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OpenAI News Sep 9 Score 0.9469773662037038

Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board

Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.

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OpenAI News Sep 9 Score 0.9403107

The AI policy window is open. We need to act.

Chris Lehane argues that stronger AI capabilities require stronger safety evidence, shared standards, and durable policy action while the policy window remains open.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 10 Score 0.8852184916666666

Quoting Calif Research

Today, we're releasing a demo of WeWorm, the first zero-click worm to spread through WeChat calls across iOS and Android. [...] The victim does not need to answer the call, or interact with their phone at all. Even if they do answer, they hear nothing, and the

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 9 Score 0.8836032138888888

.blend URL Viewer

Tool: .blend URL Viewer I'm continuing to have a lot of fun with GPT-6 Astra and Blender (see my TIL ). As a big fan of the Imperial Fabergé Easter eggs , I've always thought it would be fun to make some new ones that celebrate popular culture. Yesterday I dec

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Foreign Policy Sep 9 Score 0.8791843398148147

Iran Launches Massive Attack on Global Shipping

Such assaults put the Strait of Hormuz under growing pressure as global crude prices skyrocket.

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Foreign Policy Sep 9 Score 0.8786954509259258

What India Gets Out of BRICS

Ahead of the group’s leaders’ summit, New Delhi is pulling out the stops.

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Foreign Policy Sep 9 Score 0.8737051731481481

Why Germany Isn’t Punishing Russia Harder

Domestic politics constrains Berlin’s ability to respond to an attempted drone attack.

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Schneier on Security Sep 9 Score 0.8704496657407407

Driver’s License Data for Sale

A database of 153 million drivers licenses is for sale on the dark web. Brian Krebs has more detail .

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Quanta Magazine Sep 9 Score 0.8682058689814814

What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About?

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean. The post What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About? first appeared on Qu

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Foreign Policy Sep 9 Score 0.8675273953703703

How Could Iran Happen? An Autopsy.

The president’s war on the “deep state” led directly to his debacle in the Middle East.

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Schneier on Security Sep 9 Score 0.8622117027777777

Claude Fable Solves a Historical Cipher

Claude Fable 5.1 solved a 370-year-old cipher in forty-four minutes. This tracks with what I wrote about AIs doing mathematics: It's good at things that involve lots of searching and testing.

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The Verge Sep 10 Score 0.8240068944444445

The Trump phone just got a $250 price hike

Bad news if you didn't lock in a Trump phone at launch: It now costs $749, a $250 increase on its price at launch. The T1 Phone itself hasn't changed. Trump Mobile didn't announce the price increase, instead quietly changing its website overnight. This wasn't

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BleepingComputer Sep 10 Score 0.8239312231481483

CISA: WatchGuard RCE flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that ransomware gangs are also exploiting a critical WatchGuard Firebox firewall vulnerability, which it flagged as actively exploited in December. [...]

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The Verge Sep 10 Score 0.823838375925926

Nintendo’s latest Switch 2 update adds VRR support in TV mode

Nintendo always promised that the Switch 2 would support variable refresh rate (VRR) when docked, but the console launched without this key feature. A new 23.0.0 firmware update now adds VRR support to the Switch 2 when it's docked and in TV mode. VRR adjusts

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MIT Technology Review Sep 10 Score 0.8236438421296297

God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything.

This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations and with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. Now he likens the experience to having “a t

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MIT Technology Review Sep 10 Score 0.8235887495370371

Healthcare AI’s next test is integration

The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry. Their models are increasingly capable of processing long clinical records, interpreting complex termino

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The Verge Sep 10 Score 0.8226068944444445

Xbox picks up Kojima's Physint after PlayStation dropped it

Xbox will now publish Physint, an upcoming game from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, after PlayStation decided to cancel it. The unexpected swap came in a flurry of announcements from PlayStation, Xbox, Kojima Productions, and Kojima himself. Sony, which publ

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BleepingComputer Sep 10 Score 0.8222071490740741

Microsoft fixes bug that wiped Windows desktop settings

Microsoft says the September 2026 Patch Tuesday updates fix a known issue causing desktop settings to be lost or reset on some Windows devices. [...]

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War on the Rocks Sep 10 Score 0.8220018666666667

Automating the Action Officer: Between Bureaucracy and Technology

If there is a revolution brewing in the automation of white-collar work, you wouldn't know it at the Pentagon. Here, the typical action officers, staff who tackle the daily work of the bureaucracy, perform essentially the same duties as their predecessors in 1

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War on the Rocks Sep 10 Score 0.8211717740740742

The Assessment Gap in U.S. Counter-Terrorism Strikes

For eight years I helped decide whether American counter-terrorism money was working.As a programs advisor in the State Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism from 2018 to 2025, I oversaw about 20 projects in East Africa worth roughly $80 million a year. None

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The Verge Sep 10 Score 0.8203105981481482

Volvo XC40 PHEV is back with a new look, better sensors, and Gemini AI

It's been about three years since Volvo discontinued its plug-in hybrid XC40. The mild hybrid version remains on sale in the US and elsewhere, alongside the electric EX40. Today, Volvo announced it was bringing back the PHEV version and giving it a major facel

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The Verge Sep 9 Score 0.8069791166666668

There aren’t AirPods with cameras yet and I hope it stays that way

September Apple events are always a swirl of information and new, exciting products, and today's was no different. Apple announced its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max; active noise cancellation (ANC) is now on the cheape

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BleepingComputer Sep 9 Score 0.8047756675925927

Cisco confirms CVE-2026-20079 Secure FMC flaw exploited in attacks

Cisco has confirmed that a maximum-severity authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20079 in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software is being actively exploited in attacks. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 9 Score 0.8044941861111112

AdaptHealth confirms 4.1 million people exposed in July cyberattack

Healthcare company AdaptHealth has confirmed that data of 4.1 million people was exposed in a cyberattack discovered in July that was attributed to the ShinyHunters threat group. [...]

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SANS Internet Storm Center Sep 9 Score 0.7982663254629631

Scans for Proxmox Servers, (Wed, Sep 9th)

About a week ago, Proxmox published an advisory revealing a vulnerability in older versions of Proxmox VE, its flagship Virtual Environment product. The vulnerability only affects version 7, which has not been supported for a couple of years now.

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Google AI Blog Sep 9 Score 0.7953106356481482

Recreating a 70-year love story frame by frame

Discover how filmmakers and Google DeepMind used AI to recreate a couple's unrecorded past in the short film "Love, Rendered."

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MIT Technology Review Sep 9 Score 0.7889216199074075

The Download: OpenAI’s turning point for math and a battery record

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. What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math OpenAI says its agents have solved one of the most impo

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 9 Score 0.7886440523148148

CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation.   CVE-2025-25249 Fortinet Multiple Products Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2026-19490 Citrix NetScaler A

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 10 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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NBER New Working Papers Sep 10 Score 0.7875000000000001

Health Insurance Underwriting and the Heterogeneous Effects of the Affordable Care Act -- by Pietro Tebaldi, Andrea Scalenghe, Joseph Orsini

The Affordable Care Act, the largest US welfare reform since 1965, banned health insurance underwriting and rejections based on pre-existing conditions and introduced large premium subsidies for low- to middle-income individuals. Yet how many people the ban ma

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Interconnects Sep 9 Score 0.7870156921296297

When will average people feel AI’s impact?

We're <5 years into a compounding revolution which could take a century, and how the AI industry should manage this.

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InfoQ Sep 10 Score 0.7486443361111111

Article: When Spec-Driven Development Pays Off

AI coding assistants have become a core part of software development. AI-generated code has shown productivity gains, but it's also contributing to security weaknesses and familiar bug patterns. In this article, author Nitin Garg highlights the bottleneck has

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New Scientist Sep 10 Score 0.7473538819444444

Cracking the ageing code

Where financial health meets human longevity.

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The Hacker News Sep 10 Score 0.7456694449074074

Nearly 1 in 10 Exposed LiteLLM Gateways Accepted the Example "sk-1234" Admin Key

Nearly one in ten of the internet-facing LiteLLM servers that Wiz Research scanned in February accepted sk-1234, the example admin key in LiteLLM's own setup guide. LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway, the software a company puts between its ap

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The Hacker News Sep 10 Score 0.7454222226851852

Anthropic Discloses Fourth AI Hacking Incident Involving Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic on Wednesday disclosed a fourth incident in which its artificial intelligence (AI) model broke into real third-party systems, marking the latest in a growing list of cases that have raised concerns about the security risks posed by autonomous AI agen

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InfoQ Sep 10 Score 0.7443943361111112

IETF Publishes RFC 10008, Adding the QUERY Method for Safe Requests With a Body

In June 2026, the IETF published RFC 10008, introducing the QUERY method to HTTP, the first new standard HTTP verb since 2010. QUERY enables developers to send richer query filters in the request body while maintaining cacheable, safe, and idempotent semantics

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InfoQ Sep 10 Score 0.7421165583333333

CPython Officially Adds RISC-V Support As a Tier 3 Platform

The Python core development team has officially recognized RISC-V as a Tier 3 platform in CPython, following extensive community collaboration on its implementation. Ongoing efforts aim to enhance integration into the continuous testing pipeline and move towar

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NASA News Sep 10 Score 0.7404499861111111

APOD: 2026 September 10 – LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 10 –… 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 featu

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NASA News Sep 10 Score 0.7403110972222222

Dust Storm Sweeps Over Mali

At a time of year when dust storm activity winds down, a plume of dust blanketed parts of the West African nation and its neighbors.

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Risky Bulletin Sep 10 Score 0.7391439412037037

Srsly Risky Biz: America's drivers licence breach is a national security disaster

Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about how Chinese intelligence services will take advantage of a massive breach of 150 million American drivers licences. They also discuss the steps the US military is taking to counter adtech device tracking. It’s too slow and

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GitHub Blog Sep 10 Score 0.7371244666666666

GitHub availability report: August 2026

In August, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: August 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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New Scientist Sep 10 Score 0.7369774930555556

August was the joint hottest month on record

Global warming and a record El Niño have pushed Earth’s temperature more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial average, and further heat is on the way

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Econbrowser Sep 9 Score 0.7289257180555555

High Real Interest Rates Because of Incipient Rapid Growth?

That's former CEA Chair Miran's argument in the FT. Is this assertion empirically validated? A graph from Hamilton, Harris, Hatzius and West (2016) suggests, maybe not: Source: Hamilton et al. (2016) exhibit 3.3, as edited by Chinn. If you see a clear positive

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NASA News Sep 9 Score 0.7273101712962963

NASA Adds Relativity Space’s Terran R to Launch Services Contract

A NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract has been awarded by the agency to Relativity Space Inc., and its Terran R launch service in accordance with the contract’s on-ramp provision. The Terran R launch service will be available to NASA’s launch services to us

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Econbrowser Sep 9 Score 0.7258673847222222

Petroleum and Petroleum Product Prices

Data through 9/7 from the EIA: Source: EIA via FRED. Black + denotes November Brent futures as of 9/9/2026, 2pm CT. The black "+" above is the near month futures price. Cash as of today is $97.87. Regardless of how you take it, the price is up. NYMEX futures a

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Kubernetes Blog Sep 9 Score 0.7244775851851852

Kubernetes v1.37: Introducing Node Lifecycle Conditions

Kubernetes has many ways to describe what is happening on a Node. Readiness, taints, Pod state, labels, annotations, and provider-specific APIs each expose part of the picture. What has been missing is a shared, Kubernetes-owned way to say that a Node is drain

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NASA News Sep 9 Score 0.7239610972222222

NASA’s Chandra Unveils Mysterious X-Ray Objects

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen before. Astronomers suggest these newly spotted objects in other galaxies may help solve not one, but two long-standing questions in as

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InfoQ Sep 9 Score 0.7236443361111111

Meta's Recipe for Building Agents as "Organizational Second Brains"

Meta describes how an AI agent can be designed to capture the logic and expertise of domain experts, rather than simply storing documents or retrieving relevant information. The system, dubbed an "organizational second brain", was built for a specialized compl

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Martin Fowler Sep 9 Score 0.7208941013888889

Social Media Engagement: summer 2026

A quick survey of recent engagement of my posts on social media, indicating which service has by far the most engagement, and which service has seen a precipitous decline since early 2025. more…

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NASA News Sep 9 Score 0.7203110972222222

How 2 US, European Satellites Are Studying Hurricanes During El Niño

Last November, NASA and its European partners launched the Sentinel-6B satellite to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure, and benefit commercial industries, including shipping. The satellite now is flying 30 seconds behind its predecessor,

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