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OpenAI News Sep 17 Score 0.9385978481481483

How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT

Cooley built GO Public with ChatGPT Work to bring intelligence to the IPO process, helping lawyers surface issues earlier and focus judgment where it matters most.

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OpenAI News Sep 17 Score 0.9185978481481483

Introducing Astra for Law

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 17 Score 0.8835787430555555

Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans

Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans Important warning from Adam Harvey and the crates security team: We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting rust-lang members and owners of popular crates that is attempting to compromise devices a

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 17 Score 0.8829713356481481

How To Write With An LLM

How To Write With An LLM Thomas Ptacek on using LLMs as copyeditors, not as writing assistants: Rule Number One: You may not use a single word an LLM suggests to you. [...] I think that as a form of intellectual personal protective equipment you should adopt t

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Foreign Policy Sep 17 Score 0.8797007166666666

Trump’s Risky Hack-Back Plan

The U.S. president wants tech companies to go on the cyber-offensive. Will it work?

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 17 Score 0.8785398541666666

Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries

Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries In Our framework for reporting model misalignment OpenAI provide "six reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we’ve observed in the last six months". This one here is my favorite: they caught

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Foreign Policy Sep 17 Score 0.8766868277777777

Sweden’s Right-Wing Reckoning

What was expected to be an easy election win resulted in a narrow victory for the left.

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Foreign Policy Sep 17 Score 0.8702747907407407

How Do You Dismantle a Propaganda Machine?

Peter Magyar is on a mission to restore Hungarians’ faith in public media.

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Quanta Magazine Sep 17 Score 0.8688634407407406

Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?

Jonathan Halliwell explains how quantum decoherence is key to understanding how we transition from a world with a wave-like nature of matter and energy to the classical macroscopic world that we’re used to. The post Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Be

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Schneier on Security Sep 17 Score 0.8621123328703703

How Candidates Could Use AI for Good

This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have anxiety about AI's impacts on the country. Politicos are

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MIT Technology Review Sep 18 Score 0.8235977087962963

The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech

In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 17 Score 0.8218526861111111

The trickle-down economics of the AI boom

How fast are AI investments translating into broader gains? Taiwan and South Korea offer hints

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 17 Score 0.821778149074074

Ricardo Reis was too frank for the IMF

It can still benefit from the economist’s ideas

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BleepingComputer Sep 18 Score 0.8212512231481482

Microsoft fixes broken copy and paste for Excel 2016 users

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that causes copy-and-paste failures for some Excel users after installing the September 2026 KB5002914 security update. [...]

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War on the Rocks Sep 18 Score 0.8211084976851852

Why Eurasia, Not the Indo-Pacific, Matters Most in Next Phase of Taiwan Deterrence

Washington is preparing for the right war, but in the wrong theater. For years, U.S. strategic thinking has centered on the Indo‑Pacific: the militarized atolls of the South China Sea, China's churning naval shipyards, and the tense waters of the Taiwan

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SANS Internet Storm Center Sep 18 Score 0.8187488652777778

HTTP QUERY Method: The Grey Zone Between GET And POST., (Fri, Sep 18th)

In June 2026 the IETF published RFC 10008[1], defining a new HTTP method: "QUERY". The HTTP protocol faced already by changes (HTTP/2, HTTP/2) but it's the first new standard HTTP verb since "PATCH" in 2010!

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Foreign Affairs Sep 18 Score 0.8152649847222223

Ebola Is Only the Beginning

Congo’s warning for the global health system.

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Foreign Affairs Sep 18 Score 0.8152649847222223

America's Attrition Trap

The U.S. military needs to build up its endurance.

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The Verge Sep 18 Score 0.8119310319444445

Waymo says Singapore will be its next international robotaxi city

Waymo says it will launch a robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, as the Alphabet-owned company continues to eye overseas markets for expansion. Waymo's vehicles will begin arriving in Singapore in "the coming months," the company says, in preparation of mapp

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The Guardian — World Sep 18 Score 0.8092516157407408

Almost 50 dead in Nigeria after drinking alcohol suspected to contain methanol

Drinking locally made alcohol is common in Nigeria, especially in rural areas where it is more affordable and poorly regulated At least 48 people have died and about 100 others are receiving treatment in southern Nigeria after consuming a locally brewed alcoho

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BleepingComputer Sep 17 Score 0.8049989083333334

New RatHat Android malware uses AI to automate device control

A new Android malware called RatHat has been discovered, targeting users with an AI-powered subsystem that helps operators remotely navigate compromised devices. [...]

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Google AI Blog Sep 17 Score 0.8019311458333334

Making global data easier to explore

Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.

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The Verge Sep 17 Score 0.8010532541666667

The AI Superintelligence Slowdown

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US

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The Verge Sep 17 Score 0.8002111245370371

Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "thread

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BleepingComputer Sep 17 Score 0.8001313157407408

OpenAI details more cases of AI agents taking unauthorized actions

OpenAI has presented new examples of what they call "AI model misalignment" from the past six months, including unauthorized file uploads, following self-generated instructions, hiding mistakes, and leveraging exposed API keys. [...]

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The Verge Sep 17 Score 0.7973231615740741

Save $30 or more on a refurbished Apple TV 4K

Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices. Thankfully, you can offset some of the increased costs on an Apple TV 4K by buying one refurbished through the company. The 64GB model is sellin

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BleepingComputer Sep 17 Score 0.7972526120370371

Brevo supply-chain attack injected ClickFix scripts on customer sites

Brevo confirmed that attackers stole a Cloudflare API key and used it to inject malicious ClickFix scripts into its websites and JavaScript files embedded on customer sites to distribute malware. [...]

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The Verge Sep 17 Score 0.7952643652777779

Xbox’s clever disc-to-digital feature was 15 years in the making

When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox One. Disc-to-digital seems like a clever new feature for Xbox, perfectly timed as a response to Sony killing PlayStation d

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SANS Internet Storm Center Sep 17 Score 0.7937849763888889

LausivLoader analysis, or how to pass data between malware stages, (Thu, Sep 17th)

At the end of August, a malspam message was caught in the quarantine of a mail gateway operated by one of my customers. The message was not especially remarkable – it asked the recipient to review some attached requirements and provide a price

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MIT Technology Review Sep 17 Score 0.7888754865740741

The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators

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. Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around a small a

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 17 Score 0.788597863425926

Bransys ELD

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow unauthorized access to telemetry data and firmware. The following versions of Bransys ELD are affected: Android iOS CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 7.5 Bransys Bransys ELD

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 17 Score 0.788597863425926

Hitachi Energy FACTS Control Platform (FCP)

View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of vulnerabilities that affect the FACTS Control systems with GWS component listed in this document. An attacker exploiting these vulnerabilities can cause impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability of the p

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 17 Score 0.788597863425926

Mitsubishi Electric GX Works3 and Motion Control Settings

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to successfully authenticate even with an invalid block password by executing the affected product and modify part of the executable module in memory, and thereby allo

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 17 Score 0.788597863425926

Mitsubishi Electric CC-Link IE TSN Communication Protocol (Update A)

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker with access to the same network segment to tamper with communication data in the affected product by sending specially crafted packets under specific timing conditions. Thi

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Game Developer Sep 18 Score 0.7875000000000001

GodotCon

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Unreal Fest

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SLICE

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gamescom

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Game Conference MX (GCMX)

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MIT Technology Review Sep 17 Score 0.785264375462963

Meet the innovators under 35 shaping climate tech

Each year, the editorial team at MIT Technology Review puts together a list of 35 innovators under 35—a group of researchers, inventors, and other young minds worth following. The team worked on the newest edition of the list for months, and the final slate in

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 17 Score 0.7552638231481482

Draft of new EU law proposes sweeping restrictions on online games

The EU Commission has published a draft for the proposed EU KIDS Act . While the most controversial stipulations – namely a ban for under 13's and restrictions for under 15 year old kids – only apply to social networks and video sharing platforms &

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 17 Score 0.7527647490740742

"Every major publisher has approached us to review their old Kinect and Wii catalogue" – Nex Playground is spoilt for choice as its international rollout continues

With over a million units sold, and approaching a million paying subscribers using them, the next step in Nex Playground's global expansion – backed by fresh investmnent and an expanded leadership team including EA founder Bing Gordon and former Niantic

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InfoQ Sep 18 Score 0.7487369833333334

Podcast: Signals and Levers: Building Thriving Engineering Organizations

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi about systems thinking as a lens for software delivery, the cultural "levers" leaders and teams can pull to shape organizations, and building thriving,

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InfoQ Sep 18 Score 0.7485980944444445

Article: Architecting Secure and Scalable Facial Verification Systems

When three thousand employees verify at once, synchronous API calls collapse. This article presents a four-layer architecture for high-volume face verification: client-side filtering that cut cloud costs 30%, decoupled detection and verification enabling 10x s

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InfoQ Sep 18 Score 0.7420703166666667

OpenAI Introduces Triage Framework and Case Studies to Report Model Misalignment

OpenAI has released a disclosure framework for model misalignment during its lifecycle. Employees can flag potential issues, prompting technical staff to label incidents. The initial case studies outline unexpected model behaviours, providing insights into dev

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NASA News Sep 18 Score 0.7404039671296296

APOD: 2026 September 18 – Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 18 –… 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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Platformer Sep 18 Score 0.7356151768518518

What was Hard Fork?

Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods

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TechCrunch — AI Sep 17 Score 0.7325223

Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate

The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI. "They will not always agree, and they will likely change their minds, as more data and information comes to light at the fa

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Econbrowser Sep 17 Score 0.7320372796296296

GDPNow Goes Gangbusters

GDPNow as of today is 5.1% q/q AR for Q3: Figure 1: GDP (black), August Survey of Professional Forecasters (purple), GDPNow (light blue square), Goldman Sachs tracking (inverted chartreuse triangle), NY Fed 9/11 (red triangle), September FT Booth (blue +). Sou

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AWS Blog Sep 17 Score 0.7289259685185185

New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available

AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better price p

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NASA News Sep 17 Score 0.7279636893518519

NASA Awards Launch Services for StarBurst Gamma-Ray Detector

NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and the origins of short gamma-ray bursts. StarBurst will launch aboard a Bandwagon rideshare mission on a Fa

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Econbrowser Sep 17 Score 0.7274747796296296

Betting on the Midterms

From Polymarket today, 3pm CT: The sharp deterioration in Republican odds for holding the Senate occurred almost immediately after the beginning of the US-Iran War. The first reversal between Republican/Democratic odds occurred on March 15. Kalshi places odds

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AWS Blog Sep 17 Score 0.7258301351851851

AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode

Run an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode without provisioning or operating the compute underneath it. You provide a container image or source code; Elastic Beanstalk with service-operated compute creates and operates the environment that runs i

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NASA News Sep 17 Score 0.7245011893518518

NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 35th Resupply Launch to Space Station

Media accreditation is open for the next cargo launch that will deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. The 35th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory for NASA will lift o

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Econbrowser Sep 17 Score 0.7233252425925926

Fed Funds Expected Trajectory, and Other Rates

Here's the CME's Fedwatch implied path for the Fed funds rate as of noon CT today: Figure 1: Effective Fed funds (bold blue), 3 month Treasury yield (red), 10 year (green), 30 year (black), all constant maturity yields, in %. Dashed green line at US-Iran war s

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NASA News Sep 17 Score 0.7192289671296296

NASA Unveils Enterprise, the First Space Shuttle

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, 1976—Constitution Day of America’s bicentennial year—NASA unveiled its first space shuttle orbiter, OV-101, to the public. NASA had originally planned to name the vehicle Constitution, but a letter-writing campaign changed the age

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 17 Score 0.7171743203703703

Scientists discover a mysterious new frog hiding in the Amazon

Scientists discovered a new frog species in the flooded forests of the western Amazon, distinguishing it from nearly identical relatives through DNA and its unique call. Adenomera varcena highlights how much Amazonian biodiversity remains hidden even as habita

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Lobsters Sep 17 Score 0.7166535791666666

I don't like LLMs

I have a lot of mixed feelings about AI and LLM technology. I’m fascinated by its effect on our profession, excited by the potential gains in productivity - and thus the products we could rapidly build. On the other hand, I’m fearful of the damage AI might cau

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 17 Score 0.7152738574074075

Astronomers just found the youngest known planet ever

Astronomers have confirmed a Jupiter-size planet less than a million years old, making Elias 2-24 b the youngest known planet and giving scientists a rare look at a world still being born. Its surprisingly rapid formation challenges leading theories about how

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FRED Blog Sep 17 Score 0.7152642263888889

Using options prices to measure financial risk : The Kansas City Fed Policy Rate Skew

The takeaway The Kansas City Fed uses options prices to measure how financial markets perceive the balance of risks for future short-term interest rates: a.k.a., the KC Policy Rate Skew. The data Options are publicly traded financial instruments that reflect &

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InfoQ Sep 17 Score 0.7122369833333333

Building an Internal Developer Platform with Artificial Intelligence

Agents are becoming the new developer platform, using semantic search with data from tools like Git, Slack, and Jira for context. Things to consider are setting guardrails to block or allow things, and using logs, metrics, and traces to understand agent behavi

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Marginal Revolution Sep 18 Score 0.7079636384259258

Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents

That is a new Nature paper by Jiacheng Miao, Joe R. Davis, Yaohui Zhang, Jonathan K. Pritchard, and James Zou. Here goes: Here we introduce Paper2Agent, an automated framework that converts research papers into artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Paper2Agent

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Marginal Revolution Sep 18 Score 0.7041766013888888

Why Papua New Guinea is so interesting

And this leads to the most interesting part of this story: how the highlanders were so isolated for so long. I want to acknowledge that the highlanders were not completely, hermetically sealed off from the outside world – it’s just that knowledge of outs

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