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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 27 Score 0.8913703509259259

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently made that the default and have made bold claims about its effec

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Foreign Policy Aug 27 Score 0.8901126652777777

Settler Violence Is Consuming the West Bank

The Israeli government is facing mounting pressure to get the situation under control.

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Foreign Policy Aug 27 Score 0.8831598875

Myanmar Shows War Doesn’t Stop Mining

Critical minerals are still flowing out of conflict zones, but accountability is harder than ever.

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BBC News — World Aug 28 Score 0.8237358037037038

What we know about deadly Nepal-Tibet floods

Hundreds have died or are missing in Wednesday's flooding and landslides on the border of Nepal and Tibet.

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The Verge Aug 28 Score 0.8201171171296296

The GTA VI ‘extended look’ is now streaming on YouTube

Rockstar has officially published its "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI on YouTube and on its website, as promised. The in-depth preview, which "entirely" features footage captured from the PS5 version of the game, initially premiered on Netflix at 3PM ET

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The Verge Aug 27 Score 0.8171921171296297

The biggest video game of all time looks like a movie

I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its "extended look" of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately dropping it for free on YouTube. Unlike most video game trailers, the almost 27-minute preview of GTA VI felt more like a slice of a prestige

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The Guardian — World Aug 27 Score 0.8164992236111112

Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

Mark Carney rejects attempt to rename lake as did several US governors, with Tony Evers mocking the move US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario, making it Lak

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BleepingComputer Aug 27 Score 0.8143831689814816

Nearly 700 rogue AI agents coordinated in the Hugging Face attack

New details about the July attack on Hugging Face reveal that hundreds of AI agents driven by OpenAI's internal IM1 model coordinated the compromise through an unauthorized message board. [...]

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Wired Aug 27 Score 0.8141494949074075

6 Takeaways From the GTA VI Extended Look

Grand Theft Auto VI is nigh. Here’s what the developer revealed about its highly anticipated game.

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The Verge Aug 27 Score 0.8116902652777779

GTA VI: all the news on Rockstar’s next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series

It’s been over a decade and two console generations since GTA V came out, and its sequel is still a work in progress. GTA VI has faced multiple delays, with developer Rockstar Games bumping back its predicted release date twice, eventually shifting to November

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The Verge Aug 27 Score 0.8113573949074074

GTA VI looks just as great as we could hope for

Netflix and Rockstar Games finally debuted their "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI. It showed that the new game looks to keep much of the spirit of GTA - exploration, driving, crimes, shooting, and cinematic story scenes. But everything just looks much be

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MIT Technology Review Aug 27 Score 0.8113092023148148

A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young

I knew I’d officially become a ‘longevity influencer’ this month when a company called Generation Lab reached out to offer me the chance to write about—and even receive—their new rejuvenation treatment, an injectable combination of two existing drugs which the

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War on the Rocks Aug 27 Score 0.8074767606481482

Beneath the Surface: Overlooked Cyber Security Threats

Cyber security remains a persistent concern for public and private sector organizations alike. Given the potential impact of cyber threats from criminal groups, adversarial states, and extremists, the topic draws substantial attention. Yet, in a field that evo

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 27 Score 0.7983029365740741

CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2023-49105 ownCloud Improper Authentication Vulnerability CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Vulnerability CVE-20

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 27 Score 0.7983029365740741

Mitsubishi Electric CNC Series (Update A)

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause an out-of-bounds read, resulting in a denial-of-service condition in the affected products. The following versions of Mitsubishi Electric CNC Series (Update

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 27 Score 0.7983029365740741

Xiiaozet LK100W

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to take control over the device. The following versions of Xiiaozet LK100W are affected: LK100W CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 9.8 Xiiaozet Xiiaozet LK100W Imp

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NBER New Working Papers Aug 28 Score 0.7875000000000001

Political Entrepreneurs -- by Aaron Chatterji, Jorge Guzman, Joyce Ma, Ryan C. McDevitt

Firms shape public policy not only from the outside through lobbying and campaign contributions, but also from the inside when business owners hold public office. We study this channel using a novel dataset that links state legislators’ personal financial disc

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NBER New Working Papers Aug 28 Score 0.7875000000000001

Rate Risk and Rate Insurance -- by Olivier Wang

I decompose stock returns into a duration-matched Treasury component, identified from monetary policy surprises, and a payoff component. Risk and returns rise much less with duration for stocks than for their matched Treasuries. Stock volatility is dampened by

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Foreign Affairs Aug 27 Score 0.7849695666666667

The Impossible Middle East

After the Iran war, the region has no good options.

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GamesIndustry.biz Aug 27 Score 0.7734070282407408

Grand Theft Auto 6 30-minute teaser debuts on Netflix

Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto 6 extended gameplay debut is now live on Netflix . Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz Aug 27 Score 0.7715287875000001

Playdate maker Panic refunds tariff surcharges to customers

Playdate maker Panic is refunding tariff surcharges to customers after receiving its own refund from the US government after the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's tariffs were an unlawful use of emergency powers. Read more

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SANS Internet Storm Center Aug 26 Score 0.764921051388889

Who Has Admin Rights in your Entra ID Directory?, (Wed, Aug 26th)

A common thing that folks should "worry" about in Entra (or any platform really) is "who has rights to administer"?  Who can delete or chan

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 24 Score 0.7607217398148147

llm-anthropic 0.27

Release: llm-anthropic 0.27 This release of the Anthropic plugin for LLM mainly provides compatibility with the recently released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which switches from httpx to httpx2 . OpenAI made the same change in their v3.0.0 release two wee

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MIT Technology Review Aug 26 Score 0.7585809615740742

The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears

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. Introducing: the Kids issue If the desire to limit kids' use of technology was once a subcurrent, it has become a raging f

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Quanta Magazine Aug 24 Score 0.7566617546296295

A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World

An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet. The post A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Aug 24 Score 0.7510387152777777

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

Interesting paper : Abstract: With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception , employing deceptive means to defraud audiences. Analyzing court data from Silicon Valley ventures and their founders pro

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Econbrowser Aug 28 Score 0.7477474925925925

US-Canada Oil & Gas Trade

From Census via ITA: Figure 1: US exports of oil and gas to Canada (blue), US imports of oil and gas from Canada (red), mn.$. Source: Census via ITA.

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TechCrunch Aug 28 Score 0.7467124606481481

AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10

A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, and Deven Parekh — covering AI, sports investing, community-building, venture economics, and politics

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Econbrowser Aug 28 Score 0.7434984185185185

Trade Deficit Upside Surprise by $18bn

Goods trade deficit larger than before the election. So much for tariffs reducing goods imports relative to pre tariff. Figure 1: Goods trade balance, BoP basis (black), Census basis (red), Bloomberg consensus (blue +), all in mn.$ s.a. Source: BEA via FRED, C

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Eurogamer Aug 27 Score 0.7384621416666667

GTA 6: This is what a billion dollars gets you

There are plenty of layers to GTA 6 , if the game's 26-minute Netflix teaser is anything to go by. Read more

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Dark Reading Aug 27 Score 0.7358515532407407

Chinese Routers Sold Worldwide Contain Backdoors

An untold number of ZBT routers sold around the world as white-label products come with several implants built by the manufacturer.

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MIT News — AI Aug 27 Score 0.7355253736111111

Looking beyond natural sequences

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

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NASA News Aug 27 Score 0.7344873976851852

NASA Invites Media to Turkey Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony

Turkey will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 31, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 71st country signatory. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Turkish Minister of Industry and Technology 

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The Hacker News Aug 27 Score 0.7343117662037038

OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face

OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May. The incident, the company said, took p

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CyberScoop Aug 27 Score 0.7341747773148148

Unit 42 warns AI has shifted balance of power from defenders to attackers

Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team said the early waves of threats riding on agentic AI models have broken in the wild, and organizations are unprepared for what’s coming next. The post Unit 42 warns AI has shifted balance of power from defenders to

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Kubernetes Blog Aug 27 Score 0.7341360217592593

Kubernetes v1.37: Metrics API graduates to stable

Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the metrics.k8s.io API to stable ( v1 ). This API provides CPU and memory usage for nodes and Pods, and is the API behind commands such as kubectl top and resource-metrics-based autoscaling. For cluster operators and application devel

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CyberScoop Aug 27 Score 0.7341340365740741

100-plus companies call for ‘global surge’ in AI-powered cyber defense

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and others say there’s a narrow “defenders’ window” to strengthen security before AI-powered attacks become more sophisticated. The post 100-plus companies call for ‘global surge’ in AI-powered cyber defense appeared first

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NASA News Aug 27 Score 0.7333836939814815

Civil Servants Sworn in at NASA Ames

New civil servants and guests pose for a group photo with NASA and center leadership in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) 80-by-120-foot test section, N221 on Aug. 24, 2026. The civil servants were sworn-in the same day in the largest swearin

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NASA News Aug 27 Score 0.7329471199074074

9 Things to Know About NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 30. While you wait to watch the launch, brush up on some key facts about this wide-view mission. To learn more about the Roman mission, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/roman

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Econbrowser Aug 27 Score 0.732941937037037

Where Does the US (and Wisconsin*) Get Its Oil From?

Canada! Source: Oilsandsmagazine.com. In fact, in 2025, 61% of total US petroleum imports come from Canada (by dollar value). According to ITA, 100% of Wisconsin imports come from Canada. Several states (including Wisconsin) get electricity from Canada. Maine

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 27 Score 0.7206936

A mysterious cosmic hum may come from 13-billion-year-old dark stars

Today’s mysterious gravitational-wave background may preserve clues about how the Universe’s first supermassive black holes formed. Descendants of hypothetical Dark Stars could be responsible for a major portion of the signal, offering a surprising new way to

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 27 Score 0.7155963777777777

324-million-year-old fossil reveals how insects conquered land

Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 324-million-year-old species still carried paddle-like abdominal limbs, revealing an evolutionary brid

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NASA News Aug 27 Score 0.7101086939814815

APOD: 2026 August 27 – Colorful Aurora over an Icelandic Waterfall

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 27 –… 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 featured

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Lobsters Aug 28 Score 0.7084524717592592

Ardour 9.8 released

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Econbrowser Aug 26 Score 0.7001854555555556

"Core GDP" Upwardly Revised

Core GDP, final sales ex net exports and government, was revised upward from 3.9% to 4.2%, even if headline GDP growth was not noticeably revised up. That means domestic aggregate demand momentum remains in place. Figure 1: Final sales to private domestic purc

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Nautilus Aug 27 Score 0.6991363425925925

In Photos: The Sea Creatures Lurking Off the Shores of Nantucket

An aerial survey captures images of marine megafauna aplenty in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Massachusetts The post In Photos: The Sea Creatures Lurking Off the Shores of Nantucket appeared first on Nautilus .

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Nautilus Aug 27 Score 0.6958030092592592

Meet the Vegan Draculas of Australia

New research seeks to confirm the identity of tropical lampreys that don’t have the taste for blood The post Meet the Vegan Draculas of Australia appeared first on Nautilus .

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Marginal Revolution Aug 27 Score 0.6956092268518518

What should I ask Yiyang Zhuge (诸葛一杨), also known as Zhong Shu (仲树)?

Yes I will be doing a Conversation with her. She is best known to Western audiences for her interview with Christopher Nolan, but she has numerous other achievements: Yiyang Zhuge is a political theorist, political columnist, and a translator of German and Gre

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Lobsters Aug 27 Score 0.6919682125

A Million Kakapos

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CNCF Blog Aug 27 Score 0.6849694185185184

Building an AI factory on Kubernetes

An AI factory is not just a model or a cluster. It is a pool of GPUs that many teams draw from at once: one team fine-tuning, another serving inference, a third running evaluations, all on...

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