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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 6 Score 0.8986984300925925

Quoting Zach Kehs

If you continue to add floors and rooms to a building forever, it will collapse. Software faces no such constraint. The code can always get worse. There can always be a new layer of indirection or a reduction in performance. — Zach Kehs , There's No Limi

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 5 Score 0.8832813004629628

Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers

Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers Blink and you'll miss it, but there's a familiar creature at 1m59s : Across the board, Astra has more attention to detail, better understanding of the user's prompt, and can build more sophisticated outputs. In particular

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 5 Score 0.8705965782407407

Using Blender with coding agents on macOS

TIL: Using Blender with coding agents on macOS I've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently. Getting it to work with coding agents is really easy: install the full Mac application from blender.org and run a prompt like this: Use the al

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The Guardian — World Sep 6 Score 0.8192031004629631

Falklands row shows urgent need to commit to 3% target, says Labour defence committee chair

Exclusive: Tan Dhesi says Argentinian threats make it more crucial than ever that PM increase defence spending Javier Milei’s threats to the Falkland Islands make it even more important that Andy Burnham increase defence spending immediately, according to the

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The Guardian — World Sep 5 Score 0.8063128226851852

Drone attack blamed on guerrillas kills at least three soldiers in Colombia

Officials accuse National Liberation Army of launching strike followed by clash inside military compound An attack involving explosives dropped from drones followed by a clash inside a military compound in north-eastern Colombia has killed at least three soldi

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The Verge Sep 5 Score 0.8050526111111111

Explore the globe in field recordings

I love field recordings. I love making them. I love them when they're incorporated into my ambient music. They're great background noise for working or sleeping. But they're also great for active listening, focusing in on the fine nuances of burbling brooks or

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The Verge Sep 5 Score 0.8040081666666667

iPhone Handoff will seamlessly share one number between two phones

When iOS 27 lands later this month, it will have a feature called iPhone Handoff that lets you switch between two phones using the same number. It was briefly mentioned during the WWDC keynote back in June, but there were no details at the time. Now there's a

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The Guardian — World Sep 5 Score 0.7991831930555556

Egyptian TV presenter among 12 sentenced to death for drug crime

Sarah Khalifa, 39, charged with forming organised criminal gang to manufacture and traffic drugs An Egyptian court sentenced a well-known television presenter and 11 others to death for manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in a sprawling drug case, official

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The Verge Sep 5 Score 0.7972188148148149

CD sales are booming as physical media continues its resurgence

According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), CD sales exploded in the first half of 2026. A new report from the organization says 17.5 million CDs were sold in the first six months of the year, up from just 12 million during the same peri

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The Verge Sep 5 Score 0.7941757592592593

Fantasy Footballers’ Andy Holloway is a dedicated zero-inbox kinda guy

Andy Holloway cohosts the Fantasy Footballers podcast with his friends Jason Moore and Mike Wright. The show is one of the premier fantasy sports podcasts, netting over 2 million monthly listeners and numerous awards, including Best Sports Podcast from iHeartR

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The Verge Sep 5 Score 0.7925165000000001

Content creators drop the ball

During Naomi Osaka's match against Anastasia Zakharova at this year's US Open earlier this week, a gaggle of ring light-wielding influencers who were packed in a luxury suite became enough of a distraction that the umpire paused the match and repeatedly asked

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BleepingComputer Sep 5 Score 0.7878379708333334

OpenAI admits it didn't disclose rogue AI wiki hijacking incident

OpenAI admits it did not disclose an incident where autonomous AI agents hijacked a German wiki, created 18,000 posts, shared answers, and bypassed restrictions, saying it treated the activity as model "misalignment" rather than a security breach. [...]

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Wired Sep 5 Score 0.7875368712962963

4 Best Alexa Speakers I’ve Tested (2026)

I’ve rounded up the best smart speakers that let you talk to Alexa, from the popular Echo Dot to the newest Echo Studio.

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 6 Score 0.7875000000000001

Rising Income Risk at the Top -- by J. Carter Braxton, Kyle F. Herkenhoff, Chengdai Huang, Michael Nattinger, Jonathan L. Rothbaum, Lawrence D.W. Schmidt

We document an increase in U.S. income risk from 1969 to 2019 using newly digitized IRS tax returns, distinguishing permanent from transitory risk. Since the 1970s, permanent income risk increased across the distribution, but most sharply among high earners, r

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 6 Score 0.7875000000000001

CentaurBench: Benchmarking LLM Capabilities on Augmenting vs. Automating Real-World Work Tasks -- by Pattaraphon Kenny Wongchamcharoen, Kris Gulati, Min Min Fong, Abhishek Nagaraj

Most LLM benchmarks rank models on their ability to automate work tasks. In practice, however, models are often used to assist other (human or LLM) agents. The question that drives model selection is therefore not only which model produces the best output, but

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Wired Sep 5 Score 0.7866757597222223

There May Not Be an iPhone 18 This Year

Apple is expected to announce several products at its September event next week—including a folding phone—but the iPhone 18 might not be among them. It would be a first for the company.

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Wired — Security Sep 5 Score 0.7866757597222223

OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website

Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers’ licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more.

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Al Jazeera — World Sep 6 Score 0.7487331597222222

Israel bombards several towns in southern Lebanon

The Israeli army has blown up several villages in southern Lebanon in violation of a ceasefire agreement reached in June

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Quanta Magazine Sep 2 Score 0.748093674074074

Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble

By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event. The post Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble first appeared on Q

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 6 Score 0.7474470143518519

Indonesia’s most dangerous fires are burning underground

Indonesia’s dangerous peat fires are surging early in the 2026 fire season as a strengthening El Niño and severe drought dry out wetlands that can burn underground for months. These slow smoldering fires are especially destructive because they release far more

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Al Jazeera — World Sep 6 Score 0.7470965856481482

How do you arrest 50,000 people quietly?

ICE agents arrested an average of one person every 54 seconds in July. AJLabs examines a record month for deportations.

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InfoQ Sep 6 Score 0.745814988425926

How Figma Uses AI Agents for Security

The engineering team at software company Figma recently documented how they built AI agents to help their security team investigate alerts, search past incidents, check company systems, and even prepare code fixes. The agents learn from previous investigations

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 6 Score 0.7458007180555556

Scientists find a weak spot in one of the deadliest brain cancers

Researchers may have found a new way to weaken glioblastoma’s defenses against treatment. Blocking a protein called SET prevented tumors from forming in preclinical models, while targeting related proteins made cancer cells more vulnerable to radiation. The st

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 6 Score 0.7358085884259259

A mysterious signal around Earth could be dark matter

Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed forms of dark matter. The approach dramatically improved limits on ultralight axions and uncovered several intriguing dark photon signa

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 6 Score 0.7354655328703704

80,000-year-old “arrowheads” rewrite human history

Archaeologists have identified tiny 80,000-year-old projectile points in Uzbekistan that may have been used like arrowheads. Their size, design, and impact damage closely resemble weapons found much later at a Homo sapiens site in France. The discovery suggest

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The Hacker News Sep 5 Score 0.7279197027777777

Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores

Attackers are exploiting a new unpatched vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that lets them run malicious code on an online store's server without logging in, Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec said in an advisory published on Se

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Econbrowser Sep 5 Score 0.7261635685185185

Who Will We Trade With If the Fed Doesn't Lower Rates?

At least according to Trump: Well, according to Census data through July, not many countries: Belgium, Netherlands, Spain (although they drop out if European Union as a whole is taken as a "country"), Egypt, Nigeria, UK. It's not clear under what authority the

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The Hacker News Sep 5 Score 0.7223021101851852

Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials

JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which unidentified threat actors exploited a recently disclosed critical vulnerability in TeamCity to breach its own environment. "Cadence users

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The Hacker News Sep 5 Score 0.7209849805555556

Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code

Broadcom has released security updates for two security flaws impacting VMware Workstation and Fusion, including one critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-59346 (CVSS score:

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 2 Score 0.7196506685185184

Central banking has a forbidding future

But Kevin Warsh has bought himself time

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The Hacker News Sep 5 Score 0.7179822027777778

Trezor Says ShipMonk Breach Exposed 67,000 U.S. Customers' Data It Said Was Deleted

Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S. have been impacted in a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk. The exposed information includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addr

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Eurogamer Sep 5 Score 0.7154061138888889

Gamescom apologises for how it initially responded to indie developer hardware thefts

Gamescom has apologised for the way it "communicated about the theft of hardware belonging to several indie developers" last week, admitting, "our first response did not strike the right tone, and it did not show the people affected the empathy they deserved".

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InfoQ Sep 5 Score 0.7125094328703704

Presentation: A Few Predicted Talks From QConAI 2030

Meryem Arik discusses her predictions for software engineering in 2030. She explains how token spend management, parallel agent infrastructure, and non-technical builders will reshape IT. She shares insights on agent-driven vendor decisions, upcoming regulator

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InfoQ Sep 5 Score 0.7119538773148149

Beyond Zero: Google Publishes Successor to BeyondCorp

In a recent research paper, Google introduced Beyond Zero, a “security model for the AI era” that extends Zero Trust to autonomous AI agents. The new approach moves access decisions from the application level to individual resources and actions, combining stat

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Rock Paper Shotgun Sep 6 Score 0.7116759865740739

The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for luxuriating in the chill of the September air and hoping for more of the drenching rain that's ended the summer heat. Though, it's a luxuriating that's quickly pierced by the worry that we've seen the last warm weather of the year. Winter isn't

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 3 Score 0.7091758425925927

Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era: A Call to Action

CISA and the Group of Seven (G7) Cyber Security Working Group released Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era: A Call to Action highlighting the urgent need for organizations and governments to begin transitioning to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect sens

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 3 Score 0.7091758425925927

IXON VPN Client

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to perform remote code execution on the computer running the client with elevated privileges. The following versions of IXON VPN Client are affected: VPN Client CVSS Vendor

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Lobsters Sep 6 Score 0.7047892273148147

Beyond ORMs

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Marginal Revolution Sep 6 Score 0.7040972560185185

*Why Not Bolivia?*

The author is Calvin Korponai, and the subtitle is From Macchu Picchu into Bolivia in search of the Garden of Eden. Bolivia is a fantastic country to visit, more original than most people are expecting, and this is the book to tell you why. Excerpt: The landsc

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NASA News Sep 5 Score 0.7009817976851852

APOD: 2026 September 5 – Chasing the Moon’s Shadow

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 5 –… 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 featur

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MarketWatch Top Stories Sep 5 Score 0.6873978425925925

Why the jobs report will actually be good for bonds

Based on the chatter on Wall Street, you’d think labor has never had it so good. Sadly for working Americans, this isn’t actually the case.

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Nautilus Sep 5 Score 0.6766762148148148

Your Boss Is Watching You

Assisted by AI, companies have more options than ever to track employees, minute by minute, keystroke by keystroke. Does this have the desired effect? The post Your Boss Is Watching You appeared first on Nautilus .

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Phys.org Sep 6 Score 0.6725100180555555

Germany's Isar Aerospace launches rocket into orbit from Norway

Germany's Isar Aerospace launched a rocket into orbit from Norway on Saturday as Europe races to boost its ability to economically send satellites into space independently of the United States.

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Phys.org Sep 6 Score 0.6717202032407408

Haze emergency grips Malaysian Borneo town

Acrid smoke hung heavily over the Malaysian town of Serian, seeping into homes and cloaking roadside stalls, as residents navigated an air-quality emergency fueled by transboundary haze from Indonesia's raging fires.

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NASA News Sep 4 Score 0.6609817976851852

APOD: 2026 September 4 – Na Uhane Mahoe Huki Pu i ke Ola

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 4 – Na… 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 fea

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Phys.org Sep 5 Score 0.6541785365740741

Breaking through AlphaFold's limits to predict how proteins change shape

Conformational changes in proteins are vital to their function yet remain challenging for state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, such as AlphaFold3, to predict. Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), and the Graduate University for Advanc

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