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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 14 Score 0.8828703162037036

commit-rewriter 0.1

Release: commit-rewriter 0.1 I built this little web app the other day to help edit the commit messages for the Datasette security releases . The initial commits were full of coding agent cruft and references to issue IDs from our private repository, so they w

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 13 Score 0.8820388347222221

shot-scraper 1.12

Release: shot-scraper 1.12 I've added WebP support to my shot-scraper screenshot automation tool. You can now take a WebP screenshot of a web page like this: shot-scraper https://simonwillison.net -o screenshot.webp --quality 80 The --quality option sets the q

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Wired Sep 14 Score 0.8245879324074075

Roborock Qrevo 2 Review (2026): A New Budget Vacuum King?

Roborock's more affordable vacuum did well on corners and navigating my home, but thresholds and small objects remain a challenge. Still, it's a good vacuum for the price, especially when it's on sale.

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OpenAI News Sep 10 Score 0.8220880574074075

Now everyone can put data to work

Meet the Data agent in ChatGPT Work. Connect company data, uncover insights, and build interactive dashboards with AI using natural language.

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BleepingComputer Sep 14 Score 0.8217659717592594

Revolut discloses data breach exposing financial info, passports

Fintech company Revolut has disclosed a data breach after sharing data from an undisclosed number of customers with a threat actor impersonating a government agency. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 14 Score 0.8206511569444445

Microsoft: September updates break audio on some Windows PCs

Microsoft has confirmed that USB audio devices may fail on some Windows systems after installing the KB5124008and KB5124012 September 2026 security updates. [...]

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War on the Rocks Sep 14 Score 0.8204399462962964

This Is Not Your Father’s Nuclear Flight Test Vehicle

For decades, the United States' nuclear weapons enterprise has wrestled with an institutional paradox. On one hand is the imperative to make the complex more "responsive" to global tumult and technical surprise, able to field new weapons quickly in reaction to

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War on the Rocks Sep 14 Score 0.8200316125000001

The Big Bet on the Emerging Space Economy

The space economy has surpassed $600 billion in annual value, with some projecting it will reach a trillion by the 2030s. Jonathan Panter is joined by Joseph Yaffe (Cowboy Space), Brian Weeden (The Aerospace Corporation), and Dan Wald (Booz Allen) to weigh whe

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War on the Rocks Sep 14 Score 0.819594575462963

The Age of Strategic Exclusion

Major powers are increasingly trying to shut out their rivals. Russia invaded Ukraine in part to prevent the latter's further integration with the West. The United States is restricting China's access to advanced semiconductors and encouraging allies to do the

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BleepingComputer Sep 14 Score 0.8189340273148149

CISA: Hackers now exploit max severity GitLab flaw in attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are now exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability in attacks. [...]

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Foreign Affairs Sep 14 Score 0.8137552194444445

Europe’s Hidden Trade Advantage

Slow and steady wins the negotiation.

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The Verge Sep 13 Score 0.799915675462963

Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet's Demis Hassabis off

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The Verge Sep 13 Score 0.797928638425926

Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is developing two game controllers for the iPhone and will likely sell them under the Beats brand. Rumors that Apple might enter the game controller business have circulated for some time. But last week, MacRumors reported fi

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The Verge Sep 13 Score 0.7964258606481482

The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection

The Units are a band I discovered in part thanks to No Dogs in Space. During their miniseries on The Screamers (another incredible band worth checking out), they mention synthpunk.org as one of their sources. And there's no better way to get my attention than

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The Verge Sep 13 Score 0.7912045643518519

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghost gun

Two people were arrested in San Fransico while riding around in a Waymo robotaxi after the cab pulled over and called the cops on them. The riders were juveniles in possession of a loaded AR-style ghost gun and were taken to a juvenile hall. While the police r

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BleepingComputer Sep 13 Score 0.791158564351852

Hackers exploit Tencent app flaw to deploy GrayRabbit malware

Threat actors linked to a China-aligned espionage group are exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-51990) in Tencent's Sogou Input Method for Windows to deploy the GrayRabbit backdoor. [...]

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 14 Score 0.7875000000000001

Measuring Racial Disparities in Police Stops: Evidence from Telemetric Mobility Data -- by Xiaofeng Gong, Yuling Han, Susan T. Parker, Matthew B. Ross, Stephen Ross

We establish a reliable counterfactual for evaluating racial disparities in traffic stops using telemetric data to estimate the racial composition of motorists. We measure of motorist racial composition using telemetric mobility data and a novel two-stage corr

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Game Developer Sep 14 Score 0.7865792981481482

Worker-run studio KO_OP confirms layoffs

The Goodbye Volcano High and Young Suns developer has eliminated 13 roles.

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ECFR Sep 14 Score 0.7497736731481481

A message from Hana Jalloul in memory of Emma Bonino

Emma Bonino understood early on that Europe could not afford to turn inwards. For her, Europe was meant to be much more than a common market.

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Rest of World Sep 14 Score 0.7487688583333333

The real AI economy is being built by ordinary people

Far from Silicon Valley pitch decks, workers across Asia and Africa are bypassing tech industry hype to quietly rewire their daily jobs — one prompt, workflow, and local problem at a time.

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Sep 14 Score 0.7487552541666667

Unmasking Cloud Identities: From Behavioral Clustering to Automated Detection

We designed a behavioral clustering model to map cloud identity roles from audit logs, enabling continuous threat detection using standard SQL queries. The post Unmasking Cloud Identities: From Behavioral Clustering to Automated Detection appeared first on Uni

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Politico Europe Sep 14 Score 0.7484937356481481

Left edges ahead in Swedish election thriller

With most results in, the opposition left bloc leads by just three seats over an alliance that includes the far-right Sweden Democrats.

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Quanta Magazine Sep 10 Score 0.7461884837962962

The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof

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

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Eurogamer Sep 14 Score 0.7459544856481481

Blizzard confirms no more Diablo 4 expansions from now until Diablo 5's release

One of the biggest questions that emerged following the surprise reveal of Diablo 5 at BlizzCon over the weekend surrounded the future of Diablo 4 . Blizzard announced a returning class - the Amazon - coming to the game sometime in the first half of 2027, but

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New Scientist Sep 14 Score 0.7454214666666666

The cosmic coincidences that made our universe – and us – possible

The sun and moon are positioned just right for us to see total solar eclipses, and the make-up of the universe is just right for life. Columnist Leah Crane wonders if it’s really all one big coincidence

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The Hacker News Sep 14 Score 0.744439475462963

Malicious Twitch Browser Extension Leaks OAuth Tokens From Nearly 31,000 Users

A malicious cross-store Twitch browser extension has leaked OAuth tokens associated with nearly 31,000 users to proxy servers operated by a Russian commercial bot service. The extension, named "Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot," lists HISHIMIRO/jeetbot.cc as i

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Schneier on Security Sep 10 Score 0.7398821416666665

AIs Compress Exploit Timeline

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

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NASA News Sep 14 Score 0.7388941189814815

APOD: 2026 September 14 – Where Your Elements Came From

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 14 –… 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 14 Score 0.7387552300925926

An Early Look at Fall Color in Canada

Reds, yellows, and oranges are already sweeping across tundra landscapes in Nunavut.

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MIT News — AI Sep 14 Score 0.7387546800925926

New method enables AI for safety-critical situations

The “HardFlow” algorithm could help generative AI models produce high-quality outputs that obey strict requirements when “pretty close” doesn’t cut it.

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SRE Weekly Sep 14 Score 0.7352391925925926

SRE Weekly Issue #534

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Planetscale: Neki brings horizontal sharding to Postgres. It handles the hard parts of running Postgres at scale: Online schema changes Version upgrades with no downtime Better connection pooling Resharding Gra

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InfoQ Sep 13 Score 0.7315050537037037

Meta Open-Sources Astryx, its Agent-Ready React Design System

Meta recently announced the beta release of Astryx, an open-source React design system developed internally over eight years. Astryx builds on React 19 and StyleX to provide over 150 accessible UI components, customizable CSS design tokens, and dedicated CLI a

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TechCrunch — AI Sep 13 Score 0.7195879287037037

Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards

Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 13 Score 0.7153136439814815

Scientists find a new layer of Alzheimer’s hidden in the genome

Scientists found that the 3D organization of DNA is disrupted in several types of brain cells affected by Alzheimer’s disease, altering how important genes are switched on and off. The discovery reveals a previously underexplored layer of the disease that coul

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 13 Score 0.7141979032407407

Physicists can’t agree on how the Universe works

A massive worldwide survey of physicists has revealed surprisingly little agreement about some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. No majority backed the standard cosmological model, a leading explanation for dark matter, or any single theory of quantum gravi

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 13 Score 0.7125909587962963

Global warming is breaking a 400-year climate link between two oceans

The Indian and Pacific oceans have been climatically linked for centuries, but scientists say that connection is now breaking down in an exceptional way. Ancient climate records suggest volcanoes disrupted the relationship in the past, while today human-caused

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SecurityWeek Sep 14 Score 0.7120879874999999

CISOs Race to Control AI Agents Without Destroying Their Value

Security leaders are struggling to modernize cyber hygiene and prevent over-privileged agents from causing unintended harm. The post CISOs Race to Control AI Agents Without Destroying Their Value appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 13 Score 0.7119386439814814

NASA-backed scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies

Scientists have engineered yeast to turn PET plastic and agricultural waste into ingredients for protein-rich, 3D-printed cookies called µBites. Developed partly for NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, the system can produce proteins, fats, vitamins, and even va

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SecurityWeek Sep 14 Score 0.7111699319444443

Telus Warns Customers of Account Breaches

Stolen credentials were used in a multi-month campaign to access subscriber personal data and billing records. The post Telus Warns Customers of Account Breaches appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 13 Score 0.7110335513888889

Physicists discover a hidden “curveball” in quantum light

Researchers have experimentally demonstrated the optical Magnus effect for the first time, revealing that a tightly focused laser interacts most strongly with an atom slightly away from the beam’s center. The unexpected shift is similar to the physics that mak

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SecurityWeek Sep 14 Score 0.7103514134259259

Three JFrog Artifactory Flaws Exploited for Backdoor Deployment

The vulnerabilities can allow attackers to bypass authentication and elevate their privileges to administrator. The post Three JFrog Artifactory Flaws Exploited for Backdoor Deployment appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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InfoQ Sep 13 Score 0.7097272759259259

Cloudflare Tests Cache Transcoding to Reduce Storage Requirements

Cloudflare recently described a prototype called Cache Transcoding that compresses eligible cache content, mainly uncompressed text such as HTML, JSON, CSS, and JavaScript, using Zstandard before storing it on disk. The hyperscaler estimates that the approach

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SecurityWeek Sep 14 Score 0.7086222462962962

ConnectWise Patches ScreenConnect Vulnerability Exploited in Worm-Like Attacks

The flaw allows attackers to send files and execute them without authorization through an active remote session. The post ConnectWise Patches ScreenConnect Vulnerability Exploited in Worm-Like Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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Nautilus Sep 13 Score 0.6745886333333333

Gondwana Really Was a Supercontinent

And it helped kick‑start life on Earth The post Gondwana Really Was a Supercontinent appeared first on Nautilus .

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Phys.org Sep 14 Score 0.6720890560185185

Improved climate forecasts alone won't protect Africa's poorest farmers

As Africa prepares for the arrival of a powerful El Niño weather event, an international team of researchers led by the University of Sydney and Imperial College London has found that access to improved forecasts alone will not protect many of the region'

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