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OpenAI News Sep 17 Score 0.9483033625000001

How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT

Cooley built GO Public with ChatGPT Work to bring intelligence to the IPO process, helping lawyers surface issues earlier and focus judgment where it matters most.

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OpenAI News Sep 17 Score 0.9283033625000001

Introducing Astra for Law

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 17 Score 0.8932844041666665

Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans

Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans Important warning from Adam Harvey and the crates security team: We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting rust-lang members and owners of popular crates that is attempting to compromise devices a

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 17 Score 0.8926769967592592

How To Write With An LLM

How To Write With An LLM Thomas Ptacek on using LLMs as copyeditors, not as writing assistants: Rule Number One: You may not use a single word an LLM suggests to you. [...] I think that as a form of intellectual personal protective equipment you should adopt t

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Foreign Policy Sep 17 Score 0.889405474537037

Trump’s Risky Hack-Back Plan

The U.S. president wants tech companies to go on the cyber-offensive. Will it work?

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 17 Score 0.8882455152777777

Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries

Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries In Our framework for reporting model misalignment OpenAI provide "six reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we’ve observed in the last six months". This one here is my favorite: they caught

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Foreign Policy Sep 17 Score 0.886391585648148

Sweden’s Right-Wing Reckoning

What was expected to be an easy election win resulted in a narrow victory for the left.

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Foreign Policy Sep 17 Score 0.879979548611111

How Do You Dismantle a Propaganda Machine?

Peter Magyar is on a mission to restore Hungarians’ faith in public media.

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Quanta Magazine Sep 17 Score 0.8785684282407407

Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?

Jonathan Halliwell explains how quantum decoherence is key to understanding how we transition from a world with a wave-like nature of matter and energy to the classical macroscopic world that we’re used to. The post Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Be

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Schneier on Security Sep 17 Score 0.8718176124999999

How Candidates Could Use AI for Good

This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have anxiety about AI's impacts on the country. Politicos are

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 17 Score 0.8315579009259259

The trickle-down economics of the AI boom

How fast are AI investments translating into broader gains? Taiwan and South Korea offer hints

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 17 Score 0.8314833638888888

Ricardo Reis was too frank for the IMF

It can still benefit from the economist’s ideas

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The Verge Sep 18 Score 0.8216367222222223

Waymo says Singapore will be its next international robotaxi city

Waymo says it will launch a robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, as the Alphabet-owned company continues to eye overseas markets for expansion. Waymo's vehicles will begin arriving in Singapore in "the coming months," the company says, in preparation of mapp

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The Guardian — World Sep 18 Score 0.8189563578703705

Almost 50 dead in Nigeria after drinking alcohol suspected to contain methanol

Drinking locally made alcohol is common in Nigeria, especially in rural areas where it is more affordable and poorly regulated At least 48 people have died and about 100 others are receiving treatment in southern Nigeria after consuming a locally brewed alcoho

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Wired Sep 17 Score 0.8155353032407409

Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.

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BleepingComputer Sep 17 Score 0.8147041856481482

New RatHat Android malware uses AI to automate device control

A new Android malware called RatHat has been discovered, targeting users with an AI-powered subsystem that helps operators remotely navigate compromised devices. [...]

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The Guardian — World Sep 17 Score 0.8128484875

New cat species identified for first time in more than a century in Bolivia

New species of wild feline was discovered in Bolivia’s Yungas forest that is smaller than the average domestic ⁠cat A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia’s ⁠cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new li

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Google AI Blog Sep 17 Score 0.8116366314814816

Making global data easier to explore

Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.

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Wired Sep 17 Score 0.8115940995370371

The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess

By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.

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The Verge Sep 17 Score 0.8107589444444445

The AI Superintelligence Slowdown

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US

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The Verge Sep 17 Score 0.8099168148148149

Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "thread

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BleepingComputer Sep 17 Score 0.8098365930555557

OpenAI details more cases of AI agents taking unauthorized actions

OpenAI has presented new examples of what they call "AI model misalignment" from the past six months, including unauthorized file uploads, following self-generated instructions, hiding mistakes, and leveraging exposed API keys. [...]

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Wired Sep 17 Score 0.8094815995370371

The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party

The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.

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War on the Rocks Sep 17 Score 0.8087201245370371

Latin America’s Balancing Act: Washington, Beijing, and the Post-Maduro Environment

The year 2026 has brought sweeping change to Latin America's relationship with the United States. Following a major military buildup in the Caribbean and strikes against vessels suspected of drug trafficking, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicol&#22

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War on the Rocks Sep 17 Score 0.8070418837962964

A Body Blow? The War on Iran and U.S. Military Readiness

The war against Iran is putting new strains on U.S. military readiness by consuming munitions and missile defense interceptors, as well as through extended deployments, sustained operational demands, and the diversion of forces and attention from other theater

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The Verge Sep 17 Score 0.8070288518518519

Save $30 or more on a refurbished Apple TV 4K

Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices. Thankfully, you can offset some of the increased costs on an Apple TV 4K by buying one refurbished through the company. The 64GB model is sellin

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BleepingComputer Sep 17 Score 0.8069578893518519

Brevo supply-chain attack injected ClickFix scripts on customer sites

Brevo confirmed that attackers stole a Cloudflare API key and used it to inject malicious ClickFix scripts into its websites and JavaScript files embedded on customer sites to distribute malware. [...]

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The Verge Sep 17 Score 0.8049700555555557

Xbox’s clever disc-to-digital feature was 15 years in the making

When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox One. Disc-to-digital seems like a clever new feature for Xbox, perfectly timed as a response to Sony killing PlayStation d

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SANS Internet Storm Center Sep 17 Score 0.8034900314814816

LausivLoader analysis, or how to pass data between malware stages, (Thu, Sep 17th)

At the end of August, a malspam message was caught in the quarantine of a mail gateway operated by one of my customers. The message was not especially remarkable – it asked the recipient to review some attached requirements and provide a price

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BleepingComputer Sep 17 Score 0.801669463425926

What Recent AI-Powered Attacks Mean for Your Identity Security

AI is making credential theft faster and easier to scale, giving attackers more opportunities to abuse valid identities. Specops explains why identity security must go beyond successful authentication by verifying that both the user and the device requesting a

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MIT Technology Review Sep 17 Score 0.7985811245370371

The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators

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. Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around a small a

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 17 Score 0.7983031402777778

Bransys ELD

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow unauthorized access to telemetry data and firmware. The following versions of Bransys ELD are affected: Android iOS CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 7.5 Bransys Bransys ELD

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 17 Score 0.7983031402777778

Hitachi Energy FACTS Control Platform (FCP)

View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of vulnerabilities that affect the FACTS Control systems with GWS component listed in this document. An attacker exploiting these vulnerabilities can cause impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability of the p

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 17 Score 0.7983031402777778

Mitsubishi Electric GX Works3 and Motion Control Settings

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to successfully authenticate even with an invalid block password by executing the affected product and modify part of the executable module in memory, and thereby allo

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 17 Score 0.7983031402777778

Mitsubishi Electric CC-Link IE TSN Communication Protocol (Update A)

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker with access to the same network segment to tamper with communication data in the affected product by sending specially crafted packets under specific timing conditions. Thi

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MIT Technology Review Sep 17 Score 0.794970013425926

Meet the innovators under 35 shaping climate tech

Each year, the editorial team at MIT Technology Review puts together a list of 35 innovators under 35—a group of researchers, inventors, and other young minds worth following. The team worked on the newest edition of the list for months, and the final slate in

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Game Developer Sep 18 Score 0.7875000000000001

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 17 Score 0.7649687625000001

Draft of new EU law proposes sweeping restrictions on online games

The EU Commission has published a draft for the proposed EU KIDS Act . While the most controversial stipulations – namely a ban for under 13's and restrictions for under 15 year old kids – only apply to social networks and video sharing platforms &

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 17 Score 0.762469688425926

"Every major publisher has approached us to review their old Kinect and Wii catalogue" – Nex Playground is spoilt for choice as its international rollout continues

With over a million units sold, and approaching a million paying subscribers using them, the next step in Nex Playground's global expansion – backed by fresh investmnent and an expanded leadership team including EA founder Bing Gordon and former Niantic

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Platformer Sep 18 Score 0.7453208944444445

What was Hard Fork?

Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods

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TechCrunch — AI Sep 17 Score 0.7422279046296296

Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate

The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI. "They will not always agree, and they will likely change their minds, as more data and information comes to light at the fa

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Econbrowser Sep 17 Score 0.7417421185185186

GDPNow Goes Gangbusters

GDPNow as of today is 5.1% q/q AR for Q3: Figure 1: GDP (black), August Survey of Professional Forecasters (purple), GDPNow (light blue square), Goldman Sachs tracking (inverted chartreuse triangle), NY Fed 9/11 (red triangle), September FT Booth (blue +). Sou

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AWS Blog Sep 17 Score 0.7386306300925926

New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available

AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better price p

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NASA News Sep 17 Score 0.7376685782407407

NASA Awards Launch Services for StarBurst Gamma-Ray Detector

NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and the origins of short gamma-ray bursts. StarBurst will launch aboard a Bandwagon rideshare mission on a Fa

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Econbrowser Sep 17 Score 0.7371796185185185

Betting on the Midterms

From Polymarket today, 3pm CT: The sharp deterioration in Republican odds for holding the Senate occurred almost immediately after the beginning of the US-Iran War. The first reversal between Republican/Democratic odds occurred on March 15. Kalshi places odds

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AWS Blog Sep 17 Score 0.7355347967592593

AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode

Run an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode without provisioning or operating the compute underneath it. You provide a container image or source code; Elastic Beanstalk with service-operated compute creates and operates the environment that runs i

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NASA News Sep 17 Score 0.7342060782407407

NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 35th Resupply Launch to Space Station

Media accreditation is open for the next cargo launch that will deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. The 35th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory for NASA will lift o

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Econbrowser Sep 17 Score 0.7330300814814815

Fed Funds Expected Trajectory, and Other Rates

Here's the CME's Fedwatch implied path for the Fed funds rate as of noon CT today: Figure 1: Effective Fed funds (bold blue), 3 month Treasury yield (red), 10 year (green), 30 year (black), all constant maturity yields, in %. Dashed green line at US-Iran war s

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NASA News Sep 17 Score 0.7289338560185186

NASA Unveils Enterprise, the First Space Shuttle

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, 1976—Constitution Day of America’s bicentennial year—NASA unveiled its first space shuttle orbiter, OV-101, to the public. NASA had originally planned to name the vehicle Constitution, but a letter-writing campaign changed the age

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 17 Score 0.7268789212962963

Scientists discover a mysterious new frog hiding in the Amazon

Scientists discovered a new frog species in the flooded forests of the western Amazon, distinguishing it from nearly identical relatives through DNA and its unique call. Adenomera varcena highlights how much Amazonian biodiversity remains hidden even as habita

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Lobsters Sep 17 Score 0.7263581564814815

I don't like LLMs

I have a lot of mixed feelings about AI and LLM technology. I’m fascinated by its effect on our profession, excited by the potential gains in productivity - and thus the products we could rapidly build. On the other hand, I’m fearful of the damage AI might cau

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 17 Score 0.7249784583333333

Astronomers just found the youngest known planet ever

Astronomers have confirmed a Jupiter-size planet less than a million years old, making Elias 2-24 b the youngest known planet and giving scientists a rare look at a world still being born. Its surprisingly rapid formation challenges leading theories about how

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FRED Blog Sep 17 Score 0.7249693643518519

Using options prices to measure financial risk : The Kansas City Fed Policy Rate Skew

The takeaway The Kansas City Fed uses options prices to measure how financial markets perceive the balance of risks for future short-term interest rates: a.k.a., the KC Policy Rate Skew. The data Options are publicly traded financial instruments that reflect &

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 17 Score 0.7245752175925926

JWST’s mysterious little red dots may be black holes growing at incredible speeds

New supercomputer simulations suggest JWST’s puzzling Little Red Dots are rapidly growing black holes from the early Universe. Extreme radiation may have helped create unusually massive black hole seeds, while dense surrounding gas allowed them to grow dozens

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InfoQ Sep 17 Score 0.7219414231481481

Building an Internal Developer Platform with Artificial Intelligence

Agents are becoming the new developer platform, using semantic search with data from tools like Git, Slack, and Jira for context. Things to consider are setting guardrails to block or allow things, and using logs, metrics, and traces to understand agent behavi

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 17 Score 0.6941355597222222

The future of orchestration: Pine59’s journey to Airflow 3 on Google Cloud

Operating large data pipelines requires an orchestration layer that scales smoothly as workloads expand. When your pipelines process millions of complex data points every day to feed predictive models, staying up-to-date with your technology stack is a strateg

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 17 Score 0.6924688930555555

What’s new with Google Data Cloud

September 14 - September 17 Managed Service for Apache Kafka supports clusters with public Internet access! With Managed Kafka public clusters , you can now produce and consume messages from clients outside your VPC—including your local machine, for faster, fr

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 17 Score 0.6924688930555555

How a solo founder runs a five-continent tender platform on AlloyDB and MCP

Editor's note: Lucius AI, a tender-intelligence startup covering markets across five continents, runs its entire data platform on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL with a single operator. By migrating semantic search to a ScaNN index and managing database operations thro

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CNCF Blog Sep 17 Score 0.6841362601851851

OpenTelemetry everywhere: Migrating a metrics platform at scale

Why we did this at all For most of the last decade our metrics pipeline ran on gostatsd, the open-source StatsD implementation we maintain. It primarily did two jobs: as sidecar on every host and the...

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TechCrunch — AI Sep 17 Score 0.6653862611111112

The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI

A new AI-based software program is being launched to help air traffic controllers better navigate their jobs as the crossing guards of America's skies.

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