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OpenAI News Oct 8 Score 0.9283028208333334

Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations

OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 8 Score 0.8925935939814814

ttok 0.4

Release: ttok 0.4 ttok is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source tiktoken library. It hasn't been in updated in a couple of years, but I finally fixed a Click warning, updated CI, and added a --list-models command to list available models.

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Foreign Policy Oct 8 Score 0.8896701296296295

Mecca Pact, Activated

What Pakistan and Turkey will likely do (and want) in Saudi Arabia.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 8 Score 0.8884621125

Quoting Carson Gross

Computer programming is, fundamentally, about two things: Problem-solving using computers Learning to control complexity while solving these problems I have a hard time imagining a future where knowing how to solve problems with computers and how to control th

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Foreign Policy Oct 8 Score 0.888302537037037

How America and China Compare on AI

And why the two countries have different definitions of winning.

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Foreign Policy Oct 8 Score 0.8865705925925925

The Next Iran War Is This Iran War

The Iran war is, and always was, about regime change.

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Schneier on Security Oct 8 Score 0.8718466828703703

How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators

This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs . Two weeks after Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto the set of the evening newscast. She

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Oct 8 Score 0.8499689412037036

Federal Reserve Board announces enforcement action against American Express Company to address, among other things, the firm’s failure to sufficiently detect and report certain suspicious activity related to money laundering

Federal Reserve Board announces enforcement action against American Express Company to address, among other things, the firm’s failure to sufficiently detect and report certain suspicious activity related to money laundering

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MIT Technology Review Oct 9 Score 0.8185361462962963

Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of A

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The Verge Oct 8 Score 0.8158602689814816

US plans livestream of execution by firing squad

The United States' execution of the Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed, anonymous officials from the Defense Department told the BBC and Associated Press. The planned execution of Nidal Hasan, the former US Army major convicted of killing 13 people at the

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The Verge Oct 8 Score 0.8147986949074075

Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects

Anthropic's offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get "thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost." That could me

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BleepingComputer Oct 8 Score 0.8144929865740741

FBI disrupts Chinese hacking tools used to breach critical infrastructure

The FBI has seized seven domains used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as Flax Typhoon to operate two hacking tools, MicroScan and FishHub, used in attacks that breached critical infrastructure and other organizations worldwide. [...]

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The Verge Oct 8 Score 0.8139561023148149

SpaceX announces plan to become a ‘major mobile carrier’

SpaceX has acquired a portfolio of low-band spectrum licenses - a move the company says "will pave the way" for its Starlink Mobile service to become a "major" US carrier. When the Federal Communications Commission signs off on the deal, SpaceX says it will de

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Wired Oct 8 Score 0.8136972587962964

Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.

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The Verge Oct 8 Score 0.8133389726851853

AMD will bring FSR 4 to handhelds by the end of 2026

It's already possible to get AMD's framerate-enhancing FSR 4 boost on handhelds as old as the Steam Deck - but in June, AMD reserved the right to disappoint handheld gamers by not officially bringing FSR 4 to older handhelds. Now, AMD consumer chip boss Jack H

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The Verge Oct 8 Score 0.8125348060185186

Apple will reportedly debut its first touchscreen MacBook in three weeks

Apple is set to introduce a new MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and an updated iPad Mini "on or around" October 27th, Bloomberg reports. If true, that would put the event just two weeks after the October 13th event Apple announced today, which is rumored to foc

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The Guardian — World Oct 8 Score 0.8122057560185186

Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island

Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme A survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has discovered that the once endangered species is thriving. A population of

Geopolitics geopoliticsworld-newsinvestigative
BleepingComputer Oct 8 Score 0.811906875462963

Ransomware attack disrupts Japan's IDCF Cloud used by govt clients

IDC Frontier, a major Japanese cloud and digital infrastructure company, disclosed that its IDCF Cloud service was targeted in a ransomware attack that caused an outage at a data center cluster serving the eastern part of the country. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 8 Score 0.8105402087962964

Low-cost Android phones ship with residential proxy malware

A malware campaign dubbed 'Midnight Mimosa' has been discovered on low-cost Android smartphones that ship with malicious software embedded in their firmware, allowing attackers to silently install apps, perform ad fraud, and turn devices into residential proxi

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The Guardian — World Oct 8 Score 0.8084210337962964

Nicolás Maduro and his wife indicted for alleged torture of US citizens

Ousted Venezuelan president and Cilia Flores have been in jail in New York since early January The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted for alleged conspiracy to commit torture, according to Manhattan feder

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BleepingComputer Oct 8 Score 0.8069392828703704

FakeGit malware campaign returns with 17,610 malicious GitHub repos

More than 17,000 fake repositories on GitHub are distributing the SmartLoader malware after the FakeGit campaign reactivated earlier this month to push the StealC infostealer. [...]

Security securitymalwarevulnerabilities
BleepingComputer Oct 8 Score 0.8040402087962963

Cisco warns of critical flaws allowing Nexus switch takeover

Cisco released security advisories for five critical vulnerabilities in its NX-OS data center network operating system that could be exploited to run arbitrary code with root privileges on Nexus switches. [...]

Security securitymalwarevulnerabilities
MIT Technology Review Oct 8 Score 0.7985805907407408

The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams

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. AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon The hype around humanoid robots is reaching fever pitch.

Technology technologyresearchsociety
CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 8 Score 0.7983025416666667

Satel Netco Design

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary scripts in a user's browser, consume excessive system resources, enumerate files, create or modify files, and potentially execute arbitrary cod

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 8 Score 0.7983025412037038

Red Lion Controls N-Tron 700 Series

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a malicious user to access the device and gain administrative access. This access would allow the user to view, edit, and upload configuration files. Further, a malicious user can c

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 8 Score 0.7983025412037038

Grid Protection Alliance openPDC and openHistorian

View CSAF Summary The following versions of Grid Protection Alliance openPDC and openHistorian are affected: openPDC openPDC (Docker image) openHistorian CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 9.8 Grid Protection Alliance openPDC 5 Vulnerabilities Deserialization of Untrust

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MIT Technology Review Oct 8 Score 0.7949694796296297

Why we’re watching these climate tech companies

This week, we released our 2026 version of our Climate Tech Companies to Watch list. It’s an annual project that the MIT Technology Review team puts together. Our goal is to highlight some of the promising, interesting advances and firms we think are worth pay

Technology technologyresearchsociety
NBER New Working Papers Oct 9 Score 0.7875000000000001

Consumption, Savings, and Earnings Responses to Financial Windfalls -- by Rajashri Chakrabarti, Philippe d'Astous, Kory Kroft, Sheisha Kulkarni, Vyacheslav Mikhed, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, Sahil Raina, Barry Scholnick

We estimate the causal effects of a financial windfall on consumption, savings, and wage earnings using linked administrative data on a large sample of Canadian lottery winners. Using separate linkages of lottery winners to income tax records and credit bureau

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 9 Score 0.7875000000000001

Does Food Assistance Drive Spending on Sugary Foods? Evidence from the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer Program -- by Georgina Cisneros, Brandyn F. Churchill

We provide evidence on the extent to which food assistance affects spending on sugary items by studying the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program, which provided funds to families of children who lost access to free and reduced-price school meal

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 9 Score 0.7875000000000001

Crowding Out Temptation: Experimental Evidence on Savings and Health Behaviors in Kenya -- by Harsha Thirumurthy, Elizabeth Bair, Dean Yang, Teniola Egbe, Benard Ayieko, Julius Wesonga, Sue Napierala, Connie Celum, Mary Putt, Carol S. Camlin, Mark Ayallo

Alcohol use, transactional sex, and gambling carry significant health and economic consequences. We conducted a randomized controlled trial in Kenya to assess whether these behaviors could be altered with a savings intervention that provided lottery-based inte

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Oct 6 Score 0.7652837518518518

In search of tax alpha

The taxman is losing patience with Americans’ shrewd use of tax losses

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HuggingFace Blog Oct 7 Score 0.7605541726851852

Introducing Falcon ASR

Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.

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Liberty Street Economics Oct 8 Score 0.7591355717592594

AI Adoption and Employment Expectations: Evidence from a Survey of Small Business Owners

There is little consensus on the effect of AI adoption on employment. Economy-wide measures of pay and headcount have moved little even as AI adoption has spread rapidly, yet narrower measures document declining hiring for workers at the start of their careers

Economy economymonetary-policybankingresearch
Quanta Magazine Oct 5 Score 0.7560836277777777

Is AI the End of Math As We Know It?

Mathematicians are facing the sudden shift with grief, anger, and a desperate search for fresh ideas: “If we don’t adapt, there’s just no more math in 50 years.” The post Is AI the End of Math As We Know It? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Oct 5 Score 0.7517689050925925

Another Historic Cipher Falls to AI

This one is from 1809, written by Napoleon's nephew.

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NASA News Oct 8 Score 0.7372527638888889

NASA Briefing to Highlight Contributions to Martian Moons Mission

Media are invited to join NASA for a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 15, to preview the agency’s contributions to JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. The mission is scheduled to launch from JA

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NASA News Oct 8 Score 0.7360805416666667

NASA Announces Bold Science Initiatives for America’s Golden Age Summit

Editor's note: This release was updated Oct. 8, 2026 with the formal name of the summit. NASA is launching two new science and technology initiatives to deepen scientific understanding and accelerate the innovation that will shape America’s future in space. Th

Science sciencenasaspace
NASA News Oct 8 Score 0.7348698935185185

NASA’s SSPICY Mission to Demonstrate In-Space Inspection Technologies

A new NASA-supported spacecraft will get up close to satellites that are no longer in service, demonstrating technologies that could support future in-space repairs and reduce orbital debris. The Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY) m

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NASA News Oct 8 Score 0.7347597083333334

Crew-12 Returns to Earth

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen moments before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California in this Oct. 8, 2026, photograph. Aboard were NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 members NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (Eu

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NASA News Oct 8 Score 0.7339360972222222

NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Sees Menagerie of Brown Dwarfs

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space telescope is shedding light on brown dwarfs, celestial objects that blur the line between stars and exoplanets. New findings published in The As

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TechCrunch — AI Oct 8 Score 0.7338732125

Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed

Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier this year, is proving he's more than just a Hollywood star.

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New Scientist Oct 8 Score 0.7321367916666667

The big unanswered question about Russia's 'plague' death

Russia says it is winding down precautionary measures taken after a lab worker at a plague research institute died. But what made officials think these were needed at all?

Science scienceresearchsociety
GitHub Blog Oct 8 Score 0.7317153787037037

How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate

As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences hacking on GitHub. The post How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate appeared

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New Scientist Oct 8 Score 0.7301909583333334

AI or ‘super intelligence’? Trump isn’t the only one who is confused

US President Donald Trump has declared that artificial intelligence should now be called “super intelligence”. Columnist Jacob Aron explains where that term came from and explores whether its many historical meanings apply today

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InfoQ Oct 8 Score 0.7148019662037037

Cloudflare Open Sources Decision Models for AI Agents

During its recent “Birthday Week”, Cloudflare announced Clef, a set of open-weight AI models designed to choose between predefined options rather than generate text. Cloudflare released 9B- and 27B-parameter models, along with a platform for adapting them to s

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Hacker News Oct 8 Score 0.7047450462962962

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CNCF Blog Oct 8 Score 0.7030712023148147

Don't give AI agents root. Make them propose the next system state.

The uncomfortable question In the past few months, I've been hearing different versions of the same question: under what conditions can we safely allow an autonomous system to operate a machine? It comes up when my...

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Google Cloud Blog Oct 8 Score 0.6858016712962962

Innovation in Ireland: How Irish brands scale with Gemini Enterprise

In recent decades, Ireland has grown into a vibrant hub for global technology. As modernization accelerates, Irish organizations — spanning government agencies, established enterprise brands, and growing startups in AI and other areas — are all advancing their

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