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OpenAI News Sep 23 Score 0.9448020277777779

Two years of OpenAI Academy

Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.

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Foreign Policy Sep 24 Score 0.8946567060185184

Germany Is Officially Adrift

The German chancellor’s power is ebbing at home—and the consequences will be global.

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Foreign Policy Sep 23 Score 0.8798604097222221

Iran’s UNGA Moment

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called the U.S. government “terrorists.”

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Foreign Policy Sep 23 Score 0.8795534652777777

Jaishankar Leads India’s UNGA Delegation

New Delhi’s top diplomat aims to push back against new U.S. tariffs on countries buying Russian oil.

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Foreign Policy Sep 23 Score 0.8782715208333333

A $2.45 Billion Recovery Plan for Gaza

Trump claims to have brought peace to the territory. Now, he is trying to deliver it.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 23 Score 0.8718144703703703

Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground

Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts . They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice with "just a 30-second au

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 23 Score 0.8708380814814813

Shadow roots, explained with live examples

Tool: Shadow roots, explained with live examples Prompt to Fable 5.1 Medium: Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interactive examples Tags: css

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Quanta Magazine Sep 23 Score 0.8669384347222221

Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike

Scientists have a history of trying — and failing — to link biology and quantum mechanics. The real connection between them may be in the math. The post Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 24 Score 0.8618606004629629

How the Fed should measure inflation

Pinning down the underlying rate may be harder than Kevin Warsh thinks

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 24 Score 0.8618360634259259

Israel’s war economy is thriving

But conflict is worsening its industrial divide

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 24 Score 0.8617573597222221

Turkey’s investment-fund fiasco

The country could lose its status as an emerging market

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Schneier on Security Sep 23 Score 0.8615688060185185

Research on Models Engaging in Genie-Like Behavior

New paper: " Self-Jailbreaking: Language Models Can Reason Themselves Out of Safety Alignment After Benign Reasoning Training ." Abstract: We discover a novel and surprising phenomenon of unintentional misalignment in reasoning language models (RLMs), which we

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Wired Sep 24 Score 0.8248019666666667

Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros

Once seen as nerdy but harmless innovators, men in tech are now widely regarded as red-pilled Elon Musk wannabes. It’s made getting laid a whole lot harder.

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BleepingComputer Sep 24 Score 0.8242155074074075

OpenAI hacked Australian Medicare govt site, probed data providers

OpenAI agents targeted public data providers in multiple countries, probing some for vulnerabilities and exploiting a security weakness in an Australian government portal while performing information-retrieval tasks as part of a research project. [...]

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Wired Sep 24 Score 0.8235519666666667

Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon

One of the great mysteries in astronomy has been why Venus has no moon. Now a new theory provides a simple answer: It might have been eaten.

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The Verge Sep 24 Score 0.8232547430555556

Gemini 4 is almost ready, says new Google DeepMind chief

Google is reportedly nearing the launch of its long awaited Gemini 4 model, after dawdling behind rival developers on flagship AI releases. Speaking with The Information during his first media appearance as the leader of Google's DeepMind division, Koray Kavuk

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War on the Rocks Sep 24 Score 0.8206566319444445

Power, Prudence, and Restraint in Fénelon’s Telemachus

"If one is to judge by the fire and ardor with which this book is sought after, it is the most excellent of all books. Never were so many copies printed of any work; never were so many editions made of a single book; never has any writing been read by so many

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SANS Internet Storm Center Sep 24 Score 0.8188326162037037

One URL, Three Different Tricks, (Thu, Sep 24th)

Yesterday, we received a phishing email with an interesting link. At first sight, it looks like garbage, but every piece of it has been carefully crafted to confuse basic security controls. Here is the defanged link:

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Foreign Affairs Sep 24 Score 0.8148024837962964

How Putin Escalates

A new stage in Russia's confrontation with Ukraine—and the West.

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The Verge Sep 24 Score 0.808561224537037

Meta is making a standalone Muse AI gadget

Meta is building a dedicated hardware device for its new Muse AI agent. The product, called Muse Charm, was briefly shown off by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the end of tonight's Meta Connect presentation. It looks almost like a chunky smartwatch without the st

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The Verge Sep 24 Score 0.808150576388889

Meta Connect 2026: The 7 biggest announcements

Meta announced a slate of new wearables during its annual Meta Connect showcase on Wednesday. The star of the event was the new Meta VR Glasses, which pack virtual reality tech into a lightweight smart glasses-style frame with a tethered puck. Meta also announ

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The Verge Sep 23 Score 0.8076399282407408

Meta’s next VR device isn’t a headset — it’s glasses

Meta is launching new VR hardware: a pair of glasses. The new Meta VR Glasses sit on your ears like a typical pair of glasses instead of being strapped over your head, but they still have immersive displays for watching movies, playing games, and getting work

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The Verge Sep 23 Score 0.8076056689814816

Muse is coming to Meta smart glasses

Just a couple of weeks after launching Muse, Meta announced that it's "working on" bringing the agent to its smart glasses, including the new glasses it unveiled at Meta Connect. Users will be able to activate Muse from their glasses by saying its name and ask

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BleepingComputer Sep 23 Score 0.8060803222222223

Placeholder domain used in dev docs now serves ClickFix attacks

The "third-party.com" domain, commonly used as a placeholder in developer documentation and code examples, is serving a fake Cloudflare verification page that attempts to trick Windows users into executing PowerShell commands. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 23 Score 0.8012993037037037

Check Point warns of hackers exploiting Security Gateway VPN RCE flaw

Cybersecurity company Check Point has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-85102, a pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the VPN certificate-handling functionality of its Security Gateway product. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Sep 23 Score 0.7967514574074075

A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program

Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has announced a plan to introduce new legislation to terminate the surveillance tower program along the US southern border.  The announcement comes just days after publication of an MIT Technolo

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Microsoft Research Blog Sep 23 Score 0.7948457226851853

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Offlo

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MIT Technology Review Sep 23 Score 0.7884130314814816

The Download: India's smart glasses menace and AI's trillion-dollar gamble

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. Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India When Shubnam saw an Instagram video of a Delhi protest they had attended,

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 23 Score 0.7881353500000001

Considerations for Critical Infrastructure Operators Working With Third-Party ICS Integrators

Introduction The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—hereafter referred to as the “authoring agencies”—have published this fact sheet to highlight considerations for critical infrastructure entities

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 24 Score 0.7875000000000001

Digital (Killer?) Acquisitions -- by Florian Ederer, Regina Seibel, Timothy Simcoe

This paper examines innovation outcomes before and after 1,200 startup acquisitions by eight major technology firms. Linking patent and workforce data to these deals, we document four main findings. First, most acquired startups hold no patents, but those with

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 24 Score 0.7875000000000001

Responses to Extreme Price Changes: Evidence from the Residential Demand for Natural Gas -- by Anna Alberini, Levan Bezhanishvili, Milan Ščasný, Roberton C. Williams III

We examine the response of residential customers to an extreme price change – namely that imposed by the government in the Republic of Georgia during the pandemic lockdown in the winter of 2020 and early 2021. As of November 2020, the government paid the gas b

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 23 Score 0.761943926388889

Bethesda boss confirms Obsidian will remain a "distinct" team

Bethesda boss Jill Braff has written to all staff to confirm that Grounded developer Obsidian Entertainment will remain a "distinct" team, retaining its existing leadership structure. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 23 Score 0.7535004078703704

The EU KIDS Act: What game developers need to know

On September 17, the EU Commission published a draft for the proposed EU KIDS Act – which stands for Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy. The most controversial stipulations only apply to social networks and video sharing platform

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CyberScoop Sep 24 Score 0.749802112962963

How tax policy can stop threat actors from breaching US water systems

New federal programs take years to launch and fund. State and local governments need cybersecurity software now. The One Big Beautiful Bill already enables tax incentives. Congress should clarify and deploy them. The post How tax policy can stop threat actors

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InfoQ Sep 24 Score 0.748802275925926

Presentation: Designing Fast, Delightful UX With LLMs for Mobile Frontends

Balakrishnan Ramdoss discusses how to architect production-grade, AI-powered conversational apps at scale. He explains how to overcome model latency, leverage server-driven UI and Backend-for-Frontend patterns to dynamically render multi-modal interfaces, opti

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 22 Score 0.7481353500000001

Siemens WTV676 and WTV776

View CSAF Summary The products listed below contain a denial of service vulnerability that could allow an attacker to force the devices into protection mode under certain conditions. This disables remote connectivity functions (Web Access) to the devices. Siem

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 22 Score 0.7481353500000001

lwIP (Lightweight IP)

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a system crash, a DoS, or memory corruption, which could lead to code execution on the victim system. The following versions of lwIP (Lightweight IP) are affected: API >=2.0.1| CVS

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New Scientist Sep 24 Score 0.747197799537037

OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government healthcare website

There has been a string of incidents reported over the past few months where AI agents have hacked companies. Now, a case involving a government website has been revealed for the first time

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The Hacker News Sep 24 Score 0.7450080287037038

OpenAI Agent Bypassed Australian Medicare Portal Controls to Access Non-Public Files

An AI agent on an internal OpenAI research task bypassed access controls on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. The portal publishes aggregate figures, such as spending, and is separate from t

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NASA News Sep 24 Score 0.7399413768518519

APOD: 2026 September 24 – The Ghosts of Five Supernovas

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 24 –… 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 24 Score 0.7398302657407407

Cloudy Cloak Over the Northwest

A low-lying cloud layer brought autumn ambience to western Washington and Oregon, while mountainous areas near the coast remained above the pall.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 24 Score 0.7397608662037037

More REM sleep linked to lower risk of 83 diseases

A large study tracking more than 95,000 people suggests that how you sleep may be linked to your risk of developing dozens of diseases. People who spent more time in REM sleep had lower risks of 83 conditions, including dementia, heart failure, and Parkinson’s

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 24 Score 0.7370414217592592

A broken rib from the world’s largest T. rex hid a 66-million-year-old secret

A broken rib from Scotty, the largest known T. rex skeleton, contains an extraordinary fossilized network of blood vessels formed while the dinosaur was healing. Scientists used neutron and X-ray imaging to look inside the 66-million-year-old bone without dama

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NASA News Sep 23 Score 0.7300497101851852

NASA Modernizes Commercial Airline Systems

NASA’s researchers know that when you settle into your seat on a commercial flight, you expect a smooth takeoff, views over the clouds, a steady descent, and hopefully an early arrival at your destination. But when your flight gets delayed on the tarmac instea

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NASA News Sep 23 Score 0.7275057287037037

NASA Welcomes Croatia as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

The Republic of Croatia became the 74th signatory to the Artemis Accords on Wednesday during a ceremony in the capital city of Zagreb with NASA and U.S. Department of State officials present. “It is my privilege to welcome the Republic of Croatia as the latest

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NASA News Sep 23 Score 0.7267385990740741

NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class

NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to the next phase of development. This space telescope is the first in a new class of NASA astrophysics m

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Econbrowser Sep 23 Score 0.7255036037037037

Diesel and Heating Oil Dependency, by State

As share of total diesel+heating oil+gasoline consumption volume (a somewhat strange measure to me, but probably gets the idea across), from Nate Silver:

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GitHub Blog Sep 23 Score 0.723963999074074

Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app

How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments. The post Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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New Scientist Sep 23 Score 0.7214686328703703

When will the AMOC collapse? We don't know, but should still prepare

Uncertainty about when or even if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a vital ocean current, might collapse has been an excuse to ignore the risk, but that actually makes it even more important that we act now

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Econbrowser Sep 23 Score 0.7213156407407407

Refiner Capacity Utilization at 97.5

As of September 11. The ratio of diesel price to Brent has risen generally since the war began.    

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InfoQ Sep 23 Score 0.7168578314814815

Graphify: Unifying Codebase Context to Streamline Agentic Software Engineering

Graphify is an open-source tool designed to convert codebases and unstructured data into queryable knowledge graphs. Launched in April 2026, it addresses challenges of multi-file reasoning for AI coding assistants. Recent updates have enhanced parser features

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InfoQ Sep 23 Score 0.7164689425925926

Beyond Kubernetes at Modal: How to Scale 1 Million Concurrent Sandboxes in Seconds

In a recent article, Colin Weld and Connor Adams, staff engineers at Modal, describe how they rebuilt their sandbox infrastructure from the ground up to support millions of concurrent sandboxes and tens of thousands of sandbox creations per second. By Sergio D

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Lobsters Sep 24 Score 0.7025706541666665

The Story of Mel

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Lobsters Sep 23 Score 0.682539635648148

KDE for People

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 23 Score 0.6823017814814814

A guide to speeding up your video processing with AlphaEvolve

In real-time streaming, every millisecond counts. For example, at 30 frames per second (fps), developers have a strict frame budget of just 33.3 ms (and only 16.6 ms at 60 fps) to ingest camera frames, run neural segmentation, apply shaders, and composite outp

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