Release: datasette-auth-github 1.0 I run this GitHub login plugin on the agent.datasette.io demo site and I noticed that my authenticated sessions weren't lasting very long. It turned out that the plugin was setting cookies without a Max-Age parameter, so they
California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, US I only noticed this after I had taken the photo: Morris the Northern Gannet is peeking out from behind the base of the sign. Tags: wildlife
The consumer data broker Radaris.com has long had a reputation for ignoring requests to remove personal information from its vast empire of people-search services online. That reputation caught up with the company recently in a lawsuit alleging Radaris violate
OpenAI shares a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.
OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to build practical AI skills safely.
Amazon is a murky mess of ads, unknown sellers, misleading sales, and specious information. Stay safe while shopping on Prime Big Deal Days and beyond with these tips and tricks.
Understanding how ChatGPT’s latest memory upgrade works will help you get even more out of OpenAI’s productivity tool.
Several new studies have uncovered this long overlooked aspect of coral physiology that could be the key to the animals’ fate in a changing climate.
A major oil refinery was also hit as Moscow's mayor says 450 drones were downed during the "unprecedented attack".
The chancellor is facing intense political pressure which will increase if his party struggles in Sunday's polls.
The singer spoke about Israel and Gaza after Macklemore was dropped from his tour for making pro-Palestinian remarks on stage.
A reported strike on a fuel depot at Riyadh airport caused delays on Saturday, as Saudi Arabia says it shot down a ballistic missile aimed at the capital.
A cauldron of conflicts is bubbling across the world, with cultural monuments being destroyed. These people are fighting against it.
Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to describe itself. Jason At
On Friday, the president threatened to ban CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House. It could have just been another one of his Truth Social fever dreams, but it turns out it's very real. All three publications were turned away from the White House this
An "AI moderate's" view on recent events and the trajectory of frontier models.
In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party I
The Hyte X50 is a PC case that really stands out from the typical black box design, and it’s $50 off at the company’s site until September 21st, 2026, bringing the price down to $99.99. This attractive case supports motherboards from ITX all the way up to the
Anamanaguchi, the band consisting of Peter Berkman, James DeVito, Luke Silas, and Ary Warnaar, are most known for their chiptune music. Like me, you might have first heard them in game soundtracks like 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game or know of th
BragJack, a proof-of-concept attack from Forever Security's Gal Weizman, hijacks the AI assistants in Chrome, Edge, Opera Neon, Perplexity Comet, and Claude in Chrome using one malicious extension. The Prompt Forcing technique earned over $20,000 in bounties a
A joint law enforcement advisory warns that the North Korean hacking group WaterPlum compromised at least 30,000 devices worldwide from December 2025 through July 2026 and transferred more than $10.7 million in stolen cryptocurrency to North Korea. [...]
The ShinyHunters extortion gang breached the Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware operation's data leak site, defacing the Tor site and allegedly stealing server data and the private keys for its onion service. [...]
AI actress Tilly Norwood went viral after glitching into Chinese on Piers Morgan Uncensored last night. Her "Talking Tilly" video call service face-scans every caller for an 18+ age check, senses callers' moods during calls, and shuts down permanently on Septe
This study examines how social influences on academic performance evolve during transition to university when students encounter new social environments and publicly observable signals of academic ability. Using administrative data from a large, elite, and lin
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
The use of managed retreats, or “buyouts,” of flood-prone properties is likely to grow as an adaptation response to increasing flood risks. This paper investigates the role of race and ethnicity in buyout bargaining outcomes and how those outcomes affect longe
AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.
The totally free macOS app Tasks.txt makes up for missing features with sheer elegance.
Police fire teargas as protests break out in city of Minna after deaths of suspected illegal goldminers, many of whom were children Survivors from a prison cell in Nigeria where 37 suspected illegal goldminers died while in the custody of a paramilitary group
Critics say moves from leftwing incumbent president are electorally motivated two weeks before Brazil’s elections Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced a 15% increase in the country’s main cash-transfer programme for poor families, as we
Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works. The post Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
"This unprecedented attack was clearly planned with the aim of disrupting the elections," said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
Wolverine developer Insomniac has denied using generative AI after fans jumped on social media to share screenshots of a bizarre restroom sign. Read more
Isotope ratios provide a hint that the giants were actively managing temperatures.
From Gaza to the digital age, visibility has become one of the central political struggles of modern conflicts.
Russian forces have been striking Ukraine’s Kyiv region for more than 24 hours, damaging 31 sites across five districts, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the region’s military administration.
Four of Nurat Osman’s alleged abductors were killed during rescue after she was taken from outside her home last week A British woman kidnapped in Malawi last week has been rescued by police after a shootout in which four of her alleged abductors were killed.
Cloudflare has replaced its static X25519 guess for origin TLS handshakes with per-origin measurement. HelloRetryRequests on scanned origins fell from roughly 52% to 3.7%, removing over 150 ms from p90 latency. Post-quantum connections completing in one round
Russian air defenses repelled the heaviest drone attack Ukraine has ever launched on Moscow, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said. Since yesterday, he said, “more than 1,600” drones have been “repelled across all defensive lines,” including 450 shot down as they approac
New variant of an old scam: Use the framing of a CAPTCHA to get an unsuspecting user to download and run a malicious program.
There can be a fine line between a malicious hack and a legend.
Nearly three decades of Hurricane Hunter data reveal four features that can help a tilted tropical cyclone straighten its circulation and become capable of intensifying. The findings could give forecasters an earlier warning that a seemingly disorganized storm
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 20 –… 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
Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
Their exact provenance is unclear, but they seem to have come from the big 2023 hack.
Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a bug in t
Enter The Chionthar Wilds with over 70 new items and 30 new fights.
It's hard to argue against those takeaways.
This article is the result of a collaboration with The Sunday Times. You can find their corresponding piece here. Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. Christy Kinahan, the Irish founder of the Kina
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building next.
Copilot's answer engine allegedly caused the New York Times' click-through rate to plummet by figures up to 93%.
Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.
The rich world is flirting with fiscal disaster
Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the September 15-16 FOMC meeting
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitati
Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This ar
A chemical that stops drywood termites from building new exoskeletons killed about 95% of colonies in testing, offering a potentially safer alternative to traditional fumigation. Because termites eventually have no choice but to molt, the treatment turns a nor
A massive crater on Mars’ moon Phobos may hide a dense region of compressed material that could reveal whether the moon is a captured asteroid or debris from an ancient impact on Mars. Japan’s upcoming MMX sample return mission could provide the measurements a
A deep-sea microbe uses an exceptionally heat-resistant enzyme to turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia at temperatures that would destroy most proteins. Its unusual structure and a newly observed reaction state may reveal an ancient, shared mechanism behind
A single-celled organism can shrink to one-quarter of its length in milliseconds using a remarkable calcium-powered protein “fishnet.” Scientists hope its unusual machinery could inspire artificial muscles capable of moving far faster than today’s designs.
Research suggests that bilingualism can offer cognitive benefits.
Ajay Prakash discusses how LinkedIn overcomes AI agent limitations in large codebases. He explains Contextual Agent Playbooks and Tools - built on Model Context Protocol (MCP) - which serves procedural memory, code search, and runbooks directly to coding agent
Campaign 2 of Critical Role broke Critters' hearts in a way that has (thankfully) yet to be replicated even 8 years later.
Sundays - well, very early Sunday mornings - are for watching a whole queue of hungry wild animals pass your kitchen window, because a neighbour has decided to leave a bollard-sized catfood dispenser outside the block entrance while they're away on holiday. I'
Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto games are loosely connected, but they all stand alone for a reason
Chariklo is only about 250 km across, but it has two rings, and they're changing.
SolarWinds has released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Access Rights Manager (ARM) that, if successfully exploited, could lead to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28326, is rate
View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of vulnerabilities in its PowerChute Serial Shutdown product. The PowerChute Serial Shutdown product is a UPS management software enabling graceful system shutdown and energy management capabilities for desktops, s
24 Jump Street is in the works, 12 years after Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill's 22 Jump Street, with Spider-Verse producers Lord and Miller returning.
Atlus role-playing game series Persona is getting a live-action streaming series on Netflix thanks to Sonic the Hedgehog and Stranger Things producers
Who's playing who in Sony's The Legend of Zelda movie? Here's everyone confirmed so far in the cast, including Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf.
I observed, for example, that when I got an invitation to travel to give a talk in a different time zone, it mattered what time zone I was in when I got the invitation. if well rested, in my home time zone, I would think, No big deal, about making a long trip
UK productivity rose at almost twice the pace previously estimated in the decade after the 2008 global financial crisis, according to new official figures that make Britain look much less of an international outlier. Output per hour worked, the main measure of
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…this month, Singapore launched a scheme promising actual cash to citizens as a reward for logging reading time on a government website. It’s unlikely to make you megabucks – you have to rack up 50 reading sessions of at least 15 minutes to earn one Sing
“I spend a lot of time away from my family and spend money on gas, taking him out to eat.”
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Selling a condominium unit has become a challenge for many, as buyers get spooked at the prospect of bearing ever-rising HOA fees — even if the home comes with a lower price tag.
The order in which you spend your money makes a difference for your taxes — and your enjoyment of life.
Group plans to be largely out of commission for several weeks.
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The best Stratechery content from the week of September 14, 2026, including the view from anywhere but San Francisco, the limited potential for a pacing deal, and the Salesforce zag.
A new focus on fiction and memoir aims to help the MIT community celebrate the power of storytelling and strengthen social connection.
Putting a dent in dolphins’ reputation as the “good guys of the sea” The post This Dolphin Steals from Fish for Its Meals appeared first on Nautilus .
A project claimed to represent 'the first organic neuron Bitcoin miner based on the fly brain' has gone live.
The fish that preceded the first four-legged land animals came in a wider variety of forms than we had thought, and fossils show that one had an elbow joint that moved in an oddly restrictive way
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Across Appalachia and the Rust Belt region, including throughout the city of Pittsburgh, former industrial sites are being transformed into new neighborhoods, research centers and technology hubs.
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
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