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OpenAI News Aug 13 Score 0.9420687583333334

The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6

Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities.

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OpenAI News Aug 13 Score 0.9387354250000001

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 13 Score 0.8885626435185184

sqlite-utils 4.2.1

Release: sqlite-utils 4.2.1 Fixes a crashing bug in sqlite-utils 4.2 . I'd introduced code that looks like this: from typing_extensions import Self It turned out the typing-extensions package was not listed as a dependency for sqlite-utils - it was installed b

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 13 Score 0.8823876435185184

sqlite-utils 4.2

Release: sqlite-utils 4.2 Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.transform() feature , which adds support for complex alter table operations by creating a fresh table, copying across the data and then dropping and replacing the old one. transfo

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Foreign Policy Aug 13 Score 0.8820712180555554

Israel Clashes With Settlers in the West Bank

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee issued a rare condemnation of settler “terrorists.”

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 13 Score 0.8814455138888888

llm-gemini 0.33

Release: llm-gemini 0.33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's Gemini 3.7 Flash release, plus gemini-3.6-flash , gemini-3.5-flash-lite and two embedding models gemini-embedding-2 and gemini-emb

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Google DeepMind Blog Aug 13 Score 0.8771880824074073

Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash

Latest item from Google DeepMind Blog.

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Foreign Policy Aug 13 Score 0.8768161254629628

Mojtaba Khamenei Is Planning for a Long War

The supreme leader’s new government appointments reveal the outlines of his military strategy.

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Foreign Policy Aug 13 Score 0.8761207550925925

Why Hackers Keep Going After U.S. Water Supplies

A spate of new attacks believed to be linked to Iran has highlighted the water sector’s vulnerability.

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Foreign Policy Aug 13 Score 0.8720290884259259

Why Israel Won’t Make Qatar an Enemy

Doha’s ties to Gaza and Hamas make it deeply controversial but also indispensable.

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Schneier on Security Aug 13 Score 0.8672721828703702

Separating AI’s Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems

This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in Tech Policy Press . AI represents the first time we humans can do cognitive work outside of our bodies at scale. The only comparable moment is the early years of the industrial revolutio

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 13 Score 0.8538265324074074

alchemy-utils 0.1a1

Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a1 Performance boost for DuckDB exports and CSV imports, see here .

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BBC News — World Aug 14 Score 0.8219082296296297

'Unprecedented' rains in Japan kill four people

The storm cut power to more than 20,000 households and left 7,000 people stranded at Tokyo's Narita airport.

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Foreign Affairs Aug 14 Score 0.8204021685185185

Standing With Afghan Women

How to support the movement resisting the Taliban’s extremism.

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Foreign Affairs Aug 14 Score 0.8204021685185185

The Long Shadow of the Iran Shock

Hormuz and the new geography of energy power.

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The Verge Aug 14 Score 0.8155753680555556

Trump declares 100 percent tariffs on many drones and all aircraft parts

The United States has already banned future foreign drones from entering the United States unless their companies kiss the ring - as well as routers, robots, and Roombas. Now, President Donald Trump is targeting existing drone imports and parts, too. He's goin

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Wired Aug 13 Score 0.8114383541666668

The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI

OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.

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The Verge Aug 13 Score 0.8100225902777779

The fight over Flock and other ALPRs

There are over 120,000 of Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras installed all over the US. Flock’s cameras, and others like them, use AI to identify and track vehicles based on their license plate number, make, model, color, and other info, net

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The Verge Aug 13 Score 0.8099193495370371

Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot

Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more to react to," as reported earlier

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MIT Technology Review Aug 13 Score 0.8087350296296297

Roundtables: Inside the "Censorship-Industrial Complex" Idea Shaping US Policy

Listen to the session or watch below The “censorship-industrial complex” is an idea that a network of government, tech, and research groups is collaborating to suppress conservative online speech. This was fodder for the right-wing information sphere for years

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MIT Technology Review Aug 13 Score 0.8040600296296297

Building a practical path to post-quantum cryptography

Quantum computing has alternated between breakthrough darling and overhyped promise in technology circles. Its powerful new capabilities come with a threat to break current cryptography, but for business leaders navigating the noise, the signal should be clear

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BleepingComputer Aug 13 Score 0.8033560310185186

Microsoft patches LegacyHive Windows zero-day vulnerability

Microsoft has released security patches to address a Windows zero-day vulnerability known as "LegacyHive," disclosed after the July 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Aug 13 Score 0.7965452148148149

Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort to quell a growing backlash and win back contracts lost amid concerns about mass surveillance and pol

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MIT Technology Review Aug 13 Score 0.7940128074074074

The Download: kids' thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice

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. How kids feel about AI, in their own words —Jen Swetzoff and Keeley McNamara, the founding editors of Anyway, an independe

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 13 Score 0.7937356425925927

Siemens Parasolid

View CSAF Summary Parasolid is affected by an out of bounds read vulnerability that could be triggered when the application reads files in X_T format. This could allow an attacker to crash the application or execute arbitrary code. Siemens has released new ver

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 13 Score 0.7937356421296297

Johnson Controls Metasys

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a low-privilege user or attacker to inject a persistent malicious payload via a crafted URL that executes in the context of other users' sessions, including administrators, potent

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 13 Score 0.7937356421296297

Johnson Controls Inc. Airwall

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to decrypt sensitive data, bypass authentication controls, gaining unauthorized access to read arbitrary files on the system, or gain unauthorized access to protected sy

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 13 Score 0.7937356421296297

Siemens Desigo DXR and PXC Controllers

View CSAF Summary A vulnerability in Desigo DXR and PXC controllers has been identified that could allow an attacker to cause denial of service conditions by sending malformed BACnet packets. Recovery requires a device reset or reboot to restore normal functio

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 13 Score 0.7937356421296297

Siemens License Server (SLS)

View CSAF Summary Siemens License Server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities which could allow an attacker to elevate its privileges and read arbitrary files on the system. Siemens has released a new version for Siemens License Server (SLS) and recommends

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MIT Technology Review Aug 13 Score 0.7904016962962963

What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse

This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere. June and July marked the hottest two-month stretch in Europe since record-keeping began. The contiguous US endured its hottest month on record in July. South Korea saw its highest-ever record

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GamesIndustry.biz Aug 13 Score 0.7644361833333334

Mattel launches new global studios business to develop games based on its IP

Mattel has announced the formation of Mattel Game Studios, a global development organisation that will create games based on the company's IP. It follows the company's February acquisition of 100% of Mattel163 , a joint venture that was previously 50% owned by

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Quanta Magazine Aug 10 Score 0.7536400300925925

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further. The post Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Aug 10 Score 0.7471365347222221

Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library

This is good : Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency , we implemented support for ML-KEM, the NIST-standard key-establishment primitive, and ML-DSA, the NIST-standard

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NASA News Aug 14 Score 0.7455411708333334

APOD: 2026 August 14 – Total Solar Eclipse from Greenland

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 14 – Total… 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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NASA News Aug 14 Score 0.7454300597222222

A Sunflower’s View of Totality

The Moon slid between the Sun and Earth to produce a stunning celestial show visible from Spain in August 2026.

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Platformer Aug 14 Score 0.7390834425925926

Town's CEO on the self-organizing company

Jean-Denis Greze on AI assistants, building a better corporate workspace, and avoiding "egg on face"

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NASA News Aug 13 Score 0.7315518189814815

NASA’s 737 Reveals New Paint

NASA’s 737 aircraft was painted this week in Oklahoma as it progresses with modifications for use as a reduced gravity test aircraft for the agency. NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, took ownership of the aircraft from the United

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NASA News Aug 13 Score 0.730494411574074

For West Virginia Engineer, Home Is Where the Heart Is… and NASA, Too

Growing up in Grafton, West Virginia, engrossed in Star Wars and all things science fiction, Fletcher Newell had an early interest in space exploration. That interest only grew when, in 2013, his fourth-grade class took a field trip to a nearby NASA facility h

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GitHub Blog Aug 13 Score 0.7304015694444445

Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched!

The GitHub Universe session catalog is live. Explore interactive workshops, community talks, demos, and panels. Plus, register before August 19 to save $300. The post Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched! appeared first on The

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GitHub Blog Aug 13 Score 0.7254015694444444

What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era

See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, expert guidance, and funding to improve project security. The post What 50 open source projects tau

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InfoQ Aug 13 Score 0.7247625143518519

Vercel Launches v0 API for Headless App Building

Vercel has made the v0 API generally available, enabling developers and AI agents to programmatically generate, iterate on, preview, and deploy applications through API calls. By Daniel Dominguez

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NASA News Aug 13 Score 0.7239735782407407

Perseids Meteor Shower

The constellation Orion is framed by two Perseid meteors in this photo from Aug. 12, 2018, in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah. The Perseids – one of the year’s brightest and most popular meteor showers – has been ramping up since early July and will spark

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FRED Blog Aug 13 Score 0.720401675925926

What is the Texas ratio?

The name In the 1980s, Texas had a banking crisis whose causes included shocks in oil prices and real estate investments. In response, Gerard Cassidy of the Royal Bank of Canada developed the Texas ratio metric to assess a bank’s … Continue reading ͛

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Econbrowser Aug 13 Score 0.7189874592592592

Inflation Adjusted Wages, through July

From Milwaukee Courier, Natalie Yahr for Wisconsin Watch: “Concern about prices rising is not just prices rising, but it’s against the backdrop of how fast wages are rising. How many people are keeping up, and what components of the population are keeping up?”

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InfoQ Aug 13 Score 0.7178458476851852

How Artificial Intelligence Disrupts Engineering Progression

AI is disrupting career progression by eliminating the learning opportunities at each rung while simultaneously enabling people to perform above their experience level, Alasdair Allan explained in his talk Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle at QCon

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Econbrowser Aug 13 Score 0.7173823666666667

Estimated FY2026 Budget Deficit

From CBO. Source: CBO. Notes: Solid light purple is FY2024, solid dark purple is FY2025, dashed black is FY2026 estimate for cumulative deficit. As of 2026Q2, we're nearly a percentage point above full employment, according to CBO's estimate of potential GDP.

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Econbrowser Aug 13 Score 0.7167277370370371

Cost of Living Measures

Including Everyday Price Index™. Nowcast suggests accelerating inflation in m/m August CPI: Figure 1: CPI (blue), CPI-wage earners and clerical workers (purple), chained CPI (green), AIER Everyday Price index (light red), all in logs 2025M01=0. 2025M08

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New Scientist Aug 13 Score 0.7158559064814815

The most breathtaking photos of the total solar eclipse

Photographers in Spain captured spectacular images of the rare alignment of the moon and the sun, as it cast a dark shadow over much of the country

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InfoQ Aug 13 Score 0.7156791810185186

Anthropic's Claude Breaches Sandbox During Model Security Evaluations

Anthropic conducted an audit of 141006 evaluation runs after OpenAI's sandbox escape disclosure. The review identified three incidents where Claude models accessed the internet due to misconfigurations. These incidents involved unauthorised attacks on live tar

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Marginal Revolution Aug 14 Score 0.7116507523148147

The Economics of a Shrinking World

From Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Patrick Norrick: As of 2026, humanity is likely below replacement fertility. That has never happened before, not in wars or pandemics. But the real surprise is that the fall has been concentrated in low- and middle-income co

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Marginal Revolution Aug 14 Score 0.7096618634259259

Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries

We estimate intergenerational mobility of children of immigrants in fifteen receiving countries. Children of immigrants have somewhat lower income than children of local-born parents. Around half of this gap can be explained by differences in parental income,

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Lobsters Aug 13 Score 0.6964601023148147

A preview of Roc 0.1.0

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