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Foreign Policy Sep 24 Score 0.8797939921296295

Netanyahu Faces an UNGA Walkout (Again)

The Israeli prime minister defended his country’s actions in Gaza and Iran—and lashed out at Mamdani.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 24 Score 0.8764343379629629

commit-rewriter 0.2

Release: commit-rewriter 0.2 Support for branches other than the default branch. Use uvx commit-rewriter --branch other to run against another branch. #3 Tags: git

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 24 Score 0.8750037824074073

datasette 1.0a41

Release: datasette 1.0a41 Alec Garcia added support for OpenTelemetry to Datasette in this release. I've also refactored all of Datasette's modal dialogs to a single Web Component, which is now documented for other plugins to use . Tags: javascript , datasette

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Foreign Policy Sep 24 Score 0.8699791768518518

Can AI Be Regulated?

Frontier AI labs are calling for government oversight.

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Schneier on Security Sep 24 Score 0.8614564694444443

Malicious npm Packages That Evade Defenses

This is an impressive piece of malware . Its sophistication says nation-state to me, but there is no direct evidence and certainly no attribution.

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Wired Sep 25 Score 0.8245765402777778

Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?

A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.

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Wired Sep 25 Score 0.8237709847222223

The 34 Best Gifts for Dads (2026)

Dads are typically tough to shop for. Let me help with these WIRED-tested gift ideas.

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MIT Technology Review Sep 25 Score 0.8233658944444445

The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector

The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next”, will focus on scoring algorithms that use ar

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MIT Technology Review Sep 25 Score 0.822909875925926

Young organs may not be a fountain of youth for recipients

Around this time last year I was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when my phone started pinging. News outlets were reporting that a hot mic had caught Russia’s and China’s leaders discussing the possibility of l

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BleepingComputer Sep 25 Score 0.8221795810185186

Hackers steal $351.6 million in Bitget crypto exchange hack

​Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget disclosed today that suspected North Korean hackers have stolen $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets. [...]

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War on the Rocks Sep 25 Score 0.8212558694444445

Tracing the Future Soldier's Tech Stack

Movies, shows, and books have long been at the forefront of imagining the future of war. If you were to picture the "future soldier," you'd likely picture the genetically engineered super soldiers that have captivated — and horrified — audiences fo

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War on the Rocks Sep 25 Score 0.8204229990740741

North Korea’s Irregular Warfare After Ukraine

Pyongyang has a long history of conducting irregular warfare and asymmetric operations: Look no further than the 1968 Blue House raid or the 1996 submarine incursion as the most pressing examples. More often than not, North Korea failed to achieve the intended

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Foreign Affairs Sep 25 Score 0.8145763453703705

The Coming Taiwan Crisis

Use today’s calm to prepare for the next perfect storm.

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Foreign Affairs Sep 25 Score 0.8145763453703705

How Iran Changed War

The lessons of Tehran’s hse of precise mass.

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The Verge Sep 25 Score 0.8116029518518519

Here’s the Tesla Semi… again

Remember the Tesla Semi? The long-gestating, heavy-duty truck first introduced in concept form in 2017 is finally in volume production as of April 2026 - nearly a decade after its initial introduction. On Thursday evening, the company held yet another event fo

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The Verge Sep 25 Score 0.8102955444444445

Microsoft is killing off the ‘Copilot Plus PC’ brand

Remember when Microsoft wanted everyone to know that "Copilot Plus PCs" were the ones to get, because those were the PCs that that'd have enough built-in AI muscle to get things done? Two and a half years later, Microsoft and Qualcomm seem to be admitting the

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The Verge Sep 24 Score 0.8074279518518519

Qualcomm’s new ‘Elite’ sound chip might finally deliver the Wi-Fi earbud dream

What if your wireless earbuds - or audio glasses - could stream high-quality lossless audio that doesn't cut out when you leave your phone on the bedside charger or buried in the couch? Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 is its first to integrate "mic

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The Verge Sep 24 Score 0.8048089703703705

Microsoft puts Brad Smith in charge of communications

Microsoft is moving its communications group out of marketing and into its Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization. The surprise change will see Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith oversee communications, while the company searches

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BleepingComputer Sep 24 Score 0.7975684699074075

Exposed GitLab project email addresses let attackers push code

Private GitLab email addresses that allow developers to push issues or tasks to a project are being deliberately exposed in READMEs, contributing guides, and support pages used to collect bug reports. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 24 Score 0.7913036550925927

FedRAMP VDR & VER: Daily Scans Are Only the Beginning

FedRAMP's new VDR and VER requirements make vulnerability management more continuous, with faster scanning, tighter remediation deadlines, and stronger evidence requirements. Anecdotes explains why the December 7 deadline is just the beginning of a broader shi

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MIT Technology Review Sep 24 Score 0.7881876537037038

The Download: a bid to scrap the virtual wall and AI hits Climate Week

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. A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US represe

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 24 Score 0.7879091763888889

Siemens Mendix Runtime (Update A)

View CSAF Summary This advisory is revoked. Re-investigation confirmed the reported behavior is expected platform configuration and does not expose the protected attribute. The following versions of Siemens Mendix Runtime are affected: Siemens Mendix Runtime v

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 24 Score 0.7879091763888889

Botslab G980H Dashcams

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to bypass authentication controls, gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and privileged device functionality, modify device configuration, disrupt device operation.

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 24 Score 0.7879091763888889

Eufy Omni C20, Omni X10 Pro

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to run system level commands or execute arbitrary code. The following versions of Eufy Omni C20, Omni X10 Pro are affected: Omni C20 Omni X10 Pro CVSS Vendor Equipment V

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 24 Score 0.787909175925926

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-2026-5430 WSO2 Multiple Products Path Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2026-71362 Adobe Commerce and Magento Incorrect

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 25 Score 0.7869403625000001

Build A Rocket Boy has appointed administrators

MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy has appointed administrators following its most recent wave of layoffs. Read more

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The Hacker News Sep 25 Score 0.7499656162037037

Roundcube Pre-Auth SQL Injection Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has warned that a now-patched Roundcube Webmail vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-48842 (CVSS score: 8.1), a pre-authentication SQL injection in the virtuser_

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InfoQ Sep 25 Score 0.7479094870370371

Article: The Agent Harness: What It Is and Two Ways to Build One

This article explains the development and operational layers of an agent harness through two implementations of a finance assistant: AWS AgentCore Harness and LangChain with Envoy AI Gateway. It compares how each handles tools, memory, model access, cost contr

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New Scientist Sep 25 Score 0.7479087564814815

The first season of Heroes is almost perfect – here's why

Starring the late Hayden Panettiere as the self-regenerating cheerleader who could save the world, science-fiction series Heroes first aired 20 years ago today. It might have gone downhill in subsequent seasons, but its first is still brilliant, says TV column

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New Scientist Sep 25 Score 0.7479087564814815

Mathematician discovers rare eight-faced shape

It isn't easy to demonstrate that a new geometric shape can actually exist in the real world, but one researcher argues that the genus-3 polyhedron can

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Quanta Magazine Sep 21 Score 0.7465922337962962

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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Latent Space Sep 25 Score 0.7422708453703704

[AINews] The Future of Latent Space

A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!

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NASA News Sep 25 Score 0.7397147268518518

APOD: 2026 September 25 – Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 25 –… 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 25 Score 0.7396036157407407

Explosive Intensification for Hurricane Polo

Several ingredients came together off the Pacific coast of Mexico to generate one of the strongest storms the eastern Pacific basin has ever seen.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 25 Score 0.7393637486111111

Scientists gave worms magnetic bacteria. They lived 43% longer

A magnet-producing bacterium extended the average lifespan of C. elegans worms by more than 43% while helping protect their neurological and intestinal health. Researchers traced much of the effect to suppression of ferroptosis, a damaging form of cell death l

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 25 Score 0.7375035634259259

Ancient meteorites reveal a powerful force that helped build the Solar System

Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked alongside gravity to help transform a vast cloud of gas and

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NASA News Sep 24 Score 0.7286670416666666

NASA Welcomes Côte d’Ivoire as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

Côte d’Ivoire signed the Artemis Accords on Thursday, becoming the 75th signatory and marking a major milestone for this growing coalition. With the signing ceremony in the nation’s largest city, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire joined other like-minded nations and comm

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NASA News Sep 24 Score 0.7283471342592592

NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-14 Assignments for Space Station Mission

Four crew members from three space agencies will launch to the International Space Station no earlier than spring 2027 for a long-duration science expedition as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-14 mission. NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Chris Birch will

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MIT News — AI Sep 24 Score 0.7279098592592592

Estimating suicide risk from text

A new language-processing tool could help identify the highest-risk individuals from natural language, enabling swifter interventions.

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GitHub Blog Sep 24 Score 0.7262429736111111

When chat is the wrong UI

What is a developer to do when they need something more tangible than a chat box? Enter canvases. The post When chat is the wrong UI appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Econbrowser Sep 24 Score 0.7261140550925926

Is It Real?

Rise in 10 year rates is mostly showing up in real rates, as proxied by TIPS. Figure 1: Change since 2/27/202 6 in ten year Treasury constant maturity yield (blue), on the run yield as of 2:30pm CT (light blue +), TIPS (red), all in %. Source: Treasury, and au

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InfoQ Sep 24 Score 0.7245761537037037

What iOS Developers Need to Change in their Apps to prepare for the iPhone Duo

With the upcoming introduction of the foldable iPhone Duo, iOS developers will need to adapt their apps to ensure they work correctly across the new device's outer display, larger inner display, and partially folded states. Developers will also need to account

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GitHub Blog Sep 24 Score 0.7236374180555556

AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent

In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework. The post AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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NASA News Sep 24 Score 0.7230823194444445

Travel

The NSSC provides travel reimbursement services for all authorized Agency travel including: domestic, foreign, local, ETDY, and Change of Station (COS). References Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) Traveler Extended TDY and Taxes Domestic Per Diem Rates Foreign

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Martin Fowler Sep 24 Score 0.7188816231481482

Fragments: September 24

Rob Bowley is “flipping tables in his head” with anger at the current media coverage of the danger of AI killing us all The risk I’m worried about isn’t a future machine deciding to wipe us out. It’s today’s AI, being wired into everything, carelessly and fast

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Latent Space Sep 24 Score 0.718000475

Foundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science

Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.

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InfoQ Sep 24 Score 0.717909487037037

InfoQ Launches High-Performing Teams Certification Program

InfoQ has opened enrollment for a new five-week certification program covering engineering team design, delivery flow, AI-enabled work, and metrics, facilitated by InfoQ editor and podcast co-host Olimpiu Pop. By Artenisa Chatziou

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InfoQ Sep 24 Score 0.7166317092592592

Un-Mused: How a Single Debug Setting Bypassed macOS Security in Meta’s AI Client

Security researcher Patrick Wardle revealed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Meta's Muse desktop client for macOS. This flaw lets unprivileged software manipulate the assistant's extensive permissions, compromising input confidentiality and account secur

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Martin Fowler Sep 24 Score 0.716520512037037

Healthy Feedback

Human collaboration, like most things, improves with feedback. But it's not obvious how to make feedback effective. Anuja Karnik and Sumeet Gayathri Moghe pass on a bevy of tips for healthy feedback, based on the principle that both praise and criticism should

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FRED Blog Sep 24 Score 0.7145760648148148

Estimating the risk of recession in the US

The takeaway A new dataset in FRED provides the monthly probability the US economy is in recession. The latest data, for August 2026, show that probability was 0.08%. The data FRED has added probability estimates of the US economy being … Continue readin

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Lobsters Sep 25 Score 0.705164873148148

Goodbye Google

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Marginal Revolution Sep 25 Score 0.7035282962962962

Armenia notes

I strongly recommend a trip to Armenia, now is a great time to go. Here are a few things I noticed: 1. The country remains intellectual. The book fair is well attended. The classical music season is excellent, with good concerts multiple times a week, and the

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MIT News — AI Sep 24 Score 0.6995765259259259

The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities

In their new book, “How AI Sees the City,” the leaders of MIT’s Senseable City Lab examine the technology’s implications for researching urban life.

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Marginal Revolution Sep 24 Score 0.6946130185185184

Peter Thiel on AI and tech stagnation and democracy

Lots of fresh material, one of the very best Peter Thiel outputs. The post Peter Thiel on AI and tech stagnation and democracy appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .               Comments Thiel always has something interest

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Marginal Revolution Sep 24 Score 0.6870458888888888

Earth fact of the day

An average of 72 percent of respondents said they felt curious, happy or excited about A.I., compared with 41 percent who felt worried, sad or angry.'@nytimes's Damien Cave uses @Gallup data to remind us the rest of the world digs AI. It is 93 percent positive

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Marginal Revolution Sep 24 Score 0.682281537037037

Thursday assorted links

1. Shruti on Coltrane. 2. On the drop in Pisa scores. Quite exaggerated, it turns out. 3. Hope you all reoptimize your views accordingly, on AI agreements with China. 4. Dutch economy is picking up. 5. One professor's AI-assisted output. Hey people, solve for

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