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The Verge Oct 11 Score 0.8118233287037038

A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contact and it refused

In April of 2025, Elgin Community College had six Flock safety cameras installed to "enhance the safety and security of students." But by September of that year, the school's administration grew concerned that Flock was sharing data with Customs and Border Pat

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The Verge Oct 11 Score 0.809246013888889

Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI

When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley's most po

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The Verge Oct 11 Score 0.8075011064814815

The new Apple TV could have a built-in mic and a remote with a speaker

The latest rumors are that the new Apple TV will have a built-in microphone, while the upgraded remote will get a speaker. The mic would let users control the set-top box using Siri without having to speak into the remote or a connected HomePod device. That co

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The Verge Oct 11 Score 0.8042663842592593

NASA dumped over 800GB of Artemis II data online

If you thought you'd seen all there is to see from the Artemis II mission, you're wrong. This week NASA posted over 800GB worth of science data, images, and videos on the Artemis II: Sights & Sounds of Science site. The archive includes over 11,000 photos

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The Verge Oct 11 Score 0.803720087962963

George A. Romero’s Season of the Witch is a slow-burn feminist occult drama

George A. Romero is obviously best known as the father of the modern zombie movie. But between inventing the genre with Night of the Living Dead and his outbreak horror, The Crazies, Romero made two much lesser-known films: There's Always Vanilla, which I'll a

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BleepingComputer Oct 11 Score 0.8022968236111112

Nippon Columbia malware incident exposes 8.6 million karaoke fan records

Daiichi Kosho, a major Japanese entertainment system maker, disclosed that a malware infection at its contractor, Nippon Columbia, exposed more than 8.7 million customer and employee records. [...]

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The Guardian — World Oct 11 Score 0.8012323222222223

Thousands without power in Florida and Alabama as Isaias moves north

At least four deaths linked to storm amid warnings of flash flooding that could stretch into Appalachians As what was left of Hurricane Isaias moved north on Sunday, bringing moderate to heavy rainfall across the central Appalachians and the mid-Atlantic regio

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Wired Oct 11 Score 0.7958033949074075

Inside the Muslim Manosphere Policing Women Online

From Red Pill coaches to “Dawah Bros,” influencers are dressing up hypermasculinity and misogyny in religious language—and finding audiences across social platforms.

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The Guardian — World Oct 11 Score 0.7912341740740741

Missing Australian hiker Jordan Yap last seen on remote trail found dead in Peru

Family and friends say Melbourne man should be remembered for ‘immense joy he brought to so many people’s lives’ Follow our Australia politics live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast An Australian trekker who w

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 12 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 12 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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Schneier on Security Oct 8 Score 0.7518472749999999

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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Politico Europe Oct 12 Score 0.7491364777777778

Wie Trumps Ölkrise zur Ukraine-Frage wird

Donald Trump verkündet eine „Energie-Waffenruhe“ zwischen der Ukraine und Russland an. Fraglich allerdings ist, was die beiden Länder davon wirklich wissen. Um den heimischen Druck durch steigende Ölpreise abzufedern, lockert Trump zuvor die Sanktionen gegen R

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Risky Bulletin Oct 12 Score 0.7478486060185185

Risky Bulletin: ShinyHunters suspects arrested in US and Jordan

Two ShinyHunters suspects arrested in Jordan and the US, hackers breach TLD registrars to get valid Google certs, Japanese authorities arrest a Qilin ransomware member and Google suspends its open-source bug bounty program after a flood of AI bug reports. Show

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TechCrunch — AI Oct 11 Score 0.7387108208333333

Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?

Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date.

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Risky Bulletin Oct 11 Score 0.7354689763888889

Sponsored: AI is attacking… it needs to defend, too

In this Risky Business sponsored interview James Wilson chats with Prowler’s founder and CEO Toni de la Fuente about how AI now allows pretty much anyone to vibe-code “killer apps”. These custom apps are often internal for organisations and hosted on the cloud

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Oct 8 Score 0.7299695861111111

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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InfoQ Oct 11 Score 0.7183026134259259

Foresight AI Brings Gremlin Agents to Reliability Engineering

Reliability management company Gremlin has announced the general availability of Foresight AI, an agentic product that analyses services for potential failures, recommends changes and reruns tests to check that a fix works. By Matt Saunders

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InfoQ Oct 11 Score 0.7142748356481482

AWS Introduces Enhanced Custom Event Buses for EventBridge

AWS recently announced enhanced custom event buses for Amazon EventBridge, allowing organizations to share a centralized bus across accounts with ordered delivery, simplified subscriber management, event replay, content-based deduplication, and a new publisher

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 11 Score 0.7133558287037037

The eye has a hidden cleanup system scientists never knew existed

Scientists have discovered a hidden cleanup system at the back of the eye that drains fluid and waste through a previously unknown pathway. The surprising finding, demonstrated in mice, could open the door to new treatments for glaucoma, macular degeneration,

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NASA News Oct 11 Score 0.7101089074074074

APOD: 2026 October 11 – Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 11 – Ice… 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 fea

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 11 Score 0.7084859212962963

Scientists build a nuclear clock that could make atomic clocks obsolete

Scientists in Vienna have achieved a major breakthrough in timekeeping by creating the world’s first self-stabilizing nuclear clock, a technology that could eventually surpass even the most precise atomic clocks. Instead of relying on electrons in atoms, the c

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Lobsters Oct 12 Score 0.7079736018518518

'AI' is Not a Tool

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 11 Score 0.7045701805555555

Neanderthals may have used prehistoric glue as an ancient antibiotic

Neanderthals may have used a sticky substance made from birch bark to treat wounds thousands of years before antibiotics existed. Researchers recreated ancient birch tar production techniques and discovered that every sample could inhibit the growth of bacteri

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 11 Score 0.7039507361111111

Scientists created a tiny device that can control your nerves to treat chronic pain

Scientists have developed a tiny, injectable device that can control nerve activity without surgery, batteries, or wires, potentially transforming treatment for chronic pain and movement disorders. Powered wirelessly from outside the body, the seed-sized techn

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Lobsters Oct 11 Score 0.7001393425925925

D-Bus Hell

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Lobsters Oct 11 Score 0.6941351759259259

Arena Allocators in C

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Marginal Revolution Oct 11 Score 0.6929507027777777

Sunday assorted links

1. Was Leonardo da Vinci Jewish? 2. Twenty things to listen to in classical music. 3. Ezra Klein and Arvind Narayanan on AI as a normal technology (NYT). 4. Gans and Acemoglu on AI. 5. The return of Audrey Niffenegger. 6. Podcasts as the new form of comedy? (N

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Nautilus Oct 11 Score 0.6891365597222221

A Distant Planet Emitted a Burst of Radio Waves. Why?

Astronomers pinpoint the origin of a 10 billion‑year‑old millisecond signal from space The post A Distant Planet Emitted a Burst of Radio Waves. Why? appeared first on Nautilus .

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Marginal Revolution Oct 11 Score 0.6845344990740739

Sky Roomba!

I bought a robot window cleaner. I have some high windows which need a ladder just to get the bottom and with this I can just start the robot at the bottom, it cleans the window and then returns to the start point. The bot cost me considerably less than it wou

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 8 Score 0.6783031916666667

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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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 8 Score 0.6783031916666667

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 0.6783031912037037

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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Phys.org Oct 11 Score 0.6655258000000001

'DNA Typewriter' records cells' history in developing mouse embryo

Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the family tree of cells in a developing mouse embryo. They recorded cells' relationships, starting when the fertilized egg first split in two and ending after the body and its organs took shape. That period las

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Phys.org Oct 11 Score 0.6588591333333333

Quantum 'birthmarks' hold lasting traces of a system's past

Some classical physical systems can explore many configurations over time until their long-term behavior no longer reveals their starting conditions. The sampling of available configurations according to the appropriate statistical distribution is a property c

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Phys.org Oct 11 Score 0.6583063555555556

New study shows effects of hypoxia in Florida's Banana River

A new study by Florida Tech assistant professor of marine sciences Austin Fox, Ph.D. '15, found that low oxygen levels are contributing to the rerelease of nutrients buried on the river floor that feed harmful algal blooms. The study was based on the most

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Phys.org Oct 11 Score 0.657514688888889

Conservation groups alarmed at marine mammals' deaths in Spain

Conservation groups on Sunday condemned the death of a dolphin transferred from France to a Spanish marine park, saying it added to the deaths of other sea mammals recently moved to Spain from Canada.

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Dark Reading Oct 9 Score 0.6449697916666667

Social Engineering AI Agents: The New BEC for 2026

As AI agents gain authority over business systems, attackers can manipulate them like business email compromise (BEC) victims.

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HuggingFace Blog Oct 7 Score 0.6405547333333333

Introducing Falcon ASR

Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.

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Quanta Magazine Oct 5 Score 0.6360842949074073

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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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 6 Score 0.6055002453703704

What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complex

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Interconnects Oct 6 Score 0.6022668398148149

The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken

Open-weights, ideology, and acknowledging trade-offs.

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