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OpenAI News Sep 22 Score 0.9532349898148149

Better prompt caching for GPT-6

Learn how GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls that reduce latency and costs.

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OpenAI News Sep 22 Score 0.9482349898148149

Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Meet GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two models that bring frontier intelligence to everyday work with different balances of capability and cost.

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Foreign Policy Sep 23 Score 0.8979478629629629

What Machiavelli Would Say About Trump

The U.S. president offers a guide on how to be a very bad prince.

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Foreign Policy Sep 23 Score 0.8915872148148147

Malaysia’s Top Crook Gets Leniency

Reformers who had pinned hope on Anwar to clean things up are enraged.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 23 Score 0.8880493078703703

SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering

SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and interesting things with and on top of coding agents. Think of

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 22 Score 0.882865048611111

Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war

Yesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna . It's going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new mode

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Foreign Policy Sep 22 Score 0.8797177703703702

A Tale of Two UNGA Speeches

U.S. President Donald Trump made threats, while outgoing U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for peace and multilateralism.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 22 Score 0.8745854189814813

llm 0.36

Release: llm 0.36 New OpenAI models: gpt-6-sol for GPT-6 Sol and gpt-6-luna for GPT-6 Luna . #1702 Model plugins can now declare supports_conversation = False for models that only accept single-turn prompts. LLM raises llm.ConversationNotSupported when these m

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 22 Score 0.873328011574074

Quoting @therealcornpop

Hey, you know it's like super obvious if you're using AI to write your scripts for TikTok and YouTube, right? [...] It's not just the general AI-isms of "it's not X, it's Y", or the rule of three, or the really weird broken staccato-like way of writing where y

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 22 Score 0.8719826412037036

llm-anthropic 0.29

Release: llm-anthropic 0.29 Adds support for Claude Opus 5.5 : llm -m claude-opus-5.5 "prompt goes here" Tags: llm , anthropic

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Schneier on Security Sep 22 Score 0.8616442361111111

GPT-6 Astra Breaks an Old Enigma Message

This is pretty amazing: However, the most astonishing thing about this break is that the GPT­6 Astra did it entirely on its own. Carter Leffer only directed GPT­6 Astra to see if it could break any of the unbroken Enigma messages published on the Crypto Cellar

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MIT Technology Review Sep 23 Score 0.8232350402777778

Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India

Shubnam was packing boxes for a move into a new home when their friend sent them an Instagram video. The footage had only been up for a few hours, but it was days old, recorded at a Delhi protest this spring against a bill that would have narrowed the legal re

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BleepingComputer Sep 23 Score 0.8221256657407408

Ryuk ransomware member sentenced to 24 months in prison

An Armenian man was sentenced to 24 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for hacking U.S. companies and encrypting their systems in Ryuk ransomware attacks. [...]

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War on the Rocks Sep 23 Score 0.8215903453703705

Winning by the Rules: Optimizing Weapons Reviews in the Age of Technological Innovation

We spare the reader another detailed story from Ukraine to establish the now-familiar point that battlefield technology changes faster than militaries can acquire, review, and field it. The villain in this story is easy to identify: bureaucracy. The fashionabl

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War on the Rocks Sep 23 Score 0.8207408083333334

Seoul Needs a Playbook for Hormuz, Ukraine, and What Comes Next

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump shared a Washington Post opinion piece on his social media, arguing that South Korea should send its Cheongung-II air-defense system to Ukraine. Additionally, the Trump administration continues to pressure Seoul to se

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The Verge Sep 23 Score 0.8087151425925927

OpenAI wants to consult elite mathematicians about how to not fumble again

After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward. On Monday, the company announced a new independent panel of mathematicians ta

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The Verge Sep 22 Score 0.8056271796296297

Paramount will need to release way more movies to make this merger work

Now that Paramount has reached a settlement with the 12 states that were suing to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the studio is even closer to becoming one of the world's biggest production houses. In addition to spending at le

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BleepingComputer Sep 22 Score 0.8045052953703704

Rogue external MFA providers can steal passwords during logins

Security researchers developed an attack that lets hackers with privileged access register a rogue external MFA provider that steals users' passwords during legitimate login attempts. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 22 Score 0.8043627027777779

Sweden fines Miljödata $183,000 over breach affecting 2.2 million

Sweden's data privacy regulator, IMY, has imposed a $183,000 (SEK 1.8 million) fine on IT systems provider Miljödata for inadequate security measures leading to a breach in August 2025 affecting 2.2 million people. [...]

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The Verge Sep 22 Score 0.8030313462962964

Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run

Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 "agentic operating system" runs in the cloud but operates locally a

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BleepingComputer Sep 22 Score 0.8025511287037038

Chinese hackers exploit WordPress, Zyxel flaws to steal govt data

A Chinese-speaking threat actor has been exploiting vulnerabilities in ZyXEL GS1900 Smart Managed Switches and WordPress to steal sensitive data from 996 devices and more than 18,500 records stored in backend databases. [...]

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The Verge Sep 22 Score 0.8019822722222223

Saudi Arabia’s new Exobot EVs make the Cybertruck look normal

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is mostly known for its global dominance over petroleum production and oil reserves - not necessarily cars and auto manufacturing, and certainly not electric vehicle production. So it was a little surprising on Monday when a Saudi s

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The Verge Sep 22 Score 0.8015683833333334

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 comes in an Extreme version too

Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, this year joined by the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 too. The company describes both new phone chips as flagships, and the spec differences are relatively minor, mostly limited to improved AI processing, video capt

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SANS Internet Storm Center Sep 22 Score 0.8000747212962963

The Truth about GET and HTTP Standards, (Tue, Sep 22nd)

On Friday, Xavier talked about the newly introduced HTTP Query method. This new method was introduced to allow "GET" requests that include a body. The main reason for this was that GET requests typically do not contain a body. But what if they do?

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MIT Technology Review Sep 22 Score 0.791070688425926

Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Revi

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SANS Internet Storm Center Sep 22 Score 0.7901881472222223

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 22 Score 0.7885128180555556

The Download: why AI’s latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than reality

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. Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype  —Timnit Gebru, executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 22 Score 0.7882343986111112

CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-85102 Check Point Multiple Products Improper Certificate Validation Vulnerability CVE-2026-93616 Check Point Multi

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 22 Score 0.7882343986111112

OpenPLC Runtime v3

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to hijack session cookies and issue state-changing requests as an operator which would allow the attacker to control the programmable logic controller and the physical proc

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 22 Score 0.7882343986111112

Siemens Industrial Edge Management

View CSAF Summary Industrial Edge Management contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to perform full account takeover by resetting user credentials without completing email verification. Siemens has r

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MIT Technology Review Sep 22 Score 0.7867030958333334

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident, after which Anthropic (

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InfoQ Sep 23 Score 0.7499013837962963

Google Adds Cycle-Level Kernel Profiling to XProf

Google has added a Kernel Profiling suite to XProf. This is its open-source profiler for TPU workloads. Now, developers can see cycle-level details in custom Pallas kernels. Before, these kernels appeared as single opaque blocks in trace captures. By Claudio M

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Liberty Street Economics Sep 22 Score 0.7490679722222223

Treasury Trading at the Close

In past work , we showed that trading in U.S. Treasury securities is becoming increasingly concentrated on the last trading day of each month. In this post, we show that trading is also becoming more concentrated around the designated pricing, or “strike,” tim

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InfoQ Sep 23 Score 0.7482347166666666

Article: Modular Edge Computing at Multi-Tenant SaaS Scale on Cloudflare Workers

At multi-tenant SaaS scale, a monolithic edge worker creates deployment coupling and broad blast radius. The article presents a modular Cloudflare Workers architecture using service bindings, with image optimization as a worked example of per-tenant format neg

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Eurogamer Sep 23 Score 0.7482346208333334

Resident Evil movie review - the best video game adaptation of playing a video game

There's a bit somewhere in the middle of the rubbish Doom movie, where the perspective suddenly switches to first-person. Look, it seems to say, it's just like you playing the video game! But what Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil movie gets is that, really, it

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InfoQ Sep 23 Score 0.7444569388888889

Elastic Beanstalk Adds Cluster Mode, Running Applications on Shared EKS Clusters

AWS has added Cluster Mode to Elastic Beanstalk, running applications on EKS clusters the service creates and operates. Clusters are assigned by subnet set and cannot be changed afterward, direct cluster access is service-managed, and AWS recommends separate c

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New Scientist Sep 23 Score 0.7415671064814815

Is AI really getting dangerously out of control?

Grim warnings of the existential risk posed by AI are all over the news, but there is very little evidence to back them up

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NASA News Sep 23 Score 0.7400399407407408

APOD: 2026 September 23 – A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 23 – A… 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 fea

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NASA News Sep 23 Score 0.7399288296296296

Boom Year for Desert Blooms

Carpets of wildflowers burst from arid, ochre-colored land in Western Australia following winter rains.

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New Scientist Sep 23 Score 0.7399004398148148

El Niño heat could kill half a million people by February

Higher temperatures around the world due to the record-breaking El Niño will lead to an estimated 450,000 extra deaths by February unless swift action is taken, warn researchers

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 23 Score 0.7391482083333334

The LHC just ruled out another hiding place for quantum black holes

Physicists searching through Large Hadron Collider data found no evidence that the machine has been producing microscopic quantum black holes, but the result sharply narrows where such exotic physics could still be hiding. These hypothetical black holes could

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 23 Score 0.736602837962963

One of America’s largest reservoirs just hit a record low

Lake Powell has fallen to its lowest level on record after an exceptionally dry and warm winter left the Colorado River Basin with little mountain snow to melt. Lake Mead also reached record lows, raising concerns for a river system that supplies water and pow

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NASA News Sep 23 Score 0.7343529037037037

Curiosity Blog, Sols 5010-5015: Checking out the Bands

Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University New Brunswick, NB, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 11, 2026 This week we had two planning days (Tuesday and Friday), as Monday was Labor Day in North Amer

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New Scientist Sep 22 Score 0.726011550925926

How turning electricity directly into food could help save the planet

Farming is one of the most destructive human activities. Columnist Michael Le Page is excited about developments in electro-ag, in which we can instead turn renewable electricity directly into food

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Kubernetes Blog Sep 22 Score 0.7232347194444444

Spotlight on SIG Apps

As Kubernetes adoption has grown, the conversation has shifted beyond running containers to managing increasingly complex application lifecycles. Modern platforms support stateless web services, stateful databases, batch processing, AI workloads, and platform

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Econbrowser Sep 22 Score 0.723223062037037

Manufacturing Employment Recovery Delayed?

Here are several measures of manufacturing employment. ADP suggests continued deterioration, while QCEW (through March) fell as official employment rose. Figure 1: Manufacturing employment from CES (black), implied preliminary benchmark for March (gray square)

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Econbrowser Sep 22 Score 0.7227401916666667

"The State of Working Wisconsin, 2026"

From the High Road Strategy Center, an annual report: Wisconsin job growth grinds to a halt Wisconsin had 3,042,900 jobs in July 2026, down from the record 3,051,000 jobs reached in November 2024. Since January 2025, the state has actually lost jobs while nati

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NASA News Sep 22 Score 0.7224890148148149

NASA-Funded Research Finds Complex Life Defying Record Heat

Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA-supported scientists have discovered an organism that lives at extreme temperatures previously thought impossible for complex life. High temperatures can cause the destruction of necessary cell components, which is a big

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Econbrowser Sep 22 Score 0.7198184324074074

Gasoline and Diesel Report

Data through yesterday: 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), $/bbl, all weekly average of daily prices. Source: EIA via FRED.

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New Scientist Sep 22 Score 0.7182337731481482

How ancient superbugs could help us fight antibiotic resistance

As the world warms, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are escaping from frozen sediments. But with new monitoring tools, we can identify problem genes and develop treatments before our pathogens acquire them

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InfoQ Sep 22 Score 0.7169569388888889

Google Open-Sources AX a Kubernetes Style Orchestrator for Autonomous AI Agents

Google has open-sourced AX, an orchestrator designed for managing autonomous AI agent workloads. AX operates on a runtime, Agent Substrate, treating agents as stateful actors. It provides resource-efficient task suspension and resumption to optimise performanc

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InfoQ Sep 22 Score 0.7132347166666667

GitLab Duo Expands Self-Hosted AI Options Through Microsoft Foundry

GitLab has expanded GitLab Duo Self-Hosted to support models deployed through Microsoft Foundry, letting organizations run GitLab's AI development capabilities against models hosted in their chosen Azure environment. By Craig Risi

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MarketWatch Top Stories Sep 23 Score 0.7115402083333332

Why analysts say a diesel export ban could backfire

A ban on U.S. diesel exports could reduce supplies and simultaneously lead to prices rising further, according to analysts.

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Lobsters Sep 22 Score 0.6909170055555555

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