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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 19 Score 0.886415148148148

datasette-auth-github 1.0

Release: datasette-auth-github 1.0 I run this GitHub login plugin on the agent.datasette.io demo site and I noticed that my authenticated sessions weren't lasting very long. It turned out that the plugin was setting cookies without a Max-Age parameter, so they

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 19 Score 0.8819179259259259

California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant

California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, US I only noticed this after I had taken the photo: Morris the Northern Gannet is peeking out from behind the base of the sign. Tags: wildlife

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Krebs on Security Sep 16 Score 0.8387020685185186

Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight

The consumer data broker Radaris.com has long had a reputation for ignoring requests to remove personal information from its vast empire of people-search services online. That reputation caught up with the company recently in a lawsuit alleging Radaris violate

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OpenAI News Sep 16 Score 0.836636425462963

Our framework for reporting model misalignment

OpenAI shares a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.

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OpenAI News Sep 16 Score 0.8349697587962964

Helping older adults use AI in everyday life

OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to build practical AI skills safely.

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The Verge Sep 19 Score 0.8128771912037037

Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think

Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to describe itself. Jason At

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The Verge Sep 19 Score 0.8069239504629631

Trump treads further on free speech with new journalist bans

On Friday, the president threatened to ban CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House. It could have just been another one of his Truth Social fever dreams, but it turns out it's very real. All three publications were turned away from the White House this

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The Verge Sep 19 Score 0.803998950462963

Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it

In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party I

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The Verge Sep 19 Score 0.8033031171296297

The colorful, unique Hyte X50 PC case is $50 off

The Hyte X50 is a PC case that really stands out from the typical black box design, and it’s $50 off at the company’s site until September 21st, 2026, bringing the price down to $99.99. This attractive case supports motherboards from ITX all the way up to the

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The Verge Sep 19 Score 0.8033031171296297

Anamanaguchi has ‘too goddamn many’ browser tabs open right now

Anamanaguchi, the band consisting of Peter Berkman, James DeVito, Luke Silas, and Ary Warnaar, are most known for their chiptune music. Like me, you might have first heard them in game soundtracks like 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game or know of th

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BleepingComputer Sep 19 Score 0.8032062347222223

BragJack attacks hijack AI browser agents through malicious extensions

BragJack, a proof-of-concept attack from Forever Security's Gal Weizman, hijacks the AI assistants in Chrome, Edge, Opera Neon, Perplexity Comet, and Claude in Chrome using one malicious extension. The Prompt Forcing technique earned over $20,000 in bounties a

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BleepingComputer Sep 19 Score 0.8017821606481482

North Korean WaterPlum hackers infected 30,000 devices worldwide

A joint law enforcement advisory warns that the North Korean hacking group WaterPlum compromised at least 30,000 devices worldwide from December 2025 through July 2026 and transferred more than $10.7 million in stolen cryptocurrency to North Korea. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 19 Score 0.8013178087962963

ShinyHunters hacks Clop leak site, threatens to extort ransomware gang

The ShinyHunters extortion gang breached the Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware operation's data leak site, defacing the Tor site and allegedly stealing server data and the private keys for its onion service. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 19 Score 0.7977011421296297

Viral AI actress' hotline face-scans every caller, watches their mood

AI actress Tilly Norwood went viral after glitching into Chinese on Piers Morgan Uncensored last night. Her "Talking Tilly" video call service face-scans every caller for an 18+ age check, senses callers' moods during calls, and shuts down permanently on Septe

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Wired Sep 19 Score 0.794969750462963

Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 20 Score 0.7875000000000001

Measuring Racial Disparities in Police Stops: Evidence from Telemetric Mobility Data -- by Xiaofeng Gong, Yuling Han, Susan T. Parker, Matthew B. Ross, Stephen Ross

We establish a reliable counterfactual for evaluating racial disparities in traffic stops using telemetric data to estimate the racial composition of motorists. We measure of motorist racial composition using telemetric mobility data and a novel two-stage corr

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The Guardian — World Sep 18 Score 0.7674042462962963

Survivors recount panic and struggle to breathe in Nigerian prison cell where 37 died

Police fire teargas as protests break out in city of Minna after deaths of suspected illegal goldminers, many of whom were children Survivors from a prison cell in Nigeria where 37 suspected illegal goldminers died while in the custody of a paramilitary group

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The Guardian — World Sep 18 Score 0.7669310976851853

Brazil’s Lula announces higher welfare payments and free weight-loss jabs ahead of election

Critics say moves from leftwing incumbent president are electorally motivated two weeks before Brazil’s elections Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced a 15% increase in the country’s main cash-transfer programme for poor families, as we

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Quanta Magazine Sep 16 Score 0.7598709194444444

Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works. The post Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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The Guardian — World Sep 18 Score 0.7572361907407408

British woman who was kidnapped in Malawi rescued by police after shootout

Four of Nurat Osman’s alleged abductors were killed during rescue after she was taken from outside her home last week A British woman kidnapped in Malawi last week has been rescued by police after a shootout in which four of her alleged abductors were killed.

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Schneier on Security Sep 16 Score 0.7523428018518518

Fake CAPTCHA Scams

New variant of an old scam: Use the framing of a CAPTCHA to get an unsuspecting user to download and run a malicious program.

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The Hacker News Sep 19 Score 0.7343274726851852

Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws

Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a bug in t

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Bellingcat Sep 19 Score 0.7329349203703703

Christy Kinahan's UAE Residence Visa Cancelled

This article is the result of a collaboration with The Sunday Times. You can find their corresponding piece here. Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. Christy Kinahan, the Irish founder of the Kina

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TechCrunch Sep 19 Score 0.7316364152777778

The US Navy just told us what's on its tech wish list for the next several years

Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building next.

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TechCrunch — AI Sep 19 Score 0.7283030819444445

Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes

Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Sep 16 Score 0.7258025949074074

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

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The Hacker News Sep 19 Score 0.7257696023148148

Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar

A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitati

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The Hacker News Sep 19 Score 0.725766361574074

Identity Visibility in 2026: The Foundation of Identity Security

Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This ar

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The Hacker News Sep 19 Score 0.7191719171296296

SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

SolarWinds has released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Access Rights Manager (ARM) that, if successfully exploited, could lead to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28326, is rate

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 17 Score 0.7183028675925927

Schneider Electric PowerChute Serial Shutdown

View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of vulnerabilities in its PowerChute Serial Shutdown product. The PowerChute Serial Shutdown product is a UPS management software enabling graceful system shutdown and energy management capabilities for desktops, s

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Polygon Gaming Sep 20 Score 0.7124778564814814

The 5 Best 'Twilight Zone' Episodes of All Time, Ranked

While The Twilight Zone is free on Tubi, its time to stream the best epsidoes, including “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” "To Serve Man" and more

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Marginal Revolution Sep 20 Score 0.7094077499999999

The polity that is Singapore

…this month, Singapore launched a scheme promising actual cash to citizens as a reward for logging reading time on a government website. It’s unlikely to make you megabucks – you have to rack up 50 reading sessions of at least 15 minutes to earn one Sing

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Marginal Revolution Sep 19 Score 0.6942484907407407

Saturday assorted links

1. Critique of Villaroel on UAPs. 2. Bergen County (Korean) fact of the day. 3. AIs cracking superforecasting. 4. Gregor Benko, RIP (NYT). 5. Joshua Saxe on the increase in cyber risk. 6. Lichtenstein political infighting heats up (FT). 7. Risk, the biggie. An

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One Useful Thing Sep 18 Score 0.6931512555555556

The Overhang

Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency

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Stratechery Sep 18 Score 0.6916363745370371

2026.38: Doomforce

The best Stratechery content from the week of September 14, 2026, including the view from anywhere but San Francisco, the limited potential for a pacing deal, and the Salesforce zag.

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MIT News — AI Sep 18 Score 0.6908030851851852

A new chapter for MIT Reads

A new focus on fiction and memoir aims to help the MIT community celebrate the power of storytelling and strengthen social connection.

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Nautilus Sep 19 Score 0.6858029416666666

This Dolphin Steals from Fish for Its Meals

Putting a dent in dolphins’ reputation as the “good guys of the sea” The post This Dolphin Steals from Fish for Its Meals appeared first on Nautilus .

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Marginal Revolution Sep 19 Score 0.6846160833333332

The Age of Wonders and Terrors

Scott Aaranson, theoretical computer scientist writes: My position on AI is merely the conservative, skeptical position of 2006, updated with intellectual honesty for the reality of late 2026. And that position, if you need me to spell it out, is as follows: A

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 18 Score 0.6818420912037038

Scientists are about to test Einstein’s gravity with exotic matter

Scientists have found a new way to create a controlled beam of muonium, an exotic atom containing a heavier cousin of the electron. The advance could allow researchers to test for the first time whether gravity acts on second-generation particles exactly as Ei

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New Scientist Sep 18 Score 0.6816360453703704

Fishapod fossil shows early elbows came in a variety of forms

The fish that preceded the first four-legged land animals came in a wider variety of forms than we had thought, and fossils show that one had an elbow joint that moved in an oddly restrictive way

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Rest of World Sep 18 Score 0.6799697087962963

The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth

In an excerpt from his book, “Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI,” Alessandro Crimi explains that a tax on automation is more effective than retraining labor.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 18 Score 0.6796504245370371

These blood thinners may have an unexpected benefit for Alzheimer’s patients

Newer blood thinners may do more than prevent strokes in people with Alzheimer’s disease and atrial fibrillation. Researchers found that patients taking NOACs experienced a slower decline in cognitive function than those using warfarin or no blood thinners. Th

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Techmeme Sep 20 Score 0.673441862962963

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)

Ken Bensinger / New York Times : California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post   —  Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5

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Hacker News Sep 20 Score 0.6721786481481482

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Phys.org Sep 19 Score 0.6633051152777778

How the malaria parasite boosts its transmission potential under stress conditions

The malaria parasite is able to detect changes in its host's environment and respond by increasing the production of sexual forms capable of being transmitted to mosquitoes. A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) identifies th

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Hacker News Sep 19 Score 0.6627865185185186

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Phys.org Sep 19 Score 0.660803263425926

Reconstructing the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926

The first storm warning for the Miami area wasn't issued until only a few hours before the powerful cyclone made landfall just south of downtown, leaving residents with little time to prepare for what would become the hurricane of their nightmares.

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Nautilus Sep 18 Score 0.6608029416666665

The Moon has a New Once-in-a-Century Crater

The lunar surface is more dynamic than you might think The post The Moon has a New Once-in-a-Century Crater appeared first on Nautilus .

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TechCrunch — AI Sep 19 Score 0.6533031152777778

AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 18 Score 0.6524669449074073

How to upskill enterprise AI builders by using daily micro habits

As enterprises invest in generative AI, tech leaders keep seeing the same pattern: Developers test AI tools for a week, hit setup problems, and then drift back to the backlog. Nothing ships. The real gap is enablement. In this landmark Harvard Business Review

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