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OpenAI News Sep 18 Score 0.9390357722222223

Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint

OpenAI introduces the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a six-pillar roadmap for safer AI experiences that protect and empower young people.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 18 Score 0.8839787694444443

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench ! The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run by the company Irregular, which was also involved in similar

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Schneier on Security Sep 18 Score 0.8792024949074073

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Egg Sacs

Short essay about squid egg sacs. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 18 Score 0.8763005287037036

Note on 18th September 2026

Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park. Tags: llms , ai , generative-ai

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 18 Score 0.8759648805555554

Quoting Thariq Shihipar

We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. AGENTS.md support is built off of Claude Code mods, our upcoming way to customize the Claude Co

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Foreign Policy Sep 18 Score 0.8757101546296295

Will Russia Ever Be ‘Normal’?

Empires inevitably decline, and Putin’s project will be no exception.

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Foreign Policy Sep 18 Score 0.8755573768518518

What in the World?

Test yourself on the week of Sept. 12: Modi and Xi meet, the Houthis fire on Saudi Arabia, and EU leaders gather in Finland.

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Foreign Policy Sep 18 Score 0.8751527472222221

In War, Trump and Putin Are Much Alike

Washington is emulating Moscow’s ways of fighting wars—and helping it in the process.

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Foreign Policy Sep 18 Score 0.8745999694444444

Chinese Literature Is Undergoing a Vibe Shift

Beijing long promoted novels about working-class travails. What happens when authors point fingers at the state?

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 18 Score 0.8683880287037036

The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit

The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit I love Who Framed Roger Rabbit , the 1988 movie by Robert Zemeckis. I haven't watched it in quite a few years, and Cypress Frankenfeld just pointed out this sequence from early in the movie: It's a pelican riding

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Quanta Magazine Sep 18 Score 0.867253623148148

Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich

The proof of a decades-old conjecture has given researchers a new way to understand complex networks. The post Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Sep 18 Score 0.862532124537037

Are AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs?

Anthropic's recent security-incident document contains a bit about how CAPTCHAs are still frustrating Claude. In the transcript, the Claude model that is so powerful that Anthropic is gatekeeping access to it appeared to slam its virtual head against the wall

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Sep 18 Score 0.8315356171296295

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Northstar Bank, former employee of American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and former employee of Regions Bank

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Northstar Bank, former employee of American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and former employee of Regions Bank

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Wired Sep 19 Score 0.8240357078703704

Join the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4

For one day only, WIRED is bringing the technologies, people, and cultural forces transforming our world off the page and into real life.

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The Guardian — World Sep 18 Score 0.8076143375000001

Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say

Group trapped at Hotel Bamy after US removal as rights groups sound alarm over poor conditions and violence Two men that the Trump administration expelled to Equatorial Guinea were bound, fitted with bags over their heads, beaten and pushed down a flight of st

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The Verge Sep 18 Score 0.804241238888889

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its

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War on the Rocks Sep 18 Score 0.7998865666666667

Pressure Points

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we'll provide you with expert analysis on America's greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranSenior officials from Iran, Oman, and neighboring Gulf states w

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The Verge Sep 18 Score 0.7998491092592593

Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Ex

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The Verge Sep 18 Score 0.7997875351851853

Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO

You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the

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The Verge Sep 18 Score 0.797552812962963

The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro's camera

It's one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wider for better low light shots and make the aperture smaller

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The Verge Sep 18 Score 0.7975037388888889

Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the state to convene a group of

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BleepingComputer Sep 18 Score 0.7957201148148149

Gyazo server flaw exploited to steal 23.6 million user records

The Gyazo image-sharing platform has confirmed it suffered a data breach after hackers exploited a server vulnerability that allowed them to steal 23.6 million user records. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 18 Score 0.7923738185185186

Secure enterprise sharing with access reviews for Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 makes sharing files easy, but access can remain long after its original purpose has ended, leaving organizations with little visibility into who can still reach sensitive data. tenfold Software explains how centralized access governance and owner

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Google AI Blog Sep 18 Score 0.7923690592592594

New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team

We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.

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BleepingComputer Sep 18 Score 0.7923321518518519

Microsoft Teams will let admins block custom file extensions

Microsoft Teams will soon let administrators tweak the list of file extensions commonly associated with security threats to meet their company's security requirements. [...]

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Ars Technica — Security Sep 18 Score 0.7915412032407408

Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI

Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.

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BleepingComputer Sep 18 Score 0.7909890962962963

Webinar: Which Google Workspace security controls actually matter?

Fast-growing companies face countless recommendations for securing Google Workspace, but not every control provides the same value. This webinar examines real-world breaches to explore which security controls matter most, which may be overrated, and where lean

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Google AI Blog Sep 18 Score 0.7907023925925927

Co-creating the future of fashion with Google

Google worked side-by-side with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools to prep for NYFW.

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MIT Technology Review Sep 18 Score 0.7893134268518519

The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat

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. Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 18 Score 0.7890357680555556

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-39682 Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 18 Score 0.7890357680555556

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-39964 Linux Kernel Race Condition Vulnerability CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability These

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MIT Technology Review Sep 18 Score 0.7881847231481482

Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.

On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the 30 minute session.

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 18 Score 0.758635851388889

Control Resonant | Critical Consensus

Seven years after launching Control, Remedy returns to a paranatural Manhattan with Control Resonant. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 18 Score 0.7544580736111112

Pulling focus: Must AAA pander to the distracted? | Opinion

There's been a lot of talk in recent years about the effect that the inflation of development budgets has had on the industry. As budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars have become common, cracks have emerged in the foundations of the entire model for

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Liberty Street Economics Sep 18 Score 0.7532022125000001

The New York Fed DSGE Model Forecast—September 2026

This post presents an update of the economic forecasts generated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model. We describe very briefly our forecast and its change since June 2026 . The New York Fed DSGE model e

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InfoQ Sep 19 Score 0.7493412018518518

AWS Lambda Pushes Serverless Toward Long-Running Workloads

AWS Lambda now allows functions running on Lambda Managed Instances to run for up to 90 minutes, six times longer than the previous 15-minute limit, further blurring the line between a Lambda invocation and a traditional server. The limit remains unchanged for

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 17 Score 0.7490357680555556

ABB Ability Edgenius

View CSAF Summary ABB is aware of public reports of a vulnerability CVE‑2026‑31431 (Copy Fail) in the product versions listed as affected in the advisory. An update is available that resolves a publicly reported vulnerability. CVE‑2026‑31431 (Copy Fail) is a L

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NASA News Sep 19 Score 0.740841675462963

APOD: 2026 September 19 – A Zodiacal Night

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 19 –… 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 18 Score 0.7272620458333333

NASA Invites Media to Albania Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony

The Republic of Albania will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 12 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 21, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 73rd country signatory. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Albania’s Minister for Europe

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NASA News Sep 18 Score 0.7241162125

NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’

Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant star’s outflow, called a stellar wind, being captured by its compact companion and providing the power source for strong X-ray

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Econbrowser Sep 18 Score 0.7239335990740741

Business Cycle Indicators: Industrial, Manufacturing Production under Consensus

IP flat, below +0.3% m/m Bloomberg consensus, manufacturing -0.3% below +0.3%. Capacity utilization drops. Adding in monthly GDP, early benchmark NFP as well. Figure 1: NFP employment (bold blue), civilian employment with smoothed population controls (bold ora

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Econbrowser Sep 18 Score 0.7213919324074074

NYT: "The World Economy Is Becoming Wary of the U.S."

From NYT: “Geopolitical factors and U.S. weaponization of the dollar through financial sanctions are causing central banks and other official investors to attempt to diversify away from dollar assets,” said Eswar Prasad, the former head of the International Mo

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NASA News Sep 18 Score 0.7207726939814815

NASA Awards SpaceX Three Crew Flights to Space Station

To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three additional missions through a contract modification.

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NASA News Sep 18 Score 0.7202875087962963

COSI Telescope Comes Together

UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) detector assembly is slowly raised from a table in this July 8, 2026, image. The four pieces of silver material on the top of the detector box cover the flex circuits, which

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GitHub Blog Sep 18 Score 0.7190360439814815

Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?

We dive into these questions and other AI hot takes on the latest episode of the GitHub Podcast. The post Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP? appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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New Scientist Sep 18 Score 0.7173689625

SpaceX's Starship will orbit Earth for first time during next flight

Starship's next test flight will be its first orbital mission. The craft will also release working Starlink V3 satellites for the first time, making the flight the first commercially useful Starship mission

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InfoQ Sep 18 Score 0.7170912018518518

DoorDash Uses Multi Agent LLMs to Clean up 60,000 Feature Flags

DoorDash built a multi-agent LLM system to automate stale feature flag cleanup across more than 60,000 flags and 623 repositories. The workflow combines live experimentation data through MCP, engineer approval, isolated Git worktrees, parallel agents, and auto

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 18 Score 0.7148892555555556

Scientists discover cells that cheat death and rebuild damaged tissue

Scientists discovered a population of cells that can start the process of programmed cell death, survive it, and then help rapidly rebuild damaged tissue. Their descendants become far more resistant to future damage, revealing a mechanism that could improve he

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 18 Score 0.7142318481481481

Scientists just named a new snake after Guns N’ Roses legend Slash

A newly discovered snake from New Guinea has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, who has loved reptiles since childhood. Genetic testing and physical differences confirmed that the reddish-brown groundsnake, Lielaphis slashi, is a species scientist

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InfoQ Sep 18 Score 0.7140356462962963

WSO2 Releases Agent Manager as Enterprises Look to Control Growing AI Agent Sprawl

WSO2 has announced the general availability of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open-source platform designed to provide centralized governance, identity management, security controls, and operational oversight for AI agents running across different models, frameworks,

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 18 Score 0.7132563851851852

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could last more than twice as long as planned

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope may now have enough fuel for at least 22 years of science, more than double its original 10 year design life. An extremely precise course correction, extra fuel at launch, and additional expected savings could keep the powerful obs

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Marginal Revolution Sep 19 Score 0.7071646763888888

Internet diffusion and religious decline?

Using a panel of 81 countries across six World Values Survey waves (1990–2022), we examine whether growth in internet diffusion is associated with religious decline. We construct a six-item composite religiosity index, align annual macro series to wave periods

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Marginal Revolution Sep 19 Score 0.7038174541666665

Emergent Ventures India, 19th cohort

Asit Singh, founder of Syngi, received his grant to develop sub-angstrom optical MEMS sensors for next-generation semiconductor lithography. Rishabh received his grant to build a platform for real-time updates from Delhi courts, making judicial activity easier

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 18 Score 0.6840357458333333

Announcing Native BM25 Ranking in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL

Vector search is a critical component of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and data agent architectures, but sometimes vector search alone isn't enough. While vector embeddings are incredible at understanding conceptual meaning, they stumble

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 18 Score 0.6832024124999999

The DevFest Community Workshop Experience: Building Real Agents Together

This week we kicked off the DevFest season in North America at Google Hudson Square in New York City with 80 engineers packed into the room. Typical technical workshops hand you a finished repo, tell you to blindly paste blocks of code into your terminal, and

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 18 Score 0.6832024124999999

Reimagining service delivery in the agentic era with Google Public Sector

State and local governments are driven by a shared mission to provide responsive, equitable, and accessible services. However, achieving this goal is often hindered by legacy technical debt, disconnected data, and heavy administrative burdens that slow down mi

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