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Hacker News Oct 3 Score 0.8925822092592591

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps . I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say "after $X/month, cut this thing off and

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 3 Score 0.889984524074074

September sponsors-only newsletter

I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: More Fable class models A pricing war 3D graphics, Blender, and pixel art LLMs come for mathematic

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 2 Score 0.851571098148148

Rex's Dino Store

Museum: Rex's Dino Store Located just before the turnstiles in the Grand Army Plaza subway station at the north end of Brooklyn's Prospect Park is this former newsstand which is now operated by a dinosaur. The density of dinosaur puns is exceptional . Tag

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The Guardian — World Oct 4 Score 0.8243809930555557

US Coast Guard searches for missing air ambulance off coast of Massachusetts

The plane was undertaking a medical evacuation from Bermuda with six people onboard when it lost contact The US Coast Guard said late on Saturday it had found debris from a medical transport aircraft off the shore of ⁠Massachusetts’ Nantucket Island and ⁠was s

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BleepingComputer Oct 3 Score 0.8102376342592593

ShinyHunters hacker reportedly detained in Jordan, aiding FBI

A suspected ShinyHunters hacking group member known online as "Rey" has reportedly been detained in Jordan and is cooperating with the FBI to help locate other members of the extortion group. [...]

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The Verge Oct 3 Score 0.8063359212962964

Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’

Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi Ishida gave a presentation with the mouthful of a title: "The Outlook and Future

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The Verge Oct 3 Score 0.8055998101851852

The best early October Prime Day deals happening now

It’s not even October yet and Amazon is already offering some Prime Big Deal Day discounts on its own hardware, along with plenty of other popular products. It’s all to hype up October Prime Day, which starts October 6th at 3AM ET and lasts through 3AM ET on t

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The Verge Oct 3 Score 0.803303513888889

Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava thinks AI emails are killing conversations

Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the service have found their way into massive hits like Lisa's "Money" and "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter. (The origina

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BleepingComputer Oct 3 Score 0.8026181898148149

Danish university DTU breach exposes data of up to 200,000 people

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) says information belonging to up to 200,000 users may have been exposed after hackers accessed its identity and access management system and downloaded a large amount of data. [...]

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The Verge Oct 3 Score 0.8025238842592594

An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm

David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic. It's understandable if you're feeling a bit cynical about ev

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The Verge Oct 3 Score 0.798303513888889

3D movies are finally worth watching

Why am I suddenly buying up every 3D Blu-ray I can find after 3D became one of the biggest tech flops of all time? The technology's finally ready for 3D movies to shine, more than 15 years since James Cameron's Avatar wowed me on the big screen and went on to

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Wired Oct 3 Score 0.7974701486111112

How to Collect CDs

Fed up with paying to stream music you’ll never actually own? Give the little silver disc a spin. Here’s how to start a CD collection or get more out of one you already have.

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The Guardian — World Oct 3 Score 0.7933291412037038

Libyan unity talks upended as warlord’s son linked to drone attacks on fuel facilities

Western Libya’s GNU say working with Saddam Haftar ‘impossible’ as US-backed merger plan breaks down Allegations that the son of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar oversaw a “terror cell” that launched drone attacks on fuel storage facilities and power stations

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Schneier on Security Oct 1 Score 0.7918098499999999

Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform

Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports , evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers: The new Northeastern study shows, for the first time, data flowing among the vehicles, the vehicle apps you download when you

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The Guardian — World Oct 3 Score 0.7899860856481482

Brazil’s neck-and-neck election offers test for growing pro-Trump Latin American bloc

Sunday’s poll pits the leftist incumbent Lula against the son of a former far-right president convicted of staging a coup ‘No one disrespects Our Lady’: fears for Brazil’s patron saint grip country ahead of election Shortly after his controversial speech to th

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 4 Score 0.7875000000000001

Impact of Adults’ College Completion on their Parents’ Mortality: Evidence from the 1993 Korean Higher Education Reform -- by Ah-Reum Lee, William H. Dow, Jacqueline M. Torres

A large literature examines the economic and health returns to college education. We extend this literature by studying the upward intergenerational effects of children’s education on parental mortality. We exploit Korea’s 1993 Higher Education Reform, which w

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 4 Score 0.7875000000000001

An LLM Workflow That Reproduces, Improves, and Extends Published Economics Research -- by Matthew Schwartz, Isaiah Andrews, Jesse M. Shapiro

We introduce an open-source workflow that enables an LLM to reproduce, improve, and extend an economics article using the article’s published replication package. First, the workflow attempts to reproduce the original calculations, checks for discrepancies wit

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 1 Score 0.784109524074074

Quoting Matthew Green

[...] Put these pieces together and you have the two halves of a worm: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that will carry the payload to the next agent. Agents in separately-isolated sandboxes discovered that they could leave instructions for each

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 30 Score 0.7698123018518518

He Built This City

I visited the Museum of the City of New York today and got to see He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model , the 50 x27 feet model of the city built over a 21 year period from balsa wood and cardboard. It exceeded my already high expectations. The exhibition clo

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Google DeepMind Blog Sep 30 Score 0.7583900314814813

Introducing SynthID Bio

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

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Quanta Magazine Sep 30 Score 0.7580866060185184

Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time. The post Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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The Guardian — World Oct 2 Score 0.7531837708333334

Row erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skin

Artwork created in Tahrir Square for Chinese president’s state visit to Egypt is painted over amid allegations it revived Afrocentric claims about pharaohs’ origins On the eve of the Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to Cairo last month, the city auth

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War on the Rocks Oct 2 Score 0.7508044037037038

How Closed Airspace Threatens U.S. Military Mobility Across Eurasia

For much of the modern aviation era, geography was something the global aviation industry learned to overcome. Simply put, unlike a railway, a pipeline, or a highway, an aircraft does not require a continuous physical infrastructure between its point of depart

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War on the Rocks Oct 2 Score 0.7504007

Cyber Operators Are Deployed in Place. The Pentagon Should Treat Them That Way

A cyber operator can spend a shift tracking an adversary halfway around the world, walk to the parking lot, and be home in time for dinner. There is no flight home, no demobilization, and no transition from an operational mission back to ordinary life. The war

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The Hacker News Oct 3 Score 0.7277134805555555

MI5 Says China’s MSS Funded Research Involving 100+ U.K.-Linked Academics

The U.K.'s domestic intelligence and security agency has warned that more than 100 academics have helped China boost its intelligence gathering efforts on behalf of Beijing's state security service. In a "Security Service Espionage Alert" issued on September 3

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The Hacker News Oct 3 Score 0.7276519064814815

Warlock Exploits SharePoint Flaws to Disable Security Tools and Deploy Ransomware

The suspected China-linked threat actor known as Warlock is still continuing to weaponize Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities, likely both old and new, in attacks targeting organizations in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries. The activity, observed by

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 3 Score 0.7262526722222222

This protective enzyme could help stop fatty liver disease from getting worse

Scientists have identified an enzyme that may act as a natural defense against the worsening of fatty liver disease, which affects an estimated 100 million Americans. The enzyme, called UBE2N, helps liver cells clear away damaged mitochondria and break down fa

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 3 Score 0.7259193388888889

ESA’s Juice just used Earth as a slingshot to Jupiter

ESA’s Juice spacecraft raced past Earth on September 28, using our planet’s gravity to dramatically reshape its path toward Jupiter without burning much fuel. The flyby changed its direction by 20 degrees and increased its speed by 3.5 km/s, while also giving

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 3 Score 0.7253096166666667

Chang’e-6 lunar soil contains a surprising magnetic time capsule

Scientists studying Chang’e-6 lunar soil have discovered a previously unknown magnetic mineral in natural Moon samples: a form of metallic iron called γ-Fe. Found inside tiny impact-glass particles, the nanoscale iron can preserve a stable magnetic signal, pot

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 3 Score 0.7247184129629629

Powerful simulations reveal how the first stars changed the universe

Ultra-detailed simulations are showing how the first stars lit up the dark Universe and seeded space with elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The MEGATRON project could bridge JWST observations of the earliest galaxies with chemical clues preserved in a

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 3 Score 0.7242267462962962

Leucine does more than build muscle. It powers up your cells

The essential amino acid leucine can boost cellular energy production by protecting key proteins on mitochondria from being destroyed. The discovery reveals a new connection between nutrition and metabolism that could eventually lead to new approaches for meta

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Ars Technica — Science Oct 3 Score 0.7220687574074074

The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton

The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.

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The Hacker News Oct 3 Score 0.7216366287037037

The State of Cybersecurity in 2026: Key Segments, Insights, and Innovations

Featuring: Cybersecurity is being reshaped by the expansion of cloud infrastructure, AI, distributed systems, and increasingly complex digital environments. As organizations manage more identities, devices, data, and internet-facing infrastructure, security is

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InfoQ Oct 3 Score 0.7216359921296296

Presentation: Building GenAI Platform at DoorDash

Swaroop Chitlur and Sidd Kodwani share DoorDash’s journey building an internal GenAI platform. They discuss core architectural bets, transitioning from vendor-first setups to open-weights models, navigating LLM and agent gateways, and balancing accuracy, laten

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Eurogamer Oct 3 Score 0.7209202810185185

Memory shortages set to persist into 2028, warns Micron CEO

Micron has warned that global RAM shortages show no sign of easing, telling investors on its earnings call that it has already sold most of next year's production. Read more

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InfoQ Oct 3 Score 0.7145804365740741

AI Agents Are Disrupting Open Source Security Disclosure

A recent article by Anil Madhavapeddy argues that AI agents can turn publicly available clues about software vulnerabilities into working exploits, reducing the effectiveness of traditional disclosure embargoes in open source projects. The author highlights th

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Polygon Gaming Oct 4 Score 0.7108101560185184

10 Erotic Thrillers to Watch After Verity

Loved Verity? These 10 erotic thrillers, from Rebecca to The Housemaid, trace the genre's history of obsession and desire.

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NASA News Oct 3 Score 0.7101089814814815

APOD: 2026 October 3 – Selfie at Vera Rubin Ridge

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 3 –… 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 featured

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MarketWatch Top Stories Oct 3 Score 0.6971639027777777

These bond strategies can help you get a safe 5% return on your cash

With U.S. Treasury yields on the rise, financial planners say they’re seeing a growing interest in bonds, especially among investors looking to secure fixed income in retirement.

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Marginal Revolution Oct 3 Score 0.6932839944444443

Saturday assorted links

1. Rewarding failure? 2. An excellent Brian Potter explainer on how matrix algebra is used in both LLMs and robotics. 3. Chat with Mircea Cărtărescu. 4. It seems the expansion of remote work reduced births? 5. "Living Science uses an AI agent to reproduce key

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CyberScoop Oct 2 Score 0.6929672351851852

The legal questions raised by agentic AI hacks

Experts and policymakers want AI companies to face consequences for agentic hacks. There may not be a clear-cut answer under existing laws and regulations. The post The legal questions raised by agentic AI hacks appeared first on CyberScoop .

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The Hacker News Oct 2 Score 0.6925607027777778

Antino Backdoor Uses Outlook and OneDrive for C2 in China-Nexus Espionage Campaign

Government and policy organizations across Asia have become the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-nexus threat actor. The activity, which has targeted government and policy organizations in Taiwan, India, the Philippines, Cambodia, Pakistan, Tha

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Nautilus Oct 3 Score 0.6924699939814813

How Sugar from Outer Space Became One of the Backbones of Life on Earth

Is there life elsewhere, or is Earth unique in the universe? This is one of humanity’s great unanswered questions. One way to approach this mystery is to investigate how life began here on Earth. Our research explores the conditions where a mixture of molecule

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Dark Reading Oct 2 Score 0.6915386805555556

Kiteworks & Citrix Incidents Show Challenges of Zero-Day Response

One company told customers to power down its data-protection platform during a nine-hour window, while the other remained mum on reported attacks prior to releasing a patch for its product.

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Nautilus Oct 3 Score 0.689136660648148

Do Calorie‑Restricted Diets Work?

Or will I just re‑gain the weight? The post Do Calorie‑Restricted Diets Work? appeared first on Nautilus .

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Microsoft Research Blog Sep 30 Score 0.6849698027777779

Forecasting space weather risks on power grids

Extreme space-weather events can damage power systems on Earth and degrade GPS accuracy and satellite operations. A new machine learning system can predict where damage is likely to occur 30-60 minutes before a storm arrives. The post Forecasting space weather

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