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Foreign Policy Oct 27 Score 0.8874242425925924

Why Party Plenums Matter So Much to Xi

The Chinese leader is deeply reliant on formal mechanisms of power.

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Foreign Policy Oct 27 Score 0.8871913722222221

Decoding Israel’s Election Results

Exit polls show no clear winner, with Eisenkot’s opposition bloc slightly ahead of Netanyahu’s.

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Foreign Policy Oct 27 Score 0.8862714648148148

Trump’s Tariffs Will Have Another Day in Court

The administration has lost five trade cases in a row, and it’s set to potentially notch another loss.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 27 Score 0.8842560842592592

Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge

Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge I'm at GitHub Universe this week and, similar to last year , the conference badge is a full-blown color screen computer. I've been hacking around with it again, and then I ran into with Steve Francia... who worked with Gem

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Foreign Policy Oct 27 Score 0.8797631314814814

Is Israel a Good Ally?

A new book details how the country slayed Washington’s foes.

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Schneier on Security Oct 27 Score 0.870009686574074

Hiding Capabilities in AI Models

Interesting research: " AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities " Abstract: Capability evaluations aim to surface dangerous model behaviors before deployment, but their reliability depends on the assumption that hidden capabilities can be elicited.

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Oct 27 Score 0.851544385648148

In an AI blow-up, would insurance pay out?

Credit default swaps are back in vogue amid fears of a debt disaster

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The Guardian — World Oct 28 Score 0.8168409060185186

King Charles to discuss legacy of slavery with Commonwealth leaders at summit

Royal tour of Caribbean comes as Commonwealth nations renew calls for Britain to engage in reparation talks King Charles has confirmed he will discuss the legacy of slavery at a summit with Commonwealth leaders as he begins his Caribbean tour. The king arrived

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BleepingComputer Oct 27 Score 0.8159656750000001

Japan's GMO urges customers to shut down PCs amid ransomware threat

The GMO Group has urged customers to disconnect their systems from the internet and shut down computers after a threat actor who breached the company's Onamae Desktop Cloud threatened to launch a ransomware attack today. [...]

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The Guardian — World Oct 27 Score 0.8151668319444445

Trump shows off tanker with ‘1m barrels of oil’ and floats Venezuela as 51st state

President at Texas campaign rally hails deal struck with post-Maduro government as ‘greatest oil victory in history’ Donald Trump suggested Venezuela would become the 51st state of the United States on Tuesday as the president showed off a tanker he claimed ha

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The Verge Oct 27 Score 0.8148334657407408

Here’s why the iPhone Duo’s hinge could be cracking the screen

Within hours of the iPhone Duo launch last Friday, people reported that the inner screen on some brand new foldable phones was already broken. The issue was similar across many photos shared on social media: some kind of issue or crack would appear in the midd

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BleepingComputer Oct 27 Score 0.8135133601851853

UNM Health ransomware attack disrupts patient care, surgeries

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center disclosed a cyberattack that caused system outages and disrupted patient care and academic activities. [...]

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The Guardian — World Oct 27 Score 0.8133862763888889

Flávio Bolsonaro flees Brazil after presidential election loss, reports say

Far-right senator en route to US after missing deadline to hand over his passport since loss to Lula The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly fled Brazil and is on his way to the United States after losing Sunday’s presidential election to the lef

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The Verge Oct 27 Score 0.8113302250000001

Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs

On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The

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Wired Oct 27 Score 0.8093885217592593

Anthropic Says It Will Revolutionize Biology—Some Day

In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific breakthroughs. But its IPO filing taps the brakes on just how fast its AI will lead to big discoveries.

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The Verge Oct 27 Score 0.8089728175925927

Elon Musk says Ukraine's military violated Starlink's terms of service

Elon Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink's terms of service before the recent slowdown, as reported earlier by Ars Technica. According to Musk, "Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That

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The Verge Oct 27 Score 0.8073371694444446

Trump is making it easier for fossil fuel companies to leak methane

In its latest gift to oil and gas companies, the Trump administration is expected to announce plans today to weaken rules that guard against methane leaks. Methane is a smog-forming pollutant and a powerful greenhouse gas that's up to 80 times as potent as car

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BleepingComputer Oct 27 Score 0.8072050268518519

Microsoft releases Windows OOB updates to distrust eMudhra certificates

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) Windows updates to remove trust in certificates tied to compromised eMudhra certificate authority keys, protecting systems that do not receive automatic certificate trust updates. [...]

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Wired Oct 27 Score 0.8066366699074075

Early Black Friday Deals 2026

The early bird gets the worm. Here are the best Black Friday deals for 2026 you can already get right now.

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The Verge Oct 27 Score 0.8058033726851852

VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue

In Marvel's VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply fantastical, yet it pla

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MIT Technology Review Oct 27 Score 0.796914414351852

The Download: Anthropic’s IPO, smarter power grids, and exercise pills

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. Will the real Anthropic please stand up? After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its IPO prospectus. The

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 27 Score 0.796636300925926

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-48356 Adobe Commerce and Magento Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Vulnerability CVE-2026-111497 Goog

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 27 Score 0.796636300925926

EPICS Base

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition, corrupt memory, disclose sensitive information, or potentially execute arbitrary code. The following versions of EPICS Base are a

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 27 Score 0.796636300925926

Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS, GENESIS64, ICONICS Suite, Hyper Historian, AnalytiX, MobileHMI, IoTWorX, MC Works64, GENESIS32 and BizViz

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2023-4863), bypass authentication (CVE-2026-16436 and CVE-2026-16437), or perform arbitrary operations (CVE-2026-16438), resulting in info

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MIT Technology Review Oct 27 Score 0.7955060810185186

Industrial Intelligence: The next growth opportunity for manufacturing

Every manufacturer has its own industrial intelligence. Some is documented, and some resides in the knowledge of experienced workers. Consider an experienced operator preparing to restart a line after a changeover. The machine settings matter, but so does know

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MIT Technology Review Oct 27 Score 0.7916366365740741

How solid-state transformers could help power the AI boom

Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply. And given that their basic design hasn’t changed much for about a century, they could

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Game Developer Oct 27 Score 0.7712192671296297

Warhorse Studios hit by an undetailed cybersecurity incident

The developer behind the Kingdom Come: Deliverance games has revealed that it has been hit by a 'serious' cybersecurity attack and is taking steps to assess the full impact.

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 27 Score 0.7616361981481482

"Developers need to treat Early Access like a real launch, because players do" – Early Access games are on the rise, but so are player expectations

The number of games released through Steam's Early Access program has risen significantly in recent years. According to SteamDB , 2,924 Early Access games launched on Valve's platform in 2026 (as of mid-October), an 18% increase from 2025 and a 60% increase fr

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Risky Bulletin Oct 28 Score 0.7495352222222222

Risky Bulletin: Moldovan public services crippled by cyberattack

Moldova takes down more than 80 public services after a cyberattack, the White House launches a new cybersecurity pilot program, South Korea arrests an AI-assisted cybercrime ring, and the Electrum wallet patches a crypto-stealing bug. Show notes Risky Bulleti

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MIT News — AI Oct 28 Score 0.7483033574074074

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 28 Score 0.7467094106481481

The autistic brain processes faces differently than scientists thought

A major new study reveals that autistic children’s brains process faces differently, and those differences may begin earlier than scientists previously thought. Researchers found that brain signals associated with recognizing faces become more specialized as n

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 28 Score 0.7444302439814815

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs may have helped ants conquer the world

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs may have set the stage for ants to conquer the planet, with a surprising boost from “jumping genes” hidden in their DNA. Scientists discovered that bursts of activity from these mobile genetic elements coincided with the

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 28 Score 0.7431612625

Scientists discover the immune system’s hidden sense of touch

Scientists at McGill University have discovered a surprising new ability of immune cells that could change how we understand long-term immunity. Researchers found that T cells can actually sense how stiff their surrounding tissues are, using these physical sig

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CyberScoop Oct 27 Score 0.7372323152777778

Before you file that AI bug report, OpenAI has some advice

Open-source maintainers are so overwhelmed by AI-generated security reports that some have stopped accepting them. OpenAI’s Daybreak lead says the fix is higher-quality findings and far more coordination. The post Before you file that AI bug report, OpenAI has

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NASA News Oct 27 Score 0.7340634574074074

NASA Invites Media to Crew Completion of Yearlong Mars Simulation

The four volunteers who lived and worked in a simulated NASA Mars mission for more than a year will exit their habitat on Saturday, Oct. 31, after 378 days of isolation in a facility at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Health and performance data

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NASA News Oct 27 Score 0.7316074388888889

NASA's Neo Surveyor Sunshade

A technician inspects the large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission in this image released on Oct. 26, 2026. The sunshade structure, which stands 20 feet (6 meters) tall and measures 8 feet (2.4 meters) wide at its base, will keep the i

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Econbrowser Oct 27 Score 0.7278207800925925

Confidence Up, Sentiment (Final) Flat

Headlines (Bloomberg) note increase in Conference Board's Confidence index, for the first time in four months. However, the index remains pretty low, as does Michigan's final reading on Sentiment. Figure 1: U.Michigan Economic Sentiment, using Cummings Tedesch

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InfoQ Oct 27 Score 0.7206633990740741

How Anthropic Redesigned Source Control for AI-Driven Development

Anthropic recently detailed how it migrated its monorepo from Git to Scion. Scion is a source control system that moves repository operations to the server side and uses content-addressed storage and tiered caches for agent and CI workloads. The design sacrifi

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InfoQ Oct 27 Score 0.7199689546296296

Presentation: Serving LLMs at Scale: The Hidden KV Cache Advantage

Khawaja Shams shares a distributed systems perspective on scaling LLM inference stacks efficiently. He discusses practical strategies for optimizing GPU utilization, managing KV cache memory cliffs, leveraging tiered storage, reducing tail latency, and impleme

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 27 Score 0.7195904291666667

Common drugs may help dangerous viruses spread through the body

A surprising discovery reveals that widely used anti-inflammatory drugs may unintentionally help dangerous viruses spread through the body. Scientists found that JAK inhibitors, prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases, can weaken a

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 27 Score 0.7188825587962963

James Webb discovers a scorching lava planet with a “giant sunscreen”

A scorching lava planet 280 light-years away has surprised astronomers by apparently maintaining a thick atmosphere despite conditions that should have stripped it away billions of years ago. James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest that TOI-561 b refle

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New Scientist Oct 27 Score 0.716636288425926

Major greenhouse gases rise again to record levels

Levels of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere continued to rise in 2025, along with a lesser-known gas with a more powerful warming effect

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New Scientist Oct 27 Score 0.716636288425926

Vaccines could be about to revolutionise acne treatments

Acne could be caused by our immune systems overreacting to proteins released by skin bacteria. Columnist Michael Le Page looks into the experimental treatments aiming to block this process and prevent or reduce acne

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InfoQ Oct 27 Score 0.7166356212962963

AWS Shows Use of AI Agents to Triage Linux Kernel CVEs

Engineers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) have described how the team that maintains the Linux kernel for EC2 infrastructure handles kernel CVEs. The process combines an automated filter, an AI agent and human review. The team also argues that it needs to move

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InfoQ Oct 27 Score 0.7142467324074074

Cloudflare and VoidZero Introduce tsrs: An AI-Generated Rust Port of TypeScript

Cloudflare, VoidZero and Max Schwenk announced tsrs, an experimental Rust port of the TypeScript compiler, built with the TypeScript team's involvement. Cloudflare claims up to 8x faster checking and 70% less memory than TypeScript 7.0, though one test against

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Kubernetes Blog Oct 27 Score 0.7091360981481482

Announcing the Workload Conformance Working Group

We are excited to announce that the Kubernetes community now has a Workload Conformance Working Group . The working group is writing a shared standard for how workloads behave at runtime on Kubernetes. To get it right, we need input from the people who build t

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Hacker News Oct 27 Score 0.7009723064814813

Ghostty 1.4.0

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Google Cloud Blog Oct 27 Score 0.697468749074074

Introducing VMware solution on Google Cloud

Many organizations with workloads on VMware are looking for ways to expedite their data center exits, migrate and modernize their mission-critical workloads, or simply leverage the cloud as a secondary disaster recovery site. But they want to do so without alt

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Lobsters Oct 27 Score 0.6954176768518517

Four Months of Zig

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Marginal Revolution Oct 27 Score 0.6917439773148147

Tuesday assorted links

1. Which musical styles do smart people prefer? 2. U. of Austin job ads. 3. Walter Koenig, RIP (NYT). Chekov. 4. One take on the new computational result. And one (overstated) Chinese interpretation. And another extreme and unwarranted view. 5. New research me

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Marginal Revolution Oct 27 Score 0.6829574032407406

Eleven outstanding film and television reviews by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok

From the Archive–these posts are written by ChatGPT These selections emphasize the quality of the criticism: original interpretations, close attention to the work, and arguments worth considering even when you disagree. They are not a ranking of the film

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Marginal Revolution Oct 27 Score 0.6779680513888888

NYT debate on the rules for AI companies

Emily Bazelon was the moderator, there were five of us in the symposium. Excerpt from me: Bores: Do you think the federal government pre-empting the states is consistent with democracy? Cowen: Absolutely. We have federal laws that pre-empt state lawmaking in m

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Naked Capitalism Oct 27 Score 0.6566497939814815

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Tactical Nuclear Weapons: A Deadly Temptation

Originally developed as battlefield weapons, tactical nuclear arms have acquired a new rationale as instruments of incremental deterrence and escalation control. The revival of low-yield nuclear weapons illustrates a dangerous contradiction: efforts to strengt

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