César de la Fuente’s lab uses Codex and ChatGPT to search living and extinct genomes for antimicrobial candidates to fight drug-resistant infections.
Meet the Data agent in ChatGPT Work. Connect company data, uncover insights, and build interactive dashboards with AI using natural language.
OpenAI and GSA will offer eligible federal, state, local, and tribal governments $0 license fees, 50% off usage, and expanded cyber defense support.
Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services, combining built-in financial data and GPT-6 Astra for research, modeling, and client-ready materials.
GPT‑Live‑1 brings natural, full-duplex voice conversations to the API, with stronger instruction following, custom voices, and telephony support.
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases Today we're releasing two new security patch versions of Datasette: 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 - one for the current alpha series and one for the stable 0.65.x family. These are security fixes which you should apply if you
Any Nix package, live in your browser Farid Zakaria calls this his " magnum opus of Nix work", and I can see why. trynix.dev provides a qemu-wasm powered x86_64 Linux virtual machine running entirely in your browser through WebAssembly. That VM can then be boo
Three top experts on the terror threat 25 years after 9/11.
Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify Shopify are moving from React Native back to separate Swift and Kotlin codebases for their native apps, for the exact reason you would expect: We decided to switch from native to React Native in 2020 for three reas
Houthi control of a Red Sea port brings Tehran closer to claiming another critical waterway.
Carlos the Jackal left behind a violent, celebrity-obsessed world.
By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians have gained important new insights into the nature of graphs. The post The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof first appeared on Q
Indonesia is experiencing 5 percent growth, but not everyone is feeling it.
By pressuring Seoul to support his Iran war, Trump is weakening a vital alliance.
Give an AI agent a mere rumor of an exploit, and it's enough for them to find it. What's worse, I found I could use my own agents to find the exploit just by knowing roughly what it was about and so could have been exploiting it well before the public patch wa
Agencies reduce regulatory burden for community banks, increase eligibility for 18-month exam cycle
Microsoft has fixed a bug that prevented Teams and Outlook from launching on ARM-based Windows devices after installing updates released since the August 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]
Mokha's capture brings the Iran-backed group closer to controlling a key international shipping route.
The new joint operation uses laser-based technology capable of detecting, tracking, and disabling commercial drones linked to human and drug trafficking.
Samsung is resting on its laurels with the midrange S26 FE, with an unwelcome price bump and only a new processor to show for it.
A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.
Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of some of the brightest and best young minds working across science and technology. Our 35 Innovators Under 35 are the ones to watch—people whose research and technical work stands to shape the future of
The tourist coach was carrying dozens of Dutch passengers when it overturned in the south-eastern Swiss Alps.
The revelations in Anthropic's threat intelligence report come after a former top researcher at the company warned of the risks of AI to humanity.
Singapore's High Court rules in the woman's favour, with the judge saying the man "willingly" showered her with gifts, even before they got together.
Trezor has revealed that phishing attacks against its customers earlier this week targeted 347,000 email addresses and affected 2,500 users who clicked an embedded malicious link. [...]
It is showing signs of life—but fragile ones
There are better ways to fight climate change, immobility and inequality
On the first night of the evacuation of Kabul, Aug. 15, 2021, a young mother found me in the crowd at Hamid Karzai International Airport. She had marked me, correctly, as someone who spoke her language. By the end of the night, she was pressing the body of her
Auction house Sotheby's expects the dress to sell for up to $300,000 (£220,000) when it goes under the hammer on 9 December.
A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022. [...]
Her Horizon Fund seeks $100m to stop practice harming 230m women and girls globally Frontline activists and leaders in the fight against female genital mutilation, which has affected more than 230 million women and girls worldwide , have welcomed an unpreceden
Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
A new Android malware strain called Mantax Otax combines ransomware and spyware capabilities to encrypt files, steal sensitive data, and spam and harass victims. [...]
A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat. With Slackforce Surfaces, you can describe to Slackbot what you need, and it will use AI to gather
Windows admins report that the September 2026 security updates are causing Remote Desktop Services (RDS) failures on Windows Server 2019, 2022, and 2025 servers, preventing users from connecting and, in some cases, requiring a hard reset to restore functionali
It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bono. That's the n
Search can help runners get race-day ready with registration alerts, tailored training plans, and more.
A new federal program to test the feasibility of electric, hybrid-electric, and autonomous aircraft kicks off today in Texas - before the rules governing this new technology have even been finalized. Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration's Adv
Universal Music Group is launching a new AI-powered platform that will allow users to draw from its catalog of licensed music to create song remixes, mashups, and new takes on tracks, according to an announcement on Thursday. The record label is developing the
Some quick notes on a truly weird week.
The iPhone Duo was the unequivocal star of Apple's "Surprise and shine" event, but not for people who were mostly paying attention for news on wearables. Thankfully, Apple had a lot to share about its new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4. There's no update to
[This is a Guest Diary by Aaron Ng, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
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. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to device information or cause a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of ST Engineering iDirect iQ-Series Terminals (Update A)
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to disclose information, brute-force hashes, or run arbitrary code in a browser session. The following versions of AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor are affected: AVEVA P
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated remote attacker to write past the end of a heap allocation when Orthanc decodes an attacker-supplied PNG or JPEG image, resulting in a crash of the Orthanc process and
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-67277 MikroTik RouterOS Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability CVE-2026-86060 MikroTik RouterOS
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spe
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world's largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn't the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester
The US is hitting records for the rapid growth of its energy storage market. That’ll go a long way to shoring up the grid, increasing reliability and also cutting emissions, since batteries can help store energy from intermittent renewables like wind and solar
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is reportedly planning to combine Electronic Arts with its subsidiary, Savvy Games Group. Read more
Saber Interactive's chief creative officer, Tim Willits, has said that the company has "no real development in North America any more." Read more
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
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Xbox is committing to the project during a significant period of change for the company that has so far included mass layoffs and after numerous canceled publishing partnerships.
We sit down with Doom Eternal art director Tony Garza and fellow id alum Richard O'Neal to hear about their journey into the world of indie development through Turnkey Games.
It's been nine years since Mike Rose set up the indie publisher No More Robots . Read more
Rockstar's preview of Grand Theft Auto 6 on Netflix generated over 100,000 sign-ups in the US during its six-hour exclusivity window on August 27, making it the platform's third-largest subscriber spike in 2026, according to Ampere Analysis. Read more
The hearing is expected to conclude on October 16, 2026.
Tim Willits, chief creative officer at Saber Interactive, has given his own take on CEO Matthew Karch's response to accusations that a writer at the company had been replaced with ChatGPT. Read more
The City of Miami Beach has approved negotiations with Rockstar Games for an upcoming marketing campaign. This would bring advertisements for Grand Theft Auto 6 to the seaside city in exchange for millions of dollars. Read more
Session traces and cost controls are emerging as key observability techniques for diagnosing AI agent failures, helping teams spot tool-call loops and runaway spend while preserving enough execution context for post-incident debugging. By Mark Silvester
Research shows that short practices of mindfulness are as good as, if not better than, long ones. Columnist David Robson takes a look at how we can incorporate these microhabits into our daily lives
Multiple people now claim that Valve has implemented proof-of-age verification for Australian Steam users to access games classified as R18+.
TinyGo version 0.42 introduces significant updates, including recoverable panics and support for Go 1.27 and LLVM 22, improving error handling and enabling Go code to run as UEFI applications. The TinyGo Starter Kit with Seeed Studio XIAO facilitates hardware
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 11 –… 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
Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about
Valheim 1.0 finally lets you deepen your pockets, but it'll cost you.
It should be less prone to crashing too.
From Treasury: Figure 1: Change since 2/27/2026 in ten year Treasury constant maturity yields (blue), TIPS (red), both in %. Source: Treasury.
Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.
Checking agent-generated code usually means hopping between tabs. Learn how to view diffs, run terminal commands, and preview web apps side by side in the GitHub Copilot app. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and browser appe
The Republic of Djibouti will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 11 a.m. EDT, Monday, Sept. 14, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 72nd country signatory. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Ambassador of Djibouti to the
Less than two weeks after an Executive Order was signed to create the first United States Space Academy, NASA-led work is in full swing to make the academy a reality and shape the future of America’s aerospace workforce and leadership. NASA Administrator Jared
Search and rescue technology developed in part by NASA saved five lives
From EIA, as of yesterday $4.725/gallon. October futures at $5.09.
Ecosystems like wetlands emit more carbon as temperatures rise. By 2100, such feedback loops will increase warming by 20 to 30 per cent more than anticipated
In Kubernetes, resource allocation has historically been a static decision made during a Pod's initial scheduling and placement. With the graduation of the core in-Place Pod resize feature to General Availability in v1.35, application developers and cluster op
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new model focused on coding, computer use, long-running agentic tasks, and cybersecurity, with availability across ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API. By Daniel Dominguez
Through a new collaboration between NASA and the National Football League (NFL), the agency will soon bring America’s strengths in space exploration and aeronautics innovation to the football field. NASA will conduct flyovers, astronaut appearances, and fan en
An influx of immune cells into the uterus may be what initiates childbirth. These grab on to muscle cells via tiny tubes and send across mitochondria to provide energy for contractions
A group of astronomers proposes that a series of events in a distant galaxy formed both a black hole and a pulsar, but other experts say the conclusion is premature
Yesterday close, today: Figure 1: Ten year constant maturity Treasury (blue), on the run (red), both %. Source: Treasury, tradingeconomics.com.
A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisitely preserved in the fossilised dropping
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Greg Jensen, the co-chief investment officer at hedge-fund giant Bridgewater Associates, agreed that AI could wipe out humanity.
A radical new way to resolve the Gordian knot of X11 versus Wayland
Autonomous teams are an article of faith in modern software development. The shape of our value determines what we can do; it determines our trade-offs between agency and coherence. We all have a purpose, and we all have agency to do something, hence the sugge
For Allspring Global Investments, investors should be looking at how they can adapt their strategies to incorporate more liquid alternatives.
You will find it here, with transcript. The post My AI podcast with James Pethokoukis appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION . Comments Mathematician and computer scientist Dr. Cal Newport is right ... by Patrick
Here is the link. What are the changes in the other market prices telling you? The post Markets do respond to AGI news appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION . Comments In reply to Patrick. Would be great if my b
A key U.S. government report on mental health, substance use and addiction showed continued improvements in several metrics, especially among young people. There was some uncertainty about the future of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health last year, whe
It’s a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too
A cascade of regret and apocalyptic short-term forecasts hit social media this week The post AI Engineers Are Having Their Oppenheimer “Destroyer of Worlds” Moment appeared first on Nautilus .
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AWS introduces Amazon EBS Volume Clones with cross-account copy, so you can create copies of your EBS volumes into other AWS accounts and optionally re-encrypt them with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account.
Agent skills fit well alongside documentation and remote MCP servers as ways of enabling the success of your AI workflows. They reduce context window usage for certain use cases, and they're straightforward to install. However, you might have noticed that mana
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