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Krebs on Security Oct 14 Score 0.9522702342592594

U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering

The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that are helping

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OpenAI News Oct 14 Score 0.9283031990740742

The EU’s next chapter in AI is agentic

New analysis shows how agentic AI adoption is growing across EU enterprises and small businesses—and where deeper use could unlock more value.

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Foreign Policy Oct 14 Score 0.8916427518518517

Algeria Sets Its Sights on the Sahel

The North African country seeks to reclaim its status as a security mediator in the region.

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Foreign Policy Oct 14 Score 0.8899256222222222

Now We’re Seeing the Extent of American Decay

From Hegseth’s plans to Trump’s theatrics, it’s hard to know what to be most outraged about.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 14 Score 0.8889425717592592

Tree Appreciator

Tool: Tree Appreciator Another game experiment with Claude. This one used the default Claude iPhone app (chat mode, not Claude Code mode) where I prompted Claude Opus 5.5 Max with: Build a three js game called "Tree appreciator" - it shows you two algorithmica

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Foreign Policy Oct 14 Score 0.8888830296296295

Surprise Starlink Cuts Blindside Kyiv

Signal failures have already disrupted several Ukrainian missions.

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Foreign Policy Oct 14 Score 0.8884376592592592

India’s Voter Roll Protests Swell

Modi’s government faces a growing challenge as Cockroach movement proves durable.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 14 Score 0.8807166458333332

AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.

AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. Indie game developer Popcar talks about the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling weird mashups between existing games, and producing a boom in game preservation pr

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Schneier on Security Oct 14 Score 0.8800330287037036

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at ATTENTION: Democracy, Rebuilt in Montreal, Canada. The event runs October 21–23, 2026, and my talk is on Wednesday, October 21. I’m speaking at the University of Toronto in Toron

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Schneier on Security Oct 14 Score 0.8773112694444444

The Future of AI Cryptanalysis

Matthew Green has been writing a rather pessimistic series of posts about the potential for AI systems to vastly outperform humans in cryptanalysis of both symmetric and public-key ciphers. I am more optimistic than he is. That is, I have stronger faith in the

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Schneier on Security Oct 14 Score 0.8769242324074074

Cyberattack on Connected Fridges in France

Another IoT cyberattack , this one in France: Hackers gained control of the software that regulates the temperatures of the refrigeration units, forcing some to warm to 50C (120F) overnight, according to one supermarket chain affected. […] Normally, supe

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Quanta Magazine Oct 14 Score 0.876749723611111

Triplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’t

A collision may have left these galaxies without dark matter. That spells trouble for alternative gravity theories. The post Triplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’t first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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The Guardian — World Oct 15 Score 0.8229056800925927

Brazil cuts work week to 40 hours in win for Lula ahead of runoff

Congress approves constitutional amendment that bans six-day workweeks, which could effect up to 30 million Brazil’s congress has approved a constitutional amendment to shorten the working week to a maximum of 40 hours, a move that could affect 30 million work

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BleepingComputer Oct 14 Score 0.8165470736111112

Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks

Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity PAN-OS RCE zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, that has been exploited in attacks targeting firewalls. [...]

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The Verge Oct 14 Score 0.8164564680555556

McKinsey is making job applicants spar with a fake AI client

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is going to ask some entry-level candidates to have a 10-minute conversation with an AI simulation of a client as part of the interview process, according to The Wall Street Journal. The AI simulation "aims to reflect 80%

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The Verge Oct 14 Score 0.8149708199074075

The best feature of Apple’s HomeView might be its simplicity

I'm just going to come right out and say it. I love the approach Apple has taken with the HomeView. I think it's the shared, always-available household interface that my family might finally use. Is Apple's first smart display my dream smart home dashboard? No

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The Verge Oct 14 Score 0.8136217458333334

Eight states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT isn't safe for kids

OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters. The lawsuits, filed separately by Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virgin

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Wired Oct 14 Score 0.8133031962962963

Trump Aides Admit the House Is a Lost Cause

With the midterm elections just a few weeks away, the White House knows it has to go all in on Senate races—while virtually forfeiting the House.

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BleepingComputer Oct 14 Score 0.8111285550925926

FBI raids DPRK IT worker laptop farms in Texas, US nationals arrested

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has disrupted the Famous Chollima threat group's operations by arresting two suspects, charging 14 individuals, and seizing nearly 187 laptops used in North Korean remote IT worker schemes. [...]

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The Verge Oct 14 Score 0.8101379495370371

The AI race is back on

Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its flounde

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The Guardian — World Oct 14 Score 0.8100107726851853

Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story

Article in Atlantic claims The Blue Fighter was artificially generated, days after it won Caine prize for African writers The Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story after an article in the Atlantic said

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BleepingComputer Oct 14 Score 0.807937351388889

Ledger asks sellers across Asia to halt sales after supply-chain attack

Ledger has asked resellers and distributors of its wallets in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Hong Kong to suspend device sales and remove products from shelves while it investigates device tampering. [...]

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Wired Oct 14 Score 0.799969862962963

Formlabs Has a 3D Printer for Normies

The Form Studio 1 is a $699 desktop-sized printer that fits on a desk and only stinks a little bit.

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MIT Technology Review Oct 14 Score 0.7985809587962963

The Download: faking blood and the future of batteries

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. The US military’s race to make fake blood In February 2007, a US military helicopter carrying blood to a field hospital wa

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 14 Score 0.7983029157407409

CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation.  CVE-2026-0322 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Code Injection Vulnerability  CVE-2026-76519 Cisco Secure Email Gateway

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MIT Technology Review Oct 14 Score 0.7933031810185186

The US military’s race to make fake blood

Its call sign was Morphine 1-2.   In February 2007, the hulking dual-­rotor casualty evacuation helicopter had just flown three wounded soldiers to a field hospital in Balad, north of Baghdad, when another call came: an emergency mission to fly through an

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Liberty Street Economics Oct 14 Score 0.7591359805555556

Has the AI Boom Impacted the U.S. Current Account?

The AI boom is showing up in different corners of the U.S. economy, including international trade. Imports of semiconductors, servers, and computing equipment have climbed sharply yet the U.S. current account deficit has been largely unchanged. To better under

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Platformer Oct 15 Score 0.744753612037037

The states come for OpenAI

Will the approach that beat Meta in New Mexico work against ChatGPT?

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Oct 14 Score 0.7399900013888889

Unit 42 Uncovers PEERSTITCH, a Stealthy FortiGate Implant

We investigated an intrusion where attackers exploited CVE-2024-47575 to target 500+ firewalls and deploy PEERSTITCH, a memory-resident ARM64 malware. The post Unit 42 Uncovers PEERSTITCH, a Stealthy FortiGate Implant appeared first on Unit 42 .

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CyberScoop Oct 14 Score 0.7394284680555555

Authorities charge alleged OLVX cybercrime marketplace operator in North Macedonia

Officials disrupted the cybercrime marketplace in April and arrested the alleged 20-year-old operator at that time. Illicit sales reportedly exceeded $500,000 since 2023. The post Authorities charge alleged OLVX cybercrime marketplace operator in North Macedon

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Dark Reading Oct 14 Score 0.7388644333333333

Ivanti ICS Zero-Day Attacks Highlight Vendor Patching Hurdles

CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for threat actors to capitalize on.

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Latent Space Oct 14 Score 0.7376129175925926

Lab-in-the-Loop at Compute Speed — Ian Quigley, Leash Bio

How Leash Bio tamed DELs, the assay that traumatizes everyone, and used the data to catch cheating models. And why that same data is perfect for AI agents learning to think like chemists.

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NASA News Oct 14 Score 0.7370110231481481

NASA to Host News Conference Previewing US Spacewalks 100, 101

NASA will preview two upcoming spacewalks to complete solar array installation and power augmentation of the International Space Station during a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 20, from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA will stream the

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GitHub Blog Oct 14 Score 0.7366801027777777

GitHub availability report: September 2026

In September, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: September 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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NASA News Oct 14 Score 0.7353267638888888

NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Florida Students

Students in Florida will hear from NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12 p.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 16, and will stream

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GitHub Blog Oct 14 Score 0.7352902879629629

From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers

Our new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. These are the engineering tradeoffs we made. The post From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers appe

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Kubernetes Blog Oct 14 Score 0.7342749189814815

Why Is My Kubernetes Job Still Pending? Tracing Kueue Admission with Headlamp

You submit a Kubernetes Job and wait for its Pods to appear. A minute passes. Then another. The Job is still suspended, there are no application logs, and there may not even be a Pod to inspect. In a cluster managed by Kueue , this can be completely normal. Ku

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Econbrowser Oct 14 Score 0.7325290986111112

Inflation Upside Surprise

September CPI registered upside surprise: Figure 1: CPI (blue, left log scale), Bloomberg y/y consensus (blue +), core CPI (red, right log scale), Bloomberg y/y consensus (red +). Source: BLS, Bloomberg. The above graph uses y/y consensus; on a m/m (due to rou

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NASA News Oct 14 Score 0.7312744490740741

NASA’s Chandra Breaks Down ‘Treble Clef’s’ Galaxy Cluster Collision

Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to break down the cause of a remarkable formation of radio waves they have nicknamed the “Treble Clef” because its distinct shape strongly resembles the musical symbol. The researchers discovered the Trebl

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NASA News Oct 14 Score 0.7288207453703703

NASA's Space X CRS-35 Launch Jellyfish

Sunlight illuminates the exhaust plumes of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft on Oct. 13, 2026. This visual phenomenon is known as a "jellyfish"; it happens near sunrise or sunset when the exhaust plume from the rocket becomes br

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NASA News Oct 14 Score 0.7277850972222222

NASA Develops Batteries to Power Humanity's Return to Moon

If you’ve ever had your car start sluggishly, or not at all, on a particularly frigid winter morning, you know standard batteries do not like extreme cold. That’s why NASA researchers are working to develop a battery that could function in the brutal cold of t

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Martin Fowler Oct 14 Score 0.7271912819444445

Build your slide template

Building a slide template starts with three foundational choices — colours, fonts and layouts. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe covers the basics of color theory and how to build a reusable palette, the essentials of typography, including serif, sans-serif, handwr

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InfoQ Oct 14 Score 0.7265523263888889

Meta Extends Confidential Computing to AI Glasses with Private Processing

Meta has extended Private Processing to AI glasses, using confidential VMs, trusted execution environments, remote attestation, anonymous credentials, OHTTP routing, and TEE-based storage to process AI workloads and persistent user context in the cloud. By Lee

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InfoQ Oct 14 Score 0.7216356597222222

Presentation: How to Find Resilience Bugs in Systems that Don't Exist

Hillel Wayne discusses how formal methods principles - such as property strength, state-space verification, and environment assumptions - help software engineers uncover critical architectural bugs early. He shares practical mental models like "adversarial non

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InfoQ Oct 14 Score 0.7183023263888889

Article: Composable Commerce: Inside Shipt’s Kit Platform

Shipt launched its Kits feature, enabling quick assembly of themed grocery bundles for events. The platform architecture lets merchandisers easily create store-aware kits, streamlining previously labor-intensive workflows. It utilizes a flexible model of items

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Marginal Revolution Oct 14 Score 0.6973685208333332

China fact (?) of the day

A monograph by Yi Fuxian, a University of Wisconsin-Madison demographer and longtime critic of China’s population policies, argues that China’s actual population may be closer to 1.27 billion—not the 1.4 billion officially reported. The gap would be as much as

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Marginal Revolution Oct 14 Score 0.6926648171296296

Wednesday assorted links

1. Planets more habitable than Earth? (NYT) 2. Those new service sector jobs: "Cambiar de vida: cómo irte a contar pingüinos en la Antártida por hasta 2500 euros al mes." 3. AI song about the China Shock debate. 4. "An amusing result of this new survey is that

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Marginal Revolution Oct 14 Score 0.6775509282407407

*Plunder: The Last of the War in Europe, 1945*

By Max Hastings, an excellent book, I benefited from every page. One recurring theme is simply how hard the Germans fought on the way down, and how unusual that behavior was. Here is one interesting passage of many: In World War I, 150 German soldiers were sen

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Marginal Revolution Oct 14 Score 0.6730069467592592

Well-planned African immigration to America will go fine

That is the topic of my latest Free Press column, here is one excerpt: The good news is that African immigrants already have done well in the United States. For instance, 46 percent of African immigrants complete a college education, well above the immigrant a

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