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OpenAI News Oct 29 Score 0.9416367958333334

How we detect frontier model misalignment

OpenAI uses layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior so responders can intervene before incidents escalate.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 29 Score 0.8896501717592592

API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions

API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the equivalent quantity of (expiring) credits to use

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Foreign Policy Oct 29 Score 0.8875623662037037

How Big of a Threat Are the Houthis?

The Saudi ambassador to the U.S. compared them to the Islamic State.

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Foreign Policy Oct 29 Score 0.883282273611111

(Latin) America’s Pastime

The World Series demonstrated the region’s importance to modern-day baseball.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 29 Score 0.8799821162037036

Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models

How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Don't be put off by the clickbait headline, this piece by Jacob Sansbury describing how they are building Spawn is a fascinating exploration of the bleeding edge of what's possible with agentic engineering ag

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Quanta Magazine Oct 29 Score 0.8769683624999999

How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?

Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 29 Score 0.8751492458333332

Quoting Ben Hylak

every product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath. except for our product, of course. in our product, customers love the ui and love us very much. we're special that way. —

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Foreign Policy Oct 29 Score 0.870894310648148

No One Has a Plan for American Decline

Amid Washington’s fractious foreign-policy debate, there’s one possibility too grim to think about.

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Oct 29 Score 0.8304643976851851

Ignore AI and ask for that pay rise

Fear of a technological revolution may be suppressing wages

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The Verge Oct 29 Score 0.816561826851852

The director of Obsession put a new horror short on YouTube

Curry Barker, the director behind the hit horror film Obsession, just published a new horror short on YouTube. The short, titled "Mama Bear," is nearly five minutes long. The video is pretty unnerving, and fair warning that it gets a little graphic, but it's a

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The Verge Oct 29 Score 0.8161465490740741

Intel says it's selling every affordable laptop chip it can make

During Intel's latest earnings call, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said that demand for its budget-focused Wildcat Lake chips "is outstripping supply." According to CFO David Zinsner, the chips are now sold out. Zinsner said Intel has "seen significant growth in Wildcat Lake

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BleepingComputer Oct 29 Score 0.8145639935185186

Binance probes potential $5.8 billion crypto-theft hack

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security breach involving up to $5.8 billion in digital assets, in what could become the largest cryptocurrency hack in history. [...]

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The Verge Oct 29 Score 0.8138460861111112

Reddit’s CEO says Google’s AI Mode ‘does not drive traffic’

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in an earnings call today that Google's AI-powered search modes do not help with traffic to the platform, echoing problems facing other websites and publishers. As part of its Q3 2026 earnings, Reddit revealed that search traffic

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BleepingComputer Oct 29 Score 0.8135644564814816

Hugging Face malware campaign returns to hijack GPUs for crypto mining

A crypto-mining campaign abusing Hugging Face models returned days after takedown, hijacking GPU servers and planting backdoors, with one model downloaded over 28,000 times. Separately, a fake Solana starter kit on GitHub is positioned to trick AI coding agent

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BleepingComputer Oct 29 Score 0.8129538083333334

Polymarket halts trading after crypto-draining script breach, $2.5M traced

Prediction market platform Polymarket temporarily suspended trading on Thursday after hackers compromised a third-party service to distribute cryptocurrency-draining JavaScript, with approximately $2.5 million in assets traced to a suspected attacker wallet. [

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Wired Oct 29 Score 0.8112367935185186

What to Know About China’s Top-Secret Spaceplane

This week, the Pentagon released a full-resolution image of the vehicle, the capabilities of which remain rather mysterious.

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The Verge Oct 29 Score 0.810248863888889

Patrick Stewart has died at age 86

Patrick Stewart, best known for his roles in Star Trek and X-Men, has died at age 86. A message posted to Stewart's Instagram account says the actor died in his Los Angeles home on Wednesday "following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease and

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The Verge Oct 29 Score 0.8101646046296297

Reddit will force everyone to log in

Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It's going to start requiring users to log in. Right now, you can browse Reddit without having an account, and the site is generally a great resource for crowdsourced information on a whole range of topics. I know I'm not the

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Wired Oct 29 Score 0.8094590157407409

Nothing Headphones Sale: Stylish and Up to 41% Off

Some of the brand’s best styles, including the Nothing Headphone (1) and CMF Headphone Pro, are at the lowest prices I’ve ever seen ahead of Black Friday.

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 29 Score 0.8088382365740742

Microsoft Research Focus – Edition #97

Host Sowbhagya Suresh shares some of the latest news and cutting-edge research from across Microsoft—from understanding the challenges facing coding agents to uncovering how people use AI at work and improving extended-range weather forecasting. The post Micro

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War on the Rocks Oct 29 Score 0.8070792444444446

What Israel’s Election Results Mean for the Middle East and Beyond

Israeli elections on Oct. 27 produced a complex result, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc nor the opposition alliance, led by Gadi Eisenkot, winning enough seats in the Knesset to form a government. The opposition faces a tricky choice: att

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War on the Rocks Oct 29 Score 0.8067843370370371

What's a Revolution in Military Affairs Good For?

For decades, militaries have chased the next revolution in warfare. But what actually makes a revolution in military affairs revolutionary? Is there one happening now? Does it matter? Is it just about drones and AI or something more? Ryan digs into the promise

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The Guardian — World Oct 29 Score 0.8063526240740742

Cuts like a knife: Canadian rocker Bryan Adams trolls Trump with new song

Musician wrote a ‘love letter’ to Canada with a new album – and some pointed commentary about the US president Lake Ontario, the vast body of water that straddles the US-Canada border, has gone by many names over the centuries: Lac Saint-Louis, Lacus Ontarius,

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The Guardian — World Oct 29 Score 0.8062651240740741

Brazil’s victory for the planet and democracy: seven lessons from Lula’s win

The trouncing of the far right provides a playbook for social and environmental movements in other countries facing elections, including the US, Spain and France Thank you, Brazil, for demonstrating how the far right can be trounced while protection for the Am

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MIT Technology Review Oct 29 Score 0.7969145300925926

The Download: AI agent tracking and climate feedback loops

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. Opinion: We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time —Madhulika Srikumar and Claire Leibowicz from the Par

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 29 Score 0.7966364449074075

Siemens Mendix SAML Module

View CSAF Summary Mendix SAML module contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to gain unauthorized access by replaying a valid SAML assertion in IdP-initiated authentication flows. Siemens has released

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 29 Score 0.7966364449074075

Hitachi Energy TRO600 series products

View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of multiple vulnerabilities that affect the TRO600 series product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited for remote code execution (RCE) to carry out further attacks and disclosure of

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 29 Score 0.7966364449074075

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-97229 GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability CVE-2026-76418 C

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 29 Score 0.7966364449074075

Hitachi Energy CoreTec Product

View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of OS command injection and Dirty Frag vulnerabilities that affect CoreTec product versions listed in this document. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in impact on confidentiality, integrity

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MIT Technology Review Oct 29 Score 0.7936145300925926

We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time

This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another OpenAI

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MIT Technology Review Oct 29 Score 0.7933034189814816

Our climate models have a big, dangerous blind spot

Climate change itself is increasingly fueling climate change. Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are driving up global temperatures, setting off dangerous feedback loops that we have not fully accounted for in our climate models—or our emissions-reducti

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SANS Internet Storm Center Oct 29 Score 0.787127613888889

Deploying a Local Ghidra Server for Your Malware Analysis Lab, (Thu, Oct 29th)

Building your malware analysis lab is a key point before playing with malware. Today, thanks to virtualization, it's convenient to play with snapshots in your lab. Start a new investigation from a clean snapshot and take

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Quanta Magazine Oct 26 Score 0.7564831773148147

How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle

A new topological model connects a centuries-old voting paradox to a surface with no distinct inside or outside. The post How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Oct 26 Score 0.7500677027777777

Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model

Interesting research : TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. For the first time, we showed that this vulnerability lives i

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NASA News Oct 30 Score 0.7484422930555555

APOD: 2026 October 30 – Haunting the Cepheus Flare

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 30 –… 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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NASA News Oct 30 Score 0.7483311819444445

Vega Island Frozen in Fright

The sight of an icy skull-like visage on the Antarctic island could make one’s blood run cold.

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NASA News Oct 30 Score 0.7418492375

Map Showing Potential Origins of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001

Description This global map of Mars shows 13 locations that match the mineralogy and chemistry of Teghaza 001, one of the most ancient Martian meteorites ever found on Earth. While scientists can never know for sure where a Martian meteorite originated, Teghaz

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NASA News Oct 29 Score 0.740875163425926

Slice of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001

Description This slice of Teghaza 001, one of the most ancient Martian meteorites ever found on Earth, was used to determine the age of the rock. Reflected light images like these serve as a scientist’s road map, helping them find minerals of interest to analy

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NASA News Oct 29 Score 0.7378696078703704

Halloween Aboard the International Space Station

Although no ghouls, goblins, or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting laboratory still like to get in the Halloween spirit. Whether individually or as an entire crew, they dress up in

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New Scientist Oct 29 Score 0.7349697175925926

Plant biology provides inspiration for PFAS replacement

Forever chemicals are renowned for their durability and their non-stick properties, but they persist for years in the environment. An alternative inspired by plants doesn't have the same problem

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Econbrowser Oct 29 Score 0.732925861574074

U.S. GDP grows more in Q3

The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that seasonally adjusted U.S. real GDP grew at a 3.4% annual rate in the third quarter. That is a little above the historical average growth of 3.1% and better than the numbers we'd been seeing over the last thre

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Martin Fowler Oct 29 Score 0.7257469310185185

Bliki: LLM Voice

Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading the output of an LLM. I can't necessarily define why, although there are the common tells (it's not the em-dashes, it's the load-bearing tapestries). As I do this my desire to read on atr

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Martin Fowler Oct 29 Score 0.7246913754629629

Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?

TL;DR Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production. I’ve been surprised by how many excellent developers have been hesitant to go all in on coding agents. These are people who usually

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 29 Score 0.7237161740740741

A single brain signal may explain schizophrenia's most puzzling symptoms

Scientists have identified a weakened brain signal that may connect several seemingly unrelated symptoms of schizophrenia, including sensory processing difficulties, disorganized speech, and greater symptom severity. The surprising discovery could help explain

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 29 Score 0.723416174537037

Six popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging

A study of nearly 13,000 adults found that people consuming the most artificial sweeteners experienced a 62% faster decline in memory and thinking skills, equivalent to approximately 1.6 additional years of brain aging. Six popular sweeteners were linked to fa

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FRED Blog Oct 29 Score 0.7233024296296297

Updates to MSA maps in FRED

FRED updates its metropolitan statistical area (MSA) maps to reflect the U.S. Census Bureau's core-based statistical area delineations.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 29 Score 0.722716637037037

A 700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals a lost world where early humans lived

A remarkably preserved elephant tooth dating back nearly 700,000 years has revealed a surprisingly lush prehistoric world where giant elephants and early humans lived side by side. Discovered in northern Israel alongside ancient stone tools, the tooth belonged

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InfoQ Oct 29 Score 0.7211081027777778

How to Make Artificial Intelligence More Environmentally Sustainable

IT is responsible for about 2 - 4% of all global emissions, and electricity use at Microsoft and Google has climbed because of AI, according to their own reports. Sustainability ought to be a top-level architectural concern. Some recommendations are: use pre-b

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Kubernetes Blog Oct 29 Score 0.7099695421296296

From Working Group to SIG Architecture: spotlight on AI Conformance

In this SIG Architecture spotlight we talked with Janet Kuo (Google) and Yuan Tang (Red Hat) about the journey of AI Conformance in Kubernetes, from the initial Working Group to the integration SIG Architecture as a subproject. Introductions Frederico Muñoz an

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Lobsters Oct 29 Score 0.6990446374999999

London meetup

Hi everyone, I recently saw a post about an NYC lobsters meetup, and am wondering how many people here could make it to a London meetup. If more than a couple of people here are based in London and can make it, I'll organise one in central London. If you could

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Lobsters Oct 29 Score 0.698406211574074

C2PA's eMudhra Moment

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