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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 25 Score 0.876923161574074

Seam Cutter

Tool: Seam Cutter I built this weird and very specific cropping tool - it lets you create a horizontal or vertical cut across an image, then slide the two sides relative to each other. Effectively it lets you crop out a section in the middle of an image. I wan

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OpenAI News Oct 22 Score 0.8166365995370372

What FDE means at OpenAI

What forward deployed engineering means at OpenAI

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BBC News — World Oct 25 Score 0.8136145231481482

Deeply divided Israel braces for pivotal election

After three years of regional war, this is a battle Israel always knew was coming, writes Lucy Williamson.

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The Verge Oct 25 Score 0.8127602407407408

iFixit's look inside the iPhone Duo may explain those broken screens and hinges

As is tradition, iFixit has torn open the latest iPhone and laid its parts bare on a table. It found some interesting details about how Apple might be hiding the crease on the Duo's folding screen and gave it a 5/10 repairability score. That might not seem par

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The Verge Oct 25 Score 0.8118630185185186

Scott Walker’s The Drift will get under your skin

In my mind, Spooky Season music comes in two distinct flavors. There are the fun, occasionally goofy songs like "The Monster Mash" and John Carpenter's "Halloween Theme." Then there is the genuinely terrifying: Throbbing Gristle, The Body, or Scott Walker's Th

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The Verge Oct 25 Score 0.8104232037037038

A YouTuber dissected an iPhone Duo and thinks he found the cause of crackgate

Social media and the iPhone Duo subreddit are filled with reports of Apple's foldable failing quickly and in spectacular fashion. Some users report having the phone for only a few hours before the hinge seems to catch on something, then audibly crack and break

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SANS Internet Storm Center Oct 25 Score 0.8099107337962964

YARA-X 1.22.0 Release, (Sun, Oct 25th)

YARA-X's 1.22.0 release brings 11 improvements and 9 bugfixes.

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The Verge Oct 25 Score 0.8089931111111112

Zen Browser is the Arc replacement I was looking for

I know many of you are mourning the loss of the Arc browser, and I get it. It felt like the first app in a long time to really offer a new approach to browser design. Atlassian bought the company last year and shifted its focus to developing Dia, its even more

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The Verge Oct 25 Score 0.8049699629629631

This Switch 2 sequel accessory was a few millimeters away from being good

The Crkd Nitro Deck was a saving grace for the original Nintendo Switch. The slide-on $59.99 accessory brought Hall effect sticks to drift-plagued consoles - no need to open up your Joy-Con for a complicated repair. The Nitro Deck 2, made for both the original

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Wired Oct 25 Score 0.7974699305555556

Wallhack M-001 Review: When Fun Overrides Specs

With a tactile dongle for on-the-fly customization and a metal chassis, the Wallhack M-001 is the most fun I've had reviewing a gaming mouse in a long time.

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 26 Score 0.7875000000000001

College Success: Understanding the Roles of Financial Aid, Loans, Preparation, and Incentives -- by Douglas N. Harris, Christopher R. Taber, Alan Yang

Over the past four decades, the earnings gap between college graduates and non-graduates has widened substantially, prompting interest in policies aimed at promoting higher education among low-income students. A key challenge for these policies is the high col

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 26 Score 0.7875000000000001

Strategic Monetary Policy in Open Economies -- by Louphou Coulibaly, Charles Engel

We examine optimal non-cooperative monetary policy in a two-country New Keynesian setting with complete financial markets and pricing to market for goods. In contrast to the case in which the law of one price holds for goods, currency misalignments are an impo

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 26 Score 0.7875000000000001

HouseholdBench: Evaluating Large Language Models as Predictors of Household Economic Behavior -- by Jin Huang, Diego Ferreras Garrucho, Yutong Xie, Walter M. Yuan, Qiaozhu Mei, Chen Lian, Jonathon Hazell

Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to meet a key goal in economics: a quantitative model of household decision making, across a variety of settings. Yet existing evaluations cover few surveys and outcomes, and do not study how households adjust to

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 26 Score 0.7875000000000001

Beliefs Over Contracts -- by Francis Annan, Collin B. Raymond

We study how firms choose among incentive contracts and how accurately managers predict their effects. Using a survey of managerial beliefs and a large-scale field experiment, we randomly assign agents at the market level to several widely used, expenditure-eq

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 22 Score 0.7644819578703703

DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video)

DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) OK well this is a first for me... at 00:44 in this new music video by Dutch alternative rock band De Staat : The visual effects are credited to Matties Grooten of Fake it or Leave it . Via flir on Hacker News Tags: mus

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Schneier on Security Oct 22 Score 0.7540489837962963

New Serious PHP Vulnerabilities Released and Patched

PHP maintainers have released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities: PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. All PHP users are strongly encouraged to update immediately. Who

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Meduza — English Oct 26 Score 0.7494186564814814

For Russia’s sanctions-busting A7 payment service, international transfers start with bags of cash at Moscow markets. At its peak, it processed at least 58 metric tons in a single month.

Sanctions against Russian banks and payment systems, along with their disconnection from SWIFT after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, gave rise to shadow intermediaries offering Russians cross-border money transfers. Many have offices in the capital’s

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NASA News Oct 26 Score 0.7484420986111111

2026 October 26 – M42: The Great Nebula in Orion

APOD Science APOD 2026 October 26 – M42: The… 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 feat

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NASA News Oct 26 Score 0.7483309875

Hunting Red Leaves with Satellites

A modern satellite makes it possible to pursue the ancient tradition of leaf-peeping in a whole new way.

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SRE Weekly Oct 26 Score 0.7449408814814815

SRE Weekly Issue #540

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Dragonfly: Redis runs one core per process. Your server has 64. Dragonfly is a Redis/Valkey-compatible data store, rebuilt multi-threaded by an ex-AWS ElastiCache engineer: 6M ops/sec on one node, no cluster Dr

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Risky Bulletin Oct 26 Score 0.7438777921296297

Risky Bulletin: Brotli RCE is wrecking what's left of the internet

While everyone was distracted by PHP, another RCE has been wrecking the internet, Australia’s ABC wipes some staff devices, a third PHP RCE is incoming and researchers discover a new DDoS attack vector in HTTP/3. Show notes Risky Bulletin: While everyone was l

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Econbrowser Oct 26 Score 0.7436512680555556

PCE Inflation in September

Some divergence from Cleveland Fed nowcast vs. Bloomberg consensus: Figure 1: PCE deflator (black), Cleveland Fed nowcast (red triangle), Bloomberg consensus on 10/25 (blue square). September nowcasts/forecasts using year-on-year changes. Source: BEA, Clevelan

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Econbrowser Oct 26 Score 0.7432341384259259

Motio September Median Real Household Income: Slight Recovery

From Motio Research: The methodology and interpretation are described in this guest post by Matías Scaglione and Romina Soria, Motio co-founders. With the recovery in real median household income, the Motio household-income momentum is longer definitively in t

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Eurogamer Oct 26 Score 0.7416362185185185

Phantom Blade Zero review

I wasn't around to witness the golden age of Martial Arts cinema, but there are moments in Phantom Blade Zero that make me feel as though I've tumbled through a crack in time onto the set of a kung fu film. There's one particular encounter that sticks in my mi

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Econbrowser Oct 25 Score 0.7364123791666667

EconVitals: Key Macro Indicators Gathered

This is the new "go to" website, from Jason Furman (former Chair, CEA; professor at Kennedy School, nonresident fellow at PIIE):   EconVitals also goes onto my links for my macro, financial economics students!  

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Risky Bulletin Oct 25 Score 0.7337027921296296

Sponsored: Should your threat hunt become a detection?

In this Risky Business sponsored interview James Wilson chats to Nebulock’s Head of Detection Strategy Alex Hurtado about the company’s threat hunting evaluation framework, GATES. The pair talk through the five steps of Nebulock’s new acronym, and how they hel

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Eurogamer Oct 25 Score 0.7330454777777777

187K+ fans call for EA to "Save Mass Effect"

A petition created to save BioWare's well-loved sci-fi RPG, Mass Effect , has topped 187,000 signatures. Read more

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Eurogamer Oct 25 Score 0.7319857555555556

Call of Duty movie will explore the "cost of war", says director

The Call of Duty movie will explore "the cost of war" and probably won't be as graphically violent as director Peter Berg's upcoming Netflix film, The Mosquito Bowl. Read more

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InfoQ Oct 25 Score 0.7318301708333333

PHP Patches Two Critical RCE Flaws That Were Already Under Attack

PHP released 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 to fix two critical vulnerabilities allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. Amazon recorded an exploitation attempt four days before the patches shipped, and operators spent the day working out whether th

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The Hacker News Oct 25 Score 0.7311961300925925

Unpatched Tailscale SSH Flaws Could Let a Hacked Device Reach Root on Other Servers

A single hacked device on a Tailscale network can be used to gain root access to other servers it can reach, according to a security researcher who published the findings this week. The attack requires two things: Tailscale SSH set up to allow port forwarding,

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InfoQ Oct 25 Score 0.7299690597222223

Google ML Drift Accelerates On-Device AI Inference Across Diverse GPUs

Google has released ML Drift, an open-source, cross-platform GPU compute engine designed for on-device AI and machine learning inference. Licensed under Apache 2.0, it abstracts the complexities of different GPU hardware and low-level APIs, supporting OpenGL E

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Eurogamer Oct 25 Score 0.7293371444444444

Elden Ring movie has a budget of nearly $200 million

A24's live-action Elden Ring movie is reportedly set to cost almost $200 million, making it the most expensive film the studio has ever made. Read more

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TechCrunch Oct 25 Score 0.7284421763888889

TechCrunch Mobility: Blue-green is the color of autonomy

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 25 Score 0.7218311537037037

Three giant black holes discovered in a galaxy from the dawn of time

Astronomers have discovered three actively feeding black holes inside a single galaxy more than 12.5 billion light-years away, revealing a remarkable scene from the universe’s infancy. Two of the black holes are separated by just 620 light-years and are expect

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 25 Score 0.7214390240740741

New evidence suggests spinosaurus spent most of its life underwater

Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the water. Using machine learning and thousands of fossil measurements, Yale scientists have uncovered surprising clues about which prehistoric

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Oct 22 Score 0.7205707208333333

Sam Bankman-Fried says he has paid his debts

The crypto tycoon speaks with The Economist from prison in California

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 25 Score 0.7199811537037037

Scientists discover how pancreatic cancer rewrites its DNA to escape treatment

Scientists have discovered how pancreatic cancer cells continually reshape their genetic makeup to become more aggressive, spread, and evade treatment. In laboratory experiments, blocking a key gene reversed some of these dangerous changes, revealing a potenti

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 25 Score 0.7189084685185185

Low-dose aspirin linked to 70% lower dementia risk, but there's a catch

A common, inexpensive medication could hold an unexpected clue to preventing dementia. Researchers found that older adults with a specific genetic profile had a 70% lower relative risk of dementia when taking low-dose aspirin, even though previous studies foun

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NASA News Oct 25 Score 0.7155198763888889

APOD: 2026 October 25 – Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 25 – Dark… 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 fe

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The Hacker News Oct 25 Score 0.7131498337962963

OpenAI AI Agents Demonstrate VM Escapes and Secret Cross-Sandbox Communication

OpenAI has announced plans to conduct frontier model training with no live internet access, as it resumes reinforcement learning (RL) training and internal inference of its most advanced AI models. "Based on the current state of alignment research, monitoring

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 25 Score 0.712640875925926

This mysterious mushroom makes people see hundreds of tiny humans

For nearly a century, people in distant parts of the world have reported a bizarre experience after eating certain wild mushrooms: seeing dozens or even hundreds of tiny, colorful humans moving through the real world. Now, scientists have identified a mushroom

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InfoQ Oct 25 Score 0.7123857263888889

PingCAP Breach Exposes Customer Records and Source Code

PingCAP recently confirmed unauthorized access to its internal systems and the theft of source code and customer-related data. The attacker, cyber extortion group FulcrumSec, claimed to have stolen 10.6 TB of data, including TiDB Cloud control-plane records, c

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Krebs on Security Oct 19 Score 0.7096624208333334

Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site

U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion group

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Polygon Gaming Oct 26 Score 0.7087071083333333

The 10 Best SNES Games to Play on Nintendo Switch Online

From Super Mario World to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, these are the best games on the Super Nintendo collection on Nintendo Classics.

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SecurityWeek Oct 25 Score 0.6824695578703703

Former Unit 8200 Officers Raise $34 Million for Agentic SecOps Startup Mave

Founded in 2025 by Unit 8200 alumni, Tel Aviv-based Mave uses AI agents to investigate alerts across existing security stacks. The post Former Unit 8200 Officers Raise $34 Million for Agentic SecOps Startup Mave appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 22 Score 0.676636287962963

Siemens SIMATIC S7 Webserver API

View CSAF Summary .NET Client Library for SIMATIC S7 Webserver API contains multiple vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information or write arbitrary files outside the intended download directory. Siemens has released a new versi

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Phys.org Oct 26 Score 0.6669145217592592

Lumina simulation brings the early universe to life on a record-breaking scale

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Nancy Roman Space Telescope are revealing the universe's earliest chapters in detail. To help astronomers understand what they are seeing, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have de

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Phys.org Oct 25 Score 0.6652483180555556

Assessment tool helps schools look at students holistically

Researchers in the Neag School of Education are bringing a whole child screening assessment to a company that provides schools with a connected set of solutions that turn every student signal into timely, equitable, coordinated and measurable tools to track an

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