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OpenAI News Aug 28 Score 0.9492076870370372

Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups

OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.

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Quanta Magazine Aug 28 Score 0.8933902773148147

Does Computer Science Need Computers?

The theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them. The post Does Computer Science Need Computers? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Foreign Policy Aug 28 Score 0.8925266138888888

Japan’s Narrowing Path to Permanent Residency

Takaichi’s new policies are pushing away foreign workers. Rural areas and strained industries will pay the price.

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Schneier on Security Aug 28 Score 0.8892736097222221

AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Mathematics—at Least Not Yet

This essay was written with Kasra Rafi, and originally appeared in The Guardian. Earlier this month, about 40 top mathematicians gathered at OpenAI's offices to discuss the future of their profession. The meeting was off-the-record, but if recent articles by m

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Foreign Policy Aug 28 Score 0.8862034657407406

The SCO’s Diminishing Usefulness for India

Much like BRICS, the China-dominated Shanghai Cooperation Organisation offers few benefits to New Delhi.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 27 Score 0.86894135

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently made that the default and have made bold claims about its effec

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The Verge Aug 28 Score 0.8242940685185186

Save hundreds on a TCL mini-LED TV with quantum dots and high refresh rate

Amazon and Best Buy have the TCL QM7L mini-LED TV on sale for as low as $797.99 for the 55-inch model, a $200 discount from the usual price. We spotted scaling discounts on larger sizes as well, although Amazon already listed low stock on the 65-inch version.

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BleepingComputer Aug 28 Score 0.8235629666666667

68-year-old imprisoned after making $1.3 million by pirating IPTV services

A 68-year-old has been sentenced in the U.K. to more than six years in prison for operating an illegal IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) service that generated £980,812 ($1.3 million) over three years. [...]

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The Guardian — World Aug 28 Score 0.8233853805555557

Venezuelan opposition up in arms over reports US wants big stake in oil and gas

Critics call move to gain long-term access to country’s massive energy reserves ‘predatory’ and ‘unconstitutional’ Reports that the US is preparing to claim a big stake in Venezuela’s massive energy reserves have sparked an outcry, with critics describing the

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The Verge Aug 28 Score 0.8233371240740741

Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution

Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. The EPA plans to toss out a federal rule requirin

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The Verge Aug 28 Score 0.8231593462962964

DLSS 5 leaked and modders are putting Nvidia's AI effects on everything

Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 on Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, and a bunch of other games after code for the AI upscaling tech appeared in an early-access build of NBA 2K27. Members of the RenoDX modding channel on Discord re

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The Verge Aug 28 Score 0.8216051796296296

The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse

You know the person blocking your view of the concert because their phone is swaying in the air, recording the entire thing? Get ready for the unfolded version of it. This week on The Vergecast, we dive right into the big week of Apple news. First, it's the re

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The Guardian — World Aug 28 Score 0.8215219546296297

Tropical Storm Dolly downgraded to ‘open tropical wave’ as it heads to the Caribbean

Remnants from tropical storm could cause heavy rainfall on Leeward Islands and affect Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Hispaniola Remnants of Tropical Storm Dolly, which has been downgraded to an “open tropical wave”, were moving still across the Atlantic Ocean

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The Guardian — World Aug 28 Score 0.8204974175925926

Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid

Police hunt two suspects after historic 200-carat piece is snatched from Austrian museum during opening hours Austrian police are hunting two men alleged to have stolen a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673 diamonds that was on loan to a museum in V

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BBC News — World Aug 28 Score 0.8197325787037038

Two-year curfew lifted in Sudan's capital

The military authorities retook control of the city 18 months ago, but the conflict continues elsewhere.

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BleepingComputer Aug 28 Score 0.8192125037037038

AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery. Can Defenders Keep Up?

AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, putting pressure on systems built to enrich, prioritize, and remediate flaws at a slower pace. Action1 explains why defenders increasingly need to correlate multiple intelligence sources and turn vulnerability data i

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The Verge Aug 28 Score 0.81886305

Apple TV now costs $14.99 a month after its fourth price hike in four years

Apple raised the price of its streaming service for new and current subscribers on Friday, bumping it up from $12.99 per month to $14.99, Deadline and Variety are reporting. An annual subscription now costs $119, up from $99. Apple also increased the cost of i

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BBC News — World Aug 28 Score 0.8186885972222223

Shootings surge as drug gangs torment Brussels

This year alone there have been more than 65 shootings in the Belgian capital, as drug crime soars.

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BleepingComputer Aug 28 Score 0.8175055592592593

Over 8,300 Gitea servers vulnerable to code execution attacks

Over 8,300 Internet-exposed Gitea instances are still unpatched against a critical security flaw exploited in ongoing remote code execution attacks, according to cybersecurity watchdog Shadowserver. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Aug 28 Score 0.816858788425926

The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants

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. A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young —Antonio Regalado I knew I’d officially become a “longevity in

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Wired Aug 28 Score 0.8158741680555556

The 31 Best Deals From the REI Labor Day Sale

Labor Day already? Say it ain’t so. You can still chase summer a while longer with these great deals on outdoor gear at the REI Labor Day Sale.

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BleepingComputer Aug 28 Score 0.8155120407407408

Toy-making giant Hasbro disclose data breach affecting employees

Hasbro, one of the world's largest toy and game companies, has disclosed that attackers have accessed the personal and financial information of an undisclosed number of employees. [...]

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BleepingComputer Aug 28 Score 0.8133662074074075

ServiceNow warns of three max severity security vulnerabilities

ServiceNow released security patches for three new maximum-severity AI Platform vulnerabilities that can be exploited in code injection, SQL injection, and privilege escalation attacks. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Aug 28 Score 0.8108740662037037

How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should

MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done.  Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and energy companies increasingly want to treat them like one.

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SANS Internet Storm Center Aug 28 Score 0.8076583106481482

Some Malicious PE Stats, (Thu, Aug 27th)

During my last FOR610 session, a student asked me if I had some statistics in mind about the compilers used to generate malicious PE files? A couple of months ago, I shared some stats about the trend in 64bits VS. 32bits malware[1]. Can we go a

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MIT Technology Review Aug 27 Score 0.7888800847222223

A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young

I knew I’d officially become a “longevity influencer” this month when a company called Generation Lab reached out to offer me the chance to write about—and even receive—their new rejuvenation treatment, an injectable combination of two existing drugs whic

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NBER New Working Papers Aug 28 Score 0.7875000000000001

Political Entrepreneurs -- by Aaron Chatterji, Jorge Guzman, Joyce Ma, Ryan C. McDevitt

Firms shape public policy not only from the outside through lobbying and campaign contributions, but also from the inside when business owners hold public office. We study this channel using a novel dataset that links state legislators’ personal financial disc

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NBER New Working Papers Aug 28 Score 0.7875000000000001

Rate Risk and Rate Insurance -- by Olivier Wang

I decompose stock returns into a duration-matched Treasury component, identified from monetary policy surprises, and a payoff component. Risk and returns rise much less with duration for stocks than for their matched Treasuries. Stock volatility is dampened by

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GamesIndustry.biz Aug 28 Score 0.7824630648148149

GTA 6 will have a halo effect for the entire industry | Opinion

When the hype engine for GTA 6 roared into top gear this week, there was a quietly touching aspect amid the excitement that will stay with me for a while. As the 27 minute long extended look at the game racked up millions of views on YouTube, a theme emerged i

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GamesIndustry.biz Aug 28 Score 0.7785167685185186

Limbic Entertainment on life after Bandai Namco

In December 2025, German developer Limbic Entertainment was sold by Bandai Namco to a "private investor" . This news came just over three years after the Japanese giant acquired a majority stake in the studio for an undisclosed sum . Read more

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 27 Score 0.7758744087962963

Xiiaozet LK100W

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to take control over the device. The following versions of Xiiaozet LK100W are affected: LK100W CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 9.8 Xiiaozet Xiiaozet LK100W Imp

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 27 Score 0.7758744083333334

CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2023-49105 ownCloud Improper Authentication Vulnerability CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Vulnerability CVE-20

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 27 Score 0.7758744083333334

Mitsubishi Electric CNC Series (Update A)

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause an out-of-bounds read, resulting in a denial-of-service condition in the affected products. The following versions of Mitsubishi Electric CNC Series (Update

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NASA News Aug 28 Score 0.7471445814814814

Grants

*Notice* The Payment Management System (PMS) is currently experiencing issues affecting Federal Financial Report (FFR) generation. Impacted NASA grant recipients will not be considered noncompliant. NASA is working with PMS to resolve the issue. Updates will b

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InfoQ Aug 28 Score 0.7450409680555555

Uber Builds GitFarm to Run Git Operations as a Service for Large-Scale Monorepos

Uber’s GitFarm provides Git operations as a centralized service, eliminating local repository clones across large scale monorepo workloads. The platform uses prewarmed checkouts, ephemeral sandboxes, repository synchronization, and gRPC streaming to reduce res

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 28 Score 0.7448125402777778

Experimental eye drops help blind mice see again

Scientists have created light-activated drugs that helped blind mice perceive light again and restored visually guided behavior without gene therapy, implants, or specialized lighting. Even more intriguingly, two of the most promising compounds worked when adm

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 28 Score 0.7440657810185185

NASA’s Roman telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will combine Hubble-like detail with a field of view 100 times larger, giving astronomers a sweeping new way to explore the cosmos. Its observations could uncover hidden planets, map billions of cosmic objects, and help scientists

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InfoQ Aug 28 Score 0.7408743013888889

AKS Looks to Make Node Disruption More Predictable with New NAP Guidance

Microsoft is placing greater emphasis on controlling disruption in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Node Auto-Provisioning (NAP), publishing new guidance to help platform teams balance the efficiency benefits of automated node consolidation with application avai

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New Scientist Aug 28 Score 0.7388743439814814

Fastest star ever spotted at the centre of our galaxy

A newfound star called S301 is both the fastest ever seen and the closest to a supermassive black hole –and it could make bafflingly difficult tests of gravity possible at last

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 24 Score 0.7382927388888888

llm-anthropic 0.27

Release: llm-anthropic 0.27 This release of the Anthropic plugin for LLM mainly provides compatibility with the recently released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which switches from httpx to httpx2 . OpenAI made the same change in their v3.0.0 release two wee

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 28 Score 0.7359259662037037

Scientists tested 212 plant-based meat alternatives. Every one contained fungal toxins

Every one of 212 plant-based meat alternatives and drinks tested in the UK contained at least one naturally occurring fungal toxin, though concentrations remained below recommended EU guideline levels. Researchers say the bigger question is whether regularly e

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Quanta Magazine Aug 24 Score 0.7342333328703703

A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World

An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet. The post A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Econbrowser Aug 28 Score 0.7303940944444445

The Petroleum and Petroleum Products Balance

From NIPA accounts: Figure 1: Petroleum and petroleum product exports (blue), imports (red), both in bn.$, SAAR. Source: BEA. For the balance in physical units of crude oil, here's data from EIA: Source: EIA. Note EIA has data through May. Memo to Bruce Hall:

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 28 Score 0.7298208736111111

Scientists tracked 4,500 animals and found a surprising human effect

Scientists tracking thousands of animals found that our physical presence can reshape where wildlife moves and lives, sometimes as strongly as roads, cities, and other human development. Because different species reacted in very different ways, conservation ef

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Econbrowser Aug 28 Score 0.7253200203703704

US-Canada Oil & Gas Trade

From Census via ITA: Figure 1: US exports of oil and gas to Canada (blue), US imports of oil and gas from Canada (red), mn.$. Source: Census via ITA.

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Econbrowser Aug 28 Score 0.7210709462962963

Trade Deficit Upside Surprise by $18bn

Goods trade deficit larger than before the election. So much for tariffs reducing goods imports relative to pre tariff. Figure 1: Goods trade balance, BoP basis (black), Census basis (red), Bloomberg consensus (blue +), all in mn.$ s.a. Source: BEA via FRED, C

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MIT News — AI Aug 27 Score 0.7130965430555556

Looking beyond natural sequences

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

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Kubernetes Blog Aug 27 Score 0.7117077046296296

Kubernetes v1.37: Metrics API graduates to stable

Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the metrics.k8s.io API to stable ( v1 ). This API provides CPU and memory usage for nodes and Pods, and is the API behind commands such as kubectl top and resource-metrics-based autoscaling. For cluster operators and application devel

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Google Cloud Blog Aug 28 Score 0.7100405398148147

What’s new with Google Cloud

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google C

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