace
Kubernetes Blog Sep 14 Score 0.7341357300925926

Kubernetes v1.37: Memory QoS Graduates to Beta

Memory QoS has graduated to Beta in Kubernetes v1.37 and is now enabled by default. On Linux nodes running cgroup v2, the feature uses the memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It was first introduced as Alpha i

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Kubernetes Blog Sep 14 Score 0.7341357300925926

Kubernetes Changed Block Tracking API - Beta Differences

Changed Block Tracking (CBT) support for CSI drivers shipped as Alpha in September 2025. With the March 2026 v1.0.0 release of the external-snapshot-metadata project, the feature moved to Beta . If you aren't yet familiar with changed block tracking for storag

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NASA News Sep 14 Score 0.7312505162037037

NASA Welcomes Djibouti as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

The Republic of Djibouti became the 72nd nation and eighth African country to sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony Monday at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The Artemis Accords are the first set of practical principles aimed at enhancing transparency, s

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NASA News Sep 14 Score 0.7299745902777778

NASA Kicks Off Inspiration Tour with Steelers vs. Falcons Game

Fans pose for a photo with an astronaut in the NASA Experience Zone at an NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Atlanta Falcons at Acrisure Stadium, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. NASA’s engagement at NFL games is part of the a

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NASA News Sep 14 Score 0.7283028310185186

Summer Training: Catching Up With NASA’s Astronaut Candidates

Did you spend part of your summer camping, hiking, at the pool, or in an aircraft? So did NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class. The 10 candidates have been working their way through a comprehensive and rigorous training program since the agency introduced the

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InfoQ Sep 14 Score 0.7263019800925926

Agoda Replaces 72-Shard SQL Server Price Cache with DragonflyDB

Agoda migrated its 1.5 TB hotel Price Cache from 72 SQL Server shards to DragonflyDB to handle growing read and write volumes. The migration used staged dual reads, parity validation, gradual traffic shifting, and decentralized failover detection. Agoda report

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FRED Blog Sep 14 Score 0.7249689439814815

Measuring money with M2

The takeaway The Fed's monetary aggregates measure the amount of money in the economy. One such measure is M2, which includes liquid assets such as checking accounts but excludes non-liquid assets such as individual retirement accounts. What is M2? M2 …

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Lobsters Sep 14 Score 0.693947473611111

The contagion of fear

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Marginal Revolution Sep 14 Score 0.6939408597222221

Monday assorted links

1. Will driverless cars increase or reduce urban density? 2. One decomposition approach to why interest rates have been going up. 3. New Guinness record holders. 4. Is there any chance of finding Rembrandt DNA? 5. "Abundance Corps is hosting Making Progress, a

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 14 Score 0.6924684421296295

Agent-ready analytics: Unlocking insights with BigQuery augmented analytics

BigQuery now features a suite of augmented analytics Table-Valued Functions (TVFs) designed to automate complex data analysis at scale. Augmented analytics combines AI, ML and statistical methods to automate insight discovery and pattern explanation. These fun

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Marginal Revolution Sep 14 Score 0.6846371560185184

AI, Redistribution, and the Size of the Pie

Anthropic's economic team, including Anton Korinek and Chad Jones, have a valuable new paper, Economic Scenarios for Transformative AI. They make their assumptions explicit and provide a scenario explorer that lets you change them. How capable will AI become?

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Marginal Revolution Sep 14 Score 0.6775089152777777

Is it the screens? Or education systems?

The Dark Ages implies television and phones are the main cause of cognitive decline. This fails to explain the patterns in PISA scores. Why did England and Scotland fall so precipitously from 2000 to 2005 whilst America improved? Why did England and Estonia ho

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