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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 24 Score 0.8583019129629629

battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map

Release: battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map I added four player online mode to Battledrones - previous maps were limited to two. Here's the initial prompt I used: Add a new map for a four player battle - four way rotational symmetry, up to four

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Krebs on Security Oct 21 Score 0.8323619981481483

Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today

Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected servers. Experts say

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The Verge Oct 24 Score 0.8124477921296297

Blue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AI

BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage that seemed almost too good to be real. But one dead giveaway

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The Guardian — World Oct 24 Score 0.8119246972222223

More than one million Lula supporters rally on eve of Brazilian election runoff

Nearly 159 million people to head to polls on Sunday in battle between leftwing incumbent and Flávio Bolsonaro More than one million supporters of Brazil’s leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have streamed on to Rio’s most famous beach for a giant p

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The Verge Oct 24 Score 0.8075352921296297

Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads

On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, video, audio, or text - that "has been signi

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The Verge Oct 24 Score 0.8016366810185186

LG’s brilliant C6 OLED TV is already $400 off ahead of Black Friday

Black Friday is still over a month away, but if you're hoping to upgrade your TV, you don’t need to wait until November. LG has already kicked off its early Black Friday sale, letting you save on the LG C6 and various soundbars through November 1st. Right now,

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The Verge Oct 24 Score 0.8016366810185186

Fielded is obsessed with scammers and unhinged Japanese cyberpunk

Lindsay Powell, who releases records under the name Fielded, has spent most of her career subverting expectations and genre conventions. According to their Bandcamp page, Fielded started as an experimental noise project before growing into something closer to

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BleepingComputer Oct 24 Score 0.8004568796296297

BlackX UEFI bootkit exploits Baton Drop flaw to bypass Secure Boot

A new UEFI bootkit named BlackX, deployed in an espionage campaign in early 2026, exploited the old Baton Drop vulnerability to bypass Secure Boot and load a malicious driver designed to interfere with security solutions from Kaspersky and Avast. [...]

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The Verge Oct 24 Score 0.8003866810185186

What to expect from Apple’s ‘Pro and tell’ event

It feels like Apple's Welcome Home event just happened. And the iPhone Duo announcement isn't all that far in our rearview mirror, either. Yet, the company is back with another launch, focused on the MacBook Pro, it looks like. Its "Pro and tell" event is sche

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Wired — Security Oct 24 Score 0.7966366569444445

The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

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Wired Oct 24 Score 0.7945533236111112

9 Unique Apps to Try on the iPhone Duo

Apple’s first folding phone is inspiring indie developers to create fun, quirky apps that take advantage of the screen and the hinge. Here are a few to try as you explore the Duo.

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The Guardian — World Oct 24 Score 0.7928348824074075

British woman dies trying to save sons on Bahamas snorkelling trip

Mother, 36, died after current off North Bimini reportedly swept away two boys, who were later rescued, police say A British woman has died in the Bahamas while trying to rescue her two sons after a current swept them away as they were snorkelling. The Royal B

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Foreign Affairs Oct 23 Score 0.7575529152777778

The New Energy Stalemate in Ukraine

Tatiana Mitrova, a fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and former energy scholar at Moscow’s Russian Academy of Sciences, and Sergey Vakulenko, an oil and gas expert at Carnegie’s Russia Eurasia Center, argue that Russia and Ukraine

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Quanta Magazine Oct 21 Score 0.7549729981481481

See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images

Winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life. The post See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Oct 21 Score 0.7500355995370369

Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS) Archive

There's a new archive of all the papers from twenty-five years of the Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS). Really nice resource. It's fun to reread my 2002 essay on the economics of information security.

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Meduza — English Oct 25 Score 0.7494964361111112

An American lawyer helped open a backchannel between Biden’s White House and Putin. A Financial Times report details the exchanges, a later unofficial peace bid, and how it fell apart.

The Financial Times has published details of back-channel talks between U.S. leaders and Vladimir Putin in 2022 and early 2023. The effort began with Richard Conn, an American lawyer who had worked in Russia for many years and, after the war began, grew concer

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War on the Rocks Oct 23 Score 0.7491531620370371

Deception in Mass Autonomous Warfare

"[T]he exigencies of desperate survival do stimulate wise leaders to seek such unorthodox solutions." —Barton Whaley, StratagemOn the night of Jan. 5, 2025, my first mission in the Pokrovsk command post was to make a fake radio call. We knew Russian forc

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Econbrowser Oct 24 Score 0.7334212055555556

Front Month Brent Futures near 2022 Peak Level

Over $116/bbl. One can decompose the futures price increase into an pure expected price change, and risk premium. Robin Brooks "What’s Priced into Brent at $117? A big risk premium has gotten priced in anticipation of a return to a “hot” war" argues that it's

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Eurogamer Oct 24 Score 0.7318686356481482

Stalker 2's next update has already leaked

PlayStation Asia has reportedly leaked details of an unannounced update coming to Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl , 2.1, next week. Read more

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 24 Score 0.723719737962963

Could lowering high blood pressure be as simple as stimulating your ear?

A small device that gently stimulates nerves through the ear could offer a new way to tackle stubborn high blood pressure. In a clinical trial of 63 patients already taking medication, the treatment proved safe, easy to use at home, and well tolerated. Althoug

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 24 Score 0.7233410342592592

A hidden bias in human language challenges 70 years of science

A groundbreaking study challenges 70 years of assumptions about how human language works. By analyzing billions of word uses, scientists discovered that meaning is organized around power, danger, and order rather than emotion alone. Even more surprisingly, hum

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 24 Score 0.7230280712962963

NASA’s asteroid Bennu samples reveal a 4.5-billion-year-old secret

Tiny samples from asteroid Bennu are rewriting scientists' understanding of how our Solar System formed. New evidence suggests that Bennu was born where material from the inner and outer Solar System mixed, with Jupiter playing a surprising role in shapin

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 24 Score 0.7227271453703704

Scientists propose a way to detect dangerous “mirror life” before it exists

Scientists have proposed a way to detect “mirror life,” a hypothetical form of life that could pose serious risks to humans, animals, and ecosystems if artificially created. Using special fluorescent molecules and a type of polarized light also used in 3D movi

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 24 Score 0.7222928861111111

Astronomers uncover a mysterious magnetic web above the Sun

The Sun’s seemingly peaceful regions are hiding a surprisingly complex magnetic world. Using a balloon-borne telescope high above Earth, scientists discovered delicate, thread-like magnetic structures woven through the solar atmosphere, apparently shaped by tw

Science scienceresearchdiscoveries
The Hacker News Oct 24 Score 0.7200683523148148

Leaked LiteLLM Master Key Let Attackers Steal GitHub Tokens and Hijack Release Pipeline

LiteLLM on Friday revealed that an Agent Platform master key accidentally published to a public GitHub repository in late May 2026 ultimately allowed the threat actor to push a malicious version of the popular Python package. "On May 27, 2026, a configuration

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The Hacker News Oct 24 Score 0.7193183523148148

Google Says Gmail and Photos Data Shared With AI Search Could Be Used for Targeted Ads

Google has updated its privacy policy to spell out that using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search or Gemini could allow the company to serve targeted ads to users based on their activity on other connected Google services. "You may cho

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InfoQ Oct 24 Score 0.7152468462962963

Cloudflare Reclaims 100 TB of RAM by Optimizing Consistent Hashing

Cloudflare recently documented how it reduced the memory footprint of its internal load-balancing service by more than 100 TB by optimizing the Rust implementation of consistent hashing in pingora-ketama. The changes compacted hash-ring entries and used statis

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Marginal Revolution Oct 25 Score 0.7119800782407406

Emergent Ventures India, 20th cohort

Zahan Turel, a backend engineer and eighth-generation Zoroastrian priest from Surat, received a grant to digitize his community’s manuscripts and liturgical records before they are lost. Aditya Vijay, 17, is building Forge, supporting overlooked, self-taught y

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Schneier on Security Oct 20 Score 0.710059210648148

Possible new Cellebrite iPhone Radio Zero-Day

Justin.sh is reporting on a confidential Cellebrite document that has been leaked to him: Cellebrite calls it Advanced Unlocks (AU from here on), not to be confused with the "advanced unlocking services" they've marketed for years. A press release from earlier

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NASA News Oct 24 Score 0.7084421402777777

APOD: 2026 October 24 – Rosetta’s Selfie

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 24 –… 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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Dark Reading Oct 23 Score 0.6965788796296296

Trust Is Not What It Seems — And Fraudsters Are Counting on It

Threat actors don't need to rely on malware to breach organizations anymore. They're simply calling help desks and politely asking for access, with a little help from artificial intelligence.

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Dark Reading Oct 23 Score 0.6944524907407408

Exposed to PHP2Shell? Cyber Experts Weigh in With Advice

Fixing the critical PHP flaws is not as simple as clicking "Update." Here's how to assess your risk, and what you can do to protect yourself.

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Marginal Revolution Oct 24 Score 0.6939893374999999

Econvitals

From Jason Furman, it tracks economic indicators, mostly U.S. Here is the website. Subscribe here to briefings. Here is a thread on the site. The post Econvitals appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .               Comments

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Marginal Revolution Oct 24 Score 0.6907235967592592

Why are cybersecurity losses not worse?

Here’s the first part of my theory: cybercriminals are not the organized geniuses we implicitly imagine. Anyone building a criminal gang has to find candidates willing to forgo more stable opportunities in the formal economy. My modeling estimated that somethi

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 21 Score 0.6833028912037038

Solving a 31-year-old grand challenge in mathematics – the KLS conjecture

For decades, a fundamental question about the difficulty of computing in high-dimensional spaces has resisted proof. New research resolves this question, removing a major theoretical obstacle to understanding the efficiency of randomized algorithms used across

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Marginal Revolution Oct 24 Score 0.6787569300925925

Cybersecurity ETF

Joe Weisenthal: "The Red Line is the day that Anthropic introduced Mythos" The post Cybersecurity ETF appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .               Comments In reply to mdl. Its correlation with the software ETF IGV i

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Latent Space Oct 23 Score 0.6785665310185185

[AINews] Black October

the Cyber onslaught continues.

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New Scientist Oct 23 Score 0.6749696199074074

Why do mathematicians keep proving things they already know?

What exactly is a mathematical proof? Columnist Jacob Aron breaks down how mathematicians plot a course to answer open questions, and how finding several solutions to the same problem is an important part of the whole endeavour of maths

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Marginal Revolution Oct 24 Score 0.6722870226851851

I guest host an NYT podcast with Michael Kratsios, Trump science advisor

Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is one excerpt: Cowen: Talk me out of this worry: So we agree science is an ecosystem, and there’s always a temptation to want to fund the most dynamic, most productive parts of the ecosystem. And right now, that

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MIT News — AI Oct 23 Score 0.6683033277777778

Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.

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Naked Capitalism Oct 24 Score 0.6448317370370371

Links 10/24/2026

Latest item from Naked Capitalism.

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Google Cloud Blog Oct 22 Score 0.6191353347222222

Expanding Claude availability and deployment choice on Google Cloud

Every organization has unique requirements for building and scaling generative AI. At Google Cloud, we are committed to giving developers model choice and architectural flexibility to run workloads however they need. Today, we’re announcing the general availab

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