Tool: CORS Chat I built this today ( with GPT-5.6-Sol xhigh ) to help test Qwen 3.8 27B running in LM Studio on both my M5 MacBook Pro and an NVIDIA DGX Spark. It provides a web UI for exercising an OpenAI-Responses-compatible chat endpoint. I've tried it agai
Officials say a rapid assessment into the impact of the earthquake that destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed 47 is under way.
In a worst-case scenario, category one Lala could dump up to 25in (63cm) of rain on Big Island.
Smartphone cameras are convenient, but they lack the charm of analog instant cameras. If you’re trying to relive the nostalgia of waiting for an instant photo to develop, Amazon is selling the second-generation Polaroid Go instant camera with a 16-photo film p
OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.
At D23, when asked about the potential for a sequel to the cult classic The Simpsons: Hit & Run game, Matt Groening replied, "I think the original game is coming back in some form," before current showrunner Matt Selman added, "or not." The tone in both of
New South Wales, where the attack took place, will offer gun owners cash to give up their firearms.
Iran claims they have been held since Qatar downed two fighter jets at the start of the US-Iran war.
Security had been stepped up amid suggestions on social media of a second mass crossing on Saturday.
Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there's a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can r
Eighteen children among the people killed after ferry capsized on Lake Kariba Twenty-two more bodies have been recovered after a boat accident in Zimbabwe, taking the death toll to 68, police said on Saturday. The ferry capsized on Tuesday on Lake Kariba , on
Border security tightened after social media posts call for another mass crossing into Spain’s north African territory Moroccan police have arrested 111 people as they tried to enter Spain’s north African territory of Ceuta, amid tightened security on both si
See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.
When I'm asked what to buy if you want to get into making electronic music, I often recommend Elektron's budget-minded Model:Samples and Model:Cycles grooveboxes. They don't grab headlines the way Teenage Engineering's gear or the Telepathic Instruments Orchid
As if you needed more reason to love Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" beyond its pop perfection, it is also, according to lore, the genesis for Switched on Pop, one of the best music podcasts out there. Cohosts Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding obsessively diss
A new Mirai-based modular Linux botnet malware called Evooo1Bot has been targeting internet-facing gateway devices, turning them into SOCKS5 traffic relay nodes. [...]
This affordable electric BMX delighted my entire family, even if its range, ride comfort, and actual BMX abilities are limited.
Noware’s Puff necklace whimsically reimagines flash drives, turning something functional into personalized jewelry.
New fonts, better customization, and a whole new layout all make it worth dusting off your Instapaper account.
These are the Apple Watch accessories I recommend adding to your setup.
Auk’s Mini 2 improves on the original model with better lights, a sleeker design, and fun new colors.
This paper develops a theory of balanced growth and optimal climate policy in an integrated assessment framework. Balanced growth is possible despite climate change, but at a slower rate. Two distinct policy regimes emerge because emissions permanently raise c
We show that quantitative asset pricing models, built to address the equity premium and risk-free rate puzzles, systematically fail when applied to open economies: they cannot generate the large and persistent interest rate differentials we observe between ris
Union growth has historically happened in spurts. We combine union election data from 1961–2025 with a large-scale information experiment involving 9,000 low-wage workers to study the role of social learning in union growth. Observationally, close election win
We study the optimal design and analysis of experiments for estimating spillover effects. Assuming a known (e.g., linear) exposure mapping, we characterize the treatment-assignment distribution and regression-based estimator that minimize worst-case asymptotic
We trace the family origins of Members of Congress (MC) born between 1830 and 1950, linking each MC, their parents, and their brothers to the complete-count censuses. Future MCs have always been economic outliers. By 1940, close to 60 percent of MCs aged 18--4
Kevin Rideout, who was abducted by unknown assailants in Niamey, said to be in good health and in care of US officials An American missionary who was kidnapped in Niger in October has been released, his organisation has said. Serving in Mission International s
The math, which combines chaos, quantum theory, and infinitely complex fractal structures, has been called a “foundational result.” The post Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.
This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female. They’ve developed a CRISPR-based approach to essentially cut out the Y chromosome. It allowed them to create female clones of male mice. That’s right: female animals that a
Over 1,300 homes damaged and 5,000 people displaced as Indonesia grapples with one of its deadliest quakes in years.
Nikolay Samokhvalov has developed PGSimCity, an open-source educational tool that visualises PostgreSQL mechanics as a 3D spatial simulation in the browser. It assists backend developers and site reliability engineers in understanding SQL and the dynamics of k
Romania's Defence Ministry didn't specify origin of the drone but has previously blamed Russia for similar incidents.
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Israeli airstrikes hit the Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon just hours after the deadliest day of Israeli raids.
Australia introduced measures to reduce gun ownership following a deadly attack on Sydney's Bondi Beach last year.
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 16 – Milky… 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
This seems to work : Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all that was needed to shut down attacks from AI hacking
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from Politico today, Douglas Holtz-Eakin: “If the bright-line definition of socialism is owning the means of production, then yeah, [the president is] there,” Truer words were never spoken. Holtz-Eakin is head of American Action Forum, formerly director of the
The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."
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"Today, if you said 'give me a Witcher 3 village that has eight houses', I could give you that in two hours."
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AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.
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A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.
Flue 2 takes its inspiration from React. Creator Fred Schott, of Astro fame, tells Latent Space why he added hooks and why agents are defined by their harnesses.
Fossils collected in Osaka more than 30 years ago have revealed a surprise hiding in plain sight: four previously unrecognized bones from a giant Cretaceous mosasaur. Among them is the first confirmed premaxilla—the frontmost bone of the upper jaw—ever identif
A widely available food-preservation chemical is emerging as a disturbing factor in rising UK suicide deaths, particularly among younger people and men. Researchers say the scale may be underestimated and are calling for urgent restrictions on access and harmf
Scientists have long thought an unusual genetic system helped ants, bees, and wasps evolve their extraordinary social colonies. A massive new analysis suggests that genetics alone can’t explain it—and the real secret may lie in other traits unique to these ins
High inflation, weak jobs numbers and presidential interference trouble the Federal Reserve
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Alongside its Kingdom Hearts 4 release window and its Kingdom Hearts anime series announcement, Disney used Friday's D23 Entertainment Showcase to confirm the first new world for Kingdom Hearts 4 : one inspired by Pixar's Coco. Read more
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Sudeep Das shares how DoorDash shifts from legacy one-shot predictions to an agentic recommendation platform. He discusses leveraging language-native consumer memory, RQ-VAE semantic IDs for catalog representation, and grounded search to dramatically boost rel
Scientists have uncovered why two seemingly opposite ways of targeting the same brain receptor can both promote weight loss. In mice, activating the GIP receptor in the brainstem reduced appetite, while blocking it in the hypothalamus removed a kind of “brake”
Cloudflare launched agent tracing, adding spans for agent invocations, model calls, tool runs, and approvals to existing Workers traces. Sessions replay turn by turn, though the docs warn traces are not lossless and payloads may be truncated. Payload recording
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Cloudflare recently introduced Cache Response Rules, a rules engine that operates after an origin server responds but before content is written to Cloudflare's cache. Previously, Cache Rules operated only on request attributes. Cache Response Rules add a respo
…what can be predicted, Dabis said, is that a recent policy change by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority requiring drivers to verbally quote the $2.25 fare to passengers may make their job even riskier. Eight current Metro employees and t
These compelling classics could benefit from a complete overhaul.
Super Mario Lego minifigures are finally coming in 2027, years after the launch of Nintendo and Lego's first colalboration.
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In the past few weeks, I have been using Gemma4 as a Large Language Model (LLM) to see how useful it can be to analyze some of the malware hashes uploaded to the DShield sensor over the past 30 days and figure out how its recommendation can be considered usefu
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The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.
One Caledonian government agency reported a breach, thanks to a third party that may have serviced other agencies as well.
A painted panel deep in a Spanish cave may push the human relationship with mind-altering plants back thousands of years, earlier than anything previously known The post Is This the World’s Oldest Image of a Mind‑altering Plant? appeared first on Nautilus .
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A path, a fence, a knot. MindTopo sets a new benchmark for testing how AI understands topological relationships and highlights new opportunities to strengthen spatial reasoning and planning. The post MindTopo reveals VLMs' spatial reasoning abilities appeared
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The $1 billion deal aims to converge data security and identity into a single control plane for agents, with privileged access redefined around business context rather than static roles.
A couple of days ago, Xavier posted about Atuin to gain more insight into the command history. Atuin does a great job of better organizing what is usually handled by "bash&#;x26;#;x5f;history"&#;x26;#;xc2;
The use of explosives to kill fish is widespread across the tropics, and acoustic monitoring in an Indonesian archipelago detected more than 3500 explosions in 483 days
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A public AI tool found the dangerous Zoom flaw in under 20 prompts.
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Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.
A reconstruction of East Africa's environment 1.75 million years ago suggests wildfires spiked during wetter times, which may have influenced human evolution
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SpaceX launched two of its Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart on Saturday evening (Aug. 15), setting a new spaceflight record.
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The White House will let private companies carry out offensive cyber ops, an AI hacking campaign breached Taiwan’s government, a macOS bug was exploited over the internet to drop cryptominers, and Kenya orders internet cafes to store logs. Show notes Risky Bul
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The “philosophical shift” that the memo authorizes raises legal, practical and moral questions, experts say. The post A bold new strategy or a dangerous precedent? Experts are divided on Trump's memo. appeared first on CyberScoop .
Cameron Curry stole corporate data and employee information, which he used to threaten the company as his six-month contract gig came to a close. He ultimately extorted the company for $7,540.92. The post Tech contractor for Brightly Software sentenced to 2 ye
