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OpenAI News Sep 21 Score 0.9349033365740742

Building standards for the next phase of AI

OpenAI outlines a path to shared global AI standards, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting, and governance to improve safety.

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OpenAI News Sep 21 Score 0.9299033365740742

Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths

Explore new OpenAI Academy learning paths for employees, developers, leaders, educators, and students to build and demonstrate practical AI skills.

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OpenAI News Sep 21 Score 0.9182366699074075

How V7 gives AI agents institutional memory

Using GPT-5.6, V7 turns scattered company files into context agents can use to complete complex, source-linked work.

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Foreign Policy Sep 21 Score 0.8826384305555555

UNGA Convenes With Uncertainty on the Horizon

This year’s high-level gathering takes place as the Guterres era approaches its end.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 21 Score 0.8818292319444444

Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models

Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev , their first example of a new category of model that they are calling "System One models" (I'm with Maggie Appleton, I think "decision models" is a better name for these). Jev is an interesting variant on the usual LLM forma

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 21 Score 0.8806181208333332

Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available

Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available After a two year preview, Cloudflare's support for running Python code in their server-side Workers platform is now stable: "Python is now a first-class, fully supported language on the Cloudflare Developer

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Foreign Policy Sep 21 Score 0.8804888935185184

Your 2026 UNGA Primer

The race for the new U.N. secretary-general, a Trump-Xi side quest, and runaway AI fears.

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Foreign Policy Sep 21 Score 0.8783217638888888

How to Bring Peace to Sudan

The president of the country’s Transitional Sovereignty Council argues that any solution must be homemade.

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Schneier on Security Sep 21 Score 0.8676186800925925

Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras

Hackers captured a Flock camera and got a look (alternate link ) at the software: While much of the automatic license plate reader's (ALPR) most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software

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Quanta Magazine Sep 21 Score 0.8669203597222221

How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution

Half of our genome is made of transposons — snips of DNA that can move and copy themselves. But they’re more than parasites or genetic junk. The post How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 20 Score 0.8372556208333333

MCP was always a bad idea?

My comment on MCP was always a bad idea? — Hacker News. This article entirely misses the value that MCP brings today. Sure, there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown terminal agent (Claude Code, Codex, Meta Muse, OpenClaw etc)

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BleepingComputer Sep 22 Score 0.8247695935185186

New Windows Defender zero-day blocks Microsoft antivirus updates

Over the weekend, security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri (also known as Nightmare Eclipse) released another Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit that blocks antivirus updates. [...]

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Wired — Security Sep 22 Score 0.8232366111111111

How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.

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BleepingComputer Sep 22 Score 0.8230464453703704

CISA orders feds to patch Zyxel flaw exploited for data theft

​Attackers are now actively exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Zyxel GS1900 series switches, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). [...]

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War on the Rocks Sep 22 Score 0.8207407018518519

Missed the Marque: Cyber Privateers Wanted, Compensation to Be Determined

Coverage of the new White House memorandum on combating cybercrime quickly reached the privateer label. CNN called the participants "cyber privateers," invoking the image of government-sanctioned raiders working the high seas of cyberspace, hauling in digital

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The Guardian — World Sep 22 Score 0.8157194453703704

British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting

Canadian province alleges deadly attack could have been prevented if company had warned police of shooter’s ChatGPT use British Columbia has sued OpenAI in California, saying a mass shooting at a school in the province could have been prevented if the company

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The Verge Sep 21 Score 0.8079291907407408

A cut cable disrupted hundreds of flights across the US

Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed on Monday after construction crews in New Jersey accidentally cut a Verizon fiber cable used for air traffic control. FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said that a circuit failure led to the discovery of the severed

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BleepingComputer Sep 21 Score 0.8037594083333334

BigCommerce alerts merchants of data breach linked to Ribon apps

Ecommerce platform BigCommerce has alerted multiple merchants to data breaches after attackers compromised credentials for third-party Ribon applications and used them to inject malicious scripts into online stores. [...]

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The Verge Sep 21 Score 0.8023963203703705

California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed seven bills designed to prevent AI data centers from passing utility costs onto residents, as reported earlier by the Los Angeles Times. The package of laws requires the California Public Utilities Commission to introduc

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BleepingComputer Sep 21 Score 0.8019112601851852

CISA alerts of active exploitation of three Linux kernel flaws

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that hackers are exploiting three Linux kernel vulnerabilities, one of them rated critical. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 21 Score 0.7988807046296297

WordPress Click2Shell flaw lets hackers execute PHP on the server

Technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit have been published for a new WordPress cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability dubbed 'Click2Shell' that affects the platform's Core component. [...]

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The Verge Sep 21 Score 0.7979004870370371

GM can’t ‘bring back’ Apple CarPlay because it never left

Last week, GM announced a new software experience for its upcoming Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks, including a new look for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, the popular phone mirroring systems that the automaker made a big deal about removing from its el

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The Verge Sep 21 Score 0.7977435425925926

Paramount settles lawsuit blocking $110 billion Warner Bros. merger

Paramount has reached a settlement with California and the 11 other states that sued to block its planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlement removes a major roadblock standing in the way of the massive media merger. According to

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Microsoft Research Blog Sep 21 Score 0.7940775787037038

Improving synthesis prediction of small molecules at scale with RetroChimera

Custom-made molecules are advancing medicine, materials, and agriculture, but producing them is slow and expensive. A new Nature paper highlights RetroChimera, a predictive model that helps accelerate chemical synthesis, helping researchers explore a wide rang

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MIT Technology Review Sep 21 Score 0.7887921444444446

The Download: investigating deaths at the US border's “virtual wall”

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. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? When José Morales Bernal crossed

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 21 Score 0.7882366939814816

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-2026-7273 Zyxel GS1900 Series Switches Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent

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MIT Technology Review Sep 21 Score 0.788236588425926

4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”

MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border. We found cases of people who walked undetected through areas

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Schneier on Security Sep 18 Score 0.7584034023148147

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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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 21 Score 0.7507664370370372

Tokyo Game Show 2026 celebrated the past, and an uncertain AI future | Opinion

Tokyo Game Show's 30th anniversary badged itself as "the longest five days of nonstop play", a showcase of the future of gaming. In reality, the event in Japan's largest gaming convention center, Makuhari Messe, ended after only four, the final day canceled du

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Quanta Magazine Sep 18 Score 0.7464546189814814

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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The Hacker News Sep 22 Score 0.7463492060185185

SideCopy Broadens India Targeting to Academia With ReverseRAT Spear-Phishing

The threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed using spear-phishing lures to target academic institutions in India, expanding their strategic focus beyond government entities. "SideCopy campaign operations typically initiate through spear-phishing campai

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The Hacker News Sep 22 Score 0.7433265208333333

WordPress Comment2Shell Flaw Can Turn Anonymous Comment XSS Into RCE via Admin Session

A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a logged-in administrator later opened that page, the script could run code on the site's server. WordPress fixed the flaw, tracked as CVE-2

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 22 Score 0.7395971513888889

Brain scans reveal a possible cause of long COVID fatigue and brain fog

Researchers have found evidence that long COVID may damage dopamine releasing neurons in the brain, potentially explaining persistent fatigue, low motivation, slowed movement, and memory difficulties. The discovery could lead to new treatments that target the

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 22 Score 0.7385638180555556

Scientists discover first new penguin species in more than 100 years

Genetic evidence has revealed a previously unknown gentoo penguin species on the remote Kerguelen Islands and shown that gentoos actually consist of four distinct species. The discovery also highlights a growing threat, as warming oceans could leave several is

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 22 Score 0.7362795587962963

Stem cells reverse stroke damage and restore movement in mice

Stem cell transplants helped regenerate stroke-damaged brain tissue in mice, producing new neurons and restoring lost motor function. The treatment also improved blood vessels, inflammation, and the blood-brain barrier, raising hopes that a similar approach co

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InfoQ Sep 21 Score 0.7331534310185185

Out-of-Order HTML Streaming Moves from JS Frameworks into the Browser

Out-of-order HTML streaming, a user experience pattern popularized by front-end frameworks and that allows users to view and interact faster with a page before it is entirely loaded, is making its way to web browsers. The proposal has the browser patching plac

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NASA News Sep 21 Score 0.729783375

Embracing the Equinox

Depending on your locale, equinoxes can be seen as harbingers of longer nights and gloomy weather, or promising beacons of nicer temperatures and more sunlight. Observing and predicting equinoxes is one of the earliest skills in humanity’s astronomical toolkit

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NASA News Sep 21 Score 0.7288352268518519

NASA Welcomes Albania as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

The Republic of Albania signed the Artemis Accords Monday during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, joining the coalition of like‑minded nations committed to the responsible and transparent exploration of space. “It is my pri

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NASA News Sep 21 Score 0.7283222638888889

NASA Kicks Off Nationwide Effort to Prepare Tomorrow’s Space Workforce

NASA kicked off its State Hubs for Skilled Technical Workforce initiative Sept. 15, 2026 with awardees at Space Center Houston. Agency leadership convened State Hub partners to align strategy and build momentum while focusing on partnerships, small business en

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Econbrowser Sep 21 Score 0.7261275231481481

Anticipating the EIA Gasoline and Diesel Update

According to AAA, regular gasoline is up 3.8% relative to a week ago, diesel up 4.5%. Figure 1: Regular gasoline (blue, left scale), diesel (red, left scale), jet fuel-kerosene (green, left scale), all $/gal., and spot price Brent oil (black, right scale), $/b

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NASA News Sep 21 Score 0.7254032824074074

Perseverance’s View of ‘Turquoise Bay’

Description NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of “Turquoise Bay,” a geologic area of interest in the “Margin Unit.” The 818 images used to create the natural-color panorama were captured between Oct. 5

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NASA News Sep 21 Score 0.7244375416666666

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman Attends Ravens vs. Saints Game

NASA astronaut and commander of the agency’s Artemis II mission, Reid Wiseman, a Baltimore native, takes a selfie with fans at an NFL game between the New Orleans Saints and the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026, in Baltimore. NA

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Kubernetes Blog Sep 21 Score 0.7240701939814815

Kubernetes v1.37: Tracking When a PersistentVolumeClaim Was Last Used (Beta)

Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the PersistentVolumeClaimUnusedSinceTime feature gate to Beta (enabled by default). With this feature, the PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) protection controller adds an Unused condition to each PVC, telling you whether any running pod cur

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Econbrowser Sep 21 Score 0.7233932638888889

August Real Median Household Income down Relative to May

Motio Research's measure is down 1.2% relative to May, but flat relative to July. Note that the nominal income is also down 0.3% relative to May. Their household-income momentum index, a recession signal, is down: A description of this index is discussed in th

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InfoQ Sep 21 Score 0.7175978754629629

Uber Redesigns M3DB Sharding with Subclusters to Limit Failure Impact

Uber has redesigned shard placement in M3DB with fixed size subclusters to limit the impact of node failures, maintenance, and cluster scaling. The approach bounds shard dependencies, preserves replica isolation, and uses a greedy algorithm to select shard mig

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FRED Blog Sep 21 Score 0.7149030791666666

FOMC Summary of Economic Projections, September 2026

In a previous FRED Blog post, we discussed the Summary of Economic Projections (SEP) released by the FOMC this past June. In this blog post, we again use ALFRED to compare the latest set of projections released in September 2026 … Continue reading →

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Sep 18 Score 0.7107364875

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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Marginal Revolution Sep 22 Score 0.7036794912037037

Banning self-recursive improvement in AI models?

Some people are suggesting this, including Ezra Klein. I do not understand how it is supposed to work. Put aside the issue of foregone innovations, let us say I seek to access an AI from overseas. Am I allowed to visit their website? So many sites have AI behi

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Marginal Revolution Sep 21 Score 0.6871169912037036

Further results on AI and labor market reallocation

This paper documents how artificial intelligence has affected stocks and flows in the U.S. labor market. Combining CPS and JOLTS data with AI exposure and adoption measures from OpenAI and Lightcast, respectively, we construct labor force stocks, worker flows,

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