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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 28 Score 0.8903041925925925

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he reports that security issues in OCaml projec

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Foreign Policy Aug 28 Score 0.888504837037037

Iceland’s EU Ambitions

U.S. threats in the Arctic push Reykjavik to hold a referendum on restarting membership talks.

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Schneier on Security Aug 28 Score 0.8883790388888888

Friday Squid Blogging: Truckload of Squid Spills in Rhode Island

Ugh : A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local authorities have dubbed it the "Squidpocalypse of '26." That would be twenty tons of s

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Foreign Policy Aug 28 Score 0.8849752074074073

A Book as Big as the War

‘1942’ offers an epic, brilliant vision of global conflict.

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Foreign Policy Aug 28 Score 0.884429374074074

Notes From Russia’s Literary Underground

Publishers in exile are supplying contraband books to help Russians evade censorship.

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The Guardian — World Aug 28 Score 0.8175974050925927

Trump announces new US oil agreement with Venezuela

US president says US will have ‘majority’ control of 65bn barrels of proven oil reserves Donald Trump announced Friday a new US oil agreement with Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez, saying the US will have “majority” control of 65bn barrels of prov

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The Verge Aug 28 Score 0.8163083671296297

Google further buries search results under AI mode

Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google's res

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BleepingComputer Aug 28 Score 0.8160887662037037

McKesson discloses breach after ShinyHunters claims patient data theft

Healthcare and pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson has disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to third-party applications and data theft, with the ShinyHunters extortion group claiming it stole 284 million patient data records.

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The Verge Aug 28 Score 0.8150592930555556

Xbox CEO calls Project Helix a ‘family of devices’

According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Microsoft's "next generation console" - phrasing that seemingly implied a singular device - will actually be a "family" of devices." "We've been hard at work on a

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Wired Aug 28 Score 0.8111972231481482

Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE in Louisiana

The longtime far-right operator and troll, a UK citizen, is being held in ICE custody pending his removal from the United States.

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BleepingComputer Aug 28 Score 0.8102040439814815

PaperCut releases second emergency patch for exploited flaws

PaperCut has released a second emergency security update for two actively exploited vulnerabilities in its PaperCut NG and MF print management software after researchers discovered multiple ways to bypass the initial fixes. [...]

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Wired — Security Aug 28 Score 0.808950000925926

Microsoft Teams Has Become a Haven for Scammers in China

Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints.

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War on the Rocks Aug 28 Score 0.7908050486111112

The (Un)importance of the Battle of Tours

Editor's note: This is the first article in a new occasional series featuring battles that just didn't matter, may look important, but in fact had negligible strategic or political effects or were absurd, anticlimactic, or structurally irrelevant to the wars t

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 25 Score 0.771622711111111

EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins!

EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins! EVE Online has been one of the most interesting case studies in Python at scale for over twenty years now. They've been running on Stackless Python since their launch in 2003, and their last major upgrade was 16 years a

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Schneier on Security Aug 25 Score 0.7514929277777777

Black Hat State of Security Vendors

Andy Ellis has a roundup of the security vendors at Black Hat this year. Key Takeaways: We have entered into an AI world. While nearly half of booths didn't directly mention AI or agents in their taglines, the effects of AI are everywhere. Multiple spaces (Ide

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NASA News Aug 28 Score 0.7405675472222222

NASA's Artemis II Crew Receives Congressional Space Medal of Honor

From left to right: NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor from President Donald J. Trump on Aug. 28, 2026, for their

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Aug 28 Score 0.73997295

Perturbation Probing: A New Diagnostic for the Fragility of LLM Safety

New research reveals that AI safety refusal lives in a thin neural layer, highlighting the critical need for external, multi-layered security. The post Perturbation Probing: A New Diagnostic for the Fragility of LLM Safety appeared first on Unit 42 .

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The Hacker News Aug 28 Score 0.739160437037037

Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City's State Network

Berlin's state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city's state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists' demands. The same statement disclosed that forensic w

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Econbrowser Aug 28 Score 0.7382151078703704

So Much for the Manufacturing Employment Renaissance

Preliminary benchmark revision based on QCEW data, released today: Figure 1: Change in manufacturing employment since 2025M01 from BLS (blue), preliminary benchmark revision from BLS (light blue square), from ADP (green). Orange shading denotes post-Liberation

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CyberScoop Aug 28 Score 0.7374595439814815

ATF confirms cyberattack hit system containing info on its investigation targets

The prolific ransomware group Qilin claimed responsibility for the attack. ATF insists the incident was limited to a standalone system and hasn’t impacted critical operations. The post ATF confirms cyberattack hit system containing info on its investigation ta

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TechCrunch — AI Aug 28 Score 0.7373083361111111

Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

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Dark Reading Aug 28 Score 0.7371742662037037

Hundreds of OpenAI Agents Invaded Hugging Face Servers

The Hugging Face incident was bigger and worse than previously thought, with approximately 700 agents collaborating on a sophisticated, multistage attack.

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Kubernetes Blog Aug 28 Score 0.7341360291666666

Kubernetes v1.37: Pod Certificates and Cluster Trust Bundles

Pod Certificate / Cluster Trust Bundles Blog Post Kubernetes brings a wealth of features that make it easy to run your production workloads securely and reliably. While aspects like scheduling, health checks and resource limits are probably at the front of you

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NASA News Aug 28 Score 0.7326647694444445

President Honors NASA’s Artemis II Crew with Highest US Space Award

President Donald J. Trump awarded NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor Friday for their service during the Artemis II mission. He pr

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NASA News Aug 28 Score 0.7322217138888889

President Trump Signs Executive Order to Create US Space Academy

To strengthen the nation’s space workforce and develop the next generation of space leaders, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order on Friday to establish the nation’s first U.S. Space Academy. The order highlights how space is a critical domain f

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Stratechery Aug 28 Score 0.7316365087962963

2026.35: Internet Hype and Real World Change

The best Stratechery content from the week of August 24, 2026 including the breaker's advantage, the new battle for HDMI1, and how data center discourse ends.

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Eurogamer Aug 28 Score 0.7278200384259259

Hell Let Loose: Vietnam review

The most surprising thing about Hell Let Loose: Vietnam is how much DNA it shares with Big Walk. They both frequently involve traversing large expanses of terrain. They both have excellent maps. Most of all, they're both fundamentally games about communication

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 28 Score 0.7106158578703704

Why scientists asked 1,000 people to bury their underwear

More than 1,000 volunteers buried cotton underwear across Switzerland to help scientists measure how active different soils are. The faster the fabric disappeared, the more biological activity was taking place underground. Gardens showed the fastest decomposit

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Nautilus Aug 28 Score 0.7024697337962962

Watch This Shrimp-Like Fish Walk Backwards

A deep-sea denizen with an identity crisis The post Watch This Shrimp-Like Fish Walk Backwards appeared first on Nautilus .

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Nautilus Aug 28 Score 0.7008030671296296

COVID Brain Fog May Not Be Irreversible

At least for one variant The post COVID Brain Fog May Not Be Irreversible appeared first on Nautilus .

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Marginal Revolution Aug 28 Score 0.6968472291666665

Tysons Corner (Alaska) fact of the day

The centerpiece is Tysons Corner Center, today the eighth largest mall in the country, and one of the largest sub-city-sized markets for office space. It is half-owned by the Alaska Permanent Fund, which is the state-owned corporation that invests oil revenue

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Nautilus Aug 28 Score 0.6958030671296296

The Gibbon’s Gaze: A Mirror Into the Human Mind

What are you lookin’ at? The post The Gibbon’s Gaze: A Mirror Into the Human Mind appeared first on Nautilus .

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Econbrowser Aug 27 Score 0.6929419597222222

Where Does the US (and Wisconsin*) Get Its Oil From?

Canada! Source: Oilsandsmagazine.com. In fact, in 2025, 61% of total US petroleum imports come from Canada (by dollar value). According to ITA, 100% of Wisconsin imports come from Canada. Several states (including Wisconsin) get electricity from Canada. Maine

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Nautilus Aug 28 Score 0.6924697337962962

How to Think About Thinking

A conversation with neuroscientist Adrian Owen about the importance of executive function The post How to Think About Thinking appeared first on Nautilus .

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Marginal Revolution Aug 28 Score 0.691915747685185

Friday assorted links

1. "With homicides up 50% since 2020—putting the country’s murder rate on par with Mexico’s—Costa Rican President Laura Fernández and her ruling party are blaming the independent judiciary." (WSJ) 2. The Monterrey spirit. 3. Is Aaron Renn the biggest superinfl

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CNCF Blog Aug 28 Score 0.6849693425925925

Scale before the spike: Predictive autoscaling for GPU workloads on Kubernetes

The 3 AM Call We got paged one Tuesday morning. A critical production service had crashed under traffic—not gradually degraded, but crashed. Hundreds of pending pods. Users were seeing 15–20% error rates. The incident postmortem was...

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Marginal Revolution Aug 28 Score 0.6846527847222221

A Big Bet on Explosive AI-Driven Growth

Wow! The excellent Ben Moll has put together a high-stakes bet on US economic growth. A bet on near-term explosive AI-driven growth: whether U.S. real GDP per capita will grow by at least 15% within a single year (measured relative to prior peak) by the end of

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CNCF Blog Aug 28 Score 0.6841360092592592

Your Kubernetes platform is ready for containers. Is it ready for AI?

Kubernetes has given platform teams a consistent way to deploy, scale, and operate containerized applications. Now, many of those same teams are being asked to support AI. The transition is already underway. According to the CNCF...

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Marginal Revolution Aug 28 Score 0.6771004699074074

Luke Burgis interviews Patrick Collison on aesthetics

It was very fun talking to @patrickc about New Aesthetics at the @ClunyInstitute 's conference last month. We talked about: —The origin story of the New Aesthetics grants — and why he and Tyler Cowen disagree on almost everything aesthetic (1:00) —Why culture

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Phys.org Aug 29 Score 0.6727492689814816

Many cities buried urban streams. Here's how to bring them back

As many cities developed, streams that once flowed on the surface were buried underground to make way for growing infrastructure. However, as heavier rainfall, extreme weather and aging infrastructure place growing pressure on cities, these buried streams coul

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Phys.org Aug 29 Score 0.671081213425926

Rethinking bluegreen aphid control as insecticide resistance spreads

When an insecticide application fails to control bluegreen aphid, application conditions may not be the only cause. Research has identified resistant populations across southern Australia, confirming that repeated reliance on broad-spectrum insecticides is no

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VentureBeat — AI Aug 27 Score 0.6083310078703704

When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer

Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every architecture review: When an agent tries to complete an action

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