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OpenAI News Oct 23 Score 0.9449698194444446

Securing our frontier model training environment

OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 23 Score 0.8892813833333333

Quick Study

Tool: Quick Study Prompt to Claude Opus 5.5 High : Build an artifact where you open a photo and it rapidly (in a few seconds) paints a version of that photo using a canvas element and simulated paintbrush See also my previous experiment getting Claude Fable to

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Schneier on Security Oct 23 Score 0.8883071907407406

Friday Squid Blogging: Increasing Squid Populations

This article in Nature argues that it's due to an overfishing of predators and warming sea temperatures. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy.

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Foreign Policy Oct 23 Score 0.8864009518518517

The Real Danger of Big Tech

The biggest risks of AI and other advanced technologies have less to do with their growing power than the men behind them.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 23 Score 0.8861059203703703

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version that's 2-3x faster, at twice the price (exc

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Foreign Policy Oct 23 Score 0.8833129888888888

How to Make a Monster

What a novel about Ireland’s last great auks reveals about xenophobia today.

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Quanta Magazine Oct 23 Score 0.878140974074074

Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering

To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Oct 23 Score 0.8717576537037036

Compromised TLS Certificates

The Indian CA eMudhra Limited has eight TLS certificates with laughably weak private keys : The compromised eMudhra keys were defective at a level that’s challenging the imagination of many of the engineers studying the incident. A normal size for a NIST P-384

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The Guardian — World Oct 24 Score 0.8191370462962964

Rubio tells Cubans ‘now is the time’ to act to see political change

US secretary of state makes comments after Trump tells US rally warships could intervene on return from Iran Marco Rubio urged Cubans seeking political change in their country to act, saying “now is the time” moments after Donald Trump told a Friday rally for

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The Verge Oct 23 Score 0.8143985569444445

Xbox’s first chief operating officer is out after just a few months

Xbox's first chief operating officer (COO) is leaving after the new role was created just a few months ago. Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today, according to an internal Xbox memo seen by The Verge. Chiang has been at Microsoft for 21 years, serving as the

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The Verge Oct 23 Score 0.8136119828703704

OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access

OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web con

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BleepingComputer Oct 23 Score 0.8131664439814815

Abandoned Popcorn Time app exposed millions of devices to RCE attacks

Researchers remotely disabled a vulnerable updater in the abandoned Time4Popcorn app, a fork of the Popcorn Time BitTorrent client, closing a security flaw that could have allowed attackers to execute malicious code with elevated privileges on millions of comp

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The Verge Oct 23 Score 0.8109490199074074

Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army

Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA's least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the "Netflix of Piracy" software is still installe

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The Verge Oct 23 Score 0.8108767976851853

Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend

Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, f

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The Verge Oct 23 Score 0.8095115199074074

Soundcore’s latest noise-crushing headphones are on sale for a new low price

My colleague John Higgins considered Soundcore’s Space One some of the best budget noise-canceling headphones you could buy when they launched in 2023 — and their successor has only improved upon their winning formula, albeit with a $30 price increase. Thankfu

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Wired Oct 23 Score 0.8066364837962964

What’s the Best iPhone to Buy or Avoid Right Now? (2026)

The first folding iPhone Duo is here, alongside the 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, but they’re not your only options. We have all the details on Apple’s smartphone lineup to help you find the right model.

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BleepingComputer Oct 23 Score 0.8060840361111111

Quest Diagnostics confirms data breach exposed patient records

American clinical laboratory company Quest Diagnostics disclosed that patient records have been exposed after a threat actor gained unauthorized access to its Quanum LSM system. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 23 Score 0.804360887962963

PHP shares mitigation for new RCE vulnerability with no patch

The PHP security team has shared mitigation measures for a new remote code execution vulnerability that affects systems with non-default configurations and has no patch. [...]

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The Guardian — World Oct 23 Score 0.8015578796296297

Mystery over source of Ebola infection in Nigeria fuels concern about spread of virus

Switzerland says patient is wife of Swiss diplomat and believed to have contracted virus while travelling in Uganda Health officials across Africa are racing to determine how Nigeria’s first Ebola patient ⁠in more than a decade ⁠became infected, amid fears ​th

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SANS Internet Storm Center Oct 23 Score 0.8011731087962963

PHP Vulnerability Wrap-Up, (Fri, Oct 23rd)

This morning, we returned to Infocon Green. As usual, we are raising the Infocon to alert you to emerging situations requiring immediate attention. PHP fit that description. By now, you either know about it, or you probably never will, so it is time to go back

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MIT Technology Review Oct 23 Score 0.7985809115740742

The Download: testing six tech promises and biotech's blind spots

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. Are we there yet? A reality check on six big tech promises Some seemingly impossible feats are too good to give up on. Dec

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 23 Score 0.7983028101851852

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its  Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-114625 Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator SQL Injection Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attac

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 23 Score 0.7983028101851852

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its  Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-110447 Collabora Online – Built-in CODE Server OS Command Injection Vulnerability  This type of vulnerabil

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MIT Technology Review Oct 23 Score 0.7933031337962964

In the biotech world, you can’t see everything

Earlier this week, I attended a screening of You Can See Everything, the buzzy new documentary about the disgraced former biotech CEO Elizabeth Holmes.  I went in not really knowing what to expect. I’d avoided spoilers (and won’t be giving anything away h

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 23 Score 0.7659198060185186

BioWare's end is a tragically familiar tale | Opinion

After the past five years of seemingly endless closures, cancellations, and restructures, after the tens of thousands of layoffs that the industry has endured like a relentless drumbeat, you'd think that we'd all have grown some pretty thick skin. How much can

Gaming gamingindustrybusinessdevelopment
Microsoft Research Blog Oct 22 Score 0.7649690314814815

Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations

Flint-interactive gives AI agents a language for creating interactive visualizations. Click a chart, filter data, highlight related content, and explore beyond the view the author originally chose. The post Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactiv

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 23 Score 0.7574637875000001

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Critical Consensus

Activision has a lot riding on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. Last year's entry, Black Ops 7, was poorly received by critics and players, and third-party tracking data suggested the game significantly underperformed compared to other entries in the series. Re

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TechCrunch Oct 23 Score 0.7418517856481481

Startups don't need to go viral to win customers

At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one.

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NASA News Oct 23 Score 0.7410711259259259

NASA, Partners Accelerate Lander Development for 2028 Moon Missions

As NASA returns humans to the lunar surface and establishes a long-term presence on our closest celestial neighbor, the agency and commercial human landing system providers Blue Origin and SpaceX have streamlined the designs and changed both concepts of operat

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NASA News Oct 23 Score 0.7410220518518519

NASA’s Artemis III Mission to Test Future Moon Lander Operations

Before astronauts return to the lunar surface, NASA will first conduct one of the most ambitious and complex test missions in the agency's history.  Launching in 2027, Artemis III will send NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio, Andre Douglas, and ES

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NASA News Oct 23 Score 0.7397285333333333

NASA’s Swift Mission Ends, Leaves Behind Scientific Bonanza

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has ended its science mission now that the spacecraft is orbiting less than 171 miles (275 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. The greater atmospheric drag at this height prevents the satellite’s telescopes from steadily ga

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PC Gamer Oct 23 Score 0.7368402268518518

Time could be running out for Arkane

The famed immersive sim studio just got an extra month to find a new buyer, but will likely close if there are no takers.

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MIT News — AI Oct 23 Score 0.7359420527777778

Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT

During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.”

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NASA News Oct 23 Score 0.7348882555555556

RS-25 Engine Tests at NASA Stennis

Teams at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21, 2026. The hot fire test lasted for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during launch of NASA’s

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NASA News Oct 23 Score 0.7330350148148148

NASA, Virginia Launch Power Partnership for Energy Security

NASA is helping to foster long-term energy security in Virginia.  NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is partnering with the Virginia Department of Energy to support informed decisions for effective energy generation, delivery and use by

Science sciencenasaspace
Latent Space Oct 23 Score 0.7288527824074074

AI Is Getting Good at Math. Here’s Why.

AI models are solving more mathematical problems. A pattern is emerging in their successes that could help us predict which problems they’ll solve next.

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New Scientist Oct 23 Score 0.727815300925926

Personalised cancer vaccine expected to be approved next year

A bespoke vaccine that is tailored to target an individual's unique skin cancer reduced rates of recurrence or death in a late-stage trial, making an approval expected

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InfoQ Oct 23 Score 0.7274689324074074

CSIRO Uses Serverless Architecture to Query 100x More Genomic Variants on AWS

CSIRO has developed Serverless Beacon, a serverless architecture for querying genomic variants without copying VCF files into a central database. The system combines Amazon S3, Lambda, Athena and DynamoDB, using metadata indexes and HTTP byte range requests to

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InfoQ Oct 23 Score 0.7246633768518519

AWS Introduces Lambda Web Functions for Node.js Applications

AWS recently introduced Lambda Web Functions, allowing developers to run Node.js web applications using frameworks such as Express and Hono directly on Lambda, with support for concurrent requests and response streaming. By Renato Losio

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 23 Score 0.7222838023148148

One of Earth’s most powerful supervolcanoes is refilling with fresh magma

Deep beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, a massive magma reservoir is refilling 7,300 years after one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in Earth's recent geological history. Scientists used underwater seismic surveys to reveal a vast store of magma that

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 23 Score 0.721982413425926

Dental implants can hijack your immune system, scientists discover

Researchers have uncovered a surprising reason dental implant infections often resist antibiotics: the implants themselves can contribute to the problem. Bacteria corrode titanium implants, releasing microscopic particles that hijack immune cells, trigger dest

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Marginal Revolution Oct 23 Score 0.6934595194444444

Friday assorted links

1. Weird diets (NYT). 2. Is this what the Denisovans looked like? 3. Measuring bottlenecks for AI. 4. How is violence diffferent when women lead drug cartels? 5. "Israel’s economy is growing so fast, it will leapfrog the Netherlands and Australia within the ne

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Marginal Revolution Oct 23 Score 0.6846553527777777

Prediction Markets Are Accurate

No surprise to me but a new paper looks at the forecast accuracy of over one million prediction questions from Polymarket, Kalshi, Manifold and the forecasting platform Metaculus. A virtue of the new analysis is that it covers many different areas from busines

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Marginal Revolution Oct 23 Score 0.6845289638888888

Protecting Americans from Medicine

Max Doppelt: In January 2025 my mom’s lung cancer spread to her brain. The drug with the best chance of helping her was approved in China but not here. A doctor told me, almost as an aside, that if she were Chinese she could buy it at a pharmacy. So I flew to

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Marginal Revolution Oct 23 Score 0.6785372972222221

Podcast with Rabbi David Wolpe

Here is their episode summary: Economist Tyler Cowen joins David Wolpe for a conversation about AI, religion, and what makes us human. Tyler makes the case that AI’s biggest impact may be on status: who gains it, who loses it, and what happens to experts like

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Marginal Revolution Oct 23 Score 0.6739085935185184

Will bystander economies be able to finance their governments?

From Jesús Fernández-Villaverde: Will AI poison the public finances of many modern states? There is a real risk that it will. Yesterday, I circulated a new paper, “Saving for the Machines,” which makes a simple point. Building the AI transformation will requir

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