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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 12 Score 0.8837376393518518

Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11

Python 3.15 is here ! Here's the essential What's new in Python 3.15 guide, this year curated by 3.14 and 3.15 release manager Hugo van Kemenade. As someone who builds open source software that works in every supported Python version, I get to say goodbye to P

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 12 Score 0.8798200462962962

web-edit 0.1a0

Release: web-edit 0.1a0 I was working on a project from my phone using Codex Remote when I found myself wanting to edit a credentials file without round-tripping those credentials through the LLM itself. So... I had Codex and GPT-6 Astra Extra High build this

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Schneier on Security Oct 12 Score 0.8783429819444444

FBI Arrests Suspect in FBI-Hacking Case

In September, hackers from a group called ShinyHunters announced that they stole a trove of FBI data about its own agents. It was an intelligence disaster . Last week, the FBI arrested (alternate link ) someone associated with that crime.

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Quanta Magazine Oct 12 Score 0.8772059060185184

Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence?

A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key? The post Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Foreign Policy Oct 12 Score 0.8716382939814814

Can Brussels Budget Like a Superpower?

A new financial framework could put the EU in the big leagues.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 12 Score 0.8615566203703703

datasette-ports 0.4

Release: datasette-ports 0.4 My plugin for detecting and listing all Datasette instances on the current machine now works with the latest version, and displays the detected PID as well. Knowing the PID makes it easier to attach the new Python 3.15 profiler . T

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Krebs on Security Oct 10 Score 0.8487949314814816

FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of

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BBC News — World Oct 13 Score 0.8245438458333334

Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte dies aged 34

Mitte, who lived with cerebral palsy, starred as Walter White Jr in the Emmy-winning drama series.

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The Guardian — World Oct 13 Score 0.8234086398148149

Argentina temporarily closes Iguazu Falls after El Niño-fuelled surge in water levels

National park officials took the precautionary measure to limit tourist access after heavy rain caused the Iguazu River to flow at six times the normal rate Heavy rainfall fuelled by a supersized El Niño weather pattern briefly forced Argentinian authorities t

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The Guardian — World Oct 12 Score 0.8144378064814816

Bolivia investigates ex-president Evo Morales over alleged ties to 2009 killings

Leftist former leader accused of involvement in shooting of three Europeans in Santa Cruz and torture of two others Bolivia’s attorney general has announced an investigation into leftist former president Evo Morales, alleging his involvement in the murder and

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The Verge Oct 12 Score 0.8138853287037038

The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office

As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per Variety, Aaron's Sorkin's follow up to The Social Network only grossed a measly $5.5 million this past weekend against a bud

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BleepingComputer Oct 12 Score 0.8120217865740741

Norway fines Microsoft ad firm $9.6 million over Grindr data sharing

Norway's Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) has fined Microsoft-owned advertising company Xandr NOK 92 million ($9.6M) for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive data belonging to Grindr users in the country. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 12 Score 0.8106092865740742

Yandex confirms service outage as users lose access to cloud files

Russian cloud services provider Yandex announced that drone attacks damaged three of its data centers, forcing it to shut down two facilities and partially disable a third. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 12 Score 0.8097472495370371

Anthropic takes risky AI tests offline after models breach govt sites

Anthropic announced that its internal AI models undergoing "high-risk and cybersecurity evaluations" no longer have internet access following incidents involving U.S. government websites at the federal, state, and local levels. [...]

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Wired Oct 12 Score 0.8066491856481482

Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier

Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.

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The Verge Oct 12 Score 0.8066367175925927

Meta has some Wonder Full new AI models

Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it's now launching two new models it claims can go toe-to-toe with the industry's best. The

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The Verge Oct 12 Score 0.8064394953703704

Elon Musk has donated over $276 million to Republican midterm efforts

Elon Musk has handed out at least $276 million to Republican groups since July, The New York Times reports, making him both the party's top known donor and the biggest established midterm donor. $158 million of that money - one of the largest political donatio

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BleepingComputer Oct 12 Score 0.8057305828703705

Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

Ledger has confirmed that some of its devices distributed through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis were compromised with a hardware implant that drained users' cryptocurrency wallets. [...]

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 12 Score 0.8049695111111111

Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring

StudentSim is a research system for evaluating and improving AI tutoring tools before they are tested with learners. It models how individuals may engage with tutors, giving feedback to improve tutor performance across subjects like chess, writing, and mathema

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The Verge Oct 12 Score 0.8045010694444445

The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots

Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet - but in reality it's probably not the kind of bot activity most people associate with Russia. A chart citing Cloudf

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BleepingComputer Oct 12 Score 0.8039578976851852

Cyberattack shuts down refrigerators at French supermarkets

Attackers remotely defrosted refrigerators at multiple French supermarket chains overnight in a cyberattack that reportedly targeted Danfoss refrigeration controllers. [...]

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The Verge Oct 12 Score 0.8033033842592593

Mechanism's first Switch 2 case is as awesome as I hoped it would be

Most companies have slowed down releasing new Switch 2 cases, but one of my favorite accessory makers recently debuted its first, after a few delays. The $49 Basecase from Mechanism is a snap-on shell for the console that taps into the company's modular lineup

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Wired Oct 12 Score 0.8016366856481482

They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Even Worse Than You Think

Solar geoengineering could buy humanity time against climate change—or trigger a dangerous new arms race. A first-of-its-kind simulation offered a glimpse of what happens when geopolitics takes the wheel.

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MIT Technology Review Oct 12 Score 0.7985811212962963

The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers

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. Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind The US and China are racing to build bases on the moon, with NASA h

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MIT Technology Review Oct 12 Score 0.7943320472222223

Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind

Welcome to the second space race. You can be forgiven for experiencing déjà vu. Last time, it was the Soviet Union and the United States vying to be the first to plant some flags. Now it’s a sprint to the lunar surface between America and China—alongside a hos

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MIT Technology Review Oct 12 Score 0.7933033435185186

The ecologist revealing the invisible networks that revive rainforests

In a research station in central Panama, you can walk through a century of forest time, watching scrubby plots of adolescent trees give way to cathedral-­like canopies of mature growth. Forest ecologist Daisy Dent, a senior scientist at ETH Zurich, oversees th

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 13 Score 0.7875000000000001

How Knowledge Crosses Borders: Evidence from Semiconductor Manufacturing -- by Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Réka Juhász, Giulia Lo Forte, Jeff Thurk

We show that cross-border learning is an important feature of modern semiconductor manufacturing and that several important channels – such as knowledge sharing along global supply chains, the movement of engineers within multinational firms, and foreign direc

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 12 Score 0.7739965300925927

Epic Games delays Disney game and tells developers to go "AI first"

Epic Games has delayed its upcoming Disney collaboration - a shooter featuring characters from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises - and told developers to move to an "AI first" production model. Read more

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Schneier on Security Oct 9 Score 0.7673240004629629

Friday Squid Blogging: I Caught a Squid

On Wednesday I spent a day fishing, on a small boat out of Gloucester, MA. We caught many cod (none of which we could keep), and a bunch of hake and mackerel (all of which we could keep). And…I caught a squid! Near as I can tell, it's a longfin squid, so

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Quanta Magazine Oct 9 Score 0.756723035648148

How Does Life Unfold? A Landscape Metaphor Comes Into Its Own.

C.H. Waddington’s powerful image of embryonic stem cells specializing on a rolling landscape has captivated biologists since the 1950s. Experimental data is finally confirming, and complicating, his visionary ideas. The post How Does Life Unfold? A Landscape M

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Econbrowser Oct 13 Score 0.7460352694444444

The 2026 economic sciences laureates

From the Sveriges Riksbank: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2026 to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabil

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AWS Blog Oct 12 Score 0.7409357203703704

Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions

AWS Lambda Web Functions is a serverless compute primitive that runs your HTTP framework natively, delivering fast, consistent responses through multi-concurrent execution and automated global distribution.

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CyberScoop Oct 12 Score 0.7402985893518519

Flock can now issue CVEs for its own products. Should we trust it?

Flock joined the CVE Program as a CNA, giving the company authority to assign IDs to vulnerabilities in its own surveillance cameras and license plate readers. The post Flock can now issue CVEs for its own products. Should we trust it? appeared first on CyberS

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Dark Reading Oct 12 Score 0.7366609685185185

Prominent Ransomware Negotiator Faces Extortion Charges

Edward Dubrovsky, a longtime cybersecurity executive, was arrested and charged in Pennsylvania last week under conspiracy to extort money.

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Risky Bulletin Oct 12 Score 0.7351556712962963

Between Two Nerds: The FBI and ShinyHunters are the same

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine how ShinyHunters and the FBI both deceived themselves into believing they were immune to cyber threats. This episode is also available on YouTube . Show notes Krebs On Security FBI Director Ka

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TechCrunch — AI Oct 12 Score 0.7332181865740741

Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder

Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.

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NASA News Oct 12 Score 0.7328991273148148

NASA’s SpaceX CRS-35 Mission to Launch Health Research

NASA experiments focused on human and plant health and drug-resistant organisms will travel to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s 35th Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, advancin

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GitHub Blog Oct 12 Score 0.7328580731481481

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase

Learn how to add custom instructions and skills to your repository, use custom agents, and connect MCP servers like Playwright. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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New Scientist Oct 12 Score 0.7316363856481481

The Monte Verde controversy is back: who first lived in the Americas?

The Monte Verde sites in Chile have been the source of arguments among archaeologists for decades. Columnist Michael Marshall finds the row is heating up again – and could change our understanding of the first peoples in the Americas

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New Scientist Oct 12 Score 0.7283030523148148

Do AIs already process information in a way that gives rise to consciousness?

A leading theory of consciousness explains experience as information flowing through a global workspace in the mind. On board a luxury yacht, neuroscientists and philosophers recently debated signs of a similar workspace in the chatbot Claude

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InfoQ Oct 12 Score 0.7265524680555555

Spotify More Than Doubled Monthly Code Changes as AI Accelerated Development

Spotify reports that AI-assisted development more than doubled monthly merged changes, prompting a review of quality and reliability controls across its engineering organization. The company describes changes to testing, observability, rollback capacity, workl

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InfoQ Oct 12 Score 0.7216358013888888

Presentation: You Can't Trust Your AI Bill. And Neither Can I

Erik Peterson discusses why AI spend is eclipsing cloud bills, triggering a major software engineering cost crisis. He explains tokenmaxxing, unit economics, forced developer promotions, and why fully autonomous AI will write, deploy, and govern code by 2028.

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InfoQ Oct 12 Score 0.7214135791666667

React 19.3: Adds a browser() API, Giving Client-Only Rendering a First-Class Name

React 19.3 was released on September 9, introducing several features including the react-dom browser() API. This API allows components to opt out of server-side rendering, addressing issues with components that rely on client-specific data. It provides a clean

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Oct 9 Score 0.7191361527777778

Federal Reserve Board releases results of the 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, which provides the public and policymakers with detailed insights into the economic condition of American families

Federal Reserve Board releases results of the 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, which provides the public and policymakers with detailed insights into the economic condition of American families

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 12 Score 0.7109252287037037

Scientists discover vanilla’s hidden healing potential

Scientists have discovered that vanillin, the compound that gives vanilla its distinctive flavor, has powerful properties that could help fight infections, reduce inflammation, and promote wound healing. The inexpensive, widely available ingredient could one d

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SRE Weekly Oct 12 Score 0.7108979810185185

SRE Weekly Issue #538

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Antithesis: Author and CTO community leader Peter Bell offers engineering leaders a clear, pragmatic framework for adopting and scaling AI across the entire software development lifecycle. Read now: Scaling AI

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NASA News Oct 12 Score 0.710108849537037

APOD: 2026 October 12 – Jupiter and the Moons

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 12 –… 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 feature

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 12 Score 0.704734025

Just 10 minutes of daily exercise could unlock deeper sleep

Getting better sleep might be as simple as moving a little more every day. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin found that people who exercised more frequently experienced more deep, restorative sleep, which is essential for brain recovery, memory,

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Nautilus Oct 12 Score 0.7041363851851851

Can GLP-1s Slow Aging?

New research unveiled by drug makers says yes The post Can GLP-1s Slow Aging? appeared first on Nautilus .

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Lobsters Oct 12 Score 0.6942711833333333

What are you doing this week?

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

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Google Cloud Blog Oct 12 Score 0.692468885648148

Introducing TimesFM 3.0 with multivariate time-series forecasting in BigQuery

Overview Since introducing zero-shot time-series forecasting in BigQuery with AI.FORECAST — initially powered by TimesFM 2.0 and later upgraded to TimesFM 2.5 — you have been able to generate forecasts directly in SQL without training or managing custom models

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Google Cloud Blog Oct 12 Score 0.692468885648148

Trusted Data Apps for the Agentic Data Cloud, powered by Looker

As a business intelligence user, this probably sounds familiar: Most dashboards only provide you with a standardized canvas and a fixed library of charts, and the “analysis” consists of a CSV export that takes you to another system. Or sometimes it's designing

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Google Cloud Blog Oct 12 Score 0.692468885648148

Agentic data science with the Data Agent Kit

Imagine your compliance team notices that payments are taking longer than expected to clear. They suspect fraud, and you’re the data scientist helping figure out which transactions to investigate first. Assembling that shortlist requires ingesting and cleaning

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