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OpenAI News Sep 7 Score 0.9575996305555556

Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine

OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.

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OpenAI News Sep 6 Score 0.9325996305555556

An Alien Mind

Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.

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OpenAI News Sep 6 Score 0.930932963888889

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 6 Score 0.8825347351851851

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Apparently today is RSI day at OpenAI, for Recursive Self-Improvement - I think it's their new AGI. Both this piece and the new essay An Alien Mind (by Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki) talk about it, and this one do

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 6 Score 0.8670472351851851

The purpose of DNS is to spread scams

The purpose of DNS is to spread scams Terence Eden shares some daunting statistics in support of his take that "the Domain Name System's purpose seems to be a vector for criminals to run scams on people at a terrifyingly high rate". On this Interisle report (

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 6 Score 0.8578245499999999

There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

My comment on There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get — Lobste.rs. [In reply to a comment about burning it down to start from scratch when technical debt becomes overwhelming] In my experience it's so rare for that to work. You announce the old thi

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BBC News — World Sep 7 Score 0.8247368537037038

Israeli strikes in southern Lebanese village kill nine

Lebanon says a recent Israeli escalation is jeopardising a US-brokered ceasefire meant to end the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

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Wired Sep 7 Score 0.8246828902777779

How to Watch the Apple September Event (2026)

Apple’s annual hardware launch event may feel different as the company welcomes a new CEO alongside a folding iPhone.

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The Verge Sep 7 Score 0.8245356597222223

Huawei copies Samsung’s privacy display in its latest trifold

Huawei has released its third trifold phone in China, and the company has clearly had half an eye on Samsung during development. Not only does the Mate XT 2 adopt the inward-folding form factor used on Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold, it's also the first foldable t

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BleepingComputer Sep 7 Score 0.824450626388889

ConnectWise warns of new ScreenConnect flaw without patch

ConnectWise has shared temporary mitigation measures for a new ScreenConnect Remote Access vulnerability that it plans to patch later this week. [...]

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The Guardian — World Sep 7 Score 0.8216870550925927

Weather tracker: Typhoon Saudel causes mass evacuations in south-east China

Torrential rain causes widespread damage; while north-west South Africa hit by thunderstorms and central-southern US faces oppressive heat Typhoon Saudel brought days of torrential rain to Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong provinces in south-east China l

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War on the Rocks Sep 7 Score 0.8209577217592593

The Strategic Fiber of America: Kevlar’s Impact on Warfighters

Editor's note: This is the tenth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America's 250t

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War on the Rocks Sep 7 Score 0.8201142032407408

Shrinking Buffers: Why Turkey and Israel Are on a Collision Course

When Israeli warplanes struck the Abu al-Duhur airbase in Syria on Aug. 18, 2026, the smoke rose over the demolition of an old geopolitical assumption about the Middle East. This time, Israel directly targeted a strategic sphere of influence where the Turkish

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War on the Rocks Sep 7 Score 0.8192767032407408

New Complications in Countering the Flow of Arms in the Caribbean

Arms trafficking in the Caribbean has soared in recent years, with many states now ranking firearms trafficking as the number one public safety and security threat. As new methods of arming individuals and gangs emerge across the Caribbean, gun violence contin

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BleepingComputer Sep 7 Score 0.8180909041666667

N-able patches max severity N-central flaw amid ongoing attacks

N-able has released an emergency hotfix for a maximum-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting its N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. [...]

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OpenAI News Sep 3 Score 0.8175996305555556

Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra

Legora used GPT-6 Astra to review 41 documents in minutes, find all four planted errors, and improve performance by nearly 40% in this financial-review workflow.

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Foreign Affairs Sep 7 Score 0.8142666208333335

The Emerging U.S.-China Détente

A confident Beijing and a pragmatic Washington can get along.

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BleepingComputer Sep 7 Score 0.8097029412037038

ChatGPT Astra is now rolling out to $20 Plus subscription

OpenAI is now rolling out ChatGPT Astra, its most powerful model to date, to those with a $20 Plus subscription, but there's no word on when free users will get access.. [...]

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The Verge Sep 6 Score 0.8069347337962963

Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement

The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages fro

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SANS Internet Storm Center Sep 6 Score 0.8038019601851852

Critical MikroTik Vulnerability - Patch Now, (Sun, Sep 6th)

Mikrotik released a patch late last week for an already-exploited vulnerability. The vulnerability allows an SSH authentication bypass and is already being exploited. At this point, assume compromise. Attackers have been adding new accounts to affected devices

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The Verge Sep 6 Score 0.8025060300925927

An Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport

A plane bearing an Amazon logo overran the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday during landing, crashing into vehicles and resulting in multiple injuries. The extent of the damage or the seriousness of the injuries was not clear at the time of publi

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The Verge Sep 6 Score 0.7993875115740742

Europe has its first commercial orbital rocket

German company Isar Aerospace has successfully launched Europe's first entirely commercial orbital rocket. It attempted to achieve the feat last March, but that lasted all of 30 seconds before the vehicle crashed into the sea and exploded. This time the compan

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The Guardian — World Sep 6 Score 0.7960773324074075

Jamaican delegates arrive in UK to hand slavery reparations petition to King Charles

Slavery’s legacy continues ‘to deprive our country and our people’, says minister, as group prepares to appeal to Jamaica’s head of state A landmark petition is to be handed to King Charles by Jamaica over slavery reparations, aiming to confront historical cri

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The Verge Sep 6 Score 0.7950708449074074

Boox’s tiny Picco e-reader should land in November

Boox teased the Picco, its take on the buzzy Xteink X4 e-reader, back in July, but provided almost no details. Now, thanks to some reporting out of IFA, we've got a bit more info, though sadly still no price. Unlike the Xteink devices, the Picco will not have

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 7 Score 0.7875000000000001

Comparisons -- by Thomas Graeber, Benjamin Enke

Economic decisions are often shaped by comparison points such as reference points, goals, expectations and peers. A long-standing puzzle is that decisions sometimes increase in these comparators (assimilation) and sometimes decrease in them (contrast). We deve

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Our World in Data Sep 7 Score 0.7700994027777779

A never-ending childhood of malaria

How often do people in high-burden areas get malaria? Studies suggest that many children can experience five or more malaria infections a year.

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Eurogamer Sep 7 Score 0.749801162962963

Onimusha: Way of the Sword has already sold over 1 million copies

If you were hoping Onimusha: Way of the Sword would revive the dormant series, you may get your wish. Capcom today announced the latest installment in the action game series has already sold over one million copies across all platforms. Read more

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InfoQ Sep 7 Score 0.7495165162037037

Zone Redundancy Comes to API Management Standard v2

Microsoft has enabled zone redundancy on the Standard v2 tier of Azure API Management, following its arrival on Premium v2 in December. Standard v2 starts at $700 per month against $2,801 for Premium v2, but carries a 99.95% SLA rather than 99.99%. Zone redund

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Eurogamer Sep 7 Score 0.7471511629629629

The Blood of Dawnwalker's most popular mod right now nullifies its main hook

It may not surprise you to learn that The Blood of Dawnwalker's most contentious mechanic can already be removed. If you're unfamiliar, the open-world role-playing game has a time mechanic where every quest you complete pushes time forwards and uses up a littl

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The Hacker News Sep 7 Score 0.7467996282407408

N-able Issues Fourth N-central Hotfix in Five Weeks for Unauthenticated RCE Flaw

Every on-premises N-central build below 2026.3.1.14 — including servers updated to Hotfix 3 a day earlier — needs Hotfix 4. N-able's incident notice says the flaw has been exploited in the wild; its release notes say that is unconfirmed. N-able has released it

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The Hacker News Sep 7 Score 0.7457403689814814

JSCeal Malware Can Bypass Google Authentication Using Stolen Session Cookies

Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and traffic-interception capabilities. "The payloads are protected with javascript-obfuscator, using multiple techniq

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Quanta Magazine Sep 3 Score 0.7454275893518518

Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?

In this special live recording from the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, July 2026, the central question discussed was what do mathematicians really value about doing mathematics in the first place? The post Live from ICM 2026: What Is

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Quanta Magazine Sep 3 Score 0.7452660152777777

In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures

Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field. The post In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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InfoQ Sep 7 Score 0.7444609606481482

CERN Renounces RHEL in Favor of Debian for Its Accelerator Controls Infrastructure

CERN engineers announced a shift from Red Hat-based distributions to Debian for its accelerator control systems. This decision stems from Red Hat's tightening compiler mandates, which threatened legacy hardware. The transition, focused on 2,200 specialized con

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Schneier on Security Sep 3 Score 0.741439486111111

Researching Employment Scams

Researchers built a fake company to study fake employee scams .

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NASA News Sep 7 Score 0.7394055708333334

APOD: 2026 September 7 – The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 7 – 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 fe

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NASA News Sep 7 Score 0.7392944597222222

A Bright Spot at Mount Michael

With austral winter nearing its end, clouds cleared for a satellite view of volcanic activity in the remote South Atlantic.

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New Scientist Sep 7 Score 0.7392938726851852

Laughter therapy may help people with chronic lung disease

An eight-week course of self-administered laughter therapy helped a small number of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease breathe more easily

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SRE Weekly Sep 7 Score 0.7388098486111111

SRE Weekly Issue #533

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Planetscale: Most database incidents start with one expensive query, not the database being down. PlanetScale gives SRE teams high-availability Postgres and MySQL with automated failover, query insights, and Da

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Risky Bulletin Sep 7 Score 0.7385602625

Risky Bulletin: BEC campaign steals €35 million from French notaries

Hackers steal €35 million euros from French notaries, OpenAI agents hacked a German wiki, a new bill will allow the Pentagon to use cyber contractors, and the Five Eyes members tell hacked companies to drop PR spin. Show notes Risky Bulletin: BEC campaign stea

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 6 Score 0.7281948435185185

Popular brain supplement linked to shorter lifespan in men

A large study involving more than 270,000 people has linked higher blood levels of the amino acid tyrosine to a shorter lifespan in men. Using both observational data and genetic analysis, researchers found that elevated tyrosine could potentially reduce male

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Risky Bulletin Sep 6 Score 0.7261977625

Sponsored: Authentik is rethinking PAM for AI agents

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, James Wilson chats with Authentik Security CEO Fletcher Heisler about how AI is driving a need for privileged access management to adapt. Fletcher explains Authentik’s approach: each agent has its own identity, begin

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Rock Paper Shotgun Sep 7 Score 0.7111692138888888

"You'll be able to engage in these high stakes arms races": Civilization's Arc of Tomorrow update is trying to make the threat of nuclear apocalypse more interesting

Civilization 7 is getting a new free update that takes the 4X strategy series into the atomic age, while trying to make nuclear era conflict a little more elaborate than just being first to research the requisite city-killing technology. Add in some new city s

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The Hacker News Sep 6 Score 0.7085061097222223

Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authentication

Attackers are exploiting MikroTik routers with their Secure Shell (SSH) remote-access service, which is reachable from the internet, to gain full administrative control without authentication, according to CERT Polska's attack warning, published on Septem

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Marginal Revolution Sep 7 Score 0.7080775050925925

Capital gains vs. wealth taxes

Standard optimal capital tax theory abstracts from modeling asset prices, making it unsuitable for thinking about capital gains and wealth taxation. We study optimal redistributive taxation in an environment with asset price movements, adopting the modern fina

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Marginal Revolution Sep 7 Score 0.7026691717592591

Emergent Ventures winners, 59th cohort

Tym Syrytczyk, London, autonomous vehicles in the UK. Shane Regan, Long Island, 16, AI agents. Maximilian Kornstein, 15, Atlanta area, agents and general career support. Irene Chen and Jessica Dai, UC Berkeley, data on peptides use. Evan Warfel, Bay Area, upda

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Lobsters Sep 6 Score 0.6864024055555554

Python Iceberg

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Space.com Sep 7 Score 0.6742666648148149

Labor Day in space: NASA astronauts get the holiday off

Like their compatriots here on Earth, the three NASA astronauts living aboard the International Space Station will get a well-deserved rest on Labor Day.

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