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Foreign Policy Sep 2 Score 0.8895058037037036

Iran Accuses U.S. Military of a War Crime

Renewed fighting has taken a deadly turn after a month without major military action.

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Foreign Policy Sep 2 Score 0.889413674074074

Nepal’s Disaster Demands a Regional Response

The glacier collapse and floods that followed show why neighboring states must cooperate to reduce future threats.

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Schneier on Security Sep 2 Score 0.8840845967592592

AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns

I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They're vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the corpus that AIs are training on contain data suggesting that I am someone to write to with random computer and network security problems

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 2 Score 0.8810708555555554

llm-gemini 0.34

Release: llm-gemini 0.34 New model gemini-3.8-flash for Gemini 3.8 Flash , with low, medium and high thinking levels. #146 Fixed async responses failing to record the resolved model version. Thanks, Charlie Tonneslan . #137 Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash (an

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Quanta Magazine Sep 2 Score 0.8772205953703702

Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble

By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event. The post Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble first appeared on Q

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 2 Score 0.8771004851851851

Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications ( Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they share not just the current prompts but historic changes to

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Schneier on Security Sep 2 Score 0.8706021893518517

Wireless Routers as Motion Detectors

Comcast has added motion detection as a feature to its wireless routers: The feature sends push notifications to users when motion is detected near a connected device, such as a TV or printer. It has different settings for when people are home, asleep, or away

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 2 Score 0.8487777046296295

Central banking has a forbidding future

But Kevin Warsh has bought himself time

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The Verge Sep 2 Score 0.8166366

Uber beats Waymo as first to launch robotaxis in London

Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone f

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The Guardian — World Sep 2 Score 0.8137252175925926

Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ for US users after Trump order

Tech company submits to controversial Trump order to rename body of water amid US trade spat with Canada Apple has renamed Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for US users of its Maps app, after an executive order from Donald Trump to change the name of the Great L

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BleepingComputer Sep 2 Score 0.8133091481481483

Hackers exploit Sangoma Switchvox flaw to deploy reverse shells

Attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-9586, an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the Sangoma Switchvox VoIP platform that can lead to remote code execution. [...]

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The Verge Sep 2 Score 0.8119606740740741

Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introd

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The Verge Sep 2 Score 0.8098861370370372

Here are some of REI’s best Labor Day sale deals

Summer is winding down, but REI’s Labor Day sale is here to help save you some bucks on gear that’ll let you get the most out of your upcoming outdoor expeditions. There are many, many discounts, from men’s and women’s clothing and REI Co-op gear to equipment

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The Verge Sep 2 Score 0.8096430814814816

1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project

1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic m

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The Verge Sep 2 Score 0.8081069703703705

Amazon’s AI assistant can now spot fake emails from the company

Amazon is trying to combat impersonation scams with a new feature that allows you to use its AI assistant to determine whether an email, text message, or phone call actually came from the company. With the update, you can ask Alexa for Shopping about a message

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War on the Rocks Sep 2 Score 0.8074893361111112

Is Taiwanese Society Prepared for a China Contingency?

In 2025, Michael Hunzeker and Yuster Yu wrote, "Taiwan's Biggest Problem in Steeling Itself for War With China is Cultural," where they argued major cultural changes were needed in both Taiwan's military and civilian society if it were to be competitive in a c

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The Guardian — World Sep 2 Score 0.8028766064814815

Trump ally defends Venezuela oil deal amid ‘gunpoint diplomacy’ criticism

Energy secretary Chris Wright denies US seeks to ‘take’ country’s oil, saying deal is transformation of relations The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, has denied Washington is seeking to commandeer huge quantities of Venezuelan oil, amid growing criticism of

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The Guardian — World Sep 2 Score 0.8028729027777779

Pete Hegseth criticized for body-shaming Canadian cadets: ‘Literally they’re kids’

US defense secretary faces backlash for attempting to mock Canada’s armed forces amid trade war A social media post by Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of defense, body-shaming female members of a Canadian youth development program remained online on Wednesday d

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BleepingComputer Sep 2 Score 0.8016975740740742

Ransomware protection for MSPs: A 6-point checklist for faster recovery

Ransomware resilience requires more than backups or endpoint detection alone. Acronis outlines six capabilities MSPs should test across client environments, from reducing exposure and detecting attacks to preserving recovery points and restoring operations qui

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MIT Technology Review Sep 2 Score 0.8016365587962964

Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale

As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems e

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BleepingComputer Sep 2 Score 0.7991466481481482

Dropbox accounts breached through Lenovo email verification flaw

Dropbox is warning some users that an unauthorized party accessed their accounts by exploiting a flaw in Lenovo's email verification process to register fraudulent Lenovo IDs. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Sep 2 Score 0.7985810032407408

The Download: AI puzzles and a path to our nearest star system

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. AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better? Puzzles and games have always been central to AI develop

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 2 Score 0.7983030138888889

CISA Adds Seven Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added seven new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation.   CVE-2026-9586 Sangoma Switchvox SQL Injection Vulnerability  CVE-2026-48710 Kludex Starlette HTTP Request/Resp

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 2 Score 0.7983030138888889

Communicating Under Pressure: Best Practices for Service Providers

Developed by CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and international partners, this guidance describes how organizations can plan and execute clear, timely, accurate, and audience-appropriate communications during IT and operational technology (OT) outage

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 3 Score 0.7875000000000001

A Theory of International Official Lending -- by Qing Liu, Zanhui Liu, Vivian Zhanwei Yue

Official lending is large, senior, and countercyclical, continuing after sovereigns fall into arrears on private debt. We ask why sovereign finance exhibits this division of labor across creditors. In a production economy where a risk-averse sovereign privatel

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 3 Score 0.7875000000000001

Making Everyone’s Preferences Count: A Prospect Theory Approach to Valuing Health Improvements -- by Karen Mulligan, Drishti Baid, Jason N. Doctor, Darius N. Lakdawalla

Health technology assessment bodies and policymakers have grappled with the issue of whose preferences – the general healthy population or the patient population – should be incorporated into traditional cost-effectiveness analysis. This debate arises because

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 2 Score 0.7737056912037038

CD Projekt Red sees profit climb 37% in H1 2026

CD Projekt Red generated $116.5 million (435 million PLN) in revenue during the first half of 2026, up 23% year-over-year. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 2 Score 0.7728695800925927

Nexus Mods acquires SteamDB

Nexus Mods has acquired SteamDB, the widely used Steam data-tracking site. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 2 Score 0.767541339351852

Square Enix denies going private after report sends stock surging

Square Enix has issued a statement denying it is exploring taking the company private after a report in Japanese business magazine Sentaku claimed the publisher had drawn interest from foreign investment funds. Read more

Gaming gamingindustrybusinessdevelopment
Liberty Street Economics Sep 2 Score 0.7641360212962964

Are Central Banks Moving Out of Dollar Assets?

The dollar’s share of global official foreign exchange reserves fell from 64 percent in 2015 to 56 percent in 2025. This downward trajectory is sometimes read as evidence that the dollar’s role in international financial markets is eroding. However, aggregate

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Martin Fowler Sep 2 Score 0.7400524157407408

Bliki: Paracelsus Maxim

The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. Often we talk about certain habits, in programming or life, are good or bad. But few things are simple binaries. Some vary with context: reading a book is a good thing sitting in my garden, but not whil

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Econbrowser Sep 2 Score 0.7388388680555555

The Cyclically Adjusted Budget Balance

Improving through 2025Q3. But taking out the revenue associated with the illegal IEEPA tariffs, well… Figure 1: Federal budget balance excluding automatic stabilizers (blue), and excluding IEEPA tariffs (red), as a share of potential GDP. Assumes amounts

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CyberScoop Sep 2 Score 0.7384063324074074

Jail time for Maine child in 764 marks turning point in federal law enforcement

Researcher tracking 764 said the first-of-its-kind case has a wider impact that will cause ripples across the landscape of violent extremist crime. The post Jail time for Maine child in 764 marks turning point in federal law enforcement appeared first on Cyber

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GitHub Blog Sep 2 Score 0.7383028759259259

Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!

From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations. The post Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my! appeared first on The Git

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TechCrunch — AI Sep 2 Score 0.7371708476851851

OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

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NASA News Sep 2 Score 0.7349999481481482

NASA Revamps Challenge Linking Community College Studies to Aerospace Careers

Community college students across the U.S. now have another opportunity to discover how their education can lead to fulfilling roles at the forefront of aerospace, science, engineering, and technology. The updated NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCA

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Kubernetes Blog Sep 2 Score 0.7341360828703704

Kubernetes v1.37: Scale Workloads to Zero with HorizontalPodAutoscaler

Kubernetes v1.37 includes API support for horizontal autoscaling of workloads down to zero replicas. This feature is now Beta and enabled by default. A HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) that uses a suitable object metric or external metric can now scale a workload

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New Scientist Sep 2 Score 0.7333030185185185

Saturn has a big, weird decagon around its south pole

A decagon – a geometric polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles – has been found on Saturn, and nobody is quite sure how it got there

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GitHub Blog Sep 2 Score 0.7333028759259259

How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality

Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task. The post How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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New Scientist Sep 2 Score 0.7316363518518518

This week’s new questions

Why hasn’t evolution reintroduced gills in the land-based mammals that returned to the sea? And what is the fastest way to empty a full jug of water?

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Econbrowser Sep 2 Score 0.7296698865740741

Inflation Nowcasted

Based on Cleveland Fed nowcasts: Figure 1: CPI (black, left log scale), Cleveland Fed nowcast (light blue, left log scale); quarter-on-quarter annualized inflation (red, right scale), Cleveland Fed nowcast implied inflation (light red, right scale). Source: BL

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NASA News Sep 2 Score 0.7293818925925926

Rising Over Louisiana

On Aug. 28, 2026 (the evening of Aug. 27 in some time zones), the Moon passed into Earth’s shadow, creating a deep partial lunar eclipse. At the moment of greatest eclipse, 12:13 a.m. EDT, 96.3% of the Moon’s disk was immersed in Earth’s umbra—the central, dar

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NASA News Sep 2 Score 0.7281337444444445

NASA Rocket Takes First Multi-Point Look Inside Radio-Disrupting Clouds

High above Earth, thin veils of metallic haze drift through the edge of space. Known as sporadic E layers, these high-altitude “clouds” form from the vaporized dust of burnt-up meteors, earning their name from the unpredictable way they emerge and then dissipa

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Martin Fowler Sep 2 Score 0.7278857490740741

An Accidental Blackboard

Giles Edwards-Alexander reports that during an experiment to see how productive a team could be using fully agentic engineering practices, the team accidentally prompted the agents into creating a blackboard coordination system inside the git repository. more…

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InfoQ Sep 2 Score 0.7264968648148148

Swiggy Uses 350+ Features and Multi-Task MLP to Predict Customer Lifetime Value

Swiggy developed an in house predicted lifetime value model using more than 350 pre order features and a multi task MLP for Food and Instamart. Adding order count as an auxiliary task reduced model parameters by 63% while improving predictive performance. The

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Martin Fowler Sep 2 Score 0.7258579708333334

Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code

TL;DR Or, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problems I was on a panel recently with Brian Houck from DX at Code Remix, hosted by Moderne. It was one of the more interesting

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InfoQ Sep 2 Score 0.7238579759259259

OpenAI Details GPT-Live’s Architecture for Continuous Stateful Voice Interaction

OpenAI recently published an engineering account of GPT-Live. It described how they designed the system to maintain continuous voice interaction while separating latency-sensitive media processing from broader application work. The live path contains the media

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InfoQ Sep 2 Score 0.7216357537037037

Presentation: Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering for Production-Grade AI

Ricardo Ferreira discusses moving beyond simple prompt engineering to build production-grade AI applications. He shares practical architectural strategies for integrating long-term and short-term memory using Redis, managing LLM token limits via summarization,

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NASA News Sep 2 Score 0.7101087444444445

APOD: 2026 September 2 – Solar Eclipses and Culture

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 2 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featur

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