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Krebs on Security Oct 10 Score 0.9687950907407409

FBI Arrests Founder of 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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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 10 Score 0.8967535537037036

Quoting The New York Times

Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in a blog post on Friday, without naming the targeted websites. But two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A.I. agents had submitted 20 visa applications through a form available on the S

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 9 Score 0.8913206833333333

Deno is joining Cloudflare

Deno is joining Cloudflare The Deno team released the first version of celld back in August - their open source implementation of the Durable Objects pattern from Cloudflare Workers. Today, Cloudflare are acquiring Deno outright, with the goal of building on c

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Foreign Policy Oct 9 Score 0.8880616185185184

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Former ICC Judge

The United States imposed new sanctions on the international body in response.

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Schneier on Security Oct 9 Score 0.8873242472222221

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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Foreign Policy Oct 9 Score 0.8855685629629628

The Global Diesel Crisis, Explained

How did the world reach a tipping point, and who holds the leverage?

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Foreign Policy Oct 9 Score 0.8849930999999999

Arnold Toynbee’s Chinese Century

A forgotten historian enjoys a strange afterlife in Beijing.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 9 Score 0.8783725351851851

Quoting Matthew Green

Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we functionally lose confidence in our existing public-key encryption a

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Quanta Magazine Oct 9 Score 0.8767231912037036

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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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 9 Score 0.8748063314814813

A new feature for my blog, built using my voice

I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I built the feature almost entirely using my voice, chatting away

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 9 Score 0.8542679055555554

ttok 1.0

Release: ttok 1.0 I released ttok 0.4 , ran uv tool upgrade ttok , piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to GPT-5/GPT-6 instead! I figured switching the default was a

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Oct 9 Score 0.8391362912037036

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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The Guardian — World Oct 10 Score 0.8197162083333334

Three men found guilty of murders of Australian surfer brothers and US friend in Mexico

Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, 30 and 33, and friend Carter Rhoad, 30, were killed on a surfing trip in 2024 Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The parents of Australian surfing brothers murdered in Mexico have said “no

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The Guardian — World Oct 10 Score 0.818671300925926

Powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Panama and triggers panic in capital

The quake caused buildings and roads to collapse but the country appeared to escape widespread destruction or deaths A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck southern Panama on Friday, damaging buildings and sending thousands into the streets, but the country appeare

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The Verge Oct 9 Score 0.8146924490740741

Decade-old RAM is making a comeback

CPU makers have noticed that the seemingly unending RAM price hikes are making it tough for a lot of us to upgrade our PCs. Their solution? A return to last-gen DDR4 RAM. Intel and AMD are making new CPUs that'll support the older, more affordable type of memo

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Interconnects Oct 9 Score 0.8142419472222223

I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence

I've often been surprised when I hear from top researchers in industry that they think AI will be better than them at their job in a few years, and I didn't really know why I doubted it.

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The Verge Oct 9 Score 0.8137378194444445

Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide

An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurd

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The Verge Oct 9 Score 0.8111142083333334

Ohio blogger found guilty of harassment for sending Shrek nude to senator

A jury found an Ohio political blogger guilty of telecommunications harassment after he sent an explicit image of Shrek to a Republican state senator. On Friday, a judge ordered DJ Byrnes, owner of political commentary blog The Rooster, to pay a $200 fine, acc

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Wired Oct 9 Score 0.8107706467592594

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

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The Verge Oct 9 Score 0.8102405972222223

'Pure insanity': Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI's latest drop

"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenA

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BleepingComputer Oct 9 Score 0.8071196361111111

Unpatched AhsayCBS flaws exploited to deploy webshells, mine crypto

Threat actors are exploiting one critical and one medium-severity vulnerability still unpatched in the AhsayCBS backup management platform to deploy webshells and cryptocurrency miners. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 9 Score 0.8067057472222223

FBI arrests another suspected ShinyHunters hacker after agency breach

The FBI has arrested another suspected member of the ShinyHunters extortion group believed to be involved in the recent breach of FBI systems, Director Kash Patel announced Friday. [...]

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Wired Oct 9 Score 0.8052238875000001

The DOJ Is Weighing Perjury Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson

The Justice Department is considering a perjury and obstruction-of-justice case against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who testified against Donald Trump to the January 6 committee.

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BleepingComputer Oct 9 Score 0.8016696361111112

How to keep AI agents within their permissions

AI agents can use valid credentials to perform actions beyond their assigned permissions, creating risks that traditional access controls may not prevent. Token Security explains how organizations can enforce agent-specific policies without sacrificing autonom

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MIT Technology Review Oct 9 Score 0.7985812953703705

The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects

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. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. I

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MIT Technology Review Oct 9 Score 0.7933035175925927

Job titles of the future: Delivery drone air traffic controller

The moment Trevor Wischnewsky heard that drones were delivering pizza and sushi around his Texas neighborhood, his mind was made up. “It was super fascinating,” he says. “I just immediately wanted to be a part of it.” Wischnewsky is now an RPIC, or “remote pil

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MIT Technology Review Oct 9 Score 0.7933035175925927

We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no

Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 9 Score 0.7669716916666668

This should be game streaming’s moment. It's not | Opinion

Earlier this week, there was a ripple of excitement among long-suffering Xbox fans over news that the platform had struck an exclusive deal for the streaming rights to Grand Theft Auto VI – suggesting that while the game would launch on both PlayStation

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 9 Score 0.7591642842592593

Video games aren't the enemy of kids' mental health – ignoring them is | Opinion

Video games have become an easy target in conversations about young people's mental health, often without much understanding of the positive role they can play. Parents cite them as the cause of anxiety, isolation, and poor sleep. Researchers, meanwhile, keep

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Liberty Street Economics Oct 9 Score 0.759136313888889

Prices, Prices, Prices: Overall Inflation and the Costs You Care About

As fall starts to show itself in cooler weather, I want to discuss a topic that usually raises temperatures: inflation. Like a budget-conscious consumer, the Federal Reserve is highly attuned to changes in the price of goods and services; minimizing such swing

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Schneier on Security Oct 6 Score 0.7518247101851852

Possible Vulnerability in Apple’s Automatic Reboot

404Media is reporting (alternate link ) that a cyber-weapons arms manufacturer is exploiting a vulnerability in iOS to bypass its automatic reboot security feature. This is the feature that automatically puts an iPhone into a more secure state if it hasn't bee

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Econbrowser Oct 9 Score 0.7427058375

Judy Shelton @ Treasury

From Bloomberg: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent named Judy Shelton, a former nominee to the Federal Reserve board and a onetime gold-standard enthusiast, as an adviser to counsel him on issues including China’s financial system. Press release here. Even in th

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Econbrowser Oct 9 Score 0.7392169486111111

U.Mich. Sentiment Down (Again)

Preliminary at 46.3 < 47.5 Bloomberg consensus with expectations above consensus, and current conditions below. Here's a picture of indicators, using the Cummings-Tedeschi adjusted U.Michigan series (all series standardized): Figure 1: U.Michigan Economic

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Dark Reading Oct 9 Score 0.7382625185185185

ASOS Breach Reveals the Risks in Customer-Facing SaaS

The attack on the British retailer shows that compromising a single identity can lead to much deeper penetration of the corporate network.

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Dark Reading Oct 9 Score 0.7357041851851852

AI Scramble Drives Cybersecurity M&A Boom

Welcome to another gangbuster year for strategic M&A activity in cyber, with 117 deals announced in the latest quarter. What's different: Many of the buyers are not your typical cybersecurity firms.

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NASA News Oct 9 Score 0.7336293805555556

NASA Seeks US Industry Plans for Commercial Space Stations

NASA is advancing American leadership in space by taking the next step toward a future where commercial space stations lead the way in low Earth orbit. On Friday, the agency released its final Request for Proposals inviting industry to submit plans for the nex

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The Hacker News Oct 9 Score 0.7328987449074074

FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal Hack

The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in September it had breached the FBI's jobs portal and stolen sensitiv

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NASA News Oct 9 Score 0.7316201212962963

NASA Demonstrates Next-Generation Heat Shield Technologies

NASA is testing heat shields that can keep astronauts safe as they return from missions to the Moon and Mars in an unusual way: by taking out the trash. When Northrop Grumman 24th cargo resupply mission for NASA undocked from the International Space Station, i

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GitHub Blog Oct 9 Score 0.7299697703703704

Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build

The barriers to building software have collapsed. Today, anyone can build. Hackathons are a great place to start learning. The post Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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New Scientist Oct 9 Score 0.728303325462963

Tattoos could be turned on and off with light

A new type of ink could overcome one of the main downsides of tattoos: the inability to make them invisible

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InfoQ Oct 9 Score 0.7274415875

Github Migrates Copilot Runtime to Rust with AI-Assisted Rewrite

GitHub migrated more than 800,000 lines of Copilot runtime code from TypeScript and Node.js to Rust in about 14.5 weeks using AI-assisted development. The incremental migration used N-API interoperability, automated testing, human review, and 128 pull requests

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NASA News Oct 9 Score 0.7265645657407407

Cosmic House of Mirrors

Galaxies warp and multiply as if in a house of mirrors in this image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released on Sept. 29, 2026. The brilliant golden galaxies seen here are part of a galaxy cluster called MACS J0454.1-0300. The orange galaxies bunched t

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New Scientist Oct 9 Score 0.7255787884259259

Nearly 1 in 10 young adults could have fatty, narrow arteries

Atherosclerosis, the build-up of fatty plaque in arteries, usually affects people older than 50, but a "meaningful" proportion of younger adults also have the condition

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InfoQ Oct 9 Score 0.7233026986111111

CircleCI Makes Machine Runner Orchestrator Generally Available

CircleCI has made its Machine Runner Orchestrator 1.0.0 generally available, providing automated scaling of self-hosted machine runner virtual machines according to CI workload demand. By Craig Risi

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 9 Score 0.7205360231481481

Scientists find hidden materials that could improve batteries and solar fuels

Scientists have uncovered a hidden world of “in-between” materials that briefly form as chemical ingredients are heated, revealing structures that conventional methods can miss. Among the discoveries is a previously unknown form of bismuth vanadate, a material

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Lobsters Oct 9 Score 0.7013597347222221

Cloudflare shutting down Deno is news, not just PR

Requesting the currently-removed post for https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare be restored. Thread: https://lobste.rs/s/8hauxs/deno_is_joining_cloudflare My reasoning: It isn't just PR, but significant tech news that Cloudflare is buying up open source teams while

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Marginal Revolution Oct 9 Score 0.6963845532407407

The origin of risk

From the QJE, by Alexandr Kopytov, Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel, and Zebang Xu: We propose a tractable model in which risk, at both the micro and macro levels, is endogenous and driven by incentives. In the model, each firm chooses the mean and the variance of

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Lobsters Oct 9 Score 0.6943314939814814

Python 3.15.0

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Marginal Revolution Oct 9 Score 0.6931377939814813

Ethiopia update

Ethiopia is the center of the world right now as it has returned to war. Ethiopian forces retook Mekelle from rebel forces, but the fighting has extended beyond Tigray. Eritrean forces allegedly entered Tigray, and Ethiopia responded with drone attacks. The wa

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Google Cloud Blog Oct 9 Score 0.6924688944444444

What’s new with Google Data Cloud

October 5 - October 9 Data Agent Kit is now generally available to bring Google Data Cloud to any coding agent Data Agent Kit provides a free collection of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools and Google-authored agent skills that connect more than 15 Google Dat

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