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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 10 Score 0.8967824939814814

Quoting OpenClaw

The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from #4 to #3 already. — OpenClaw , hacking an Australian gym-booking

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 9 Score 0.8925153643518517

Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S. Department of Commerce export controls; the Department lifted those controls on June 30, 2026, and Anthropic

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 9 Score 0.8913051791666666

GitHub Models is now retired

GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as part of a scheduled retirement brownout. That message is alre

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 9 Score 0.8901084199074073

SQLite compressed text-history prototypes

Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about taking the full text of every prior version in a big JSON arra

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Krebs on Security Aug 6 Score 0.8366619745370372

Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions

A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud data storage provider Snowflake.

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The Verge Aug 9 Score 0.8124283319444445

No Dogs in Space is a music history podcast for true obsessives

Sadly, there hasn't been a new episode of No Dogs in Space since July of 2024. Part four of the podcast's series on Can wrapped up an abbreviated season three, which focused on experimental rock. Don't get me wrong, I loved seasons one and two, but the show se

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The Guardian — World Aug 9 Score 0.8088696319444445

Canadian government steps in as ‘out of control’ wildfires force thousands to flee

British Columbia battling 102 fires day and night across province, as breakneck speed hampers firefighters’ efforts Canada’s federal government has announced it will provide urgent assistance to British Columbia after an onslaught of unprecedented fast-moving

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The Verge Aug 9 Score 0.8072056467592593

Zuckerberg's yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat

Earlier this week, the Alaskan cruise ship Wilderness Legacy rescued a small skiff stranded near Farragut Bay after running out of fuel. But, according to tracking data reviewed by the Alaska Beacon and Halifax Shipping News, the closest vessel was actually Ma

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The Verge Aug 9 Score 0.8048811097222223

49ers coach says his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed

Four weeks ago, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was involved in an accident near downtown Palo Alto. At the time Shanahan said only that the accident was his fault. But during a recent press conference he shared more details about the incident, includi

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Interconnects Aug 9 Score 0.8032246097222223

Lessons from the hacks

Musings on model alignment, what determines safety, and where we go from here.

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The Verge Aug 9 Score 0.7999695356481482

Dropbox is a PC builder’s best friend

In 2018 I bet my reputation and self-worth on a huge crowdfunded game design project. It could have been a failure for many reasons, but the one I became most worried about was losing all of the work that was stored locally on my home-built PC - a scenario tha

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The Verge Aug 9 Score 0.7983028689814815

AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is changing our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.

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Wired Aug 9 Score 0.7974694976851853

The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate

There’s no perfect way to transfer possession of your digital assets to your loved ones after you’re gone. But there are things you can do now to make the process easier for them.

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The Guardian — World Aug 9 Score 0.7899728726851852

Costa Rican diplomat emerges as strong contender to be first female head of UN

Rebeca Grynspan seen as continuity candidate with tacit support from current secretary general, António Guterres A Costa Rican diplomat and former vice-president whose parents were refugees from the Holocaust has become the surprise frontrunner to lead the Uni

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Quanta Magazine Aug 6 Score 0.7560192689814814

How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure?

Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior. The post How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure? first appe

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Schneier on Security Aug 6 Score 0.7517707546296295

Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems

There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems. It's a cool idea, but I worry that it's mostly security theater: "Our patterns play with that chaos, confuse algorithms and make it way harder to pin yo

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Politico Europe Aug 10 Score 0.7491358212962963

Machthaber: Charles III.

Wer regiert die Welt – und was treibt sie an? In unserem regelmäßigen Machthaber-Spezial geht es um die mächtigsten und umstrittensten Politikerinnen und Politiker unserer Zeit. Wir zeigen, wie sie denken, entscheiden – und was das für uns bedeutet. Eine Polit

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SRE Weekly Aug 10 Score 0.7474302787037037

SRE Weekly Issue #529

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Planetscale: Your on-call rotation shouldn't double as your database's HA strategy. PlanetScale databases ship with a primary and two replicas across three AZs, automated failover, and a 99.999% multi-region SL

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Risky Bulletin Aug 10 Score 0.7471310726851852

Risky Bulletin: Two law firms pay giant ransoms

Two American law firms pay multi-million dollar ransoms, a Metabase zero-day is being used in data theft attacks, Russian hackers disrupted a second power plant in Poland, and there’s a remote code execution bug in WordPress… again! Show notes Risky Bulletin:

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Risky Bulletin Aug 9 Score 0.7363394060185185

Sponsored: Island's expansion to SASE and enterprise AI

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Michael Leland, Field CTO at Island, about the company’s seamless expansion into SASE and enterprise AI. Show notes About Michael Leland

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TechCrunch — AI Aug 9 Score 0.727469512037037

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 9 Score 0.722477012962963

Scientists discover bacteria that lock toxic uranium into a stable form

Deep underground, bacteria may be capable of doing something remarkable: trapping toxic uranium before it spreads. When researchers fed microbes in uranium-contaminated mine water with glycerol, about 95% of the dissolved uranium disappeared within 130 days. T

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 9 Score 0.7216927537037037

Chemists set electrons free and break a decades-old chemistry barrier

Chemists have developed a catalyst that breaks a long-standing rule governing which molecules receive electrons during chemical reactions. By releasing electrons directly into solution, the technique could unlock reactions—and potentially useful new molecules—

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 9 Score 0.7203909018518518

Dinosaurs became giants — so why did they never become tiny?

Dinosaurs conquered the land at enormous sizes, but strangely, they almost never evolved into truly tiny animals. New research suggests that physiology alone can’t explain this missing miniature end of the dinosaur spectrum—and that early mammals may have been

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InfoQ Aug 9 Score 0.714829649537037

Stripe Uses Graph Search and State Machines to Automate Database Remediation

The engineering team at Stripe recently described how they automated database incident recovery by modeling their global infrastructure as a graph. Using graph search algorithms together with state machines, the team computes and executes remediation plans aut

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 9 Score 0.7089089574074074

Stress can scramble your brain’s internal GPS, MRI study finds

Stress may literally scramble the brain’s internal GPS. Researchers found that cortisol, a hormone released during stress, made people significantly worse at navigating a virtual environment and disrupted the precise activity of grid cells, specialized brain c

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Lobsters Aug 9 Score 0.6920320532407407

Mea Culpa - Dark Hours

Vibecoded website plagiarizes existing free software program. Comments

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Marginal Revolution Aug 9 Score 0.6916166976851851

Sunday assorted links

1. African use of Chinese AI (NYT). And what happened to Talenti gelato? (NYT) And the NIMBY brutalists who live in the Barbican (NYT). 2. Modernist Gothic in Copenhagen. 3. AI-generated Odyssey in Vietnam. 4. Questions from Seb Krier. 5. Time magazine has a s

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Lobsters Aug 9 Score 0.6903315902777777

Relying on Go

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Marginal Revolution Aug 9 Score 0.6848597532407407

JFK’s AI Voice

From Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural: “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” “United, there is little we cannot do… Divided, there is little we can do.

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MIT Technology Review Aug 6 Score 0.6785805972222223

The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model

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. Google’s AI empire is being reshaped. Here’s what’s changed. After a wave of painful losses in the tech talent wars, delay

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 6 Score 0.6783025277777779

Johnson Controls Inc. TL280

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to access sensitive information on the device. The following versions of Johnson Controls Inc. TL280 are affected: TL280 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 4.1 Johnso

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 6 Score 0.6783025277777779

Medixant RadiAnt DICOM

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause the application to crash if a maliciously crafted DICOM file is opened. The following versions of Medixant RadiAnt DICOM are affected: RadiAnt DICOM CVSS Vendor Eq

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 6 Score 0.6783025277777779

ABB Ability Zenon

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to bypass security, crash systems, execute unauthorized actions, or compromise data. The following versions of ABB Ability Zenon are affected: IIoT services with MongoDB (

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Phys.org Aug 9 Score 0.666914100462963

How dogs evolved differently across the globe to match human traits

We call them "man's best friend," and the evidence supports it. Dogs have been found buried alongside humans in graves dating back 14,000 years. They appear in ancient art from every continent, and they feature in the mythology, religion and folklore of v

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Phys.org Aug 9 Score 0.6597807671296296

Hong Kong weather observatory posts record high temperature

Hong Kong's weather observatory posted a record high temperature of 36.9°C (98°F) on Sunday as Typhoon Dolphin swept warm air over the city, the meteorological service said.

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Dark Reading Aug 7 Score 0.6512944888888889

AI-Generated Patches Fail Half the Time

A study of more than 6,000 patches found that even working patches can introduce new bugs, break something else, or are open to bypass.

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CyberScoop Aug 7 Score 0.6473253347222222

Coast Guard says it is monitoring cyberattack that disrupted North Carolina's ports

The cyberattack hit gate systems at all three North Carolina ports, as officials continue investigating the breach and its effects on operations. The post Coast Guard says it is monitoring cyberattack that disrupted North Carolina's ports appeared first on Cyb

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SecurityWeek Aug 8 Score 0.644969099537037

Critical One-Click Vulnerability in Atlassian's Rovo AI Exposed Enterprise Data

The RovoBlast attack method identified by Varonis researchers could have been exploited to steal Confluence, Jira and SharePoint data. The post Critical One-Click Vulnerability in Atlassian's Rovo AI Exposed Enterprise Data appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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Risky Bulletin Aug 7 Score 0.6292315356481482

Risky Bulletin: A Meta AI model also escaped a testing sandbox

A Meta AI model also escaped a testing sandbox, a cyberattack disrupts ports in North Carolina, the Philippines will establish a cybersecurity agency, and a Ransom Cartel admin gets 16 years in prison. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Meta's AI joins Anthropic and O

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