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OpenAI News Oct 21 Score 0.9633028731481482

Broad access through consistent standards

How OpenAI works with distribution partners to uphold consistent safeguards, support responsible access, and clarify expectations in our Usage Policies.

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Krebs on Security Oct 21 Score 0.954028227314815

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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OpenAI News Oct 21 Score 0.9483028731481482

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini’s Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace.

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Foreign Policy Oct 22 Score 0.8943114087962962

What a New Rebel Alliance Means for Congo

Former President Joseph Kabila has joined a coalition that seeks to challenge Kinshasa “by all means.”

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Foreign Policy Oct 21 Score 0.8898803902777777

In India, Rubio Is All Business

The top U.S. diplomat’s three-day trip is focused largely on commercial interests.

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Foreign Policy Oct 21 Score 0.8867535384259259

Witkoff Pushes Putin to Restart Peace Talks

The Russian leader said he is ready to resume negotiations but refused to compromise on key points.

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Foreign Policy Oct 21 Score 0.8854780754629629

Xi’s Gang of Three

How China’s leader divides power between his two most trusted lieutenants.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 21 Score 0.8844662851851851

Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security

Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security If you're running anything on PHP it's vital you upgrade - today's updates (across the entire PHP 8.x line) address two remote code execution holes, and there have been exploits c

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 21 Score 0.8806713777777777

Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile

Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile Well this is delightful: I released Battle Drones yesterday under an Apache 2.0 License and there's already a French language fork which reskins the game to take place in steampunk 1900s France and adds an animated intro!

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Quanta Magazine Oct 21 Score 0.8766392162037037

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 0.8717018162037036

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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The Verge Oct 21 Score 0.8179348476851852

YouTube says it isn’t testing hiding the dislike button

On Tuesday, I published a story about how YouTube appeared to be testing hiding the dislike button on videos, with at least two users on X sharing screenshots of the dislike button moved into the three-dot menu. But a YouTube spokesperson, in a Wednesday state

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The Verge Oct 21 Score 0.8159066069444445

Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains

A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount of

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BleepingComputer Oct 21 Score 0.8145096782407408

Japan's Onamae Desktop Cloud hacked, up to 27,000 servers affected

Hackers compromised the infrastructure of Onamae Desktop Cloud, a popular provider of VPS services in Japan, and installed malware on up to 26,739 customers' servers. [...]

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The Verge Oct 21 Score 0.8141371625

Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push

Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisitions and employee compensation, with tradin

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The Verge Oct 21 Score 0.813000588425926

New York’s first microdrama film festival searches for its audience

It remains to be seen if people really want to watch vertical content on horizontal TV screens, but many filmmakers and creators were confident that their latest projects would play well at Alza - New York City's first microdrama film festival. Founded by form

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Wired Oct 21 Score 0.8126922231481483

Trump Isn’t Even Good at TV Anymore

From Trump TV to a Shark Tank knockoff, the president’s latest entertainment ventures are a steep decline from his days on The Apprentice.

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War on the Rocks Oct 21 Score 0.8077560615740741

Fighting in Ethiopia and the Risk of Regional Spillover

In September, fighting broke out in Ethiopia's Tigray region between Ethiopian government forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), effectively collapsing the 2022 peace deal. In October, Ethiopian forces recaptured an airport and towns from the

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The Guardian — World Oct 21 Score 0.8071618537037037

Controversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns halted

Hepatitis B study in Guinea-Bissau that was to be funded by CDC and that drew global backlash ‘will not move forward’ The US-backed hepatitis B vaccine trial in African newborns that drew global backlash was halted, the lead researcher said on Wednesday. It wa

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BleepingComputer Oct 21 Score 0.8057161597222223

OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it

OpenAI agents powered by the GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra models weakened misalignment monitoring during two internal tasks, interpreting coding instructions as authorization to do so. [...]

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 21 Score 0.8049691601851853

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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MIT Technology Review Oct 21 Score 0.7985806314814815

The Download: introducing the Impossible issue

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. Introducing: the Impossible issue We wanted our last print edition of 2026 to include a slate of stories that check in on

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 21 Score 0.7983026222222223

Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP Require Immediate Patching

CISA strongly urges organizations to immediately patch the recently disclosed critical vulnerabilities in PHP, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 . These vulnerabilities, known as “php2shell,” allow for unauthenticated remote code execution in PHP and affect

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MIT Technology Review Oct 21 Score 0.7933028537037038

Exercise in a pill

We all know exercise is good for us. It builds muscle, strengthens bones, lowers blood pressure, and boosts mood. By deciphering how movement benefits the body, researchers hope to develop medicines that can offer some of the same perks—without the workout. Th

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MIT Technology Review Oct 21 Score 0.7933028537037038

Nuclear-powered spaceships

Just before the Artemis II crew began its historic slingshot around the moon this past April, NASA announced plans to build Space Reactor-1 Freedom. SR-1, the first-ever nuclear-reactor-­powered interplanetary spacecraft, is meant to fly an uncrewed mission to

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MIT Technology Review Oct 21 Score 0.7933028537037038

We can do impossible things

I’d wager everyone has a rehearsed response to what’s absolutely one of the world’s worst interview questions: “What’s your biggest weakness?” Whenever I’ve gotten it, I take a slow—even pensive—breath and rattle off my line: “I say no to myself too much.”&#16

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 21 Score 0.7706728643518519

BioWare is closing after 30 years

Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer BioWare is closing after more than 30 years, and early development on the next Mass Effect project is ending. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 21 Score 0.7702251791666668

AMD's FSR 4.1 upscaling is coming to Xbox Series X|S

Microsoft and AMD have announced that AMD's FSR 4.1 upscaling technology is coming to Xbox Series X|S consoles. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 21 Score 0.7641358273148149

How to run an indie game studio: Part 4, Setting (and hitting) quarterly rocks

Previously in this series, we've defined your studio purpose , set clear goals for the future , and looked at how to catch and solve the problems that get in the way . This week, we're tackling one of the crucial tools for managing the work that needs to happe

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 21 Score 0.7602413828703705

Indies and original IP blew up in 2026

Research by Sensor Tower – done at the request of GamesIndustry.biz – shows that indies and original IP made up a much higher proportion of the biggest PC and console games of 2026 when compared with 2025. Read more

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Risky Bulletin Oct 22 Score 0.7480459324074074

Srsly Risky Biz: OpenAI's Kazoo-Grade Spying Incident

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the weird bugging incident at OpenAI. It doesn’t look at all like it was normal state-backed espionage, but there are still good reasons the frontier labs should ensure that their crown jewels are safe. They also discuss

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NASA News Oct 22 Score 0.7433102222222222

Faster to Science: A Letter to the Science Community

NASA Science wants to deliver science faster, so we’re changing how we compete and select missions. On Monday, October 26, we will host a virtual NASA Science Town Hall.

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CyberScoop Oct 21 Score 0.7399235444444444

Microsoft pins ConnectWise supply-chain attack to China-state aligned threat group

Storm-0940 used the agentic AI penetration testing framework to automate attacks and “reach more than 2,250 tenants at 2,900 sign-in attempts per minute,” Microsoft researchers said. The post Microsoft pins ConnectWise supply-chain attack to China-state aligne

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Dark Reading Oct 21 Score 0.7387371435185185

TiDB Breach Exposes Flawed Cloud Security Assumptions

Cloud providers may be storing sensitive customer data, without either party knowing it. But when a provider is breached, the data comes home to roost.

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NASA News Oct 21 Score 0.738075962962963

NASA Conducts RS-25 Engine Test in Support of Future Artemis Missions

NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the developmental engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-2

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Eurogamer Oct 21 Score 0.7350182583333333

EA cancels unannounced The Sims project, trims the Skate team and reportedly plans to lay off 400 workers: "We're the number one publisher in Western HD gaming"

Not only is EA closing down BioWare and cancelling the next Mass Effect - Electronic Arts has now announced a heap of drastic changes that include cutting 400 jobs across the company, pausing development on a project connected to The Sims, and bringing togethe

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NASA News Oct 21 Score 0.734300962962963

NASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, Exploration

Interstellar probes. Lunar drones. Helicopters on Mars. When a group of Caltech graduate students and enthusiasts began conducting rocket-propulsion tests in Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco on Oct. 31, 1936, they had no idea that their work marked the inception of the

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InfoQ Oct 21 Score 0.7324686208333333

eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

Private keys for eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised, allowing attackers to forge certificates for any site. The keys were revealed due to low entropy, not through a known breach. Browsers blocked them using revocation lists, but o

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NASA News Oct 21 Score 0.7308356851851852

NASA to Conduct NCAA Flyover, Engage Fans at University of Alabama

As part of the agency’s Inspiration Tour, NASA will conduct a flyover at the University of Alabama vs. Texas A&M football game in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Saturday, Oct. 24. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will pilot one of three F-5 fighter jets during t

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GitHub Blog Oct 21 Score 0.7299691180555555

The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure

We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub's repositories to Azure. Here's how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage lets reads scale independently. The post The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure appeared first on The GitHub

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NASA News Oct 21 Score 0.7297120740740741

Tracks Along the Longest Drive on Another World

Written by Vandi Verma, Chief Engineer for Robotic Operations at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Oct. 12, 2026 Since the last blog update, Perseverance has achieved a major milestone on Mars. On Sol 2006 (Oct. 11, 2026), its odometer reached 45.22 kilometers

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InfoQ Oct 21 Score 0.7262186208333333

Netflix Bridges AWS IAM and Internal Identity with Workload Attestation

Netflix has developed a workload attestation mechanism for Apache Spark jobs running on Amazon EMR. The design combines AWS IAM identity with signed claims from Netflix’s control plane before issuing short-lived internal X.509 certificates, allowing managed co

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 21 Score 0.7250404777777778

Too much RNA can starve cells of energy, scientists discover

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected danger lurking inside cells: too much RNA can damage the structures responsible for producing energy. A new study found that excess RNA, including the normally essential messenger RNA (mRNA), can directly disrupt mitocho

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InfoQ Oct 21 Score 0.7224686208333333

Article Series: Agentic AI Architecture

In this article series, we try to establish agentic AI architecture as a new type of software architecture that will likely dominate the industry for years to come. The articles, written by industry experts, cover various elements and aspects of agentic AI arc

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InfoQ Oct 21 Score 0.7216352875

Presentation: AI is an Amplifier: Scale High Performance, Not Dysfunction

Nathen Harvey shares insights from DORA research on AI adoption in software delivery. He explains why AI acts as an amplifier, how the DORA AI Capabilities Model drives outcomes, and why engineering leaders must evolve beyond bottlenecks like code reviews to a

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Martin Fowler Oct 21 Score 0.7213853611111111

Fragments: October 21

Gergely Orosz is frustrated at those that entered his explicitly “No AI” essay competition and used AI. He goes on to say: When I start to suspect some part is AI about someone I don’t know: how can I tell how much of it is? And how much time and effort do I w

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Marginal Revolution Oct 21 Score 0.6978282754629629

More on Elizabeth Holmes and prison

The Free Press asked me to expand upon my views of this matter, here is one excerpt from the piece: Third, fewer women in prison does not have to mean less deterrence overall, as arguably we should concentrate more of our legal resources on deterring violent m

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Marginal Revolution Oct 21 Score 0.6927361458333332

Wednesday assorted links

1. The Romans and sex. 2. Apartments that expand at the touch of a button. 3. Has this guy composed more songs than anybody else? 4. Psychoanalyzing Elizabeth Holmes. 5. AI wrote some of the Dallas Michelin reviews. And the reviewer responds. 6. New Yorker pro

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Marginal Revolution Oct 21 Score 0.6763731828703703

One reason I do not love AI writing, or even AI-assisted writing

Of course I read to absorb the content, but I also am in a position to meet many authors, have contact with them, and spend time with them. So reading anything also is a potential option on those future connections. But when I am reading an AI piece, the value

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Marginal Revolution Oct 21 Score 0.6741620717592591

The Causal Effect of Foreign Ideas on U.S. Innovation

Globalization is once again better than many people realize: We study the role of foreign ideas in U.S. innovation by constructing a directed “genealogy” of technologies from the full text of 13 million patents filed between 1887 and 2024. By tracing which ear

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