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OpenAI News Oct 22 Score 0.9383033305555557

What FDE means at OpenAI

What forward deployed engineering means at OpenAI

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OpenAI News Oct 22 Score 0.9283033305555557

Uber brings ChatGPT Work to all employees with OpenAI

Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees, helping teams research, analyze data, create presentations, and complete complex workflows.

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Foreign Policy Oct 22 Score 0.8881076189814814

Trump Puts His Faith in Putin

Trump wants a foreign-policy win, but Moscow is unlikely to deliver.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 22 Score 0.8861486939814814

DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video)

DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) OK well this is a first for me... at 00:44 in this new music video by Dutch alternative rock band De Staat : The visual effects are credited to Matties Grooten of Fake it or Leave it . Via flir on Hacker News Tags: mus

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 22 Score 0.8835792495370369

Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 22 Score 0.8792537865740739

Quoting Armin Ronacher

As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins. — Armin Ronacher Tags: security , generative-ai , armin-ronacher , ai , ai-security-research , llms

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Schneier on Security Oct 22 Score 0.8757157092592591

New Serious PHP Vulnerabilities Released and Patched

PHP maintainers have released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities: PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. All PHP users are strongly encouraged to update immediately. Who

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Foreign Policy Oct 22 Score 0.8716525263888888

Brazil’s Sovereignty Is on the Ballot

A far-right win in the country’s presidential election would open the door to U.S. military activity on Brazilian soil.

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Oct 22 Score 0.8422374782407407

Sam Bankman-Fried says he has paid his debts

The crypto tycoon speaks with The Economist from prison in California

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Krebs on Security Oct 19 Score 0.8313291569444445

Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site

U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion group

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The Guardian — World Oct 23 Score 0.8216622407407408

Brazil’s election and the battle for the Amazon – podcast

Our Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, heads to Roraima to hear what’s at stake for the rainforest and the communities that live there in the Brazilian presidential runoff on Sunday. Send your comments and questions to [email protected] For

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The Verge Oct 23 Score 0.8185801944444445

Etsy is cracking down on AI slop listings

Etsy is announcing stricter rules about how AI can be used in listings to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform. In a post, the company says that "many active buyers say they can't tell which items involve AI-generated content" and that sellers are "con

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The Verge Oct 22 Score 0.8167121388888889

Spotify says yes, it is busting people for using Family Plan sharing too widely

Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström confirmed on this week's earnings call that the company is trying to catch Spotify Family plan users who don't actually live together with a new QR code verification method that requires scanning the plan manager's phone. Tech

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The Verge Oct 22 Score 0.816636675925926

The next-gen Xbox won’t cost you $1,800. It can’t. Can it?

Fortune dropped a bombshell report on the future of gaming this week. According to the publication's Microsoft insiders, the next Xbox is projected to cost between $1,200 and $1,800 when it arrives in 2028. My first reaction: The next Xbox is dead on arrival.

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The Guardian — World Oct 22 Score 0.8147881666666668

Lewis Hamilton aims to extend career till early 2030s so he can race in African Grand Prix

41-year-old set on ‘dream to be able to race in Africa’ Rwanda to host despite criticism of human rights record Lewis Hamilton has said he hopes to remain racing in Formula One until he can take part in the African Grand Prix which is set to take place in Rwan

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The Verge Oct 22 Score 0.8147315833333334

Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them

Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generatin

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The Verge Oct 22 Score 0.8141547314814815

PC shipments dropped over 20 percent in Q3 due to RAM price hikes

Demand for new PCs took a hit after months of price hikes, with Counterpoint Research reporting global PC shipments fell 21 percent year-over-year in Q3 2026. That's in line with earlier reports from IDC and Omdia. It's not just PCs, either - that same quarter

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BleepingComputer Oct 22 Score 0.8140120032407409

Railway warns devs to rotate secrets after potential breach

Cloud platform Railway published an urgent warning to users after detecting suspicious activity on its systems that store customer environment variables earlier this week. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Oct 22 Score 0.8137889574074074

Designing an AI serving harness built to last

The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI conversation has centered on model capability: bigger models, b

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BleepingComputer Oct 22 Score 0.8122684847222222

Capcom confirms data breach affecting 11.7 million accounts

Japanese gaming giant Capcom has confirmed that hackers breached its membership service, CAPCOM ID, exposing more than 11.7 million customer email addresses and associated information. [...]

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Wired Oct 22 Score 0.8117991527777778

The Google Home Speaker Has Been Secretly Eating My Wi-Fi Data

My Google Home Speaker had been burning through more data than all the rest of my devices combined. As I looked into it further, I found other smart home devices that had the same problem.

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Wired Oct 22 Score 0.8115403564814816

The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom

WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”

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BleepingComputer Oct 22 Score 0.8103268180555556

LiteLLM release pipeline hacked to distribute info-stealer malware

Hackers compromised the LiteLLM project's PyPI package and published malicious Docker images with a payload that steals credentials, secrets, and environment variables. [...]

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Wired Oct 22 Score 0.8101537824074074

Inside the Exclusive Nathan Fielder Interview

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we go behind the scenes of our Nathan Fielder cover story, unpack tech billionaires’ generous promises, and discuss the suspicious letters sent to US election offices.

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MIT Technology Review Oct 22 Score 0.8096384944444445

The Foundations of Scalable AI

A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review's EmTech Future conference explores what it takes to build that foundation i

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BleepingComputer Oct 22 Score 0.8046791328703704

Microsoft shares how to fix broken Exchange Online EWS apps

Microsoft says IT admins can re-enable the retired Exchange Web Services (EWS) API in Exchange Online to fix EWS apps that have stopped working. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Oct 22 Score 0.7985810870370371

The Download: computing’s next leap and permafrost’s climate threat

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. How far can we push computing? On a December evening in 1959, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 22 Score 0.7983030120370371

Siemens Industrial Edge App Publisher

View CSAF Summary The Industrial Edge App Publisher contains a vulnerability chain involving improper certificate validation and the rendering of unescaped data from backend responses. These issues can be combined to allow an attacker on the network to imperso

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 22 Score 0.7983030120370371

Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808 Devices

View CSAF Summary Nozomi Networks has published information on vulnerabilities in Nozomi Guardian/CMC. This advisory lists the related Siemens Industrial products affected by these vulnerabilities. Siemens recommends to contact customer support to receive patc

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 22 Score 0.7983030120370371

Siemens RUGGEDCOM CROSSBOW

View CSAF Summary RUGGEDCOM CROSSBOW contains multiple vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commands on the underlying database, retrieve sensitive administrative credentials, escalate privileges, and perform unauthorized opera

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 22 Score 0.7983030120370371

Siemens APOGEE, TALON and Desigo PXC/PXM Products

View CSAF Summary The products listed below contain multiple vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service and potentially impact the availability of the affected device. Siemens has released new versions for several affected produc

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 22 Score 0.7983030120370371

Siemens SIMATIC S7 Webserver API

View CSAF Summary .NET Client Library for SIMATIC S7 Webserver API contains multiple vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information or write arbitrary files outside the intended download directory. Siemens has released a new versi

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 23 Score 0.7875000000000001

Foreign Giants' Broad Shoulders: The Causal Effect of Foreign Ideas on U.S. Innovation -- by Tarek Alexander Hassan, Aakash Kalyani, Juan Cruz Lopez Del Valle

We study the role of foreign ideas in U.S. innovation by constructing a directed “genealogy” of technologies from the full text of 13 million patents filed between 1887 and 2024. By tracing which earlier technologies appear in the founding patents of new ones,

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Quanta Magazine Oct 19 Score 0.7594261472222221

AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?

Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.” The post AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 23 Score 0.7492813875

40 years later, Chernobyl's nuclear fallout is not what scientists expected

Forty years after the Chornobyl disaster, tiny radioactive particles still linger in the soil, carrying a dangerous legacy. Using powerful X-rays, scientists discovered that some of these particles have remained surprisingly stable, trapping radioactive substa

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 23 Score 0.7481554615740741

Nearly 3,000 exploding stars challenge our understanding of the Universe

A massive analysis of 2,884 exploding stars has uncovered new evidence that dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the universe’s expansion, may change over time. The findings challenge a cornerstone of modern cosmology and could reshape our understand

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Econbrowser Oct 23 Score 0.7470800939814815

Forward Price Earnings Ratios

Looking pretty good — although one needs to wonder about analysts' estimates of forward earnings… Source: Yardeni.com, accessed 22.10.2026. Compare against CAPE:

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 23 Score 0.7455749060185185

Cambridge scientists create a $10 chip that could put a medical lab on your wrist

Cambridge researchers have created a groundbreaking $10 optical sensor that delivers the precision of laboratory equipment in a device small enough for wearable technology. It identified foods, plastics, and medicines with 100% accuracy in tests and demonstrat

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TechCrunch — AI Oct 23 Score 0.7445704708333334

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.

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Econbrowser Oct 22 Score 0.7410726865740741

Real Weekly Earnings Down in Q3

Overall, for HS graduates: Figure 1: Real median weekly wages for all production and nonsupervisory workers (blue), for high school graduates (2nd quartile) (red), in logs 2024Q4=0. NBER defined peak to trough recession dates shaded gray. Source: BLS, NBER, an

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NASA News Oct 22 Score 0.7394134550925926

NASA Invites Media to 2026 von Braun Space Exploration Symposium

Members of the media are invited to join NASA at the 2026 von Braun Space Exploration Symposium from Monday, Oct. 26, to Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. This year’s symposium is focused on humanity's return to the Moon, sustaina

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NASA News Oct 22 Score 0.7392930847222222

Spiral's Edge

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released on Oct. 16, 2026, features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove. Hubble captured the image as part of a survey looki

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AWS Blog Oct 22 Score 0.7375574375

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is a new security service that uses AI to automatically find, validate, and prioritize code vulnerabilities in your environment, then delivers ready-to-review fixes as pull requests replacing what previously took hours of

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GitHub Blog Oct 22 Score 0.7322334416666667

How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @r31n, diving into their research approach, favorite bug classes, and advice for aspiring hackers. The post How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills appeared firs

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New Scientist Oct 22 Score 0.7255251773148148

All tropical coral reefs could collapse within 50 years

Shallow-water coral reefs are at high risk of disappearing by 2075, the IUCN has warned at a UN biodiversity conference. The loss would decimate fisheries and speed up coastal erosion

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 22 Score 0.7234762949074074

Birds are more afraid of women than men. Scientists have no idea why

Scientists have uncovered a strange pattern in urban bird behavior: Across five European countries and 37 species, birds consistently fled sooner when approached by women than men. Researchers have no clear explanation for the difference, raising intriguing qu

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InfoQ Oct 22 Score 0.7216357796296297

Presentation: Actors for Agents: Patterns for Production AI

Manju Rajashekhar explains how the actor model solves the complex runtime challenges of production AI agents. By treating agents as distributed systems, he discusses state ownership, message passing, write-through state, and supervision boundaries to manage fa

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InfoQ Oct 22 Score 0.7192191129629629

Vercel Labs Open-Sources fx: A Zig Coding Agent Designed to Be Embedded

Vercel Labs has released fx, an experimental open-source coding agent written in Zig. It runs as a CLI, a script component, or an embedded library, including a WebAssembly build. Early feedback questioned its model-agnostic claim and a name conflict with an ex

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InfoQ Oct 22 Score 0.7183024462962962

Article: AI Changes the Data Interface, Not the Query Engine

This article presents a disaster-recovery analytics workflow in which an AI agent generates constrained SQL or Python, DuckDB computes reproducible facts from Parquet, and the agent interprets the results. It explains the determinism split, replayable analysis

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