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OpenAI News Aug 26 Score 0.9449698800925926

Learning never stops: How AI makes learning continuous

OpenAI’s new report explores how students and educators use ChatGPT to make learning more continuous, with support that extends beyond the classroom.

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OpenAI News Aug 26 Score 0.928303213425926

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 26 Score 0.8931078601851851

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active which means it gets a significant performance

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Quanta Magazine Aug 26 Score 0.8774859421296295

In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible

To explore quantum phenomena, we must leave the familiar world and enter the abstract realm of Hilbert space. The post In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Science sciencemathematicsphysicsbiology
Foreign Policy Aug 26 Score 0.8750645231481481

Why Iran Might Escalate

As Trump’s economic warfare takes its toll, Tehran will be tempted to go on the offensive in search of greater leverage

Geopolitics geopoliticsforeign-policyanalysis
Foreign Policy Aug 26 Score 0.8745571157407407

Why Iceland Might Finally Join the EU

The Nordic country has long evaded the bloc. After a referendum on Saturday, that might change.

Geopolitics geopoliticsforeign-policyanalysis
Schneier on Security Aug 26 Score 0.8734659379629629

Spyware for Babies

The New York Times has a long article ( alt link ) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI. Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four-foot set. And their already astonishing levels of baby data colle

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 26 Score 0.8668564712962962

Quoting Paul Dix

The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind blowing. And you can say, “well it’s not that

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The Verge Aug 26 Score 0.8144388861111111

Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its lat

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The Verge Aug 26 Score 0.8143060157407408

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Huggin

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BleepingComputer Aug 26 Score 0.8142289995370371

Critical Avada WordPress theme flaw enables zero-click RCE

A critical vulnerability chain in the popular Avada theme for WordPress can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server. [...]

Security securitymalwarevulnerabilities
Wired Aug 26 Score 0.8133032055555556

Democrats Just Might Win the Senate

Strategists in both parties have long thought that everything would need to go right for Democrats to take over Congress this fall. Their map, though, is becoming more forgiving.

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The Verge Aug 26 Score 0.8116365712962964

All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with th

Technology technologygadgetsconsumer
MIT Technology Review Aug 26 Score 0.809969851388889

The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions

Technology technologyresearchsociety
BleepingComputer Aug 26 Score 0.8096475180555556

New GPUThor attack defeats NVIDIA ECC protection for root access

A newly disclosed Rowhammer attack called GPUThor can bypass error-correcting code (ECC) protections on NVIDIA GPUs, enabling denial-of-service (DoS) and root-level privilege escalation. [...]

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The Guardian — World Aug 26 Score 0.8087293125

How to lose Trump’s trade war: test Canada’s resolve with threats to hockey sticks

The US president expected Ottawa to bow to tariff demands, but Canada is striking back – and it could cost Americans This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday Earlier this year, a survey found

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The Verge Aug 26 Score 0.8086958305555556

Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder

It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. "How was the botanic garden?" I ask him. "It was okay. It was just too hot," he tells me. I didn't

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The Verge Aug 26 Score 0.808303237962963

The Switch 2’s $50 price increase is happening next week

This is a friendly reminder that the Nintendo Switch 2 will jump in price by $50 starting on September 1st. That’s next Tuesday! The company gave plenty of notice, but the time has finally come. The base 256GB model that ships without a game will go from $449.

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War on the Rocks Aug 26 Score 0.8065054791666667

The Marine Corps’ Plan for the Future of Ground Combat

The Marine Corps just released its plan to fight against adversaries on land, and Ryan had the two architects of the plan, Ground Combat Element 2040, on the show to talk about it. They discuss drones, resilience, long-range fires, logistics, and what marines

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BleepingComputer Aug 26 Score 0.8061109439814815

Meta agrees to $18 billion settlement over teen social media harms

Meta has reached a proposed settlement worth up to approximately $18 billion with a bipartisan coalition of 52 attorneys generals over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were deliberately designed to encourage compulsive use by children and teenagers. [..

Security securitymalwarevulnerabilities
SANS Internet Storm Center Aug 26 Score 0.8049208736111112

Who Has Admin Rights in your Entra ID Directory?, (Wed, Aug 26th)

A common thing that folks should "worry" about in Entra (or any platform really) is "who has rights to administer"?  Who can delete or chan

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BleepingComputer Aug 26 Score 0.8038405736111112

Boston Scientific says cyberattack disrupted operations globally

Medical technology company Boston Scientific has been targeted in a cyberattack that disrupted some of its IT systems, causing operational disruptions globally. [...]

Security securitymalwarevulnerabilities
BleepingComputer Aug 26 Score 0.8029655736111112

Hackers target Microsoft SharePoint RCE chain with PoC exploit

Attackers are now targeting a chain of two Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities that can allow them to execute arbitrary code on unpatched servers, according to threat intelligence company Defused. [...]

Security securitymalwarevulnerabilities
MIT Technology Review Aug 26 Score 0.7985809625000001

The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears

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 Kids issue If the desire to limit kids' use of technology was once a subcurrent, it has become a raging f

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 26 Score 0.798302950925926

CISA Adds Six Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added six new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2015-3246 Red Hat Libuser Race Condition Vulnerability CVE-2015-5287 Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool Privilege Esca

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 26 Score 0.798302950925926

CISA Vulnerability Review

Most compromises do not rely on advanced techniques or cutting-edge tools. Cyber threat actors scan the internet looking for exposed, well-known software vulnerabilities to exploit. Basic security failures enable most compromises and organizations can reduce t

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MIT Technology Review Aug 26 Score 0.7933031847222223

Raised on AI

When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creating her digital footprint long before she

Technology technologyresearchsociety
NBER New Working Papers Aug 27 Score 0.7875000000000001

Political Entrepreneurs -- by Aaron Chatterji, Jorge Guzman, Joyce Ma, Ryan C. McDevitt

Firms shape public policy not only from the outside through lobbying and campaign contributions, but also from the inside when business owners hold public office. We study this channel using a novel dataset that links state legislators’ personal financial disc

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NBER New Working Papers Aug 27 Score 0.7875000000000001

Rate Risk and Rate Insurance -- by Olivier Wang

I decompose stock returns into a duration-matched Treasury component, identified from monetary policy surprises, and a payoff component. Risk and returns rise much less with duration for stocks than for their matched Treasuries. Stock volatility is dampened by

Economy economyresearchworking-papersnber
NBER New Working Papers Aug 27 Score 0.7875000000000001

Instrument Hacking -- by Michael P. Keane, Timothy Neal, Patrick Vu

In instrumental-variable (IV) studies, researchers often evaluate multiple candidate instruments and selectively report the specification with the most favorable first- or second-stage statistics. We show that this form of instrument selection (“instrument-hac

Economy economyresearchworking-papersnber
GamesIndustry.biz Aug 26 Score 0.763302813425926

Ubisoft announces playstest platform The Player Council

Ubisoft has announced the soft launch of The Player Council, a platform where players can test games and give feedback directly to developers. Read more

Gaming gamingindustrybusinessdevelopment
Econbrowser Aug 26 Score 0.7401854356481481

"Core GDP" Upwardly Revised

Core GDP, final sales ex net exports and government, was revised upward from 3.9% to 4.2%, even if headline GDP growth was not noticeably revised up. That means domestic aggregate demand momentum remains in place. Figure 1: Final sales to private domestic purc

Economy economymacroeconomicsenergyresearch
GitHub Blog Aug 26 Score 0.7369940009259259

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage

Managing library updates can be tedious at times. Learn how the GitHub Copilot app can handle this type of repetitive task. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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CyberScoop Aug 26 Score 0.7359442185185185

Officials disrupt Chinese espionage operation that hit multiple federal agencies

The full hacking suite, seized by authorities, allowed Chinese government funded attackers to intrude highly sensitive networks undetected for more than eight years. The post Officials disrupt Chinese espionage operation that hit multiple federal agencies appe

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NASA News Aug 26 Score 0.7353656375

Building Foresight for Earth Science, featuring Lindsey Jacobson

NASA's Earth-observing satellite missions track dozens of features of a changing planet — aerosols, sea levels, land cover, cloud cover — over years and decades. Sustaining that record for the scientific and operational communities who depend on it requires mo

Science sciencenasaspace
Econbrowser Aug 26 Score 0.7348266393518519

Business Cycle Indicators: Real Consumption Is Flat

Nominal consumption beats expectations ( +0.2% m/m vs +0.1% Bbg consensus), but real personal income ex-transfers remains below recent peak. Figure 1: NFP employment (bold blue), civilian employment with smoothed population controls (bold orange), industrial p

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NASA News Aug 26 Score 0.7344230449074074

Roman Space Telescope Travels to SpaceX Hangar

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, encapsulated in its payload fairing, travels from the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, ahead of mating to a Space

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NASA News Aug 26 Score 0.7325554523148148

NASA Johnson Pilots Chase Moon’s Shadow for Eclipse Science

During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse over Europe, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is far hotter than its visible surface. Capturing the data they needed meant being in exactly the right place at

Science sciencenasaspace
New Scientist Aug 26 Score 0.7316362532407408

The healthcare industry isn't built for coming off medication

Starting a new medication is relatively easy once you have a prescription from your doctor, but stopping is much harder, because from research to revenue, the healthcare industry has little interest in getting people off drugs

Science scienceresearchsociety
InfoQ Aug 26 Score 0.7271356819444444

AWS Introduces Specification Driven Composition for Flexible Data Workflows

AWS describes a specification-driven approach for composing flexible data workflows by separating intent from processing logic. Architecture uses declarative specifications, reusable processing capabilities, and validation before execution. AWS reports that th

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NASA News Aug 26 Score 0.7270943412037038

NASA Sets Spacewalk for Station Maintenance, Live Coverage Planned

NASA will provide coverage as two astronauts step outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to replace a spacecraft navigational aid and complete several maintenance tasks in support of space station operations. Watch live coverage beginning

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NASA News Aug 26 Score 0.7265827671296297

NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase of testing, including video from a recent test run and new images. To help NASA and commercial partners better understand the science of lunar

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 26 Score 0.7249940407407407

Scientists may have found a shortcut to calorie restriction’s anti-aging benefits

Moderate calorie restriction lowered an immune protein called C3 that appears to help drive chronic inflammation as the body ages. Blocking the same protein reduced age related inflammation in mice, raising the possibility that future treatments could mimic so

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InfoQ Aug 26 Score 0.7216356819444445

Presentation: Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response

Anthropic reliability engineer Alex Palcuie shares practical lessons on using LLMs for real-world incident response. He explains where AI acts as a superhuman for observing logs and traces, why it still struggles with causation versus correlation during root-c

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InfoQ Aug 26 Score 0.7149690152777778

Diagrid Catalyst 2.0 Adds Durable and Verifiable Execution for AI Agents

Diagrid Catalyst 2.0 applies Dapr-based recovery, signed workflow history and execution attestation across several agent frameworks. Architects should compare it with framework-native durability and established workflow engines, while evaluating benchmark evid

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Kubernetes Blog Aug 26 Score 0.7033026828703703

Kubernetes v1.37: Garhwal

Editors: Arsh Sharma, Christopher Tineo, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Troy Connor Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.37 introduces new Stable, Beta, and Alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases unde

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Google Cloud Blog Aug 26 Score 0.6924688124999999

How Uber improves network reliability while unblocking cloud migration

Uber has a lot in common with the cities it serves. Both are always changing and growing, both must carefully manage the resulting traffic to prevent congestion and sprawl. Uber has continuously evolved its technical strategies to manage its expanding network,

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